Don’t drink the water in Peru … unless you want to be gay!
“Unfortunately strontium reduces male hormones and suddenly we’ll be as Tabalosos, as other towns, where the percentages are increasing of homosexuality.“
Huarmey Mayor Jose Benitez addressing a crowd on the dangers of their tap water, as he pitched a water expansion project. The Mayor of this small Peruvian town based his information on an erroneous 2000 TV news report that the nearby town of Tabalosos, which supplies Huarmey’s water, had seen all 14,000 of its male residents turn gay as a result of the tap water.(huffingtonpost.com)
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