Possibly the worst news story I have ever read

 Posted by on 18 May 2009  Modern Life
May 182009
 

I can’t even bring myself to write a headline. Only read these news stories if you have a strong stomach for true crime and/or gore.

These are MAINSTREAM NEWS STORIES, by the way. I wish they were a hoax.

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Thanks (?) Boing Boing.

(PS. I am only linking to them in a possibly misguided attempt to purge them from my mind a la “The Ring”)

Grant Hamilton

  • Matt Goerzen

    No doubt this little gem of a blog addition came as an inspiration after you read Amy’s cannibalistic neanderthal story.

  • Stumpy

    Most illegal drugs seem to have a semblance of logic behind them for why they are popular; for example, opiates seem reasonable because they make people feel good, and mushrooms provide a light hallucinogen. But I don’t quite understand the appeal of PCP, a drug that seems to most commonly give people wicked psychotic episodes and causes all kinds of trouble.

    • http://www.absurdintellectual.com/ Grant Hamilton

      As one comment I read put it “Does PCP create monsters, or does PCP attract monsters?”

  • MPot

    Jesus Christ.

  • Stumpy

    The man is a monster regardless of his previous mental state. I’m certainly not excluding the option that he is a terrible person who does stuff like this every day. But does PCP have the ability to take a reasonably sane person and make him or her do horrible shit? Possibly, if taken in a real dose and not just getting some in the pot. PCP can cause psychosis that is similar to a full-blown schizophrenic breakdown for days and possibly weeks (think of the psychotic episode that caused the Greyhound decapitation, except in temporary pill form and not the result of schizophrenia). The middle-road is that he could be suffering from an underlying mental illness, which is probably what the defense lawyer is going to argue. Whether or not the man was previously a monster or a psychiatric patient will ultimately be the difference in whether his cell is padded or includes a well-endowed cellmate named Bubba.