Hot on the heels of news that there is apparently a thriving trade in China for powdering up fetal tissue and selling it in capsules comes this story about a British man who was busted in Bangkok for carrying "six roasted fetuses covered with gold for black magic rituals." The man, Chow Hok Kuen, is of Taiwanese descent, and was apparently involved in a website which offered the gold-dusted roasted fetuses for sale.
Each such fetus is, in addition to being gruesomely blinged out, worth up to 200,000 Thai baht (the equivalent of $6,300 in U.S. Dollars). That's 50% more than the average per capita income in Thailand, a very significant chunk of money. Kuen was reportedly planning to smuggle the fetuses into Taiwan, where he could resell them for up to a 600% mark-up.
