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Beverly Hills, an SUV, and biodiesel made from human fat
This story has it all: Beverly Hills types getting their body fat liposuctioned out, the doctor then saving that fat to make biodiesel for his SUV, and an investigation by the California public health department. Under investigation is Craig Alan Bittner, who recently left the US to go to South America and "do volunteer work at a clinic." While he was still in Beverly Hills, he worked at Beverly Hills Liposculpture where he sucked fat out of "pampered Los Angelenos" (as Forbes put it). He then converted the body fat to biofuel for his Ford SUV and his girlfriend's Lincoln Navigator (UPDATE: which is odd, since there is no official diesel version - so does that make this story a hoax). There are two problems with how Bittner made his biodiesel. One, it's illegal to use human medical remains to make biofuel. Two, some of Bittner's former patients have complained that he "removed too much fat from [them] and left them disfigured." Even though he skipped the country, Forbes writes that Bittner claimed he had his patients' permission and support to make the biofuel from their unwanted blubber.
This isn't the first time we've tagged a post with both liposuction and biodiesel. Here's a classic 2006 post on the same subject, but that might've been a hoax.
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[Source: Forbes]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mike Z 2:01PM (12/22/2008)
Ford never made a diesel version of the Navigator
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gorr 2:39PM (12/22/2008)
I told you before: People are just crazy since the planet before this one have been destructed long time ago and people unconscioulsly just make cheap psycho-therapy to try to forget these very bad time by continously talking about that but by inventing new things like this exemple instead of talking to the real persons with the real events that happenned before for real. Instead of saying that he was killing people 10 000 000 years ago to make fuel for his car he now say that human fat can serve as bio-diesel, LOL. If he were conscious instead of almost completelly incounscious he will resolve his problem of having cheap fuel by promoting green algae farming here for now instead of telling with complication his past murders that happened long long time ago and nobody except me can understand what the real truth is all about. I remember having made big prayers at the ends of the previous planet and later on at the beginning of this planet and people are almost dead as a soul and they never invented anything here on this planet since the beginning. All we see, internet, computers, music, cars, tv's, etc have been invented long time ago on another planets and all activities are just an unconscious repetition of what you did before.
That's why we are in the dark ages, nobody is saying something new that never been said before. All people do is just confessing unconsciously what crimes they did before been here on this planet. That's why nostradamus predicted all the events up to where i will buy a hydrogen gadgets. It's because prior to this planet i was a hydrogen devises sellers and promoters and for fun i decided to be a buyers instead to give peoples a chance of inventing something too and to cease the war that i had agaist me and that kill the previous planet because i was making a lot of money.
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Nick 9:36PM (12/22/2008)
You're ABG's crackhead poster arn't you?
"since the planet before this one have been destructed long time ago and people unconscioulsly just make cheap psycho-therapy to try to forget these very bad time by continously talking about that but by inventing new things like this exemple instead of talking to the real persons with the real events that happenned before for real."
Loads of inarticulate, senseless crap, as usual.
vw junky 3:02PM (12/22/2008)
Solent Green!
He can have my fat if he takes it out for Free! LOL!
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Bill 5:15PM (12/22/2008)
I vote someone creates a blog that archives all of gorr's posts.
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Robert 11:36PM (12/22/2008)
Gorr sounds a lot like Sarah Palin. Seriously, through, this story has it all, all right -- all the seven deadly sins, dunnit? Lessee, lust, check. Greed, check. gluttony, check (that fat had to come from somewhere.) Sloth, (probably), check. Wrath, check. Envy, hmm, gotta be there somwhere, check. Vanity, double check.
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Brian 2:49PM (12/23/2008)
Tyler Durden quits the soap business to make biodiesel.
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Nakaina 6:05PM (12/27/2008)
Sell it as $5 a gallon for your own ass to be pumped into your fuel tank. I love it! People don't just wash their faces with it anymore!