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Round-the-world yachtsman feared eaten by South Pacific cannibals
PerthNow | News.com.au ^ | 10/17/11

Posted on 10/16/2011 10:20:47 PM PDT by LibWhacker

GERMAN sailor Stefan Ramin was on the trip of a lifetime when it turned into a nightmare on an island in the middle of nowhere.

He set off on 2008 with his girlfriend and traversed the globe looking for paradise - but it took a horrible twist when he reached Nuku Hiva in French Polynesia.

The remote tropical island was the last place Mr Ramin was seen before remains, believed to be his, were uncovered.

Experts believe he was "hacked to pieces and burned" and eaten by suspected cannibals.

Testing will conclude whether the ashes belong to Mr Ramin, Radio New Zealand International reported.

Police are looking for Henri Haiti, a local guide who set off on a hunting trip with Mr Ramin and then tried to sexually assault Mr Ramin's girlfriend when he returned to alert her of an apparent accident.

He tied her to a tree but she managed to escape and alert local authorities.

Haiti is still missing and is the subject of now seven-day manhunt from police and soldiers.

Ramin and his girlfriend had planned to spend several months in French Polynesia, docking at Nuku Hiva to experience a traditional goat hunt on the island of 2,789 people.

"The foreign ministry and the federal police are aware of the case and in contact with local authorities," said a spokesperson from the German foreign ministry.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cannibalism; cannibals; eaten; frenchpolynesia; german; goathunt; longpighunt; nukuhiva; ramin; stefanramin; yachtsman
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1 posted on 10/16/2011 10:20:51 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

Tastes like seagull


2 posted on 10/16/2011 10:22:09 PM PDT by casablanca
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To: casablanca

Seems pretty obvious the guide did it, why bring “South Sea Island Cannibals” into it, geesh! I don’t even think there are any cannibals of the south seas. The cannibals were in New Guinea, not Nuku Hiva. Next thing they’re going to be saying Hawaiians live in grass shacks and eat people too. Maybe way back when somewhere in the “South Seas” but not now. Sounds like a bad Bob Hope and Bing Crosby movie.


3 posted on 10/16/2011 10:27:46 PM PDT by punditwannabe
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To: LibWhacker

weißes schwein


4 posted on 10/16/2011 10:28:34 PM PDT by tlb
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To: tlb

long pig


5 posted on 10/16/2011 10:33:54 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
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To: LibWhacker

Long pig roast!


6 posted on 10/16/2011 10:35:31 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: LibWhacker

A second-rate sailor, but a first-rate second course.


7 posted on 10/16/2011 10:36:35 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: punditwannabe
"Next thing they’re going to be saying Hawaiians live in grass shacks and eat people too"

Yeah, Hawaiian locals are much more sophisticated. They don't eat the haoles they find on hikes, they just kill them. And no shacks.. just bumper stickers with sacred writings such as "Die Developers, Die!"


8 posted on 10/16/2011 10:37:23 PM PDT by I see my hands (Keep your sunny side up!)
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To: LibWhacker

Well, that’s new.


9 posted on 10/16/2011 10:38:07 PM PDT by Crucial
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To: LibWhacker

Particularly nice weather we’ve been having in Northern Michigan, lately.
Seriously, I don’t understand people who think cruising off the coast of Somalia, or Borneo, is going to be some romantic holiday, full of carefree, no-risk, get-away from the real world.
Unfortunately for them, this is the real world.


10 posted on 10/16/2011 10:38:52 PM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: LibWhacker
Well that's a headline you don't see everyday.
11 posted on 10/16/2011 10:40:20 PM PDT by The Cajun (Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity......Nuff said.)
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Next thing they’re going to be saying Hawaiians live in grass shacks and eat people too.

Well, we do have bumper stickers and tee shirts that say "Haole, the other White Meat", showing some haole suspeded from a pole over the fire. I gather it gives some tourists pause.......I have to laugh........

12 posted on 10/16/2011 10:43:11 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: LibWhacker
Oh, but "cannibal" is such a horrid, politically-incorrect, pejorative word. /s

How about "homophagist"?

That's it. Please do not judge those who practice "homophagia".

13 posted on 10/16/2011 10:51:57 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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14 posted on 10/16/2011 11:05:49 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (We be fooked.)
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To: dayglored

“How about “homophagist”?”

I’ve heard the term “anthropophagi” used, but never in polite society.


15 posted on 10/16/2011 11:17:27 PM PDT by happyathome
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To: doorgunner69

http://www.flickr.com/photos/desertlibrarian/139863840/


16 posted on 10/16/2011 11:24:26 PM PDT by packrat35 (America is rapidly becoming a police state that East Germany could be proud of!)
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To: LibWhacker

All cultures are equal including cannibalism.

We should immediately allow many of these cannibals to immigrate to the U.S. to improve our diversity.

Thoughtless Christians imposed their values on such societies and as a result cannibalistic cultures are now endangered.


17 posted on 10/16/2011 11:40:10 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: dayglored

It’s a hunger orientation and they were born that way.


18 posted on 10/16/2011 11:41:31 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: tlb
weißes schwein

The other other white meat?

19 posted on 10/16/2011 11:44:24 PM PDT by cynwoody
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To: LibWhacker

I always find German food to be a bit heavy.


20 posted on 10/16/2011 11:47:48 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici ("Si, se gimme!")
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