It's That Kind of Week

Deadlines and other major events have pretty much reduced my brain to 140 characters or less and to watching YouTube clips off the WTF charts*. But then along comes a story too strange and too bizarre to be fiction that must be shared:

A man plotted to kill his adoptive parents with the help of a friend he met on the internet, a court has heard.

Christopher Monks, 24, wanted Shaun Skarnes to murder his parents Christopher and Elizabeth Monks while they slept and then perform an extreme sex act on him, Preston Crown Court was told.

The bisexual pair are alleged to have hatched the plot after meeting on an internet site about "Furries" – people who pretend to be animal characters and share sexual role-playing fantasies.

Naturally, that's only the beginning...

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*cursory Googling reveals far, far stranger things, possibly revealed in a future blog post or story. But for now, why not see what Janet Maslin had to say about this amazing piece of cinematic glory so many years ago?

Comments

[Jim Winter]

You know the apocalypse is coming when the British newspapers are turning into an episode of Distorted View Daily.

[Diggitt]

Only a very few furries are "people who pretend to be animal characters and share sexual role-playing fantasies." About 5% of all furries have a weird sexuality -- about as much, I'd guess as your average group of baseball fans or ... detective story readers.

Let wikipedia set you straight. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom My 25-year-old (currently in the Peace Corps) has been to furry cons. She pretended to be a small mammal all her life. She's also published six RPG books and is a non-weird, contributing member of society. One of the most important things in the Wikipedia article is the section at the end quoting journalists who went to furry cons expecting to see bizarre sexual behavior and instead found a total family atmosphere.

[Rabid Fox]

Just when I think things can't get weirder, I read about this. Kudos. It made my head tilt. :)