Freak Show?

Wow. These are some disturbing pictures. They are real and come from ABCNEWS.com. Poor people. I can't imagine ever living like this. Truth be told, I would rather be dead.

Mini muscleman Romeo Dev poses with his trainer Ranjeet Pal. Dev is regarded as the world's smallest bodybuilder.



At 19 years old, Dev is 33 inches tall and weighs only 9kg. 250 grams (20.4 pounds). He has trained as a body builder and has a chest measurement of 20 inches.



Romeo trains at the Leo Health Club in Phagwara, India and his trainer is the health club owner Ranjit Pal 'Mr. Punjab'.



Huang Chuncai rests before his second operation to remove his tumours, which currently weigh around 10kg (22lbs), at a hospital in Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong province, January 5, 2008. Huang, a 32-year-old native from a remote village in China's southern province of Hunan, says he is relieved after a part of his facial tumours, which originally weighed about 23kg (50.7 lbs), was removed last year. His second operation will remove another part of the tumours, which weighs 4.5kg (9.9lbs). Huang suffers from Neurofibromatosis, which is a genetic disorder of the nervous system that primarily affects the development and growth of nerve tissues.



Huang Chuncai poses before his second operation to remove his tumours, which currently weigh around 10kg (22lbs), at a hospital in Guangzhou, southern China's Guangdong province, January 3, 2008. Huang, a 32-year-old native from a remote village in China's southern province of Hunan, says he is relieved after a part of his facial tumours, which originally weighed about 23kg (50.7 lbs), was removed last year. His second operation will remove another part of the tumours, which weighs 4.5kg (9.9lbs). Huang suffers from Neurofibromatosis, which is a genetic disorder of the nervous system that primarily affects the development and growth of nerve tissues. Picture taken January 3, 2008.
(Joe Tan/Reuters)



Lakshmi looks on at the Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore, India, on Nov. 5, 2007. Doctors began operating Nov. 6, 2007, on the 2-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs. The 24-hour operation, which was successful, left the girl with a normal anatomy.
(AP Photo)



The world's tallest man, Bao Xishun, who stands 7.9 feet, shakes hands with He Pingping, who only measures 2.4 feet, in Baotou, China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region July 13, 2007. Nineteen-year-old He is applying for the Guinness world record as the world's shortest man.
(AP Photo)


For nearly four decades, Sanju Bhagat carried the body of his own twin inside him. Doctors discovered Bhagat had one of the world's most bizarre medical conditions — fetus in fetu, an extremely rare abnormality that occurs when a fetus gets trapped inside its twin.
(ABC)