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Subscribe to RSSThe grisly Miami crime scene where police fatally shot a naked man chewing the face off his victim will soon be a tourist stop.
The Miami “Mystery & Mayhem: Crime Tour” tour given by Miami-Dade College professor Paul George, as part of HistoryMiami tours, will stop on the MacArthur Causeway, the South Florida Business Journal reported.
“Horrible as it was, it is part of our history,” George told the Business Journal. “Currently, our tour takes us over the causeway right past the site, so this fits well.”
George, a history professor at Miami Dade College, runs history tours that also include Al Capone's home and the cemetery where Julia Tuttle, a city founder whose name is on a causeway famed for sheltering homeless sex offenders, is buried, HistoryMiami says. The group did not say when the next crime tour will be.
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Miami attracts around 12.6 million overnight visitors a year, according to the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau.
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Rudy Eugene, 31, was shot by Miami-Dade Police after he refused to stop eating another man's face in Miami on May 26.
In Milwaukee, a tour highlighting the haunts of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer sparked an uproar after Groupon offered discounted tickets to see where he stalked his victims, some of whom he mutilated and cannibalized. The chocolate factory worker was arrested in 1991 and beaten to death in prison in 1994.
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Despite protests by vicitms’ families, the Dahmer tours go on every Saturday, Amanda Morden of operator BAM Marketing and Media told msnbc.com.
“Interest in the tours has come from both national and international tourists as well as professors of history and psychology from universities across the United States,” Morden said.
Among other famed crime tours are the Jack the Ripper Tour in London, The Real Black Dahlia in Los Angeles, the Torso Murder Tour in Cleveland and the self-directed Gangster Walking Tour in St. Paul, Minn., along with mob tours in New York, Las Vegas and Sicily.
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In Miami, an attacker identified as 31-year-old Rudy Eugene walked naked on the sidewalk near the causeway’s Biscayne Boulevard exit May 26 before he encountered his victim, Ronald Poppo, 65. Eugene appears in videos to struggle with Poppo, throwing him on the sidewalk as cars and bicyclists speed past and a Metromover public transit car passes by overhead. About 16 minutes into the attack, an officer appears and fires at Eugene, who police said first growled at the officer before continuing to chew Poppo’s face.
Poppo is reported to be in critical condition in a hospital.
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Not only is the site a tourist attraction, but for $50 you can get a copy of the video ..... Pay Per Chew.
Unfortunately they will probably get plenty of people wanting to see this. It is too bad that people continue to promote as well as think it is a thrill to go to sites such as this and Dahmers. What a sad state to see so many go to these places and happier good things are less interesting
: P I believe that was one of the worst chew-jokes I've read yet. But thanks for the effort. i'll read it again later and see if it's not me and that I'm giving it a fair chance. Don't like to feel so judgmental.
As a species, we can sometimes be despicable.
I guess shame no longer comes into play, for the sake of financial gain.
HAHAHA!! That is awesome news! God Bless the Job Creators!
I remember when John Wayne Gacy first was found out. A buddy of mine comes over and says "We're gonna go drive by Gacys', wanna come along?" "Uh, no thanks. Stop by after and let me know how it went." No ghoulish instincts here.
Well, you never know, there could still be some leftover, yummy
Chewing somebodies face off is SO yesterday.
That is just wrong on sooooo many levels.......
What is there to see?
There's nothing to see here, folks. Crimes against people happen everywhere, everyday. You don't see tour stops or monuments for every crime commited. Keep moving people, nothing to see here.
If it were a landmark or typical site seeing tour, I'd agree with you. Seems kinda fitting for the "Mystery & Mayhem: Crime Tour" though.
Human animals have a macabre interest in these things; if not, there'd be no tours, no money, and the tele wouldn't be overrun with crime shows, serial killer interviews, etc... . Some sell for rather intense $$ amounts at auctions, on line - anything connected with these killers. Sure, it's not for everyone but the numbers bear out the supply side economics to these relatively few producers.
WTF??
That's so disgusting to make money from this tragedy, how about instead of going on this proposed $50. tour to look at a sidewalk near the Miami Herald , find out where to donate the $50.00 toward the homeless man's reconstructive surgery. Just a thought.....
Best post on this entire horrible event goes to MarilynMD...well done...:)
We already go on tours to crime sites: the White House, the Capitol Building...
This is truly disturbing. Human beings never cease to amaze and dishearten me with the depths of depravity and debasement to which they will sink. Come on Dec. 21, 2012.
You probably thought this man was alive...NOPE! Chuck Testa!
Rudy Eugene; you have entered eternity and there is no escape!!!
The steps we take today may cause us to trip tomorrow!!
eeeks...I dont get it. Its bad enought that the guy was brutaly attacked and is still alive to face the rest of his llife of this horrible ordeal, and yet people like to relive the moment at the site of the attack...thats just gross.