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Northern Ireland Man Thrown In Prison After Attempting To Turn Crap Into Gold

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We take advantage of this brief lull in the European panic headline blasting for a comic interlude, presented without comment.

From Yahoo News:

Man jailed after trying to turn faeces into gold

 

A man from Northern Ireland has been jailed after an experiment in which he attempted to turn his own faeces into gold went wrong and started a fire in a block of flats.

 

Paul Moran will now serve three months in jail and a further 12 months on license after the failed experiment caused a fire at his Housing Executive home in Derrin Park, Enniskillen.

 

Moran admitted arson and endangering the lives of others in the fire, which reportedly caused over £3,000 worth of damage.

 

It is thought that as part of the bizarre experiment Moran left his faeces, along with other waste products such as fertiliser, on a heater.

 

In his ruling Judge McFarland told Moran: “Rather bizarrely you were attempting to make gold from human faeces and waste products.

 

“It was an interesting experiment to fulfil the alchemist’s dream, but wasn’t going to succeed.”

 

Moran’s barrister mentioned that his client was a man of ‘considerable intellectual ability’ but that he had problems battling drug abuse

Take it away...

 

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Thu, 10/20/2011 - 12:35 | 1793529 Matrix R Us
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Come on dude, you ain't Bernanke baby!

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 12:36 | 1793533 Vuvuzela
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In US Bankers turn Dollars in to Shit

Arrest Them

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 12:41 | 1793548 Bollixed
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Feces?

I thought that was Tim Geithner's zodiac sign.

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 12:41 | 1793550 Cthonic
Thu, 10/20/2011 - 17:14 | 1794824 saulysw
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Truth IS stranger than fiction. I don't understand their one-line explaination of where it all comes from, but whatever.

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 12:57 | 1793649 Hephasteus
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Blythe masters intern?

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 13:00 | 1793669 ckondek
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This is why Merkel and Sarko are saying the EU summit this weekend won't deliver anything.  Poop to Gold was their secret weapon.

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 13:03 | 1793683 bahaar
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He was only doing God's work.

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 13:09 | 1793693 Problem Is
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Expect an Amerikan to try the same thing any day now with feces, beer cans and McDonald's cartons...

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 13:14 | 1793718 Mutatto
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It's possible!  I've done it before. 

I started off with some really good fresh crap, it HAS to be fresh.  I added a little bit of fertilizer, for heat.  I also added a few gold coins and some old broken gold jewlery, only as a catalyst,  so as to speed up the process.

I heated up really hot, for a good long time.

I finally ended up with some decent gold nuggets.  Not alot.  Perhaps enough for a few coins with some left over.

Pretty cool stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 13:18 | 1793731 Non-Zero
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Northern Ireland is part of the UK, so not (generally) considered "European" but "British".

The currency is also GBP.

Much like the US, our banking system is somewhat more transparent and simply resorts to printing money rather than dressing it up as "EFSF" and "leverage".

I guess they figure it's not worth the effort of hiding what they are doing when we have people shitting in buckets to create gold.

 

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 13:26 | 1793769 The Alarmist
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Crap, over here he would be a candidate for the Senate.

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 13:39 | 1793863 eftian
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Great! I hope this works, then maybe the elite will hold off on their planned famines for a while so they can turn our shit into gold.

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 13:46 | 1793917 PMakoi
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The day will come when GS, MS, HSBC, et al will attempt to turn paper into gold, and TPTB will allow it.  I'm guessing lead packed in some brass will be darn near as good as gold then.

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 14:24 | 1794169 Coronal Mass Ej...
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See what you get when you stick your Tungsten up someone else's ass?!

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 14:24 | 1794171 vamsy
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'buy shit. target 1600'

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 14:55 | 1794289 AldoHux_IV
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Looks like he was trying to do what only policymakers can do with the help of their alchemist friends aka central bankers.

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 15:05 | 1794324 duffelpud
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It's already having an effect on the market...

http://i671.photobucket.com/albums/vv76/duffelpud/crapisup.jpg

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 16:01 | 1794549 Peter Pan
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Reminds of the joke about the Irishman who was caught with a piece of shit in his luggage as he was coming through customs. When asked where he got it from his reply was " I won it in a craps game in Vegas".

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 16:06 | 1794568 MsCreant
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No one has said it yet:

HOLY SHIT!

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 16:43 | 1794717 ThisIsBob
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Damn fool.  You can't eat gold.

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 16:59 | 1794776 guslinton
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The man said, in his own defense, "If the banksters can do it, why not me!"

Thu, 10/20/2011 - 17:17 | 1794835 saulysw
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I hope this doesn't cause a run in the shit markets

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