September 24, 2003
Student cuts off penis and tongue
The 18-year-old, only named as Andreas W, from Halle in Germany drank a tea made with the hallucinogenic angels' trumpet plants.
His mother said: "Andreas was behaving normally the whole day until he left the house and disappeared into the garden for a couple of minutes."
When he returned to the house he was wearing a towel wrapped around him and was bleeding heavily from his mouth and between his legs.
The emergency doctor who arrived a few minutes later said the student had cut off his penis and his tongue with garden shears and it was impossible to reattach the organs.
Dr Andreas Marneros, from the local psychiatric hospital the student was admitted to, said: "Andreas will have to receive psychological help for years. Tea from Angels' Trumpets is extremely dangerous as the drug cannot be dosed."
Angels' Trumpets, known for their fragrant and trumpet shaped flowers, have increasingly become popular as an alternative drug in Germany.
Story filed: 10:45 Tuesday 23rd September 2003
This story is making the rounds of the media everywhere because men who write for the media get uncomfortable when discussing anything resembling castration (this proves how much male influence exists in media).
I have Angel's Trumpets growing all over my back yard and I love them as showy plants, but not enough to make dangerous concoctions of tea. They grow like weeds (and I guess they ARE weeds...). I stuck a branch in the ground two years ago and now its over 10 feet tall.
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