And we think we have fuel problems in USA
 

Cremator dumps half-burned bodies to save fuel

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's worst fuel crunch in years has led a crematorium to dump half-burnt corpses to try saving on diesel costs, a Hong Kong newspaper said on Friday.

Villagers in Hengyang county, in the southern province of Hunan, discovered the practice when an "unbearable stench" started coming from the site, and tried to block a road on Wednesday to stop funeral vehicles from delivering more bodies.

The village sent people to investigate the smell and the South China Morning Post said they saw "crematorium workers putting half-burnt human remains and organs in plastic bags and throwing them into a nearby ditch."

"As the price of diesel rose, we saw more and more bags thrown out from the crematorium," the paper quoted Xiao Gaoyi, a village representative and one of the witnesses, as saying.

Fuel in many parts of the country was rationed and there were long queues at petrol stations. :)

ugh:throwup:throwup

"crematorium workers putting half-burnt human remains and organs in plastic bags and throwing them into a nearby ditch."

damn, that sounds sick, I wouldn't want to be a worker having to do that.. :-/

Crematoriums use diesel???

As long as it gets the body hot enough, I'd imagine anything'd work. They used to use wood, ya know. :winkwink:

I think most places (over here, at least) use propane and/or natural gas, though.

Damn, how fucked up is that???

why do i see more stories coming out like this, rather than less?

ummm cause of the cost of fuel LOL, or maybe they just wanted to try it out for kicks

yark... nasty!

I wonder if its got something to do with the rising cost of fuel :upsidedow

The place that cooked gramps, used a plasma oven, whatever the fuck that is, but no fuel.

oh my godddddddddddddddd

Sadly Mexico discovered a pocket of Propane gas that is large enough to supply the US and Mexico for more than 100 years.

Maybe China should buy some.

Woah! Link?

I like mine burnt.

:1orglaugh That's not cool :1orglaugh

I prefer my corpses rare.

That's a good thing, propane is pretty clean.

man the us got cheap ass gas prices... 1 gallon is 3.8 liter... so $3 divided by 3.8 = $0.78
$0.78 per liter
$3.00 per gallon

here it's ?1.40 per liter times 1.47 (euro to dollar) is $2.00 x 3.8 = 7.6
$2.00 per liter
$7.60 per gallon

christ the difference is more than i expected :eek7

Is that right? In Europe, it's more than double?

damn! thats fucked up!