In Borneo, an orangutan was kept for prostitution
There seems to be a rash of crazy stuff in the world of late - a man eating the face off another man, a Canadian porn star mailing limbs to Parliament - and now this from Borneo:
Pony is an orangutan from a prostitute village in Borneo. We found her chained to a wall, lying on a mattress. She had been shaved all over her body....You could choose a human if you preferred, but it was a novelty for many of the men to have sex with an orangutan....
It took us over a year to rescue her, because every time we went in with forest police and local officers we would be overpowered by the villagers, who simply would not give her up. They would threaten us with guns and knives with poison on them. In the end it took 35 policemen armed with AK-47s and other weaponry going in there and demanding that they hand over Pony.
Some days it's very hard to have any faith in humanity. (H/t: Max Fisher)
