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So stupid, it's hilarious...
So stupid, it's hilarious... 7/27/2012 12:57 pm News Item: Florida--"A man who injected a woman in the buttocks with unknown substances during an illegal cosmetic surgery was arrested on Thursday and charged with manslaughter in the woman's death. Oneal Ron Morris, 31, of Hollywood, Florida, is known to have injected other women with substances such as bathroom caulk, cement, Super Glue and the tire product Fix-A-Flat, officials with the Broward County Sheriff's Office said. Authorities described Morris as a transvestite who went by the nickname "The Dutchess." According to his arrest affidavit, 31-year-old Shatarka Nuby died in March in Tallahassee from what an assistant medical examiner called "massive systemic silicone migration" due to "cosmetic silicone injections of the buttocks and hips, " according to the arrest affidavit. She died months after her last injection by Morris. Before her death, Nuby told a Florida Department of Health investigator that she paid Morris at least $2, 000 for about 10 treatments between 2007 and 2011 to enhance her buttocks, hips, thighs and breasts, according to the affidavit and a sheriff's report. Morris once told Nuby's aunt that he was injecting her with silicone from Home Depot, the affidavit said. Morris made house calls for the injections and would seal the injection sites with cotton balls and Super Glue, Nuby's aunt told investigators. Neither Morris, who remained in custody in Broward County Jail, nor a representative for him could be reached for comment on Thursday evening. He is awaiting trial on previous charges of practicing medicine without a license and causing injury. Nuby's death in March occurred at Tallahassee Federal Correctional Institute where, according to CBS Miami, she was serving a 2-1/2 year sentence for identity theft, which she resorted to in order to pay for breast implants and liposuction. This is simply hilarious. It is so reminiscent of Road Runner & Wil E Coyote shtick. The congregate of details, the need to interpret, the need to comment--makes the whole story a hoot. No one can learn how to accrete humorous detail in Joke Making 101. Even the victim's death is hilarious--dying in jail for identity theft--a form of scum bag crime if ever there was one; the lowest form of crime there is. Lots of people on Advice Line--almost unanimous--took exception to my sense of humour. My response is based on the article. Dr. Phil had a show about this last Dec 8, 2011. Forty-nine people commented and most thought it was a stupid thing to do and that there should have been contextual clues to warn the women off. Ignoring these clues was to their own peril. Any kind of body modification is serious. Whether dieting, piercing, tanning, steroid use, tatooing, plastic surgery--including botox, should be done only under a licensed practitioner's guidance. That this woman chose to do something so stupid... Nothing in the article asserts that she did not know what was being done to her. Had this been in the article, I might have responded differently. (But I doubt it.) To me, there were more than enough contextual clues to warn her off, that she chose to ignore them... |
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Many people questioned whether this should even be posted on Advice Line. Affair Link is a website devoted to attracting people for potential sexual partners, or even attracting people for cyber friendship. Being attractive is core to the question of friendship. And while 'attractive' is a subjective term, the way a person sees themselves, the interpretation they give to their own persona, their own body image is important. So in the sense that body image and how the owner interprets that body image is an important and crucial subtext to Affair Link, then posting it on Advice Line seemed not inappropriate.
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It's terribly sad that Black transgendering individuals thought they were outside the range of proper medical care facilities. That these people had perceptions of acceptable body type so outside the range of normal... and the perceptions of their own body were so out of kilter with reality, with a real sense of how others might see them... From the Dr. Phil show, I took away the seriousness of alternative, unlicensed medical procedures and how prevalent the problem is and how serious and deadly the consequences could be. (They really can't be dignified with 'medical'--they are quacks and butchers...) The article I cited, from Yahoo News wire service, invited laughter as an inevitable conclusion--that someone would engage in such absurdity--nine times... And as many others pointed out in the Yahoo comments and the Dr Phil responses: the whole episode was just plain stupid...and absurd... It ended up having a cartoon quality to it...
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I"m not sure this is hilarious, but it's absolutely Darwinian... right up there with Anthony Robbins fire walking event where 600 people were hurt this summer in San Jose. Ya'd think after the first 1 or 2 people got hurt, the rest would stop. 600 hurt people later... Hope you're doing well, Steven. Regards, 2Shy
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