UNCONVENTIONAL WORLD RECORDS

Jim Jones, greatest cult leader of modern times. On 18th November 1978, wiped out his flock of 900+. Anyone in need of improving their skills of public speaking, persuasion and rhetoric need not look further than this guy’s masterclass. Now, how many people in history can convince hundreds of people to kill themselves simultaneously? And to top THAT, seeing everyone else dead, he put a bullet through his own head.

Dr Aafia Siddiqui (b.1972), Pakistani, neurologist, graduated from no less a college than the MIT. Suspected al-Qaeda operative, wanted by the FBI. Disappeared April 2003.

Velupillai Prabakharan, born 1954, leader and founder of the LTTE, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ellam, operating south of Sri Lanka in Jaffna. sole mission - to gain independence for the minority Tamil south of Sri Lanka… until now he can’t be killed even tough his markas bombed many times. Even better than osama bin laden who has numerous mountains in afghan-pakistan border to hide even from monster bomb called the daisy cutter which can penetrate mount kinabalu, search the enemy and destroy…Vellupillai Prabakharan has only jungles to hide…Prabakharan has got his own batalions of hardcore army ready to defend him at all costs including the highly feared and respected black tiger - women suicide bomber which has killed many people in Colombo, the heart of Sri Lanka capital…

Koose Muniswamy Veerappan (18 jan 1952�18 Oct 2004), legendary Tamil bandit in India. He resided and carried out his activities in forests covering 6,000 sq km. Wanted for killing about 124 people, including senior police and forest officials, poaching about 200 elephants, and smuggling ivory worth $2.6m and sandalwood of about 10,000 tones worth $22m. He had a price of UDS1.1 million on his head, but evaded arrest for TWENTY YEARS (!) until he was killed by police in 2004. Trademark: handlebar moustache. The poor supported him as a modern day Indian Robin Hood.

11 November 2004: Yasser Arafat’s wife Suha is comforted by Suzanne Mubarak, the Egyptian president’s wife as she arrives at Cairo’s al-Maza airport with Arafat’s coffin on a French government plane from Paris.

Datin Arina Abdullah, big time gambler, divorced from Malaysian royal Tunku Kamil Ikram Abdullah. He is the nephew of Negri Sembilan ruler Tunku Jaafar.

Srinivasa Aiyangar Ramanujan (1887-1920). India’s, and possibly the world’s, greatest mathematical genius ever. Never had uni education. Mentor: GH Hardy, England best mathematician at that time. He should’ve worked with Einstein! I mean, reflect on Hardy’s own account: “I remember once going to see him when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. “No,” he replied, “it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.”

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Rev Alfred Bietighofer, 64, a dismissed Connecticut priest accused of child sex abuse hanged himself in his room with a bedsheet at an institution that treats troubled clergy members, May 2002. He had resigned as assistant pastor of Saint Andrew Parish in Bridgeport, in the eastern U.S. state of Connecticut, on April 29, 2002 just one day after Roman Catholic Church officials there interviewed two men who claimed he abused them in the late 1970s and early 1980s, according to the Bridgeport Diocese. He was being evaluated at Maryland’s Saint Luke Institute, a psychiatric center that treats clergy who have been accused of molestation, at the time of his death on Thursday.
“Hospital personnel knocked on his door several times and tried to enter his room, but something was blocking his door,” said Prince George’s County Police Department spokeswoman Diane Richardson. “When they entered the room, they found the deceased hanging from the door.”

Rev. Don Rooney, 48, of the Cleveland Diocese shot himself to death in April 2002 after being accused of molesting a girl.

Fr Sean Fortune committed suicide in 1999 after being charged with 66 counts of sexual, indecent assault and buggery relating to eight boys. 18 years after the first complaint, the Catholic Church was finally forced to remove him from duties. Fr Sean Fortune killed himself in 1999 in the first week of the criminal trial denying his many victims their first chance to be heard.

Former Massachusetts priest John Geoghan indicted on child rape charges in 1999. 18 January 2002: Geoghan convicted of indecent assault and battery of a 10-year-old boy, for which he later receives a 10-year prison sentence. He was later killed in prison.

Dec 2004, England: Selina Hakki, 37, is believed to be the first woman to be convicted of using rohypnol to drug men. The powerful sedative became notorious after men began to use it to stupefy women before sexually assaulting them. Hakki reversed the roles. Knowing that the manufacturers had added an intense blue dye to alert anyone whose drink had been spiked, she disguised the drug in red wine.

8 Feb 2005: Paul Shanley, 74, defrocked priest, most notorious figure in the sex scandal that rocked the Boston Archdiocese was found guilty of repeatedly raping and fondling a six-year-old boy at his church 20 years ago. The victim, now 27, put his head down and sobbed. Shanley showed no emotion. During the trial, the accuser broke down on the stand as he testified in graphic detail that Shanley pulled him out of Sunday morning catechism classes and molested him in the bathroom, the rectory, the confessional and the pews starting when he was 6 and continuing for six years. Shanley was once a long-haired, jeans-wearing “street priest” who worked with Boston’s troubled youth. The clergy abuse scandal in Boston began in early 2002 when Cardinal Bernard Law acknowledged he shuffled a pedophile priest from parish to parish despite evidence the priest had molested children. That priest, John Geoghan, was convicted of assault and was later killed in prison. The scandal intensified later in 2002 when the church released Shanley’s 800-page personnel file. Despite church teachings, he argued for acceptance of homosexuality and pushed for gay rights. He called himself a “sexual expert” and advertised his counseling services in the alternative press.

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As a verdict is read in the trial of defrocked priest Paul Shanley, John Harris, bottom, is hugged by Robert Costello, Monday, Feb. 7, 2005, in a courtroom in Cambridge, Mass. Shanley, the most notorious figure in the sex scandal that rocked the Boston Archdiocese, was convicted Monday of raping and fondling a boy at his Roman Catholic church during the 1980s. Both Harris and Costello ALSO claim to have been either raped or molested by Shanley. The “boy’s” identity is kept under wraps. (AP Photo/Mark Garfinkel, Pool)