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Cannibalistic Attackers (Face-Chewing, Etc.)

Firstly, the old Texas Sharpshooter seems to be doing the rounds at the moment. Strikes me, with a fairly basic knowledge of the annals of crime, that cannibalistic acts are not nearly as rare as is being implied (I'm speaking relatively, of course). Is there really a current cluster of these incidences - as some sections of the media and internetland appear to be suggesting - or has media interest in one particularly notable act refocussed attention on something that's always been around?

Secondly - and really I suppose it should be firstly - but is there any real evidence that cannibalism actually did play any part in this incident at all? It's not in the least uncommon for people to use their teeth in fights - as I suspect any copper, doorman or psychiatric nurse could probably tell you. Was the aggressor really attempting to ingest human flesh - or was he acting in a hyper aggressive way and using his teeth to do so.

(Coincidentally, the latest FT contains several stories about women biting off their partners wedding tackle - but there's no suggestion they were doing so in order to eat the offending parts.)
 
'He was found with blood and fur all over him': US man on synthetic marijuana chases neighbour while growling before 'strangling and EATING dog' in new zombie-like attack
By THOMAS DURANTE
PUBLISHED: 13:07 GMT, 26 June 2012 | UPDATED: 18:46 GMT, 26 June 2012
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A drug-fuelled rampage led a man to attack several people and chase around a neighbour while growling like an animal - before he brutally killed and ate a dog.
Cops arrived at a home in Waco, Texas, on June 14 after a man called 911 to report a man living in his house that was 'going crazy.'
Police said that Michael Terron Daniel told his housemates that he was 'on a bad trip' after taking the synthetic drug K-2 and began attacking them.


'Attacker': Michael Daniel, pictured on his MySpace page, left, and in his booking photo, right, has been charged with animal cruelty in the gruesome killing of a dog in Waco, Texas
Outside the home, Daniel allegedly assaulted another man who lived at the home.
Sgt W. Patrick Swanton of the Waco Police Department told MailOnline that when a neighbour tried to intervene, Daniel got down on his hands and knees and 'began barking and growling like a dog.'

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He then chased the neighbour, who ran into his house.
As horrified witnesses watched, Daniel allegedly turned his drug-fuelled rage to a medium-sized Spaniel mix, who belonged to one of his housemates, beating and choking the animal.

Tragic: Police said the dog killed in the attack was a Spaniel mix, like the one seen here

Scene of the crime: Daniel allegedly attacked others in his home before chasing a neighbour while growling like an animal
Sgt Swanton said that Daniel then 'took a bite out of the dog, ripping pieces of flesh away and eating them.'
Police showed up to find Daniel sitting on the front porch with the dog's carcass on his lap.

Drug: K-2, also known as 'spice,' is a mixture of herbs and spices that is usually sprayed with a compound similar to THC
Sgt Swanton said: 'There was blood and fur around his mouth, blood and fur on his clothing.'
He added that Daniel was in some kind of a catatonic state and did not respond to the officers at first, but when he snapped out of it, he asked the officers to Tase him or fight him to snap him out of the 'bad trip.'
Sgt Swanton said the officers declined, and an ambulance took him to a nearby hospital, where he was treated and later released.
Daniel was arrested on Monday at the Waco store where he worked and was charged with cruelty to a non-livestock animal, a felony.
His housemates declined to press assault charges against him.
He is being held at the McLennan County Jail on $5,000 bond.
Sgt Swanton said that Daniel has been in trouble with the Waco Police Department before, but would not elaborate on any past cases against him.
K-2, also known as 'spice,' is a mixture of herbs and spices that is usually sprayed with a compound similar to THC, the psychoactive component of marijuana, according to the DEA.
Side effects include paranoia, panic attacks, giddiness and in rare occurrences – violence.
Recent zombie-like attacks, like the gruesome face-chewing attack in Miami, are believed to have been caused by ingesting bath salts, a potent hallucinogen.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1yzy6DDTa
 
Interesting twist ... The toxicology results don't support the bath salts / synthetic marijuana theories ...

Miami face-chewer had only marijuana in system

A Miami man shot dead by police as he chewed the face off a homeless person only had marijuana in his system, a coroner has found.

A police union official speculated at the time that Rudy Eugene, 31, had been under the influence of a category of street drugs known as "bath salts".

After stripping naked, Eugene attacked Ronald Poppo on a causeway in May.

Toxicology results found no alcohol, prescription drugs or adulterants often mixed with street drugs in his body.

An outside forensic toxicology lab also looked at the results and came up negative for bath salts, synthetic marijuana and LSD.

"Within the limits of current technology by both laboratories, marijuana is the only drug identified in the body of Mr Rudy Eugene," the Miami medical examiner's office said in a statement.

Eugene was shot and killed by a police officer after he ignored warnings to stop eating Mr Poppo's face.

Armando Aguilar, of Miami's Fraternal Order of Police, told the Associated Press at the time that Mr Poppo "had his face eaten down to his goatee".

Mr Aguilar told a CNN affiliate he believed the suspect could have taken a type of drug known as bath salts, citing four past overdoses in the Miami area where people had also removed their clothes and gone berserk.

'Supernatural'
Eugene's family told the Associated Press that he was not violent and did not drink or do drugs other than marijuana.

"There's no answer for it, not really," Eugene's younger brother, Marckenson Charles, said. "Anybody who knew him knows this wasn't the person we knew him to be. Whatever triggered him, there is no answer for this."

Ronald Poppo's family had no contact with him for 30 years
Dr Bruce Goldberger, director of toxicology at the University of Miami, said while the coroner's office is known for its thorough work, it would be a challenge to keep up with the pace of new formulations for synthetic drugs.

"There are many of these synthetic drugs that we currently don't have the methodology to test on, and that is not the fault of the toxicology lab," Dr Goldberger said.

"There is no one test or combination of tests that can detect every possible substance out there."

Rikkia Cross, Eugene's girlfriend, told the Miami Herald she is convinced the attack was the result of something "supernatural".

"Somebody did something to him, somebody put something on him. I know for sure that wasn't Rudy," she said.

Mr Poppo is recovering from the attack in a local hospital but will need additional surgery before he can consider reconstructing his face, doctors have said.

SOURCE: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18620868
 
Maybe not ...

Marijuana Didn't Trigger Miami Face-Eater's Munchies

By Natalie Wolchover | LiveScience.com

Toxicology tests are complete on the body of Rudy Eugene, the infamous Miami face-eater, and only one drug showed up in his bloodstream — marijuana — with no trace of MDPV, the active ingredient in bath salts.

Pot has been known to cause the munchies, but could it really have triggered Eugene's frenzied, near-fatal biting attack on the face of fellow homeless man Ronald Poppo? At the time of the May 26 attack, doctors said Eugene exhibited "paranoid delirium," a hyperexcited state induced when a drug overdose increases the body's concentration of adrenalinelike hormones, essentially sending survival instincts into overdrive. Overdoses of cocaine, amphetamines, bath salts and LSD have all been known to trigger paranoid delirium. But pot?
It definitely wasn't the pot, doctors say.

"Some people have said, 'Well, it must have been the marijuana that triggered Eugene's behavior.' That, in my opinion, is outrageous, and out of the question. Marijuana will not cause this type of behavior," said Dr. Bruce Goldberger, professor and director of toxicology at the University of Florida.

Goldberger said that although a significant amount of research has found a link between marijuana use and the onset of schizophrenia or psychosis in at-risk individuals, this isn't what happened to Eugene. "This behavior exhibited by Eugene is well beyond the scope of someone suffering from acute psychosis," he told Life's Little Mysteries. [Could Cannibalism Solve a Future Food Shortage?]
Instead, it was probably bath salts.

Miami-Dade Medical Examiner Bruce Hyma, who led the toxicology tests, was able to rule out the presence in Eugene's blood of at least six chemicals commonly found in bath salts, according to news reports.

However, Patrick Kyle, director of clinical chemistry and toxicology at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, said Eugene might have taken synthetic, bath salt-type drugs that simply are not yet known or tested for in toxicology labs. With new chemical variants cropping up in the illicit drug market all the time, laboratory standards "cannot keep up," Kyle told Life's Little Mysteries. "I don't believe the laboratory could confidently screen against all bath salt-type drugs."

There are hundreds of synthetic amphetamines (the technical term for the drugs found in bath salts) currently on the streets, Goldberger said, adding, "We may never know what triggered this."

But the bottom line is, it pot couldn't have triggered the attack. "Some media is reporting that pot isn't ruled out [as the cause of the attack]," Goldberger said. "I don't buy that. That's like talking about, 'If you take LSD, it stays in your body for a lifetime.' It's one of these misleading things you hear about drugs."

SOURCE: http://news.yahoo.com/marijuana-didnt-t ... 30689.html
 
Chinese 'cannibal' attack caught on camera as drunk bus driver leaps on woman and chews on her face
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -face.html
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 00:19 GMT, 2 July 2012 | UPDATED: 09:33 GMT, 2 July 2012

The recent terrifying spate of 'cannibal attacks' seems to have spread to China, as a drunk bus driver was caught on camera gnawing at a woman's face in a horrific random attack.

The unfortunate woman will apparently require plastic surgery to repair the damage done by her crazed attacker.

According to local news reports, the driver, named Dong, had been drinking heavily during lunch with his friends before the outburst on Tuesday.

He then ran on to the road in the city of Wenzhou, in south-east China, and stood in front of the car being driven by a woman named Du, stopping her from moving.

Attack: A man named Dong was seen gnawing on the face of a woman (left) but was later arrested (right)

Dong climbed on the car's hood and started beating the vehicle while the panicked woman screamed for help.

When she left the car and tried to escape, the bus driver leaped on top of her and wrestled her to the ground.

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It was then that Dong started biting Du's face, leaving her covered in blood and weeping as passers-by tried to pull the attacker off his victim.
Witnesses said that the bus driver had gone 'crazy' and was successfully resisting attempts to subdue him.

Devastated: Du (left) will require plastic surgery after the attack on a crowded Chinese street (right)
When police arrived, they managed to take Dong into custody, bringing the appalling rampage to an end.
Du was taken to hospital, where doctors said she would need surgery to repair her nose and lips.
The incident comes in the wake of a number of similar attacks committed by drugged-up psychopaths in the U.S.
Perhaps the best-known of these came in May, when Rudy Eugene chewed a homeless man's face off before being shot dead by police.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1zSqUM2AZ
 
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/359...ypse-cannibal-karl-laventure-georgia-golf.htm
‘Zombie Apocalypse’ In Georgia: Naked Cannibal On Bath Salts Threatens To Eat Police At Golf Course
By Amanda Remling

Following reports that a man ate his 40-pound family dog and another man in China chewed a woman's face, the latest "zombie" news is that a naked man high on the street drug "bath salts" threatened to eat police officers on a Georgia golf course.

Twenty-one-year-old Karl Laventure was suspected to be on bath salts when he ran out of the woods at a Liburn, Georgia golf course -- naked. According to the Daily Mail, Laventure appeared crazed, "swinging a club around his head and screaming."

Police were called to the scene, where the situation became even more bizarre.

"He came running at us out of the woodline," explained Officer Ross Hancock of the Gwinnet County Police Department. The officer continued that police attempted to subdue the man with pepper spray, but it seemed to have no affect on Laventure.

"He didn't even wipe his eyes, he just kept them open," Officer Hancock said to WSBTV.


Police then used a Taser on Laventure, who went down, but quickly got back up. According to Hancock, they had to use the Taser five more times on the 21-year-old to get him down. Even after being Tasered it took several members of the police department to handcuff Laventure.

It was while being handcuffed that Laventure began to yell, "I'm'a eat you. Four Four. Oh God. Don't make me eat you."


"He was still talking gibberish, still cussing, still saying he wanted to eat us, eat other people," Officer Hancock continued.

Fox News reports that paramedics were able to "bring him out of his haze" with medication. After admitting to smoking a joint that was sprinkled with bath salts, Laventure slipped back into his bath salt state, lunging at police officers.

Karl Laventure was arrested for disorderly conduct and disrupting a police officer.
 
Even experts question claim that Rudy Eugene was not on bath salts
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/browar ... full.story


By Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel
7:01 p.m. EDT, July 6, 2012

Rudy Eugene was not on "bath salts" or synthetic marijuana when he chewed the face off a homeless man in May – if you believe the toxicology reports, that is.

Scientists and skeptical observers don't.

Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti is just one of the doubting Thomases who think the so-called "Causeway Cannibal" was on something not caught by either of the two labs that ran the toxicology tests.

"We are not testing for everything that may be out there," said Dr. Barry Logan, one of the nation's leading toxicologists.

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That's because they can't.

Clandestine labs are using more than 100 chemical compounds to make synthetic marijuana, but even the most sophisticated lab can only test for 17, said Logan, director of Forensic and Toxicological Services at NMS Labs in Pennsylvania, the same lab hired byMiami-Dade Countyto help test Eugene for bath salts and synthetic marijuana.

Bath salts, also known as synthetic amphetamines, are also hard to track for the same reason.

There are hundreds of bath salt compounds out there, but toxicologists can only test for 40, Logan said.

"This is always a moving target," Logan said. "As soon as a test exists for something, there are new compounds waiting in the wings. We are always a step behind."

Even Logan was surprised when Eugene's drug scan found only traces of marijuana.

"His behavior was consistent with someone who was delusional and hallucinating, which would be consistent with bath salts," Logan said.

The report released last week by the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner contained this disclaimer: "Within the limits of current technology by both laboratories, marijuana is the only drug identified in the body of Mr. Rudy Eugene."

Experts say there is no question Eugene's behavior was drug-induced – and not by marijuana. But it's hard to prove because even the most sophisticated labs cannot test for every compound.

"We are not incompetent," said Dr. Bruce Goldberger, professor and director of toxicology at the University of Florida. "We have the tools, we have the sophistication and know-how. But the field is evolving so rapidly it is hard for us to keep track. It's almost as if it is a race we can never win."

Goldberger thinks Eugene was on a drug far stronger than marijuana the day of the attack.

"To say marijuana could have induced this behavior is simply outrageous," Goldberger said. "No matter how sick mentally or physically a person is, they don't go around eating people's faces, or barking at police, or eating a dog, like what happened recently in Texas."

A Waco man who tried to eat a dog on June 14 told police he was high on synthetic marijuana at the time.

Users say they are drawn to fake weed because it gets them high and doesn't show up in most drug tests.

One chronic pot user said she'd been smoking synthetic marijuana for two years, then was rushed to the emergency room when she tried to stop cold turkey.

The hospital tests found only traces of marijuana – just like with Rudy Eugene.

Ann Howard, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Corrections, said probation officers have the option of testing for designer drugs.

But the tests are expensive – anywhere from $200 to $300 for synthetic marijuana and up to $500 for bath salts, Goldberger said.

Probation officers may not test everyone, but they will target high-risk candidates, said Jim Hall, director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Substance Abuse at Nova Southeastern University in Davie.

It's for their own good, he said.

"These are the guinea pig drugs of 2012," Hall said. "The people using these drugs are risking their lives, their minds and their kidneys. Some of these people have had to be put on dialysis for the rest of their lives."

Oakland Park resident Jimmy Hewett says his probation officer had him tested for synthetic marijuana after he was quoted in the Sun Sentinel saying he smoked the stuff.

A judge issued a warrant for his arrest after he admitted using the designer drug.

Because it is openly sold at gas stations and convenience stores, Hewett says he didn't think he was doing anything wrong.

But on July 17, he will have to answer to the court. The charge: Violating probation.

[email protected] 954-356-4554
 
Mythopoeika said:
Why on Earth would somebody take that crap when they know what the side effects will be?


Why do people drink? This entire incident was used by governmental authorities to shape your opinions, unless you actually researched MDPV you dont know anything besides what the media and police told you to think. I actually did look into it before the hysteria, and reports of violence on it were non existent. I didnt buy any because it sounded boring. No trip reports anywhere suggested violence. The use of this drug pretty damn rare. No evidence of bath salt use on the face eater like an empty box. So why the hell was i only one who questioned the police theory?
It was quite scary to see everyone fall for this shit. Being the only person in a bar full people who questioned the hysteria sucked too. The worst part was i was the only person there who actually knew what i was talking about. The debate on this substance never happened, it was buried under a wave of zombie jokes and taking a bath jokes, and i think the government planned it that way. People had another right taken away, and they cheered as it was taken.
Even my pro cannabis friends were useless. "Its not natural like weed" and "why is this stuff legal and weed is not?"
Everyime a drug gets banned your rights are taken away, even if you never wanted to try it. This was an instance where society really scares me in its sheep like following. Its similar to the reports of GHB being called a date rape drug, my friend got caught with a vial and there was a public warning about him in the paper, thats just insane. Thats another effective disinfo campaign, call something a date rape drug, when the number one drug found in rape victims is always booze. I am going to order a pint of date rape drug tonight! It will be good for crying into when i think of the 40 research chemicals that obama just banned that had nothing to do with "bath salts" or fake pot, included were fantastic substances like 2c-i. Which i now have to move quickly to get because a ban is coming to my country now too. There was no problem with "bath salts" until the government invented one.
Its also interesting/disgusting that the media was so ready to run with this when there was an angle like bath salts. A follow up on mental illness, thats not as sexy. I wonder if the people who planned to talk to their kids about this dangerous new drug had a talk with their kids about untreated mental illness?
 
paranoid420 said:
Mythopoeika said:
Why on Earth would somebody take that crap when they know what the side effects will be?


Why do people drink? This entire incident was used by governmental authorities to shape your opinions, unless you actually researched MDPV you dont know anything besides what the media and police told you to think. I actually did look into it before the hysteria, and reports of violence on it were non existent. I didnt buy any because it sounded boring. No trip reports anywhere suggested violence. The use of this drug pretty damn rare. No evidence of bath salt use on the face eater like an empty box. So why the hell was i only one who questioned the police theory?
It was quite scary to see everyone fall for this shit. Being the only person in a bar full people who questioned the hysteria sucked too. The worst part was i was the only person there who actually knew what i was talking about. The debate on this substance never happened, it was buried under a wave of zombie jokes and taking a bath jokes, and i think the government planned it that way. People had another right taken away, and they cheered as it was taken.
Even my pro cannabis friends were useless. "Its not natural like weed" and "why is this stuff legal and weed is not?"
Everyime a drug gets banned your rights are taken away, even if you never wanted to try it. This was an instance where society really scares me in its sheep like following. Its similar to the reports of GHB being called a date rape drug, my friend got caught with a vial and there was a public warning about him in the paper, thats just insane. Thats another effective disinfo campaign, call something a date rape drug, when the number one drug found in rape victims is always booze. I am going to order a pint of date rape drug tonight! It will be good for crying into when i think of the 40 research chemicals that obama just banned that had nothing to do with "bath salts" or fake pot, included were fantastic substances like 2c-i. Which i now have to move quickly to get because a ban is coming to my country now too. There was no problem with "bath salts" until the government invented one.
Its also interesting/disgusting that the media was so ready to run with this when there was an angle like bath salts. A follow up on mental illness, thats not as sexy. I wonder if the people who planned to talk to their kids about this dangerous new drug had a talk with their kids about untreated mental illness?
The city where I live has warned of bath salts and violence for a number of years, well before the Miami case. One problem is there is no such thing as "bath salts" per se, the formula's are regularly changed in order to keep ahead of the previous formula's being made illegal. "Bath salts" can be essentially anything the makers dream up, and the formulations are constantly changing.
 
Witness describes man repeatedly biting dog

Witness describes man repeatedly biting dog
WARNING: The following story contains graphic material that some readers may find disturbing.
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Posted: Sep 27, 2012 12:49 PM ET
Last Updated: Sep 27, 2012 7:17 PM ET
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Police in Pembroke, Ont., are investigating a bizarre case of a man who allegedly attacked a dog on a downtown street early Wednesday morning.

The man, who is in his 20s, was apprehended under the Mental Health Act, and taken to hospital.

Tanner Comeau, 18, a witness, was driving home to Petawawa through downtown Pembroke at about 12:30 a.m. ET with a friend when he saw something strange at the intersection of Pembroke Street West and Christie Street.

"We drove by it, and it was in the middle of the intersection. It was a guy wrapped around a dog, choking it, biting it. It was messed up," Comeau told the CBC's Kristy Nease by phone from Petawawa on Thursday morning. "So we pulled over. And the guy was in his boxers.

"We ran up to him, screaming at him. Our first priority was to go and hit him … but then we decided to call the cops because he was eating the dog, and there was blood all over the place and the dog was squealing. It was just really, really disturbing."
Neighbour took injured dog inside

Comeau's friend, who was driving, called 911, and the two young men started screaming at the man attacking the dog. Comeau said the noise alerted people nearby, and a crowd of about 10 to 15 people showed up.

"There was a big circle of all of us yelling at him … and the dog finally got free," Comeau said.

Comeau said the man started running after the dog, but a neighbour had already taken it inside.

By that point, Comeau said police sirens and lights could be heard.
Bath salts link not confirmed

The man ran down a hill with his hands in the air, screaming, Comeau said.

Police gave chase to apprehend the man, said Pembroke police Const. Dillon Gerundin, who could not say if the man suffered any injuries.

The officer said he was aware that a rumour was circulating in the community on social media that the man may have been high on drugs known as bath salts.

Police haven't been able to rule out drugs as a factor, but Gerundin said there "is no evidence to suggest that bath salts are involved."
Dog suffers minor injuries

The dog, a female pitbull, was taken in for treatment by Pembroke Animal Control. Animal Control said the pitbull suffered minor, non-life-threatening injuries in the attack.

Animal Control officer Michael Street is looking after the dog and said she is in great condition considering the incident, and is walking in their outside pen eating and drinking.

He said he has fielded numerous calls offering to help the dog but he said it is too early to talk about relocating the animal until they can determine if she has an owner.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/st ... s-dog.html
 
Another case.

Cops: Naked man shot after attacking dog, resident

A Miami man — naked, no less — was shot after he jumped the fence of a Little Haiti home and began choking a Rottweiler. The dog's yelps awakened the homeowner, who came outside and confronted the attacker. The intruder, who was later identified as Jeffery Delice, 20, turned his attention from the dog to the homeowner. Delice jumped on the homeowner and began choking and biting him, Miami police said.

Fearing for his life, the homeowner fired his gun twice, hitting Delice once. "The person was naked, on the front porch choking his dog," said police spokeswoman Napier Velazquez. "That's when the resident shot him in the foot." Despite being wounded, Delice did not give up the fight. The homeowner, who police did not identify, fired his weapon a third time, but this time it jammed.

Finally, the homeowner was able to pin Delice down while family members called police.

When officers arrived, Delice tried to bite them, too, police said. Delice was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he was treated. Expected to make a full recovery, Delice now faces several charges, ranging from assault, resisting arrest with violence, to lewd and lascivious behavior and animal cruelty.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/ ... 5447.story
 
A Miami man — naked, no less — was shot after he jumped the fence of a Little Haiti home and began choking a Rottweiler.

Little Haiti? No doubt trying for the same reputation for zombies as Haiti. :)

"That's when the resident shot him in the foot."

Resident evil. 8)
 
Mythopoeika said:
A Miami man — naked, no less — was shot after he jumped the fence of a Little Haiti home and began choking a Rottweiler.

Little Haiti? No doubt trying for the same reputation for zombies as Haiti. :)

"That's when the resident shot him in the foot."

Resident evil. 8)

Damn! I never made the Haiti/Zombie connection!
 
Graphic US Navy Video Warns About Dangers of ‘Bath Salts’
http://en.ria.ru/military_news/20130104 ... About.html

WASHINGTON, January 4 (RIA Novosti) - The US Navy has released a graphic new public service announcement (PSA) depicting a military service member suffering demonic hallucinations and violently attacking his girlfriend after snorting a synthetic drug called bath salts, in an effort to frighten sailors and Marines and discourage them from using the designer drug.

“When people are using bath salts, they’re not their normal selves,” said Lt. George Loeffler, a psychiatry resident at the Naval Medical Center in San Diego in the PSA. “They’re angrier. They’re erratic. They’re violent and they’re unpredictable.”

While bath salts may share the same name as a popular spa product sold in stores, medical professionals said this version has absolutely nothing to do with bathing. Instead, the drug is made up of chemical stimulants that have effects similar to recreational drugs like crystal meth and ecstasy.

Side effects of using bath salts include agitation, kidney failure, severe paranoid delusions and psychosis, a Navy statement said.
After consuming bath salts, naval medical officers warned the paranoia and hallucinations can continue up to weeks after the drug has cleared the users system.

“People will start seeing things that aren’t there, believing things that aren’t true,” Loeffler said.

For the past several years the US Navy, along with other branches of service, has been battling the use of bath salts and other synthetic drugs by its service members.

In November, 11 US sailors were discharged for using “Spice,” a synthetic drug that mimics marijuana.
The PSA, posted on the official US Navy YouTube channel just before Christmas, has received some criticism on social media for being over the top.

A variety of popular tech and social media websites described the six minute video, with scenes depicting bath salt hallucinations as something akin to viewing a zombie attack, as “bizarre,” “silly,” and “awkward.”
The video is making bath salts “a lot more silly than scary,” wrote Alexander Abad-Santos in an article for The Atlantic Wire.

Representatives from the Navy said they will continue to highlight the issue of synthetic drug use by creating targeted messages throughout the Navy and Marine Corps.

"We cannot over-communicate this issue," Navy officials said.
 
This whole zombie thing is getting NUTS!

There are zombie survival kits, an assortment of blood curdling zombie knives, manuals and now, there are zombie shoots(I have a very effective 'zombie rifle, hey, I live two blocks from a bone yard, can't be too careful...)

All in good fun, but maybe we should consider using air guns, not full out M-forgeries and riot guns loaded with buckshot, heavy pistols and other serious weapons.

Crazy people and criminals are getting hold of these things, and blood is being shed, too much blood.

The zombie meme is influencing disturbed people, and where I live, there are 'militia' groups that make me uneasy.

Now, I dislike 'gun control' which is confiscation in the shell, but very few people are knowledgeable enough to handle the big stuff safely. As a retired copper and honorably discharged soldier I can handle them, but my last trip to the gun store left me white around the lips.

A disarmed populace is open to tyranny, but there are limits. and even as I agree with one of our members who posts the wise words of Patrick Henry, it's time to dial it down a notch.

Let us be free, but let us also be safe, gun fights are messy and hazardous to the innocent-I've been in some, they are hard on the nerves, and no fun at all.

What say you, good people?
 
Shoot off their arm and legs. Then they can't move!
 
If you have a softball game afterwards, you can use them for bases.
 
Naked man shot by police as he tries to eat someone's face in Florida: II
http://www.mediaite.com/online/nake...-after-attacking-ex-cop-eating-a-teen’s-face/

Naked Florida Man Fatally Shot After Attacking Ex-Cop, Eating a Teen’s Face

Mediaite.com. by Josh Feldman | 4:58 pm, February 5th, 2014


It’s time once again for a story that is so unique it can best be summed up with one word: Florida. Yep. It’s that kind of story. And one that marks the return of the long-fabled flesh eating zombie only seen in comics and on TV screens, because a Florida man was shot to death after he (with no clothes on) assaulted an ex-police officer and tried to tear a man’s face off with his teeth.

Authorities described this individual as possessing “superhuman-like strength,” and Palm County Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw explained that he was “obviously delirious on something” and police tried to tase him with no success, until they finally fired three shots. He died later at the hospital.

Now, this is Florida, so naturally, this is not the first time this has happened. A naked man was shot in Miami almost two years ago while trying to eat someone’s face off. Don’t worry, though, he didn’t actually swallow any flesh.

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Original story:
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/crime-law/man-wounded-in-shooting-in-delray-beach/ndC97/

Naked man attacks 1, chases 2, bites teen in face before he was shot, killed by deputies near Delray

Palm Beach Post. By Julius Whigham II. Palm Beach Post Staff Writer , Feb. 4, 2014

A naked man possessing what authorities described as superhuman-like strength died Tuesday night after he assaulted a retired police officer, bit another man on the face and was then shot during a confrontation with deputies near Delray Beach, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said.

It was not immediately clear whether the man died from gunshot wounds or from a medical condition, Bradshaw said. Neither the names of the deceased man nor the assault victims were released late Tuesday.

The scene unfolded at about 8:30 p.m. on South Military Trail, north of Lake Ida Road and near The Colony at Delray Beach community. The man, who was not wearing any clothing, was walking north on Military Trail when, for reasons unknown, he assaulted a 66-year-old retired New York City police officer, Bradshaw said.

The retired officer was rushed to Delray Medical Center with serious injuries. The naked man, described as being about 6-foot-3, 250 pounds, then continued north on Military toward the entrance to the Colony where began chasing a man and the man’s 10-year-old son. At some point, the man began fighting with an 18-year-old man and he started biting the 18-year-old on the face, Bradshaw said.

The 18-year-old attempted to defend himself with a box cutter knife. The teen sustained serious injuries during the fight and was taken to Delray Medical. Deputies arriving on the scene tried to calm the attacker, Bradshaw said. Deputies attempted to subdue the man with a Taser, but were unsuccessful.

“He’s obviously delirious on something,” Bradshaw said. “He is a huge guy. He takes a fighting stance. They’re trying to get him on the ground. He starts charging them. The Taser did not affect him.”

At that point, a sheriff’s sergeant fired three shots, one to the torso and two the lower part of the man’s body. The man was rushed to Delray Medical Center where he died.

“We don’t know right now if he’s expired from the gunshots, or if he’s expired because of obviously he’s on some type of drugs that have made him act like this,” Bradshaw said. “There’s no way to know if those are the shots that actually killed him, or if he’s died from what they called exited delirium. He’s obviously on some type of narcotics to make him act like this.”

Late Tuesday, several sheriff’s patrol cars and incident command units lined a stretch of Military Trail near the entrance to the Colony. Colony resident Eddie Mady said he and his wife were out walking their dog Tuesday when they heard the gunfire.

“My wife thought it was fireworks,” Mady said. “Sometimes in the next door development some kids shoot off fireworks. But I knew it came from this direction and it didn’t sound like fireworks so I immediately grabbed my wife and our dog and said ‘Time to go back inside.”

Word of the shooting quickly spread through the neighborhood, Mady said.

“You never think something like this is going to happen where you live,” he said. “It’s a scary thing, but you never know. It can happen anywhere, anytime. Thankfully the police got him before he got into our development.”
Florida must be some place.
 
Crack. Bath Salts. Krokodil......

Drug addicts are self selecting for euthanasia, and so much the better. We were given the gift of life, and as for those who would throw it away, let them.

The sad history of governmental lies and deceptions gave people some cause to doubt information about drugs, but the evidence of our eyes shows us that it's a losing game.

And for many people, once it gets hold, it does not let go, and the only cure is rigor mortis.

Fools pursue destruction with an uncommon zeal, I say let them-I know several addicts who got sober when they realized that everyone had given up on them. I think they missed the attention.

O mores, o, tempores!
 
My first thought wasn't Bath salts but PCP:

"Psychological effects include severe changes in body image, loss of ego boundaries, paranoia, and depersonalization. Hallucinations, euphoria, and suicidal impulses are also reported, as well as occasional aggressive behavior.[19]:48–49[17] Like many other drugs, PCP has been known to alter mood states in an unpredictable fashion, causing some individuals to become detached, and others to become animated. PCP may induce feelings of strength, power, and invulnerability as well as a numbing effect on the mind.[4]"

"One example is the case of Big Lurch, a former rapper with a history of violent crime, who was convicted of murdering and cannibalizing his roommate while under the influence of PCP.[20] Other commonly cited types of incidents include inflicting property damage and self-mutilation of various types, such as pulling one's own teeth.[19]:48[20]"

Emphasis mine.

Oh, just found this, from the Bath salts wiki page:

"Contrary to popular belief, investigators found no connection to bath salts in the Miami cannibal attack.[21] "

I remember hearing about a case in the 1990s where a PCP user actually carved chunks out of his own face and ate them.
 
It seems this 2016 cannibalistic double-murder story hadn't been mentioned on the forum before. In this case, the assailant eventually claimed to have been fleeing a demon.
Judge to decide on Florida face-biter insanity plea

A former college student who randomly killed a Florida couple in their garage six years ago and then chewed on one victim’s face finally goes on trial Monday, with a judge deciding whether he goes to prison for life or to a mental hospital.

Austin Harrouff, 25, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to two counts of first-degree murder and other charges for his August 2016 slayings of John Stevens, a 59-year-old landscaper, and his 53-year-old wife, Michelle Mishcon Stevens, who had retired after working in finance.

The former Florida State University student has waived a jury trial, meaning Circuit Judge Sherwood Bauer will decide whether Harrouff was insane when he killed the couple, and seriously injured the neighbor who came to their aid.

The trial has been delayed by the pandemic, legal wranglings and Harrouff’s recovery from critical injuries suffered while drinking a chemical during the attack. ...

Under Florida law, defendants are presumed sane. For Harrouff’s defense to succeed, Watson must show that he had a severe mental breakdown that prevented him from understanding his actions or that they were wrong by “clear and convincing evidence.” Harrouff has said he was fleeing a demon when he attacked the couple.
FULL STORY: https://apnews.com/article/austin-h...-face-biting-075d9beafe659274e0214c20be368890
 
This August 2022 news story provides more background on the 2016 Harrouff affair.
What You Should Know Ahead of Accused "Face-Eating Murderer" Austin Harrouff's Trial

... Following the seemingly random murders, in which Harrouff allegedly gnawed on Stevens' face, many wondered what could have triggered such a brutal attack. While police initially attributed Harrouff's actions to intoxication with bath salts or flakka, toxicology reports disproved that theory. Harrouff's attorneys and medical experts have since argued in court that he was in the midst of an "acute psychotic episode" and believed he was "half-dog, half-man" when he killed Stevens and Mischon. ...

On the evening of August 15, 2016, 19-year-old Austin Harrouff stormed out of a Duffy's Bar & Grill in Jupiter where he was dining with his family and went to his mother's home, where he reportedly drank cooking oil and was acting strange. After his mother found him and drove him back to the restaurant, he got into an argument with his father and left again, walking across town until he came upon Stevens and Mishcon's Tequesta home ...

There, he allegedly knifed and bludgeoned the couple to death in their garage. A neighbor, Jeff Fisher, intervened after hearing the noise outside ... Harrouff allegedly stabbed him, too, but Fisher survived. Martin County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrived on the scene to find Harrouff in his underpants, gnawing on Stevens' face and grunting like an animal. It reportedly took a Taser, three police officers, and a K9 to pull Harrouff from Stevens’ body.

Harrouff had been showing signs of erratic behavior before the attack. According to WPBF, his mother, Mina, called police shortly before the attack and told them her son had been acting strangely. She said he was claiming he had "superpowers" and "was here to protect people." ...

While Martin County Sheriff William Snyder initially told reporters the murders of Mishcon and Stevens could “absolutely” have been fueled by the synthetic drug flakka, attracting widespread media attention, his speculation was later debunked by toxicology reports. A long-awaited toxicology report released in November 2016 from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that no designer drugs were in Harrouff's system at the time of the attack — only alcohol and trace amounts of marijuana. ...

Harrouff is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Mishcon and Stevens, as well as an attempted first-degree murder charge in the attack on Fisher, the neighbor who was stabbed when he intervened.

Harrouff's defense attorneys have indicated they will seek an acquittal by reason of insanity. In a 38-page report by forensic psychologist Dr. Phillip Resnick, Harrouff was found to have been suffering from "severe mental disease," specifically bipolar disorder and acute manic episodes with psychotic features, as well as “clinical lycanthropy delusions,” also known as werewolf syndrome.
FULL STORY: https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/...ow-ahead-of-face-eating-murder-trial-14879652
 
Update on the Harrouff story ... The judge accepted the insanity plea offer, Harrouff's off to a mental institution until someone can certify he's safe to be released into society, and the victims' families are angry.
Judge accepts insanity plea deal for man in face-biting case

A judge accepted a plea deal Monday for a man who randomly killed a Florida couple in their garage six years ago and then chewed on one victim’s face that will send him to a mental hospital for treatment.

Austin Harrouff, 25, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to two counts of first-degree murder and other charges for the 2016 slayings of John Stevens, 59, and his wife, Michelle Mishcon Stevens, 53. He also seriously injured a neighbor who tried to help them.

Harrouff, who attended Florida State University before the attack, will be committed to a secure mental health facility until doctors and a judge agree that he is no longer dangerous. If the trial had gone forward, Harrouff could have faced life in prison.

A number of family members of the slain couple expressed anger at the decision and made victim impact statements directed at Harrouff, his family, the defense team and prosecutors. ...

Cindy Mishcon, the sister of Michelle Mishcon and an attorney, laid out a methodical case of why she does not believe that Harrouff was insane when the killings occurred. ...

Cindy Mishcon said that reality set in for her as she listened to tapes of Harrouff’s jailhouse phone calls with family members and the reading of pages of text messages in the year prior to the killings, which were part of the court record. The text messages with his friends outlined the life of a student who was smoking marijuana, taking other drugs and abusing alcohol during the year before killing the couple.

She said she realized “you don’t care about anyone but yourself” and that “the only victim you and your family see is you, and the Harrouff name.”

“Is it really so hard for you to understand that you are a cold blooded murderer and not a victim,” she asked.

Other family members echoed her sentiments. ...

Two mental health experts, one hired by the defense and another by prosecutors, examined Harrouff and found he suffered an acute psychotic episode during the attack, and couldn’t distinguish between right and wrong. ...

Craig Trocino, a University of Miami law professor, said that finding Harrouff not guilty by reason of insanity would effectively be a life sentence because “it’s highly unlikely” that they would risk releasing a killer as notorious as Harrouff.

Harrouff’s parents and others said he had acted strangely for weeks. His parents had set up an appointment for him to be evaluated, but the attack occurred first.
FULL STORY (With Photos): https://apnews.com/article/florida-fort-lauderdale-1fb4a97bc095ff56429162e1a55e11d6

NOTE: This 2017 news story details Harrouff's claim he was "fleeing from a demon" at the time he attacked and killed his victims:
https://apnews.com/article/c9e52ef781204725b43c727e5a2d3e69
 
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