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Originally Posted by Carne Seca

umm... WW.. .maybe you should move to New Mexico.

Why? You have those Shunk Apes and things that go bump in the night.

Plus, you have Tarantulas.

Originally Posted by Winter Woman

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

This surveillance video from a camera on the Miami Herald building shows a police officer shooting the suspect, as well as the aftermath, when many more patrol cars arrived.

• Surveillance video of MacArthur Causeway shooting

• Photos

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

BY DANIELA GUZMAN AND JULIE K. BROWN

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

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

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

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

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

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

The other man was transported to the hospital with critical injuries, according to police. Their identities were not released.
The incident, which came as crowds descended upon South Beach for the annual Urban Beach Week hip-hop festival, snarled traffic on the causeway for several hours.

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

“Based on the information provided, our Miami police officer is a hero and saved a life,’’ he said.
Sergeant Altarr Williams, supervisor of Miami police’s Homicide Unit, said a man doesn’t have to be armed to be dangerous.
“There are other ways to injure people,’’ Williams said. “Some people know martial arts, others are very strong and can kill you with their hands.’’

Investigators believe the victim may have been homeless and laying down when the crazed man pounced.
Police theorize the attacker might have been suffering from "cocaine psychosis," a drug-induced craze that bakes the body internally and often leads the affected to strip naked to try and cool off.

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


Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/2...#storylink=cpy

i felt sick when i first read that. if the details are correct, i'd have to agree it was a good shooting. what i don't understand, however, is why the cop didn't have a tazer. why was his only go-to projectile type weapon one of deadly force? especially in such a drug city. i'm sure they have cracked out shit happen all the time. there's no need to shoot everyone. but if that's all he had at the time, he did what he had to do. imagine being so fucked up you get shot and keep gnawing on someone's face...that's pretty fucked up.

One of the people whom attends my church is a deputy sheriff and he said that the tazer doesn't work so well on people hyped up on hard drugs and some people who are psychotic.

Don't know if that is real or not, but that's what he said.

I've been really high in my time but nothing that made me evil.

Edit: We seem to be having a problem with K2 w/violence/murder in the D and it pisses me off that they keep calling it Synthetic marijuana.

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(Newser) – Thirty North Korean officials who took part in talks with South Korea were either executed or died in "staged traffic accidents" for failing to improve relations, according to Amnesty International. The human rights group's annual report found that another 200 were arrested in January as the regime transferred power from Kim Jong-il to his son, Kim Jong-un. Pyongyang typically rounds up officials who fail to satisfy the regime, even when they're only carrying out orders, the Telegraph reports.


The regime also seems to be prepping a nuclear test blast. A South Korean spokesman says all preparations are complete for a long-awaited test, and satellite photos of the Punggye-ri site show that Pyongyang has filled up a tunnel there—meaning the nuke is ready to go. It may even launch on Memorial Day: "Holidays or sad commemorations like Memorial Day weekend is when the leadership tries to provoke the democratic allies into action," said Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.

Wanted to add this about the face eating man. I think the last sentence is why he was shot and not tazed.


(Newser) – The man attacked Saturday in Florida by a naked man who tried to chew off his face is fighting for his life in a Miami hospital, reports the Miami Herald, which reveals that the attacker also reportedly tried to gouge out the victim's eyes. But beyond that, there are few new details: Police still are not identifying either man, releasing specifics about the gruesome attack (though cocaine psychosis remains their leading theory), or revealing why both men were naked. But the shocking story has grabbed national headlines—and led to more than one mention of zombies. With quotes like this, it's easy to see why: "The guy just stood, his head up like that, with pieces of flesh in his mouth," says one witness. "And he growled."

Zombies are coming
Zombies are coming

It's the Zombie Apocalypse

Woo!
Finally made it though all 47 pages of this thread!