It reminds me of the time where I lost my keys, and I spent $20,000 hiring two Yeti and a sheepdog to find them. Turns out they were just between the couch cushions.

You can buy a decent car for $30000

While you're looking for cars, what about the Australian Hovering Vehicles ? See today's 'Melbourne Age' which has a shot, said to have been taken from 'Google Earth' of a 'hovering' car in a park in Perth, Western Australia. Not very spectacular - no bull's balls - but mysterious.

Regards, Bryan.

She must have been on some of them drugs that MUST have been hidden in the secret compartments in that car, to make it worth $30,000 to find in the first place. I mean, c'mon man, ain't the primary mode of transportation in Zimbabwe the likes of the bull whose testicles were gonna be used to find the car in the first place????

Bryan: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/3925/

On the third page there's a link to the new one.

What's the source for this story? I'm sceptical. In my experience Africans are not idiots. If they have spent over $30,000 dollars on a car, will have it insured. What's more, Zimbabwe is completely landlocked, so I doubt whether mermaids are part of traditional beliefs.

I'm guessing about the same proportion of Africans are idiots as you would find in other ethnic groups, which means that there should be some of them gullible enough to fall for this sort of con. Part of the article that Alex doesn't quote above says, "In Zimbabwe, prominent figures and even leading politicians have often been the victims of such scams." Although the story doesn't say so, I suspect that the "bogus traditional healer" didn't cop all $30,000 at once, but gradually pulled the vicitm in deeper and deeper, so that she kept throwing good money after bad. That's standard procedure for bunco artists.

Africans I've known do, however, tend to have a different sense of reality than most westerners, so that a claim that mermaids could be persuaded to reveal the location of a stolen car wouldn't be more strange to them than a claim that Jesus or God or St. Anthony could help find something lost would be to many Americans and Europeans, or a belief that an individual has a reasonable chance of getting rich by playing the lottery.

A cult involving a belief in supernatural mermaids is widespread, and growing in popularity, in West Africa, so it's not unlikely that some people in Zimbabwe have also heard of it or even follow it. For you ethnology buffs, this iconography is related both to the old Yoruba sea goddess and to the more modern figure of "Mami Wata," who is just as often associated with rivers and lakes as with the sea.

Bah.. forget bull parts, you wouldn't *believe* the sort of things *my* 'strong parts' have found...

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.. ok, I guess that just sounded funny because it's one in the morning..

Hmm.. 'Strong Parts'.. sounds like an X-rated version of a popular webtoon character...

"Dear Strong Parts, Where the heck is my car? I've looked everywhere, and still can't find it. Yours with much crap, Bob."

Robin Bobcat, you owe me a new keyboard.

Mr Henderson:
What's more, Zimbabwe is completely landlocked, so I doubt whether mermaids are part of traditional beliefs.

Even if a country is landlocked, it still has water. Zimbabwe has many rivers, including the very large Zambezi river on its northwest border. Plenty of room for mermaids to frolick about.

No need to adjust the front of your car otherwise to install a motherboard or a lubrication pump. All wheel drive vehicles may require a tow bar off and remove the drive shaft for transport. Tractor trailer weight to these bars to evaluate between five hundred thousand and five hundred and the good thing is that the weight of the motor vehicle towed easily.

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