Margaret Marks at Transblawg spotted a strange story of Jim Nelson of Vancouver who went on a 60 day fast and at its conclusion began behaving strangely:
“[after breaking into a house] He opened the presents looking for chocolates, raided the fridge and cupboards searching for delicacies, pigged out on cups of tea, chilli, cream cheese and tortillas. He then puked and defecated in plastic bags before slipping into a stupor and curling up on the floor.“
To those of you who don’t fast this probably does sound a trifle (sorry) weird. Geeklawyer fasts (booze excepted) on a Monday & Friday (for weight control reasons rather than religious nonsense) and be warned that at the very minute the fasting day it is woefully dangerous to get between him and the fridge door.
Nelson was acquitted on the quaint defence of necessity - not heard in England since the days of eating cabin boys on lifeboats: “the foul behaviour was necessary or he would have died of cold and hunger” said the judge.
Ah, the good old days they don’t make edible cabin boys like that anymore.
Isn’t that what alcholics do? Just drink and fail to eat anything.
Yea thanks for giving Ruthie more ammo
Anyway, you’ve seen me demolish a curry so you know how much I eat
Necessity bollocks. He chose of his own free will to enter the state which was the precondition to his actions and chose those particular actions as a means of ending that state.
And fasting for weight control is religious nonsense
(this spam protection nonsense is hurting my brain)
Only in Canada
*I* would never rat you out to Ruthie.
oops wrong link… no liverjournal.com but livejournal.com
Ah Liverjournal, much more to the point
I ate some liver this evening.
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