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A Cambodian woman has literally gone wild. She's apparently been living in the jungle without clothing or tools. She was caught crawling around trying to steal some rice from an isolated village. The police officer responding to the incident may be her father. It seems he lost a daughter 19 years ago and this woman has scars that match up with the long lost girl.

It's amazing how a person could live that long alone in the jungle. Maybe she was adopted by one of the tribes that live out there.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,244440,00.html

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A Cambodian woman has literally gone wild. She's apparently been living in the jungle without clothing or tools. She was caught crawling around trying to steal some rice from an isolated village. The police officer responding to the incident may be her father. It seems he lost a daughter 19 years ago and this woman has scars that match up with the long lost girl.

It's amazing how a person could live that long alone in the jungle. Maybe she was adopted by one of the tribes that live out there.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,244440,00.html
I read that earlier today.

Now, I don't know much about Cambodia but I'm rather positive that there aren't any "tribes" in its jungles that go around naked, sleep during the day and are up at night, and don't have a form of speech. ;)

If she had been younger when she disappeared (she was 8) I would've thought she was "adopted" and raised by animals.

In this case, maybe she just got lost in the jungle and actually managed to survive as well as she could. :/

Then again, she would have to have been *really* lost for a loooong time to not to return to an inhabited place earlier - and when she came across that village now (I didn't gather from the article if it was actually her own village or how far away from there it was) she didn't even try to get back, she just used it to get food.

Cases like that are sad and morbidly (and sociologically, linguistically, psychologically....) fascinating. It's really interesting but I always feel like a gawker at the site of a car accident.

I coulda sworn i saw a star trek episode that went like that....

I read that earlier today.

Now, I don't know much about Cambodia but I'm rather positive that there aren't any "tribes" in its jungles that go around naked, sleep during the day and are up at night, and don't have a form of speech. ;)

If she had been younger when she disappeared (she was 8) I would've thought she was "adopted" and raised by animals.

In this case, maybe she just got lost in the jungle and actually managed to survive as well as she could. :/

Then again, she would have to have been *really* lost for a loooong time to not to return to an inhabited place earlier - and when she came across that village now (I didn't gather from the article if it was actually her own village or how far away from there it was) she didn't even try to get back, she just used it to get food.

Cases like that are sad and morbidly (and sociologically, linguistically, psychologically....) fascinating. It's really interesting but I always feel like a gawker at the site of a car accident.

I believe the Germans have a word for that, the impulse that makes people slow down at the scene of a car wreck even when it's not blocking the road.

WYTYG's right, it is amazing she's been in the jungle all this time. I don't know how remote that area of Cambodia is. It's not a huge country but I imagine there are some really out of the way places.

1.- Female Mowgli. What the cops didn't think was that they scared Bagheera and Baloo when they rescued her.

2.- Imagine an encounter between this girl and the austrian one kidnapped for years.

3.- Sorry for perhaps being unsensitive, I read about it earlier and I am still in shock...

I believe the Germans have a word for that, the impulse that makes people slow down at the scene of a car wreck even when it's not blocking the road.
We call it 'rubbernecking' in England. Not quite sure why, but we do.

WYTYG's right, it is amazing she's been in the jungle all this time. I don't know how remote that area of Cambodia is. It's not a huge country but I imagine there are some really out of the way places.
It is impressive she survived. Though she's probably been stealing food from villages for the last decade. Makes you wonder why she wouldn't try to make any contact with other people.

1.- Female Mowgli. What the cops didn't think was that they scared Bagheera and Baloo when they rescued her.

2.- Imagine an encounter between this girl and the austrian one kidnapped for years.

3.- Sorry for perhaps being unsensitive, I read about it earlier and I am still in shock...

Look for the bare necessities,
The simple bare necessities,
Forget about your worries and your strife,
I mean the bare necessities,
Of mother natures recipies,
That bring the bare necessities to life.

:cool:

I believe the Germans have a word for that, the impulse that makes people slow down at the scene of a car wreck even when it's not blocking the road.
We do? :eek:

I thought you were going to say the Germans have a word for those people (often children) who get lost in the wilderness and grow up outside human society, because we do: Wolfskinder, i.e. wolf children, what is called "feral children" in English.

See, at least I knew the word you were not asking for. :p

We call it 'rubbernecking' in England. Not quite sure why, but we do.


It is impressive she survived. Though she's probably been stealing food from villages for the last decade. Makes you wonder why she wouldn't try to make any contact with other people.

Because you stretch your neck to get a good look, as if it were made of ... ?

Am I the only one who wonders how she got these scars as a child hmmm?

It is impressive she survived. Though she's probably been stealing food from villages for the last decade. Makes you wonder why she wouldn't try to make any contact with other people.
Yeah, that's what I meant. There must have been a really long time where she was completely without contact to human settlements so that by the time she finally did again she tried to avoid contact, like a wild animal would.

This is even stranger considering that she was already 8 years old when she disappeared - that's a pretty high age to so completely "forget" everything you had learned and known up to then, including speech and that humans are your "herd".

But then again, who the hell can imagine what kind of trauma was involved here - even if she "only" simply got lost in the jungle.

Schadenfreude?
I guess it's vaguely appropriate, but that's when you're happy about someone else's misfortune. The car crash thing is more just voyeurism.

As for the rubbernecking thing, the neck-stretching thing probably is right. But you rarely get to see anything unless you're going past before the emergency services get there.

We do? :eek:

I thought you were going to say the Germans have a word for those people (often children) who get lost in the wilderness and grow up outside human society, because we do: Wolfskinder, i.e. wolf children, what is called "feral children" in English.

See, at least I knew the word you were not asking for. :p

Schadenfreude?

Schadenfreude?

Ah!

No. :p

Sorry, Schadenfreude actually doesn't apply to the rubbernecking thing. Rubbernecking is just morbid curiosity and the urge to see every gory detail.

Schadenfreude is the (usually good-natured) satisfaction you take from someone else's misfortune - someone you think "had it coming" and "deserved" what he got.

The only time this would apply to a car accident would be for example if some speeding asshole dangerously cuts you off on the road and a bit later you come across his car bumped into a tree. Although, again, the accident has to not be so bad as to actually seriously injure or kill him, because Schadenfreude really doesn't go that far. Like, seriously.

I guess it's vaguely appropriate, but that's when you're happy about someone else's misfortune. The car crash thing is more just voyeurism.

As for the rubbernecking thing, the neck-stretching thing probably is right. But you rarely get to see anything unless you're going past before the emergency services get there.

I suppose, but "schadenfreude" is fun to say. Once upon a time over here there was a TV show called "Queen For A Day." Now it would be called a "reality" show, I suppose. The contestants were women who came on, told how their lives were miserable, and the one deemed the most miserable was given prizes, appliances, all sorts of gifts. That could be called "schadenfreude," I think.

Am I the only one who wonders how she got these scars as a child hmmm?

Scars + disappearance at 8 + staying far away from human contact = very interesting hypothesis. One that should involve criminal investigation.

Yeah, well, except that the article says "a scar on her back" which is really isn't very sinister at all.



ETA: Aw, fuck, it's time warping my posts again. Gah!

Am I the only one who wonders how she got these scars as a child hmmm?

Scars + disappearance at 8 + staying far away from human contact = very interesting hypothesis. One that should involve criminal investigation.

Like, seriously.

When did you become a Valley girl? :eek:

I mean, like, barf me out and gag me with a spoon! :p

Yeah, well, except that the article says "a scar on her back" which is really isn't very sinister at all.

yeah I suppose it is Cambodia

ETA: Aw, fuck, it's time warping my posts again. Gah!

the doctor I presume ;)

It must have been last night's Hurricane my German mates, huh? :D
The word we are looking for is "Gaffer"
Not really, my German mate, seeing how Farnhamia was asking not for what we call gawkers and rubberneckers but for
the impulse that makes people slow down at the scene of a car wreck even when it's not blocking the road.

;)

When did you become a Valley girl? :eek:

I mean, like, barf me out and gag me with a spoon! :p

I prefered the movie Heathers.

Heather Chandler: Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw. Do I look like Mother Theresa?

Schadenfreude?

It must have been last night's Hurricane my German mates, huh? :D
The word we are looking for is "Gaffer"
An ugly one, in my opinion.

But this Cambodian girl is just incredible.
I'd love talking to her ... if I only could speak Cambodian.
I mean ... she can't speak anymore, so we would be on the same level.
Not the best basis for discussing jungle philosophy, is it?
:D

I prefered the movie Heathers.

Heather Chandler: Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw. Do I look like Mother Theresa?

Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast? ;)

Did you have a brain tumor for breakfast? ;)

That movie had some brilliant lines.

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"That's hot."

ewwwwww, that women made me block every-picture from that server! And I didn't know it was Paris when I did!

ewwwwww, that women made me block every-picture from that server! And I didn't know it was Paris when I did!

why do I hear fapping? :p

not from me, that is sure... she disgusted me for some reason!

What "Fapping" means? My translator didn't give me any results

It's internet for masturbation.

not from me, that is sure... she disgusted me for some reason!

it looks like she’s putting some weight on which has to be good (oh dear I’ve become my mother :eek: )

Uh...you're not gonna hear Rej fapping over Paris Hilton...

I’m left wondering what Rejistania faps over

This is not new. In the 19th century (or the 18th, can't remember correctly) some kid got "discovered" that had been living since like 5 or 6 years old in one of the many lush forests France still had at that time. He came in contact with a doctor and a psychologist, who came to raise and study him - there was a book written of the whole event, and was later made into a movie. Now if only I could remember the movie or the book... :s

That movie had some brilliant lines.

Indeed it did. I love that movie. :cool:

why do I hear fapping? :p

Uh...you're not gonna hear Rej fapping over Paris Hilton...

What "Fapping" means? My translator didn't give me any results

This is not new. In the 19th century (or the 18th, can't remember correctly) some kid got "discovered" that had been living since like 5 or 6 years old in one of the many lush forests France still had at that time. He came in contact with a doctor and a psychologist, who came to raise and study him - there was a book written of the whole event, and was later made into a movie. Now if only I could remember the movie or the book... :s
The child was called "Victor of Aveyron" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_of_Aveyron), the movie is L'Enfant Sauvage (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064285/) by Francois Truffaut, based on the book "Mémoires et rapport sur Victor de l'Aveyron" by Jean Itard, the doctor who tried to "work with" Victor.

There have been quite a few documented cases of feral children throughout history. In Germany, Kaspar Hauser is the most prominent case.

A couple books on the topic:

Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children (http://www.amazon.com/Savage-Girls-Wild-Boys-Children/dp/031230093X/sr=1-1/qid=1169227866/ref=sr_1_1/102-7676879-3238510?ie=UTF8&s=books)
Genie: a Scientific Tragedy (http://www.amazon.com/Genie-Scientific-Tragedy-Russ-Rymer/dp/0060924659/ref=pd_sim_b_1/102-7676879-3238510) (a "feral child" growing up isolated among humans)

What "Fapping" means? My translator didn't give me any results

Ahem ... it's an onomatapoetic word derived from the sound of a hand stroking a penis during masturbation. :rolleyes:

The child was called Victor, the movie is L'Enfant Sauvage (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064285/) by Francois Truffaut, based on the book by Jean Itard "Mémoires et rapport sur Victor de l'Aveyron" who was the doctor who tried to examine "and heal" Victor.

There have been many more cases of feral children throughout history. In Germany, Kaspar Hauser is the prominent.

A couple books on the topic:

Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children (http://www.amazon.com/Savage-Girls-Wild-Boys-Children/dp/031230093X/sr=1-1/qid=1169227866/ref=sr_1_1/102-7676879-3238510?ie=UTF8&s=books)
Genie: a Scientific Tragedy (http://www.amazon.com/Genie-Scientific-Tragedy-Russ-Rymer/dp/0060924659/ref=pd_sim_b_1/102-7676879-3238510) (a "feral child" growing up isolated among humans)

I saw that movie. It was quite interesting.

Ahem ... it's an onomatapoetic word derived from the sound of a hand stroking a penis during masturbation. :rolleyes:

Oh....Does that really create a sound?

I mean...

Nevermind.

Oh....Does that really create a sound?

I mean...

Nevermind.

Good idea. ;)

I coulda sworn i saw a star trek episode that went like that....
There was an episode of DS9 where O'Brien's daughter fell through some time portal thingy and they managed to get her back after 15 years had passed for her... she was a little nutty.

Am I the only one who wonders how she got these scars as a child hmmm?
She probably ran away after her daddy gave her that scar :mad:

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"That's hot."
Nah, she's a massive skaghead, in all likelyhood.

And not that nice looking, to be honest.





But as to the story - odd, but fair enough.

She probably ran away after her daddy gave her that scar :mad:

Because there's no way a child could end up with a scar that wouldn't involve child abuse?

Because there's no way a child could end up with a scar that wouldn't involve child abuse?

No way. Especially not living in a remote Cambodian village when her chores involve stuff like herding oxen.