First revulsion - then disbelief

[Ethel]

Now I'm thinking it could be common sense - what else should he do with it?

I can only find this story of a liposuction surgeon using human body fat to fuel his car in the Daily Mail.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/arti cle-1101005/Probe-Beverly-Hills-cosmetic-surge on-turned-human-fat-liposuctions-biodiesel-4x4 .html

The question is - does he give a discount to his patients if they permit their fat to be used in this way?

[Buenchico]

So excess fat can be used to fuel cars, eh? That would seem to solve the USA's fuel problems at a stroke! ;-)

[JockSporran]

Do you actually BELIEVE this? It's probably made up.

[jno]

unlike traditional fossil fuels, this is actually an increasing resource, and it's good to see innovative recycling programmes like this. He could probably have driven most of the way to South America on my surplus.

[terambulan]

Better to burn excess fat than blocking drains!

Can't see that the patients would care what happened to the fat obtained from them; they pay to lose it - as in Weight-Watchers.

[jd_here]

Oh come on, it was in the Daily Mail!!

[Ethel]

Now in The Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/3920643/Inqu iry-into-US-plastic-surgeon-who-used-fat-from- clients-to-run-car.html

It seems it is illlegal in the US to do this - it will be interesting to see what happens.

[nedflanders]

It is illegal in the US to do anything that helps the environment!!! Although if you believe the hype, Barack will save the world!

[anotheoldgit]

Do you actually BELIEVE this? It's probably made up

Oh come on, it was in the Daily Mail!!

Ethel's Telegraph link made the Daily Mail haters look rather silly.

Why don't they bother to check things out before making fools of themselves?

[jno]

actually, aog, the Telegraph has been under fire for simply cutting and pasting stories from the Daily Mail website onto its own site. It was caught out recently:

Others have commented on the Daily Telegraph's habit of culling copy from the Daily Mail and using it in news stories posted on Telegraph online, and now it appears to have been caught red-handed. The Telegraph's take on the EU's plans for a new DNA database last week was uncannily similar to the Mail's and, embarrassingly, it even included the Mail's picture caption in its story, so the Telegraph's version didn't even make sense

(which I cut and pasted myself from the Guardian website). So it's possible that AB Mail-haters aren't all that foolish after all.

[Ethel]

Now in The Times, too

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environm ent/article5393763.ece

[jno]

oh absolutely definitely true, then!

Actually, it made the Beverly Hills paper on December 4, but I guess this stuff takes a while to filter out, probably because British newspapers don't have many American correspondents any more.

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