More on zombie face-eating incident

[summer]

Duuude! The biker came upon the scene and addressed the naked person, chewing off another person's face??? By himself?? The zombies will get him first. There is NO WAY I'm getting anywhere near this fucking situation unarmed.

And I'm willing to bet money that cyclist, Larry Vega, was not Black.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18241494


A man who was shot dead in Miami at the weekend after he was found biting the face off another naked man has been identified by police.

Rudy Eugene, 31, reportedly growled at a police officer after he was warned to back away.

A witness said the aggressor continued to eat the victim, before the officer opened fire several times, killing him.

The attack next to a busy road on Saturday afternoon has been linked to an LSD-like drug known as "bath salts".

About 75% of the victim's face was reportedly missing.
'Nice man'

Cyclist Larry Vega said there was "blood all over the place" when he came across the horrific scene by MacArthur Causeway.

"I told him get off," Mr Vega told WSVN Fox 7. "The guy just kept eating the other guy away like ripping his skin."

He said he alerted a police officer, who warned the attacker several times to back away from the victim.

"The guy just stood his head up like that with a piece of flesh in his mouth and growled," Mr Vega said.

The victim, who is said to be a homeless man, remained in a critical condition in hospital on Tuesday.

A Miami police spokesman said: "We are expecting a report from our detectives to give more details to the media. We are also looking for more witnesses to this crime."

Ives Eugene, Eugene's uncle, described his nephew as a "nice and hard-working" man who washed cars at a local dealership.

Miami police said they still do not know what prompted the bizarre and savage assault, which has been compared to a "zombie" attack.

But Armando Aguilar, of Miami's Fraternal Order of Police, told a CNN affiliate he believed the suspect could have overdosed on a type of drug known as "bath salts".

Made with the active agent mephedrone, the synthetic substance often causes users to become highly aggressive and experience intense hallucinations.

Mr Aguilar cited four past overdoses in the Miami area where people had also removed their clothes and gone berserk.

"It causes them to go completely insane and become very violent," he said.

[ttt]

Drugs are bad, kids.

[charminglife]

This might be a good message for middle school health class:

"Kids, don't snort bath salts or you'll become a zombie and chew another man's face off."

[onomatopoeia]

Holy crap. 75% of his face? The biker and cop will need some intensive counseling for sure. At first I thought "biker" meant like a Hell's Angel type and I thought well, yeah, those dudes are TOUGH. They could stare a zombie into submission. I'd like to have a biker in my corner for the zombie apocalypse. But a cyclist? Harder to imagine a cyclist confronting a flesh eating naked man for some reason.

Maybe I'm missing something...why would you bet the cyclist wasn't black?

[EloiseWeenie]

May 30, 2012 8:03:10 GMT -5 charminglife said:

This might be a good message for middle school health class:

"Kids, don't snort bath salts or you'll become a zombie and chew another man's face off."

On Sunday my husband and I were talking about saving this story for when it comes time to have the drug talk with our kids.

[summer]

May 30, 2012 8:11:11 GMT -5 onomatopoeia said:

Holy crap. 75% of his face? The biker and cop will need some intensive counseling for sure. At first I thought "biker" meant like a Hell's Angel type and I thought well, yeah, those dudes are TOUGH. They could stare a zombie into submission. I'd like to have a biker in my corner for the zombie apocalypse. But a cyclist? Harder to imagine a cyclist confronting a flesh eating naked man for some reason.

Maybe I'm missing something...why would you bet the cyclist wasn't black?

It was a joke. Many a Black comedian has joked about horror movies and how Black people will be the first to run, while White people go investigate.

[iammalcolmx]

May 30, 2012 8:13:21 GMT -5 summer said:

May 30, 2012 8:11:11 GMT -5 onomatopoeia said:

Holy crap. 75% of his face? The biker and cop will need some intensive counseling for sure. At first I thought "biker" meant like a Hell's Angel type and I thought well, yeah, those dudes are TOUGH. They could stare a zombie into submission. I'd like to have a biker in my corner for the zombie apocalypse. But a cyclist? Harder to imagine a cyclist confronting a flesh eating naked man for some reason.

Maybe I'm missing something...why would you bet the cyclist wasn't black?

It was a joke. Many a Black comedian has joked about horror movies and how Black people will be the first to run, while White people go investigate.

...and many a black people have witnessed such. When shit is going down in my neighborhood, I run inside, lock the doors, and turn on the alarm. My white neighbors chase the criminals.....

[GailGoldie]

wasn't the victim also naked? I swore I read that last night... I was assuming both were on the drug if both were naked (b/c it makes people super hot they rip their clothing off).

the whole story is just so insane. I can't even imagine seeing that... let alone being the officer who needs to make the decision to shoot the guy - he was probably praying it wasn't a real zombie and that shooting would actually work.

[ttt]

May 30, 2012 8:40:56 GMT -5 GailGoldie said:

wasn't the victim also naked? I swore I read that last night... I was assuming both were on the drug if both were naked (b/c it makes people super hot they rip their clothing off).

the whole story is just so insane. I can't even imagine seeing that... let alone being the officer who needs to make the decision to shoot the guy - he was probably praying it wasn't a real zombie and that shooting would actually work.

LOL! I hope that officer doesn't watch Walking Dead!

[Deleted]

I saw an episode of Intervention where the guy did bath salts. It's such a mess.

[statlerwaldorf]

There was a local story where a guy was high on bath salts and broke into his neighbor's house while they were sleeping and threatened to kill them. Another guy was found naked lying in the library bathroom.

[GailGoldie]

ok- i just googled and saw an actual image of them both laying on the ground- victim was not naked... I wonder if he knocked him out- how do you just let someone eat your face - i hope he wasn't aware of what was happening.

and there is a pic on google of the man's face - you can barely recognize it AS a face... so horrible.

[Guest]

The news reported this morning the man chewed his face right down to the bone.

[decemberwedding07]

May 30, 2012 9:12:48 GMT -5 @Guest said:

The news reported this morning the man chewed his face right down to the bone.

Oh. My. God. Where is the vomiting emoticon when you need it?! ::Rocks quietly in corner::

[decemberwedding07]

May 30, 2012 8:32:31 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

May 30, 2012 8:13:21 GMT -5 summer said:

It was a joke. Many a Black comedian has joked about horror movies and how Black people will be the first to run, while White people go investigate.

...and many a black people have witnessed such. When shit is going down in my neighborhood, I run inside, lock the doors, and turn on the alarm. My white neighbors chase the criminals.....

Lol. I guess I must be black! Something fell in our shed the other night, and so my husband turned on the porch light. He couldn't see anything and started to unlock the door so that he could go investigate. I grabbed his hand and said, "Are you insane?!" Then I shut the curtains, made sure the alarm was on, grabbed my cell phone (for calling the police in case there was a crazy person in our shed and they were headed for our house next) and my field hockey stick from high school (I have held onto that thing for over ten years for just such occasions), and said we'd check it out in the morning.

[bqbride]

May 30, 2012 8:01:49 GMT -5 ttt said:

Drugs are bad, kids.

I don't disagree. However, I have done nearly all of them, most more than once, and never once chewed another person's face off.

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

Bath salts are some of the scariest drugs I have ever seen. There was an episode of Intervention a little while ago where in a matter of MONTHS, someone went from being a pretty normal kid to an insane, mumbling schizophrenic acting kid. Months. That's terrifying.

[ttt]

May 30, 2012 13:31:02 GMT -5 @bqbride said:

May 30, 2012 8:01:49 GMT -5 ttt said:

Drugs are bad, kids.

I don't disagree. However, I have done nearly all of them, most more than once, and never once chewed another person's face off.

OK but "you probably won't chew someone's face off" isn't a very ringing endorsement lol. The thing with drugs - particularly ones like PCP - is that you really have no idea how they're going to affect you, specifically, until it's too late. I'm sure this guy didn't think he was going to end up chewing someone's face off when he took whatever it was that he took.

Anyway, this is why I don't believe that drugs should be legalized. Marijuana, yes, possibly maybe cocaine, but PCP, meth, bath salts? Hell no.

[bqbride]

LOL, ttt. Good point! I wasn't really offering an endorsement, just pointing out that the guy may have some other issues. I highly doubt if drugs alone led him to chew off another human being's face.

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

Yeah, I don't know how anyone who has ever had a bad trip would ever be very pro-legalizing hallucinogens. But I don't know. I never really had any good trips.

[UMaineTeach]

I so almost said when this first came out that it must be bath salts, but the first report said cocaine so I went with it.

Bath salts are really been f-ing people up in areas near me. Our legislature even passed a emergency bill to outlaw them, since this drug was not on the books.