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Girl goes missing in jungle at age 8, found animal-like 19 years later (pic)
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'Half-Animal' Woman Is Discovered After Spending 19 Years Alone in Cambodian Jungle
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — A woman who disappeared in the jungles of northeastern Cambodia as a child has apparently been found after living in the wild for 19 years, police said Thursday.
The woman — believed to be Rochom P'ngieng, now 27 years old — cannot speak any intelligible language, so details of her saga have been difficult to confirm.
"She is like half-human and half-animal," said Mao San, police chief of Oyadao district in Rattanakiri province. "She's weird. She sleeps during the day and stays up at night."
The father of Rochom P'ngieng, a member of the Pnong ethnic minority, said he recognized his daughter by a scar on her back and her facial features, according to Mao San. The father is a village policeman named Sal Lou.
Rochom P'ngieng, then 8 years old, disappeared one day in 1988 when she was herding buffalo in a remote northeastern jungle area, said Chea Bunthoeun, a deputy provincial police chief.
I wonder if she'll ever be able to relearn the language and reintegrate.
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Could she not speak at 8? I understand if you don't talk for a long time, you may forget how, but I can see someone talking to themself just to hear a voice.
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I was also expecting a hot female version of Tarzan. 
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Hm...turns out Fox News got the picture wrong. This is what she actually looks like:
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I like this one better:
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Last edited by reader50; Jan 19, 2007 at 03:42 AM.
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Originally Posted by Gossamer 
Hm...turns out Fox News got the picture wrong. This is what she actually looks like:
Damn, she looks like she lived in the jungle eating only berries and leaves.
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"Rochom P'ngieng, then 8 years old, disappeared one day in 1988 when she was herding buffalo in a remote northeastern jungle area"
What did her and the buffalo run off and get married?
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"She's gone from suck to blow!"
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Originally Posted by Gossamer
Hm...turns out Fox News got the picture wrong. This is what she actually looks like:
Looks like:
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Originally Posted by Eug
I like this one better:
I see a little box with an x in it.
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Try refreshing. I just tried it on another computer and it shows up fine.
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Originally Posted by Eug
Try refreshing. I just tried it on another computer and it shows up fine.
Still doesn't work. 
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Originally Posted by Dark Helmet
What did her and the buffalo run off and get married?
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OK then, I rehosted it for you in this post:
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Originally Posted by Eug
Try refreshing. I just tried it on another computer and it shows up fine.
Still nothing.
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Originally Posted by Rumor
I see a little box with an x in it.
What an oddly appropriate description of the picture. Eerie.
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Originally Posted by Eug
OK then, I rehosted it for you in this post:
Now THAT is what I'm talking about! She gives me jungle fever!
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Originally Posted by Rumor
Now THAT is what I'm talking about! She gives me jungle fever!
That would be this one:
[/political incorrectness]
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Originally Posted by turtle777
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Sleep on it and give it another shot tomorrow.
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Originally Posted by Eug
OK then, I rehosted it for you in this post:
I liked the box with the x better
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Originally Posted by Jim_MDP
What an oddly appropriate description of the picture. Eerie.
Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed her "box" was showing. Heh.
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Originally Posted by Kerrigan
Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed her "box" was showing. Heh.
With tooki, that would have never happened 
In before lockination...
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Originally Posted by Eug
Looks like:
I was thinking the exact same thing. Good job!
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What's weird, was that her dad was a policeman, and he let his daughter run around with buffalo at the age of 8. Strange.
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Originally Posted by Rumor
I see a little box with an x in it.
I see a box, just no x in it.
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Originally Posted by centerchannel68
What's weird, was that her dad was a policeman, and he let his daughter run around with buffalo at the age of 8. Strange.
And uh, did you see where this story originated from?
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How dare you insult the stupidity of third world people!
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Originally Posted by analogika
Heh. Awesome show.
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This is the greatest thread derailment ever.
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I for one welcome the derailment. And the fact that I only saw the very good box, not the bad one.
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Originally Posted by Rumor
Damn, she looks like she lived in the jungle eating only berries and leaves.
Then puked it back up.
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Back on the rail... what do the media mean by 'animal-like'?
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Originally Posted by Kenneth
Back on the rail... what do the media mean by 'animal-like'?
Ever see a group women trying to get into Macy's on thier biggest sale of the year?
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i love how the police officer says "she's weird!"
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Originally Posted by Rumor
Ever see a group women trying to get into Macy's on thier biggest sale of the year?
Metaphor accepted.
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Cambodia's 'Jungle Woman' sits and stares, yielding no secrets
But unable to speak any words the villagers can understand, the woman cannot solve any of the mystery that surrounds her disappearance for nearly two decades.
So far, Sal Lou's family says she mostly uses sign language to indicate her basic needs. She pats her stomach when she is hungry or needs to go the toilet and has taken a liking to the family's collection of karaoke videos.
"She just stared at that video without blinking. She liked it very much," her father said.
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Originally Posted by Eug
She pats her stomach when she is hungry or needs to go the toilet
How do they decide which is which?
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Originally Posted by Gossamer
How do they decide which is which?
They brought food to the toilet, so she can do both at the same time.
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^^  
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we don't have time to stop for gas
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just watch the movie Nell; you'll figure out what she is saying.
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Originally Posted by Kenneth
Back on the rail... what do the media mean by 'animal-like'?
Lack of clothing comes to mind. I suspect the press photo was taken later.
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might mean "can only use Windows" ?
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I heard this story on NPR, and they said that the parents and officials weren't even sure that this was their daughter.
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Originally Posted by Y3a
might mean "can only use Windows" ?
That comment is funny!
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Originally Posted by KarlG
I heard this story on NPR, and they said that the parents and officials weren't even sure that this was their daughter.
In every story that I've read, the parents and the brother said they recognized her as soon as they saw a particular scar that she got in her childhood. The brother remembered it especially because he caused it.
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Considering the Alice case in the 1970s, the data on such cases would indicate that she is unlikely to be able to learn a language...
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Originally Posted by DeathToWindows
Considering the Alice case in the 1970s, the data on such cases would indicate that she is unlikely to be able to learn a language...
Sounds interesting. Link?
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the part of the brain that processes language becomes impaired if it goes without stimuli for even a few years...
studies have been done on this several times over the past 100 years and they all show the same result.
the raw fear the child experienced was probably enough to cause damage on its own.
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