Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Organ Thefts (Malaysia) – The Poisoned Dress (1953) – Stolen Left Shoes



Malay Mail [Malaysia]
22 February 2019

Serial rapist-cum-organ-seller is fake news from 2014, police say

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 — Police dismissed today a purported wanted notice circulating on WhatsApp about a serial rapist who also sells human organs in Malaysia and the Thailand border. Bukit Aman corporate communication chief Datuk Asmawati Ahmad said the fake wanted notice for a man named Mohd Faris Farhan Akhlaken Ahmad, which was circulated under her name on the social messaging platform, has been going around several times since 2014. […]

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“Death’s Bridal Gown,” Adventures into Darkness #8, Feb. 1953. A bride dies after wearing a dead woman’s wedding dress saturated with embalming fluid. The complete story, a variation of “The Poisoned Dress,” is at http://thehorrorsofitall.blogspot.com/2019/02/deaths-bridal-gown.html.



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The Deuce (HBO), 14 October 2018, Season 2, Episode 6, “We’re All Beasts.”

Four New York crooks steal a truck transporting footwear, but discover all it contains are left shoes. Their mob boss, rather than being upset, has a good laugh. Holding up a pair of shoes, he says: “They’ve been doing this shit because we’ve been robbing them blind. They send the left shoes in one truck and the rights in the other!” One of the crew exclaims, “Fuck me! So you’re saying we’ve got to hijack the right shoe truck and we’re good to go?” Everyone laughs.