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Friday, August 22, 2008

Crocodile happy people believe cr@p

Often us skeptics are accused of being party poopers.

"Just let people have their fun, believing in astrology and other such bunk", I'm repeatedly told. "What's the harm?"

Yep - belief in mystical bullsh!t sure is harmless:
A CROCODILE killed and ate a 25-year-old man in Bangladesh after he waded into a pond next to a shrine hoping to be blessed by the animal, police say.
One for the Darwin Awards.

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