Sex, Farts & Exorcism: The News You Missed - The Dispatch Ep. 2
Welcome to The Dispatch, WatchMojo.com's look into three cool, funny, or weird news stories from the previous week of human existence. This week we're tackling Taiwanese exorcisms, sexual assistance in the Czech Republic and kangaroo flatulence.
#3: Sexual Accessibility
The world was clearly feeling a little sexy this week. On the funny side, the Spanish town of As Pontes accidentally advertised for a Clitoris Festival as opposed to an innocent vegetable festival after a Google translate error. Oops. But on the smart side of things, the Czech Republic has joined the likes of Austria, Belgium, France and more in starting a sexual assistance program for the disabled. Five carefully selected Czech women have been chosen and trained by Bliss Without Risk, an organization that supports sex workers and promotes STD prevention. With funding from the Czech Finance Ministry and the Right To Sex project, these sexual assistants will be providing sexual services on top of teaching clients to behave assertively, develop relationships, and the use of contraception. Way to spread the love, Czech Republic!
#2: Mass Excorcism
File this one away in the unsolved mysteries section of the WatchMojo vault. Twelve students from the Chia Nan University of Pharmacy in Tainan, Taiwan, were rushed from their Halloween party to the Chingwang Temple via scooters and cars for a mass exorcism. Apparently, the organizers slash possessed student association members were the only ones at the party that felt the symptoms of the possession, which were listed as nausea, vertigo, inability to walk and tightness of the chest. Temple staff said that the students treated the place of worship “as if it were an emergency room,” but hooked them up with a Taoist shou ching exorcism all the same. Apparently it was immediately effective, with only a few of the students having lasting symptoms. So, was it something the organizers ate? Was it the poor circulation of the packed party room? Or was it malevolent spirits? It’s beyond our knowing.
#1: The Royal Australian Air Farts
It turns out kangaroo farts are actually much worse for the environment than they were initially believed to be. Who knew kangaroo farts were held in such high regard? Anyway, since the 70s, experimental biologists to believed that kangaroos produced far less methane gas - a massive contributor to our global warming problem - than other animals such as cows. The reason for the low methane output from kangaroos was thought to be due to some sort of super bacteria in their digestive tract that broke down the gas. So if they could somehow get this bacteria from the kangaroos and pass it on to cows and other livestock there would be a massive reduction in greenhouse gas emissions annually. Unfortunately, they were wrong about everything, and those Aussie hopper farts are just as bad as the rest of the animal kingdom.
So what do you think? Were those students actually possessed?
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