It takes a lot to shock people in Las Vegas, but a shopkeeper is raising eyebrows for selling “corpse water”, after a succession of human remains were discovered as Nevada’s drought-stricken Lake Mead continued to drop.
Charlie Hanks, owner of an occult emporium called Blaspheme Boutique, said he hit on the idea as a joke, and that customers aren’t actually buying water from the lake, but a mixture of witch hazel, glass, rocks, dirt, and green mika.
“As a joke, I said, ‘I should do Lake Mead corpse water, because of the corpses in the lake,’ and then I made it”, he told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “I had it and I posted some pictures of it and then it kind of went viral on Instagram and Facebook and social media”.
“I wouldn’t steal water from our already depleting water source”, he added....
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