This guy looks like he is turning into a tree

[Alex179]

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=76668

The man who looks like a tree
Thursday, November 22, 2007
Dede has had the growths for two decades He is known simply as Tree Man.

Since he cut his knee as a teenager, strange roots have been growing out of Dede, a 35-year-old Indonesian fisherman.

Now he is hoping his life can be saved from his bizarre affliction.

Now, to be honest, we at Metro Online are not sure if we believe this, but you decide for yourselves.

The strange growths mean he cannot use his hands. He was sacked from his job and his wife left him.

To help raise his two children, at one point he joined a freak show with other victims of peculiar diseases.

SEE THE VIDEO:

An American dermatology expert believes he may be able to cure the warts on Dede's body.

Dr Anthony Gaspari of the University of Maryland says that a rare genetic fault will not allow Dede's immune system to stop the spread of the growths.

However, he believes a synthetic form of Vitamin A could stop the development of the warts.

This would be fucking terrible.   He is going to end up looking like an Ent.   That might make me consider killing myself.

[maldoror]

Yay for bad photoshops!

[Alex179]

Yeah I don't see how he would get that shirt on with hands like those.   Either its a PS or he had that applied to him for the picture.   Though someone on another forum I visit says that is a legit disease that does that to people.  It is called papillomavirus.   There is a video of the guy too.

http://www.koreus.com/video/homme-arbre.html

here is the video.

[maldoror]

In the video, looks like they just plopped the cysts right on his face in video editing. He might have some prop on his hands, though. Anyway, the site where you posted the original story is a fake/prank news site, so it couldn't be real anyway.

[Alex179]

The disease though is real.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papillomavirus

I think they probably just stuck that shit on his arms.

[The_P]

This reminds me of that episode from Full Metal Alchemist, where people either turn into stone or trees. 

[Parts]

He has kids guess it doesn't grow on his dick

[Calandale]

The disease though is real.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papillomavirus

I think they probably just stuck that shit on his arms.

So often the case, with these kinds
of things. The reality is just ugly. This is
so creepy as to sell copy.

[DirtDawg]

Very rarely do images cause me an olfactory disturbance, but that one does.

Fake or not, it stinks!

[Alex179]

Very rarely do images cause me an olfactory disturbance, but that one does.

Fake or not, it stinks!

I would think he doesn't smell too good, regardless of whether the pic is fake or not.   

[Calandale]

Only 'cause he's mexican.

[DirtDawg]

How many Mexicans have you known? He would be shunned by the populace, due to the racism prevalent in the masses. Most likely, if this is real,  (which I doubt) he would have been killed already, in Mexico.

[Calandale]

I'm too drunk to answer this.

But quite a few. Just not intimately.

[DirtDawg]

I'm too drunk to answer this.

But quite a few. Just not intimately.

You might like them, if you got to know them. The ones I have known usually use blades.

[Tesla]

He's not mexican, he's indonesian.  The disease is real.  The pictures are real.  I've seen it a few times before.