XPost: uk.legal, talk.politics.drugs, uk.misc   
   XPost: alt.drugs   
   From: zen19725@zen.co.uk   
      
   On 12 Jul 2005 08:15:55 -0700, dimebag  wrote:   
   >   
   >[In Britain] people can be   
   >locked up in mental institutions for being too fat.   
      
   Not quite true.   
      
   People can be locked up for having a genetic disorder that causes   
   both an insatiable appetite and metal retardation. Unsurprisingly,   
   some people with this disorder eat themselves to death.   
      
   > I used to be   
   >proud of my British ancestry and the English law that formed the   
   >foundation of the American legal system, now I just think they're   
   >fools.   
      
   The ones running the country are, anyway.   
      
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