
Miami-Dade Police Dept. / AP
This undated booking mug made available by the Miami-Dade Police Dept., shows Rudy Eugene, 31, who was shot and killed by Miami-Dade Police after he refused to stop eating another man's face in Miami, Saturday, May 26, 2012. The victim remains hospitalized in critical condition.
The man who mauled off a homeless man's face over Memorial Day weekend apparently had no human flesh in his stomach, a report shows.
Law-enforcement sources told the Miami Herald an autopsy revealed 31-year-old Rudy Eugene had undigested pills in his stomach but no human flesh. The pills have not yet been identified.
Eugene was fatally shot by an officer after he refused to stop chewing on Ronald Poppo's face along the MacArthur Causeway.
Read the original story on NBCMiami.com
Though officials have speculated bath salts may have sparked Eugene's wild behavior, it remains unknown what prompted the attack.
Girlfriend of face-eating attacker blames drugs or voodoo
Officials told the Herald a preliminary review found marijuana in Eugene's system. Those who knew Eugene said he was known to smoke marijuana but the drug is not known to cause violent spurts.
A source also told the newspaper Eugene did not have his two front teeth but that chunks of flesh were found between his teeth. The source also said pieces of flesh were found on the floor of the scene.
What caused naked face-chewing attack: Bath salts, LSD?
Officials said the autopsy report would not be released to the public until the investigation into the shooting concludes - a process that could take more than a year.
Poppo, meanwhile, continues in critical condition in the hospital.
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Just another case of biting off more than he could chew.
buh-dum-pum
cheetah - how old are you, 15? You wouldn't think it's so funny if you were the victim. Considering the number of people using drugs and the drugs that they are using, anyone can be the victim.
scales67,
Most jokes are built around someone else's discomfort or pain. And , yes, they are less funny the closer you are to the subject. So chew on that.
sccales, lighten up, wanna be preacher
denver - seems like the immaturity of the American public just never ceases to amaze, does it, Einstein? You and cheetah need to crawl up out of your parents' basement and get jobs.
I just love the way Msn screws up the details and leave the meaty parts of the story out. I want a story that I can sink my teeth into!
Yes out of his mind on Drugs... Yet is going to follow a policemen orders? He should have been tazered pepper sprayed and pulled away.. not killed ... even if he deserved it..of course this is Miami.. a third world Country... at least in this area..
dave - Why? To allow him more time to tear this man's face apart? How much damage to this person should the policeman watch before he ends it? Did you want to study the psychopath? Did you want him put in therapy and study him? You feel he should have been saved? For what? Display at a circus?
What do we really know about Zombie DIGESTION? maybe they just like slime us up and suck us down? One doesn't see many fat Zombies......
Dave,
To pepper spray or taze the attacker would have also hit the victim as well, the victim has already suffered enough. A well placed bullet into the attacker would not harm the victim any further. The attacker got what he deserved, there is absolutely no excuse for what he did. Drugs are not an excuse.
Dave,
A tazer or pepper spray, most likely would not have been effective since he was so drugged up. You must watch to many TV cop shows.
Give the cop a medal. He did the right thing. We need to eliminate people like this. Eating someone's face? What the hell is happening to our society? One story after another gets worse and worse.
We also need strict population control so thugs like this are never born in the first place. Some day it will happen.
Oh, and the hell with the taser. Bullets are more effective on thugs.
Damn, this guy was acting like a crazy white man. I knew brothas could be crazy but they usually have their own brand of crazy. This is the first time tha tI have ever seen a crazy black man act like a crazy white man. LMFAO
Yes Wolfe I understand now that to tazer the attacker, as he was in direct contact with the victim, would also harm the victim. I had not thought of that initially when I wondered why the officer did not tazer the attacker. Still now, knowing they were in direct contact, I wonder why the officer did not taze him. After all, the victim is still in harms way, right? At this point the victim is in a coma, is a tazer really going hurt him further? And if the officer had tazed the attacker instead of shooting and killing him, yes, questions might have been answered. Mostly, "What the hell were you doing?" If you say the "attacker got what he deserved" you are judge and jury. Is that true? In America, we actually have a judicial system, not one person. I agree there is no excuse for what he did and that drugs are not an excuse. What remains is that there are drugs in the attackers system yet to be determined. That is a mystery that needs to be determined. It is not an explanation though it might have had some determining factor, which legally MUST be considered. By killing the attacker we will never, ever, have the true explanation. How is that valid? Certainly, the victim, if he comes out of the coma, will want to know what provoked the attack. Certainly the attacker's mom who says this is not the true behavior of her son, wants to know what provoked the attack.
Did he get what he deserved? How can you say that when there are so many unanswered questions that remain? Killing the attacker ends the possibility of the answers. In this situation, the answers are crucial to stopping the ridiculous "zombie" talk and finding out what truly happened. Doesn't the victim deserve that? Using a tazer would have provided that opportunity. Yes, even if it did harm the victim.
I don't doubt that you are easily amazed, since you seem to think that possessing a sense of humor makes one immature. And since you seem to be comedically challenged, allow me to introduce you to a term from the realm of comedy:
A buffoon is someone who is ridiculous and amusing, such as a clown, or a court jester. You almost qualify. As soon as you learn to be amusing, I think you'll be there.
@margo, the 'zombie talk' as you put it, is making a funny of an unfunny. I say that when there is a guy CHEWING OFF ANOTHER'S FACE he wants to get shot(in the head of course, ah zombies)... Of course it was drugs, I am thinking LSD, or maybe crack, or anything that can bring about a sever onset of schizophrenia (or even marijuana as that gives you the munchies, lol)...
margo=bleeding heart moron
Hey Margo if some crazy person is chewing off your face perhaps we should call in a negotiator first and see how that goes ?
Margo, this man may not have been bothered by a tazer. If the cop shot him with one, and the man turned on the cop, he wouldn't have any time to get his gun next. Can you imagine what was going through the cops mind seeing what was happening and knowing he HAD to stop it? A matter of seconds to decide the best way to stop the crazy guy, and not get attacked yourself. I'm sure the cop was scared confronting this madman, I would be too. The cop made the best decision he could being presented with the insane scene happening, and having only seconds to do something. I would have made the same decision! What would you do? Reason with him? Ask him why he was eating a mans face?
It is hard to control people freaked out on drugs. I have seen one man whip six policemen. Tazers won't work on these druggies. The cop did what he thought best for the poor victim. I have no problems with the fact that he shot and killed this animal. The fact that he has nothing in his stomach is a moot point.
Doobie,
Right, white people go around eating peoples' faces all the time. What a bozo.
We are talking about a "culture of violence" here. A culture of violence in the black community that can only be resolved by blacks themselves from the day children are born to the day they reach adulthood. You see this culture of violence everywhere: in the attitudes towards education, the attitudes of adults blaming everyone but themselves for their problems and the decisions they made, to the music you listen to, and even to the types of dogs you have as pets. Its compounded by the extremely high percentage of black children that grow up without a good father to guide them and high out-of-wedlock births that the mother cannot support without government assistance. Its really sad.
Let's do an experiment Margo . Let's take patients in critical care and tazer them and see if it causes any damage. Dr. Quack will lead us.
Bill, I am still cracking up over your Pay-Per Chew the other day. Now that is humor.
Doobie McStoned
Just how many white cannibals tribes have you heard of? (Besides the Donner tribe) ;^}
stonepipe,
Thank you. Disclaimer: It's not original material. It was first applied to Mike Tyson v. Evander Holyfield.
Junglejim -- I can name a few: Jeffrey Dahmer, Albert Fish, Andrei Chikatilo, Armin Meiwes, a great big bunch of rugby players (okay, that one is a stretch), and several other white serial killers.
Shunagrrl, the word tribe too complex for you to digest?
@ Doobie McStoned-
Your futile attempt to play "the race card" did not have the effect you and your buddies were hoping for. Like you, your comment is dull and clouded. What you thought would be funny and create a big reaction did not, and only exposed you for the shallow dumb-dumb you really are.
So that must mean he's a spitter, not a swallower.
Shunagrrl
Those are isolated incidences but, you are right, they be all crackers!
"....removing the head, or destroying the brain!!!"
Shunagrrl:
You forgot the worst one ---the police in USA killing 2-3 every day!, like why was this guy killed for failure to obey a police order(is he a dictator), someone with a coupe of month education, now the scientist, lawyer, Judge, and the executioner, if he was in Iraq, he needs to know we are not a dictatorship here I hope!!--After all this man had no meat in his stomach!--Oh, I forgot, the victim looks like a black man!
I am shocked that Zimmerman actually got recalled to jail doing the same black killing, they must be afraid of riots even in Florida, when a majority there value most minorities, as trash!
PS, now we can not even wait and see if he gets "Mad Human disease"--Like the idiots who ate the brains of "victims" on those far away islands!
That homeless guy used the 'N' word on the wrong MoFo.
they should stop wasting resources on this case, dont worry about why, move on the next case. Just a man who wanted to die.if the parents or ex's want to know why he died let them pay for it, i mean im sure if they knew they had to pay for it, the investigation would stop right there.
The cannibalism of one Human by another, is considered by civilized society to be the ultimate anti-social and unforgivable of Human behaviors. Accept in the case of starvation, and only upon the already dead, e.g. The Donner Party (forgivable).
Mike Tyson bit off the ear of one of his boxing opponents, too. Does anyone else see a pattern emerging? Gag-puke! I'm scared, and believe me, shall keep my distance on a dark night.
No human flesh in his stomach...not actually a cannibal in this case...perhaps a "wannabe" but major fail as cannibal. Just a regular temporarily insane guy.
Everyone is focusing on drugs, it hasn't been proved he was high on anything. I do however have inside information on the stomach contents. The pills in his stomach were Pepcid, which are taken before a big meal, to avoid heartburn. I've also discovered that a Zombies metabolism is such that fresh human flesh is digested almost immediately, which is why a Zombie is always hungry.
That makes the violent creepy act even stranger, doesn't it? I mean what if the police had observed him swallowing during those first moments of horror-struck observation? The policeman did not report him chewing and subsequently spitting...I don't blame the policeman for shooting him. It would be logical to assume this zombie behaving person was on some serious drugs or just incredibly psychopathic. So after seeing him in action, displaying no fear, would anyone here want to try and get up close to him? Reports of enhanced strengh on drugs or booze, PLUS-psychotic or evil as hell, would you want your family member or yourself to get even close to him? I also would like to know what brought him to this place and time, to this act...but if I saw it, I would shoot it. He was not acting human as we know it.....Man-I bet the policeman has to get therapy after seeing that. God knows what will happen to the poor victim. The hospital could go broke trying to fix him, or just let him stay the way he is, or fix him only enough to discharge him.... and still people vote against universal health care..... Now the victim is screwed and so is the hospital that tried to help him......What an awful crime. Do they even know who he is, besides "homeless"?
As a teenager in the 1960s, Ronald Poppo attended New York City’s elite Stuyvesant public high school, but he later drifted into the anonymity of alcoholism and homelessness.
Does this article remind anyone of the "Diner Of The Living Dead" sketch from the comedy show Fridays? Here's the YourTube link to the sketch... enjoy.
Diner Of The Living Dead
SAD....
I cannot stomach any more of this flesh eating.
Dave, please! If ever someone is eating my face off- do not hesitate to shoot him. Hopefully before I am totally disfigured. Tasers have their uses but not to spare a killer at the expense of his victim. If you or your wife or child should ever be a victim of a violent attack would you want the police to hesitate in killing the person who would kill you? How about your child? What if that decision to taser cost your child his life? Would it be worth it to you to say "I cared more about a lunatic's rights than my own childs life" or does this only apply when people you deem unimportant are at risk?
I am all for gathering information about criminals when it is practical but honestly what sane person would have gotten close enough to tazer the guy? As for those who suggest it... let them have first try. Then we will see how brave they are.
"Considering the number of people using drugs..."
I have thought about horrific crime and try to avoid unpredictable environments. The Airweight in my hand in my pocket is my second chance and it's sad to see so many trying to take away that opportunity.
But he has his fathers eyes (in his pocket, a little snack for later).
MSNBC: PLEASE stop calling it just "bath salts" like the man ingested a beauty product. He had an illegal drug with the street name "bath salts" inside his stomach. BE SPECIFIC
Alan290, wow, I love how you analyzed the whole black community right down to the welfare from the government. So lets see, we (Blacks) make up 12% of the population, but its all of us that rely on government assistance? We (Blacks) have violent dogs as pets, but other races have violent animals as pets also. Most of us(Blacks) don't own monkeys(which by the way killed a woman less than two years ago), snakes, or birds as pets. There a lot of other races who own dangerous dogs also. We (Blacks) have out of wedlock kids and grow up without good fathers, but every show on ID channel or A & E involving a serial killer is one born to a great, upstanding family. One thing that I know that isn't tolerated in the Black community is pedofilia, a crime created and mostly performed by races other than Black. Since one troll made it about race, I guess all the other racists have to come out. This is about a man, who happens to be Black, and his crazy behavior. Leave it as that! I'm glad they shot the guy. What else was the cop supposed to do?
Oh, you guys are so freakin' hilarious. *sarcasm* I bet you'll all have wildly successful careers making puns about hideous crimes.
I don't understand why people think this is funny or that jokes are appropriate. James Sullivan, why would you tell scales67 to lighten up? Really? You find humor in this? Taking pleasure from someone else's pain is not a good thing. One man lost his life and one is going through an incredible amount of pain. And guess what? Our tax dollars are paying for the homeless person's treatment and recovery. Are you laughing now? My guess is that those of you who are cracking jokes don't have jobs and my tax dollars are paying for you, too.
@Voter-in-LA
Any questions or do you want to continue to show your uneducated a$$?
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Cause unknown? My bet's on the zombie virus.
LOL. My daughter is convinced too. She's making survival plans as we type. Know anyone with a big boat?
I hope your daughter is aware they CAN walk on the bottom, underwater!
no zombie vires drugs it was a new one zombie would not beat the guy up then eat him spartan-501
they can not walk on the bottom of the walter have you ever seen resident evil or the show waling dead if not watch them
That's why you have a fence reinforced with: steel, bricks, mortar, tar, concrete, wood, and anything else you have lying around. OH and make sure you go to an island with no one on it and that no one would think of going. Like the virgin isles. Bring some guns and blunt instruments too, use suppressors so no more of them come when you fire.....
@tyler: How about Land of the Dead, J.A.R SUCKER!!!
I watch too many zombie flicks :)
Zombie outbreak in 3.... 2.... 1....
DateLine, Miami FLA... "Face-chewing attacker had no flesh in stomach" Updates at 6 and 11...(beepbeep bibbilly beep beep buhdeep beep buh-beep-beep....)
Perhaps the coroner did not verify the attacker had his fill of liquid refreshment and so the attacker had had enuff face-time with the homeless Mr. Poofo. It is difficult to continue eeting ANYTHING on a full stomach. So... The attacker used his refrigerator to "save face" for later consumption...?
Doobie McStoned -- Thanx for saying what I wanted to say up there at #1.13 ; whenever I make my point using that particular subject, my NewsVIne privileges get suspended for a day or two by one of the NewsVine Hall Monitors... thanks for sliding under the radar this time around... we know your point has a lot of verifiable historical validity...
Yes, Steve. I told her that immediately upon hearing her master plan. She replied "That's why I'll be on top of the water". She's no dummy. ;)
His girlfriend thinks he was under a Voodoo Curse. Seriously. A Voodoo Curse. In the 21st Century. Seriously.
Voodoo practitioners exist, but they use various toxins to simulate "magical" effects. While it's possible to put certain "curses" on people, there's absolutely nothing supernatural about it.
What? Believing in voodoo isn't plausible, but believing in god and the devil in the 21st century is? :-)
Really! I have neighbors who actually believe it is possible for a virgin to give birth! Just as silly.
Andrew!!!! Where do you think Zobbies come from? Voodoo curses! Kind of an obvious leap if you ask me....
Spartan, how easily mislead you are. Thats what THEY want you to believe.
These people are predisposed to cannibalism. Some say the eating of human flesh is still practiced in New Guinea.
0_0.... and you people use this as a reason to bash religion...why? Grow up, I don't care if you don't believe what I believe(I'm baptist, figure it out), I don't want you labeling me and 70% of the US as a cook(I am by the way, lol)....
Stay in school, folks.
mo-503393 they do not come from the ground t it would start with some one with some sort of vires
I love how you insecure people use anything and everything to bash religion... WE dont care if you dont believe but for some strange reason you care if we believe. Ever heard of the term "misery loves company"? You should, it seems like you live by it.
Scared you will fade into blackness, into nothingness when you die? Too F***ing bad! Its your choice, I choose to live my life optimistic and happy. So STFU and go believe in nothing in the corner like a good child!
Nick-3980785 - If you didn't care, why the tirade? Atheists aren't any less happy or more miserable than anyone else in the world. In fact, the belief that there is nothing after death means we have to value our brief existence all the more, since we get one shot and that's it. Atheism also isn't a faith, it's a conclusion. Would you like to meet the invisible, intangible, imperceptible dragon I keep in my garage?
A few years back there was a similar story where a woman had her face and hands eaten off while she was alive, she got a face transplant i think, oh,,,,wait,,,,that was not a human that did that never mind. i think the cops shot the ......
Tyler, didn't you see The Living Dead ? "Susan, their coming to get you Susan" Where? In the cemetery. So statistically at least some of them come out of the ground. The Virus theory is for the Government created Zombies. Whole different breed if you ask me. The original Zombies are creatures of the Voodoo Priests and Priestesses. No one who has been to NewOrleans can doubt the exsistence of the Voodoo religion. I'm just saying......
@ Vyor Derfa-
I don't want you labeling me and 70% of the US as a cook(I am by the way, lol)....
Do you mean Kook ? What were you trying to say ?
Voodoo is a religion too, Nick. Seems like the original poster was bashing someone elses religious beliefs because it was not what he believed in. What everyone else was posting was a reaction to that. Did you mean to say people use any excuse to bash Christianity, but it is okay to bash non-christian based religions? Because if that's what you meant, that would be why people are bashing your religion. If your post was meant to include the initial comment as well, then I agree.
I don't know what's weirder, believing in voodoo or that some people practice Christianity. Honestly, Norse Religion is so much more fun to believe in. Now pardon me whilest I enjoy my fairy tales in peace.
Turns out he had no brain in his head either.
VooDoo spells:
Thanks for the information. In the 1950's in Louisiana my parents had a maid who believed in and practiced Voodoo. She had an abusive husband, who was gone for extended periods of time, but would come back, and always ended up getting drunk and beating her. To make him go away for good, she acquired some kind of powder from a voodoo priestess, and as he was walking to his car one night, secretly walked behind him sprinkling it into his footprints. That night he died in a freak accident. The axle on his car suddenly snapped as he was crossing a bridge, and the car plunged into the river. He was trapped inside and drowned. Coincidence?
Old Sarge-3447849
"The axle on his car suddenly snapped as he was crossing a bridge, and the car plunged into the river. He was trapped inside and drowned. Coincidence?"
Yep. Totally.
The word voodoo means "spirit" or "mystery." Voodoo believers accept the existence of one god (Bon Dieu or Good God), below which are the powerful spirits referred to as loa. These powerful spirits are responsible for the daily matters in life in the areas of family, love, money, happiness, wealth, and revenge. The loa are not that different from the Saints of Catholicism and angels in Christianity in that the loa are not prayed to; rather, they are asked to intercede with God on our behalf.
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Does this work on co workers too? I got a couple of them I need to walk on.
Anglo-Saxon witch protection spell. Fill a jar with nails, broken glass, old razors, anything else sharp you have at hand urinate in the jar. Bury the jar in your yard. This wards off your enemies. Makes as much sense as the voodoo or lighting a candle in a church.
0_0.... and you people use this as a reason to bash religion...why? Grow up, I don't care if you don't believe what I believe(I'm baptist, figure it out), I don't want you labeling me and 70% of the US as a cook(I am by the way, lol)....
Vyor Derfa- I'm a cook, too. A pretty good one at that.
Sleep with a piece of wedding cake under your pillow and you will dream of your future husband.
Heck of a shock for your current husband.
Freedman1,
Now there's a list of a bunch of crap no one should clutter their minds with.
He did not inhale or have sexual relations either..........no foul.
Pills in the attacker's stomach. It would certainly be of use to determine what they were.
His behaviour seems related to a strong PCP trip.
Exactly, and if he had been tazed, we would all know what was going on. He could have been questioned and actually held accountable for his crime. The cop shooting and killing him was in error. Use better judgement and taze first.
It is easy to judge police with the benifit of hindsight. Until you have been in the "split second" situation, save your judgement. Also if you knew anything about the effects of PCP, you would know that a tazer would have little to no effect.
Margo, if this was due to PCP and the cop had used a tazer instead of a gun, this would be a very different, much sadder article.
P.C.P. ? People Chomping Potion ?
Margo...seriously you would rather have tried to "save" this crazed sorry excuse of a man? I hate to tell you but a taser would have done nothing to stop him...he was actually shot once by the cop and yes margo...he kept on attacking. The cop had to shoot mulitple times to get him to stop. All a taser would have done, besides hurting the victim also is to have had the attention drawn to the cop which most likely the attacker would have turned on him. I have to wonder if you really think before you post such absurdities. Do you honeslty believe that IF this man would have been taken alive that he could have EVER given a reason for the attack? COME ON !! IF he could reason or explain his actions HE WOULDNT HAVE BEEN EATING ANOTHER PERSONS FACE !! smh your lack of intelligence leaves me in dismay
Margo please refer to my earlier comment. To all police officers out there: If you see someone trying to murder Margo- Do not harm him in any way! She feels his rights are more important than her life! On the other hand, if you see someone eating my face, please feel free to shoot him immediately. I would rather not go down that way. I am not willing to risk that a taser will stop a crazed lunatic from killing me and I hope no officer would either.
Margo, call me a savage if you like but I think having a police officer empty a pistol into him was a perfectly lovely way of holding the ghoul accountable. Also, lets say that there was some way to justify his actions (say a medical condition) and by some bizarre set of circumstances I did the same thing... if that happened,,, strange as it might seem I would be grateful if some sensible person shot me. Seriously, think what you are saying. He was EATING the FACE off of a LIVING HUMAN BEING... how do you properly hold someone accountable fot that?
Margo...is there really a question in your mind as to if he was the one commiting a crime? Please allow me to clear that up for you. Yes he was the one killing someone else by eating their face...case closed taser holstered and gun out...The cop got this one totally right....give him a medal. Margo we will give you a new face eater for your very own.
He was a firm believer in the catch and release program.
if obozo had a son he would look like this
...with a hoodie.
Don't they all look the same to you two?
...sporting a wide grill.
Why, do all blacks look the same to you? Racist idiot!
Who said I am racist? I certainly am not. I give equal time to the Whites, Mexicans, Asians, Stupid people, ignorant people, The ugly ones, Clumbsy is always good. Shall I continue?The only people i dont seem to give equal time to .....Native Americans? (I am White by the way) So you see I am NOT racist, thank you.
if you had a son the san diago zoo would be interested lol
Too bad someone must always go off on Obama, no matter the subject.
Get a life.
Obama said that if he had a son he would look just like him............ whoops, that was a differnt thug
"Why do all blacks look the same to you?"
Obama is the one who said "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," implying that all black males are pretty much interchangable (in terms of appearance, anyway).
Zombie Apocalypse Preperation. It's not if but when
I'm stocking up on Garlic and Holy water too! I always told my kids they only had to worry about the kind of Monsters they saw on the news! CARP!
Garlic and holy water won't do a thing against zombies (or anything else, really). What you need is a good shotgun, plenty of ammunition, non-perishable food, etc.
The real zombies have always been there from the beginning of time. I call them the "hidden rich" the people behind the ceo people. foundation families and the like. (see queen of England's foundation). And yes. they have been eating our flesh for some time now, but some people still support them.
Well yes I have my sealed provisions in case of Government Zombies and well heII one always needs to keep their firearms ready but what if Vampires decide to come out of the closet next? Garlic, Holy Water. One can't be too prepared and I can always make pasta.
george pauljohn- you have just been redeemed, it's not san diago it's San Diego.
Yes interesting about the "foundation", I'm not surprised. I have heard claims that Bram Stokers Dracula was a metaphor for the rich sucking the lifeblood from the working classes. The young maiden representing the working classes, and even Renfield representing the serfs. Dracula being from old aristocracy and living in a castle no less.
If his stomach has no human flesh, what is it made of?
Why would there be flesh.. Everyone KNOWS Zombies eat brains. The victim was just thick headed.
We found out recently that if you try to leave a little kid in a graveyard late at night, he'll freak out. Even if you offer to leave him a gun to protect himself. Why? It's because on some instinctual level, all humans know it's just a matter of time until the zombies show up.
Menudo!
This is such a question though I wonder if there was no time for digestion. Again, if he hadn't been shot and instead was tazed, we would have had answers.
ohhh my gosh margo I serioulsy hope you are 12 and your parents and teachers will offer up your education. If there had been "no time for digestion" as you are seeking the answer too, then the coroner would have found the flesh in his stomach....duh...what other answer do you need that you think the cop should have been attacked too, and then the attacker runs off and attacks a group of young children?? The police officer did EXACTLY what he should have to stop a drug induced crazed man. You have the answers a normal person would want...his stomach was full of pills...BIG shocker for you right?? IT WAS DRUGS MARGO...THE GUY WAS ON DRUGS...MARGO STAY AWAY FROM THE DRUGS smh
I agree with them Margo.. It is not like we would have gotten anything answered. He would have put the blame off on someone else, and the long drawn out trial would have just given him publicity that he doesn't deserve. The police are sworn to protect and serve... in this case he wasn't a waiter to server the crazed person eating someones face off... his job was to protect the life of the person being EATEN!!!
The only reason to taser him is to keep him stunned just long enough to shoot him. As has already been said, if you see an insane individual eating any part of me... kill him. Don't ask what wine goes best with me, yell halt or drag your feet in any way... Shoot the bastard in the head
You're all over looking the fact that a lot of marijuana is lace with who knows what these days. And it doesn't have to be just one thing. It's like playing Russian rullet, sooner or later it's going to get you. The END!
Oh? Then explain Keith Richards.
Not all pot is laced, and just because this person is only known to smoke pot doesn't mean he wasn't also taking PCP, or other such cocktails. At this people are just speculating. Best wait for the toxicology reports.... Bath salts. Feh!
No body is over looking it, because it is not true. Marijuana did not cause this man to do this, and anyone who believes it did needs to do some research and not just believe government made up non sense. THE END!
d7kid - How funny are you? You end your post with "THE END!" I assume that is to sound as though YOU are or have the expertise on suppositions? LOL, LOL! "Look into the magic ball, d7kid has all the answers!" What a joke!
d7, Nope, You are the one who is Wrong. Dude was So extremely BAKED he not only had The Munchies, but FORGOT TO SWALLOW! You obviously haven't smoked strong enough herb Yet.
another reason why it should be legal, it can be regulated the same as alcohol. or people could grow their own. it is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco. we enjoy the gov waisting billions of dollars a year on a worthless drug war they will never win. only American gov could be so stupid to make a dept out something that should be a profit.
You are all over looking the fact that he was ripping this poor guys face off to EAT HIS BRAINS!
The Dept of Debt? LOL
You are forgetting to add in a large minority of the American People.
What is definitely true is the story of Clairvius Narcisse. He was a Haitian guy who was declared dead by two doctors and buried in 1962. They found him wandering around the village 18 years later. It turned out the local voodoo priests had been using naturally occurring chemicals to basically zombify people and putting them to work on the sugar plantation.
Then, Mad Cow Disease came along. It attacks the cow's spinal cord and brain, turning it into a stumbling, mindless attack cow.
And, when humans eat the meat ...
How it can result in zombies:
When Mad Cow gets in humans, they call it Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Check out the symptoms:
Sure, the disease is rare (though maybe not as rare as we think) and the afflicted aren't known to chase after people in murderous mobs. Yet.
But, it proves widespread brain infections of the Rage variety are just a matter of waiting for the right disease to come along.
Republican TeaBilly Conservatives suffer from "Foot in da Mouth" Disease.
You BetCha....Fer Sure.
Like this chump could afford beef? Hahahaha
This was not the way to get a role as an extra on "The Walking Dead".
Facts you are a moron!!
freedman1
Zombies? Really? Please check your facts and leave your misinformation at the door.
Attack cows? Yes it is a disease that leaves the victim "mindless" as it slowly eats away at the brain and leaves it looking like Swiss cheese. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy is the name of it, in cows. But mindless attack cows? Name one case of an "attack cow". By the time the symptoms manifest themselves, the cow is dropping and in no condition to do much harm except to themselves.
The spread of this disease has been traced to the insane practice of feeding "drop" cows to otherwise plant eating animals. Herbivores. Yes, the cattle industry ground up sick and dieing cattle and fed them to other cows. And as it usually takes at least 30 months for the disease to manifest resulted in the current practice of butchering cows at age of 2 years or less. Do the math.
The peoples called the Fore in Papua New Guinea had a habit of ritual cannibalism, eating their own dead, which led to their near extinction until they were taught that the reason they were dieing was the spread of the human equivalent disease. This was discovered somewhere in the mid 1950's to 1960's. It was named Kuru.
It's caused by a prion, a mutated protein. It has appeared in a number of species as follows-
Sheep, goats- Scrapie
Cattle- Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease)
Mink- Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy
White tailed deer, elk, mule deer, moose- Chronic Wasting Disease
Cat- Feline Spongiform Encephalopathy
Nyala, oryx, greater Kudu- Exotic Ungulate Encephalopathy
Ostrich- Spongiform Encephalopathy
Human- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Latrogenic, Varient Creulzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Syndrome, Fatal Familial Insomnia, Kuru
Zombies? No. Rage? No. Disease? Yes. Horrible, debilitating, deadly? Yes.
Please get your facts straight before you attempt to explain something like this with obviously having no knowledge of the subject matter.
Maybe this Killer just got done reading a “Sarah Palin” book….became Confused, Irrational and Lost his Mind. It seems to be a “Side Effect”.
You BetCha….Fer Sure.
You know all that controversy out there about stem cell research? Well, the whole thing with stem cells is that they can basically be used to re-generate dead cells. Particularly of interest to zombologists like ourselves is neurogenesis, the method by which they can re-grow dead brain tissue.
You can see where this is going.
How it can result in zombies:
Science can pretty much save you from anything but brain death; they can swap out organs but when the brain turns to mush, you're gone. Right?
Well, not for long. They're already able to re-grow the brains of comatose head trauma patients until they wake up and walk around again.
Couple that with the new ability to keep a dead body in a state of suspended animation so that it can be brought back to life later, and soon we'll be able to bring back the dead, as long as we get to them quickly enough.
That sounds great, right? Well, a lab dedicated to "reanimation research" (yes, that's what they call it) explains how the process of "reanimating" a person creates a problem. It causes the brain to die off from the outside in. The outside being the cortex, the nice part of you that makes humans human. That just leaves the part that controls basic motor function and primitive instincts behind.
You don't need the cortex to survive; all you need is the stem and you'll still be able to mindlessly walk and eat and enjoy Grey's Anatomy. This is how chickens can keep walking around after they've been beheaded (including one case where the chicken lived for 18 months without a head).
So, you take a brain dead patient, use these techniques to re-grow the brain stem, and you now have a mindless body shambling around, no thoughts and no personality, nothing but a cloud of base instincts and impulses.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is what we like to call a real, live, undead @!$%#ing zombie. So there.
Freedman? Are you single? I think I love you. A man with a working mind. Sigh.
This story has run it's course and was probably started with lies from the Miami police anyway.
so they have to open stomach to see if there was any flesh inside? that is cool, but for what? let say, if there was flesh inside stomach, would they sentence the death man to prison or to death? they should have medical students to watch.
Because that's how autopsies work.
Now this comes under information I don't need to know. He's dead... no trial.... it doesn't matter.
Let's all be glad he's dead. I want to know what precipitated the attack but we'll probably never know. Gay sex gone wrong? Was the attacker a homophobe?
Why would you bring gay into the mix of this, Jane? This was a homeless man sitting on the sidewalk. This was a psychopath - either regular psychopath or drug induced psychopath crazy person. And, you bring gay sex into it? How messed up are you exactly?
Well All People , enquireing minds want to know. Some people say there are no Zombies and some people say smoking dope won't do it so the question begs to be asked.
@Jane. *BRILLIANT*.......not. Go back out into left field and play.
what does bath salt have to do with it??? are they doing something to the salt so they can get high...it surprises me how many people read these articles and really dont read anything..
As in YOU, Joseph for not reading! Bath salts, as they are called, if your read the article, are a new form of dangerous drugs/hallucinogenics sold at stores who sell drug paraphernalia!
See? this fella says bathing won't make you eat people. We must find the cause so we can prevent further tradedies. My Dad always said bathing would kill ya now I have to rethink the whole bathing thing.
Its only funny until someone gets really hurt. Then its freakin hilarious!
No flesh in the zombie's stomach? What a relief.
They keep mentioning these bath salts and they sound highly dangerous. I can't imagine why anybody would try something this unstable. They don't even know if they'll get a feel good high or just go crazy...
Clean the nasty looking facial hair off this guy and he could have been cute. Put some sense in his head and maybe he could have done something with his life while he had it.
I'm with ya Tay, if I'm going to be eaten this is the Zombie I choose.
I am just wondering...if this is the mugshot, where is all flesh and blood on this guys face and beard. I would think that he might look like a wild animal after eating on it's prey.
This mug shot was from an earlier arrest, pre-feast. Thus the lack of gore stuck to him. They dont make a habit of taking mug shots of dead criminals, as those criminals arent likely to have further run-ins with the law. (altho, if they are zombies, they might)
I seriously hope all of you people talking about zombies are just joking. Zombies are not real. Period. Even if some hatian "doctors" give a person a drug to make them appear dead...they are not really dead. Just like vampires are not real either. Now drugs are real. Some people have taken pcp and thought they were superman and tried to fly off of buildings. Kinda the same result as this guy have a drug induced hallucination that he was a zombie (or maybe ya'll having a drug induced hallucination that he is a zombie), but the pcp induced "superman" and the miami "zombie" both died because of their drug use.
A nine year old friend of mine thought he was superman and jumped off of the roof of his house. Was he a zombie????
Why was this article published? Does it matter that this psychopath didn't swallow the flesh he tore off this man's face with his teeth? Does that make the crime better or worse?
I definitely want to know if my zombie dinner guest spits or swallows!