When fishing is considered too mainstream, the fishermen on the Yellow River, China instead rely on their livelihood from fishing for human corpses. Of course the strange and creepy profession of the fishermen is not kidding. Need extra courage to do it. Is a 55-year-old middle-aged man named Wei Xinpeng (Wei Jinpeng) who has been working on this corpse fishing profession for years. Every day he would sit on the edge of the river while spending coffee and smoking cigarettes, occasionally he patrolled the middle of the river upstream.
All he did was to look for the bodies of deceased human beings, whether their cause of death was due to calamity, suicide or murder.
According to this fisherman, the flow of water will change, from the current until the smell feels rancid. But strangely only he could feel, other fishermen claimed he could not be as sensitive as him. And usually the bodies he found most often near the downstream bridge, because they were stuck in the cracks of the iron bridge.
During his unusual profession, Wei Xinpeng claimed to have found more than 550 bodies. The findings of this body will then be notified to several local print media. Wei Xinpeng will explain the complete identity of the corpse so that the family who feel lost will immediately come to the place where the body is located.
This is the way he scoops fortune to get money. The family will usually order Wei Xinpeng to evacuate his body. Usually he will ask for a return of 500 dollars or about 6.7 million. But this tariff is not mandatory, sometimes there are poor people who are only able to provide just a small amount of money, Wei Xinpeng will still be willing to accept it.
Wei Xinpeng's responsibility did not stop there, he often helped the families of the victims to bury the corpse, although many families immediately took home to be cremated at the funeral home.
A friend of Genesisane.com, what Wei Xinpeng did to make a living from his profession as a fisherman for the corpse was not for him to seek sensation. There was a sad story before he embraced the strange profession.
Previously Wei Xinpeng was known as an ordinary fisherman who was looking for fish in the middle of the sea. Until one day, his beloved child reportedly died drowning in the Yellow River. For weeks he traced every river upstream, hoping to find the body of his son. None of the residents wanted to help him especially the local government who seemed to ignore his case.
In the search process, Wei Xinpeng found the presence of unknown human corpses. And until now with some of his successors, he will continue to wrestle with his profession, because Wei Xinpeng understood how sad if the grieving family did not find certainty about the whereabouts of their relatives.