I just read in Psychology Today that a mafia ritual in Russian prisons is for the prisoners to give tattoos to one another. That in itself is not so uncommon. What freaked me out was how it is done:
“Their ink is made from soot shaved off their shoes and mixed with urine.” Okay, umm… yuck!
“It’s injected via guitar strings attached to electric shavers.” That image conjures something like a medieval torture device.
I will never be able to look at tattoos the same way again.
