PHUKET: Two Americans, wanted by police in Thailand for posting body parts back to the US, once made exploitative videos that filmed out of work tramps fighting each other.
Thai police say the producers of the controversial 'Bumfights' series fled to Cambodia after being arrested in Bangkok accused of attempting to smuggle body parts back to the US.
Ryan McPherson, also known as Ryen McPherson, and Daniel Tanner were arrested after three parcels containing a baby's head, a sliced up baby's foot, an adult heart with a stab wound and a ''sheet of skin'' with tattoo markings were found in parcels at a shipping office in Bangkok.
Police believe the items were stolen from a medical museum at a major Bangkok hospital. The body parts were discovered at the DHL depot in Bangkok while they were checking parcels labelled ''toys''.
McPherson and Tanner told police they bought the items at a market and wanted to send them back to friends in Los Angeles as a joke.
McPherson and Tanner became notorious after producing a series of online videos in which they pay homeless people to fight each other for money. The videos were then sold over the internet.
One of the homeless men involved in the video was even paid to have ''Bumfights'' tattooed across his forehead.
McPherson was arrested and sentenced to 280 community service hours at a homeless shelter.
In 2006, the filmmakers agreed to not make any more of the Bumfights films and to pay three of the homeless men involved in the videos as part of an out of court settlement.
The men were attempting to sue the filmmakers for emotional and physical damages over the videos.
Thai police say the producers of the controversial 'Bumfights' series fled to Cambodia after being arrested in Bangkok accused of attempting to smuggle body parts back to the US.
Ryan McPherson, also known as Ryen McPherson, and Daniel Tanner were arrested after three parcels containing a baby's head, a sliced up baby's foot, an adult heart with a stab wound and a ''sheet of skin'' with tattoo markings were found in parcels at a shipping office in Bangkok.
Police believe the items were stolen from a medical museum at a major Bangkok hospital. The body parts were discovered at the DHL depot in Bangkok while they were checking parcels labelled ''toys''.
McPherson and Tanner told police they bought the items at a market and wanted to send them back to friends in Los Angeles as a joke.
McPherson and Tanner became notorious after producing a series of online videos in which they pay homeless people to fight each other for money. The videos were then sold over the internet.
One of the homeless men involved in the video was even paid to have ''Bumfights'' tattooed across his forehead.
McPherson was arrested and sentenced to 280 community service hours at a homeless shelter.
In 2006, the filmmakers agreed to not make any more of the Bumfights films and to pay three of the homeless men involved in the videos as part of an out of court settlement.
The men were attempting to sue the filmmakers for emotional and physical damages over the videos.
He has to work on his alias.
A "joke"? Generation jackass.
Buying bodyparts for entertainment... could be out of the playbook of Mr. Hagen's chinese death row body world. May the ghosts hound them down in Cambodia and bring them bad dreams every night. Good they left Thailand and hopefully never show up again.
Posted by Lena on November 18, 2014 02:27