Too Many Zombie Movies?

[Bocefish]

Definitely a WTF story

Naked man killed by Police near MacArthur Causeway was ‘eating’ face off victim

Police seek witnesses to savage attack on the MacArthur Causeway; exclusive video shows snippets of the crime scene

BY DANIELA GUZMAN AND JULIE K. BROWN
JBROWN@MIAMIHERALD.COM

It was a scene as creepy as a Hannibal Lecter movie.

One man was shot to death by Miami police, and another man is fighting for his life after he was attacked, and his face allegedly half eaten, by a naked man on the MacArthur Causeway off ramp Saturday, police said.

The horror began about 2 p.m. when a series of gunshots were heard on the ramp, which is along NE 13th Street, just south of The Miami Herald building.

According to police sources, a road ranger saw a naked man chewing on another man’s face and shouted on his loud speaker for him to back away.Meanwhile, a woman also saw the incident and flagged down a police officer who was in the area.

The officer, who has not been identified, approached and, seeing what was happening, also ordered the naked man to back away. When he continued the assault, the officer shot him, police sources said. The attacker failed to stop after being shot, forcing the officer to continue firing. Witnesses said they heard at least a half dozen shots.

Miami police were on the scene, which was just south of The Miami Herald building on Biscayne Boulevard. The naked man who was killed lay face down on the pedestrian walkway just below the newspaper’s two-story parking garage. Police have requested The Herald’s video surveillance tapes.

The other man was transported to the hospital with critical injuries, according to police. Their identities were not released.

The incident, which came as crowds descended upon South Beach for the annual Urban Beach Week hip-hop festival, snarled traffic on the causeway for several hours.

In a text message, Javier Ortiz, spokesman for Miami police’s Fraternal Order of Police, said the officer who fired the fatal shots was “a hero.”

“Based on the information provided, our Miami police officer is a hero and saved a life,’’ he said.

Sergeant Altarr Williams, supervisor of Miami police’s Homicide Unit, said a man doesn’t have to be armed to be dangerous.

“There are other ways to injure people,’’ Williams said. “Some people know martial arts, others are very strong and can kill you with their hands.’’

Investigators believe the victim may have been homeless and laying down when the crazed man pounced.

Police theorize the attacker might have been suffering from "cocaine psychosis," a drug-induced craze that bakes the body internally and often leads the affected to strip naked to try and cool off.

Miami Herald writers Alexandra Leon and Curtis Morgan contributed to this report.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/26/2 ... rylink=cpy

Looked like the victim was nekkid too. There is a surveillance cam that caught some of it...

 

[Evvie]

Looks like a case of Too Much PCP.

 

[Diana Blake]

One of my friends sent me this link last night and my first thought was "Of course it would start in my home state!" But seriously, that seems like some serious drugs. Either way, I've got a bit before the zombie apocalypse makes its way out here.

 

[Evvie]

There was a story some time ago of a local fellow (at least I think he was local) who ate his young son's eye and part of his face while on PCP.

 

[lordmagellan]

Looks like a case of Too Much PCP.

My first thought, exactly. Given the police theory, probably some coke cut with it.





Or a cerebral fungus engineered by the government to make unstoppable killing machines for the "war on terror."

 

[Bocefish]

Now they're guessing it was bad LSD A.K.A. Bath Salts. http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/05/26/mi ... ad-1-hurt/

One of the civilian eyewitnesses said it was like watching "The Walking Dead." :lol: He is also now considering moving his family out of the area. http://www.local10.com/news/News/Witnes ... index.html

 

[LadyLuna]

It's not zombies unless the attacked guy dies and then starts attacking others.

 

[Bocefish]

Brutal: Rudy Eugene, 31, pictured in an old police mugshot, was shot dead by police in Miami, Florida This is the first look at the naked homeless man who ate another man's face while high on a new potent form of LSD.

His victim, another naked homeless man, was in a serious condition in a Miami hospital today suffering from 'some of the worst injuries staff had ever encountered'.

 

[Bocefish]

Here is a picture of the 65 year old homeless man who had his face eaten. Do NOT click on the link if you are squeamish or or easily grossed out...

WARNING:VERY GRAPHIC!!

http://i.imgur.com/3dd9D.jpg

 

[LiLredhairedgrl]

I am totally squeamish when it comes to gory zombie like flesh but I still couldn't stop myself from clicking....GAAAAA!

:shock:

I just don't see how this isn't gonna turn into a HUGE Zombie Conspiracy theory hayday of sorts. If you thought the Zombie-pocalypse fear/trend was big before this? Egads! Its gonna grow like a super tumor in the minds of the masses...

 

[Bocefish]

Yep, the city should have posted signs...

Maybe this is how it all starts. :?

 

[LiLredhairedgrl]

Here we go.... :shock:

Shooting of Face-Eating Naked Man
Posted on May 27, 2012 by Lonny Paul

A naked man was shot and killed by police after he refused to stop biting the face of another man, ripping apart his face savagely causing him severe facial trauma as he remains in critical condition at the hospital. The entire incident caused hours of traffic backup on the Westbound MacArthur Causeway as the Biscayne Boulevard exit was closed and the traffic narrowed to one lane.

This story has been blowing up across the internet for several reasons:

He was naked
He was biting and chewing another man’s face
He was described as ‘acting rabid’
When the police shot him, he did not stop
Six or more shots were fired to take the man down
So.. the Internet has taken this to an all new level – because of the facts listed above… he’s being called a ‘zombie’

The headlines include:

“Miami cop shoots, kills naked man eating victim’s face"
Chicago Tribune

"Miami officer shoots naked, face-chewing attacker"
News 10

“Naked man shot while eating victim’s face”
nineMSN

“Naked Man Allegedly Eating Victim’s Face Shot And Killed By Miami Police”
Huffington Post

“Naked attacker ate man’s face: Miami cops”
NewsDay

But then, the real headlines start:

"How the zombie apocalypse starts: Naked attacker found eating man’s face"

From io9 (part of the Gizmodo family)

“…several circumstances of the story have some people crying zombie.

Now it’s one thing to eat another person, and it’s quite another to eat another person and then continue eating after you’ve been shot. Witnesses claim the officer fired half a dozen shots before the attacker finally stopped. The attacker was killed, and the victim is currently in the hospital.

This is obviously a great tragedy, one that’s left one man dead and another disfigured, and the police are theorizing cocaine psychosis rather than zombification as the cause of the attack. But residents of Miami can rest easy in the knowledge that the police are prepared to nip any zombie outbreaks in the bud.”

Commenters on the Miami Herald article about the shooting went even further with the ‘zombie’ conspiracy:

“This was obviously a zombie attack. So sharpen those machetes and stock up on bullets.”

“CDC Zombie Preparedness (Link)”

“This is the first bite of the Zombie Apocalypse!!!”

http://www.lonnypaul.com/

 

[BloodRed87]

Watch surveillance camera footage of the incident here .......if you're brave enough.

 

[Red7227]

Watch surveillance camera footage of the incident here .......if you're brave enough.

Got distracted by the superhero porn link.

 

[Mirra]

Watch surveillance camera footage of the incident here .......if you're brave enough.

The links to the photos of his mostly eaten face were far worse than the video. The photos are so gruesome I find myself wishing I could convince myself they are just a really well done effect from a movie.

 

[Bocefish]

Another brain eating cannibal caught: http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2012/05/3 ... d-in-home/

 

[SweepTheLeg]

Where the fuck is George Zimmerman when you need him?

 

[lordmagellan]

Where the fuck is George Zimmerman when you need him?

That joke is in absolutely horrible taste.

And I greatly approve!

 

[MrRodry]

It's happening! San Antonio and Baltimore.

 

[LeenaLiberty]

It's happening! San Antonio and Baltimore.

I heard about this.... and the incident in Miami
WTF?

Psychosis is running rampant these days .....

 

[Bocefish]

THE hunt for a cannibal killer suspect has spread to Europe — months after The Sun warned Scotland Yard that he was dangerous.

Cannibal on run after warning The Sun: I can’t stop killing

Luka Magnotta, 29, fled after his male partner - a missing Chinese student - was chopped up and eaten in Canada.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... lling.html

 

[LeenaLiberty]

THE hunt for a cannibal killer suspect has spread to Europe — months after The Sun warned Scotland Yard that he was dangerous.

Cannibal on run after warning The Sun: I can’t stop killing

Luka Magnotta, 29, fled after his male partner - a missing Chinese student - was chopped up and eaten in Canada.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... lling.html

I was just informed of this today as well!!!

Geeze...

This seems like a great segue for a discussion on psychopathy?

I've noticed many people tend to be intrigued by psychopaths... including myself...
Here is a free download of a great book on this topic. I thought I would share...

The Mask of Sanity
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/sanity_1.PdF


Dr Robert Hare is one of the learning experts on this subject.. .
Here is his website...

http://www.hare.org/


I will never forget the man I met once who told me about how he drove around all day, thinking of places that would be good to bury women after he killed them. It was a casual discussion as if he was talking about what he had for breakfast.... And the scary part, is that this man was free on the streets.
He was not likely malingering as well.

 

[LeenaLiberty]

The Porn, Cannibal Killer,

This kinda reminds me somewhat of the story of Michael Alig aka Party Monster... I am wondering if there are any parallels... not sure if Alig was a cannibal though...

 

[Bocefish]

I will never forget the man I met once who told me about how he drove around all day, thinking of places that would be good to bury women after he killed them. It was a casual discussion as if he was talking about what he had for breakfast.... And the scary part, is that this man was free on the streets.
He was not likely malingering as well.

At least you weren't in the car with him at the time.

I can't help but wonder if the recent dramatic rise in cannibalism is somehow related to the popularity of zombie movies and mainstream zombie mentions. There has to be some common denominator in the sudden rise for the odd desire to eat human brains and flesh.

The terms "eat me" and "bite me" have suddenly taken on a new connotation in my vocabulary.

 

[LeenaLiberty]

I will never forget the man I met once who told me about how he drove around all day, thinking of places that would be good to bury women after he killed them. It was a casual discussion as if he was talking about what he had for breakfast.... And the scary part, is that this man was free on the streets.
He was not likely malingering as well.

At least you weren't in the car with him at the time.

I can't help but wonder if the recent dramatic rise in cannibalism is somehow related to the popularity of zombie movies and mainstream zombie mentions. There has to be some common denominator in the sudden rise for the odd desire to eat human brains and flesh.

The terms "eat me" and "bite me" have suddenly taken on a new connotation in my vocabulary.

Bocefishy,
I have taken to researching this...
here is the first bit of my quest....

Deep in the recesses of the human heart, lurking guiltily beneath the threshold of consciousness, there may lie a depraved craving -- for the forbidden taste of human flesh. The basis for this morbid accusation, made by a team of researchers in London, is a genetic signature, found almost worldwide, that points to a long history of cannibalism.

The signature is one that protects the bearer from infection by prions, proteins that can be transmitted in infected meat and attack the nerve cells of the brain. Prions can be acquired from eating infected animals, as in the case of the mad cow disease that in 1996 spread to people in England, but they spread even more easily through eating infected humans.

This fact is known from study of the Fore, a tribe in the eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea that started to practice ritual cannibalism at the end of the 19th century. Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek, who later received a Nobel Prize for his work, noticed that the Fore were being devastated by a neurodegenerative disease known as kuru. He linked it with their practice of eating the brains of their dead in mortuary feasts. When the feasts were banned by Australian authorities in the mid-1950's, the incidence of kuru declined, and no cases have appeared in anyone born after that time.

continued at http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/11/us/ge ... ttern.html


Hmmmm, I dont know....

 

[LeenaLiberty]

I can't help but wonder if the recent dramatic rise in cannibalism is somehow related to the popularity of zombie movies and mainstream zombie mentions. There has to be some common denominator in the sudden rise for the odd desire to eat human brains and flesh.

The terms "eat me" and "bite me" have suddenly taken on a new connotation in my vocabulary.

okay more....

A comparative study of cannibalism in six populations of the calanoid copepod, Diaptomus leptopus

http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/1028/1/MQ47794.pdf


Can you find anything more on the "psychological" aspect of it..... ?
or something that explores the correlation between zombie movies and urges of cannibalism (perhaps may be not a lot of studies on this due to the ethical implications... )

 

[Shaun__]

Maybe they just have a vore fetish.

 

[Bocefish]

Can you find anything more on the "psychological" aspect of it..... ?
or something that explores the correlation between zombie movies and urges of cannibalism (perhaps may be not a lot of studies on this due to the ethical implications... )

Part of what spawned my theory was the Miami case. The guy had no previous mental issues aside from having a few rough years, that I know of. Something triggered his aggression turning him into a flesh eating monster on a facial feeding frenzy. That just doesn't occur to the average person due to a bad drug reaction.

 

[LeenaLiberty]

Can you find anything more on the "psychological" aspect of it..... ?
or something that explores the correlation between zombie movies and urges of cannibalism (perhaps may be not a lot of studies on this due to the ethical implications... )

Part of what spawned my theory was the Miami case. The guy had no previous mental issues aside from having a few rough years, that I know of. Something triggered his aggression turning him into a flesh eating monster on a facial feeding frenzy. That just doesn't occur to the average person due to a bad drug reaction.

could be toxicity issues of some kind in the brain... ...
whether from drugs (pharmaceutical or street) or something else...
This can induce psychosis.... leading to a break in reality... .
?? purely one most have a break in reality to engage in this behavior... no?

Or perhaps he was just one crazy mother fucker...

 

[Bocefish]

It was most definitely street pharmaceuticals, A.K.A. Bath Salts concocted in somebody's half-assed home lab. What I'm curious about is if the thought process of eating someone's face off would have even occurred to him in the first place without the popularity of zombies in the mainstream media.

Maybe there is a crazy scientist out there perfecting a drug that turns people into flesh eating zombies.