I've been holding back for days on commenting on one of the strangest, most barbaric, stories of recent memory: The crazed guy who ATE THE FACE OFF of a presumed homeless man over the weekend. I mean, OMG OMG OMG! Ewww! Arrrggggh! Gag!
An entire FACE is gone! Chewed and ripped and - OMG OMG OMG!
And, of course, it happened in Florida. In Miami. Again I ask what's in the water down there? Better yet, who's messing with the street drugs? WTF is going on a place that was once a mini paradise when I was a child and spent winters there with my parents. I remember coconuts literally falling off trees that I would carry around as a prize for days; the smell of the salty, aromatic ocean and soft sand and little sand pebbles mingling together with each ebb and flow of the tide.
I remember the white pristine beaches and my father and his friends playing beach volleyball and how all of the men would stop their game whenever a sharp looking woman sauntered by in a somewhat revealing (for then) swimsuit and how all of the wives would laugh and tell their husbands to "dream on". I remember the awful sunburns I would get as a fair-skinned toe-headed child who hated to wear bonnets (but loved hats) and how happy we were as a family when my grandparents and other relatives would pop down to spend a few days with us as we did the classic frolicking on the beach mingled with a sprinkle of tourism shopping.
What happened? Now Florida is one of the last places I want to visit despite knowing how pleasant South Beach is, and how much I love Key West and other areas in the state where I have spent time.
Now it's cruel injustice of one sort or another in that state almost everywhere one looks...as far as the national news is concerned. Or the hub of pornography viewing. Or where voters are being blocked from registering to vote - something the mainstream media has barely whispered to the land. Voter fraud, too. And where beach erosion is frighteningly apparent.
But a crazed-on-some-kind-of-drug guy spirals into a primal state of mind and with his teeth tears the flesh from the face of an innocent man already down on his luck? I mean, OMG OMG OMG! The poor victim! The poor passer-by who discovered the assault and called the cops. The poor cops who had to witness the brutality. And, perhaps even the poor crazed maniac who obviously was not in his "right" mind. It's probably best that he was killed, as when he would have finally come out of whatever stupor he was in may have wanted to die, so that part of the story has a somewhat happy ending.
Not so for the man without a face. Will he survive the ordeal of surgeries and transplants and the horror of being maimed for the remainder of his life? And who will pay his medical bills?
And last, based on the quasi-cannibalism of the situation, I have to ask one simple question of the now-deceased face-eater: where were the Fava beans?
Image via: http://goldenblogs.blogsome.
An entire FACE is gone! Chewed and ripped and - OMG OMG OMG!
And, of course, it happened in Florida. In Miami. Again I ask what's in the water down there? Better yet, who's messing with the street drugs? WTF is going on a place that was once a mini paradise when I was a child and spent winters there with my parents. I remember coconuts literally falling off trees that I would carry around as a prize for days; the smell of the salty, aromatic ocean and soft sand and little sand pebbles mingling together with each ebb and flow of the tide.
I remember the white pristine beaches and my father and his friends playing beach volleyball and how all of the men would stop their game whenever a sharp looking woman sauntered by in a somewhat revealing (for then) swimsuit and how all of the wives would laugh and tell their husbands to "dream on". I remember the awful sunburns I would get as a fair-skinned toe-headed child who hated to wear bonnets (but loved hats) and how happy we were as a family when my grandparents and other relatives would pop down to spend a few days with us as we did the classic frolicking on the beach mingled with a sprinkle of tourism shopping.
What happened? Now Florida is one of the last places I want to visit despite knowing how pleasant South Beach is, and how much I love Key West and other areas in the state where I have spent time.
Now it's cruel injustice of one sort or another in that state almost everywhere one looks...as far as the national news is concerned. Or the hub of pornography viewing. Or where voters are being blocked from registering to vote - something the mainstream media has barely whispered to the land. Voter fraud, too. And where beach erosion is frighteningly apparent.
But a crazed-on-some-kind-of-drug guy spirals into a primal state of mind and with his teeth tears the flesh from the face of an innocent man already down on his luck? I mean, OMG OMG OMG! The poor victim! The poor passer-by who discovered the assault and called the cops. The poor cops who had to witness the brutality. And, perhaps even the poor crazed maniac who obviously was not in his "right" mind. It's probably best that he was killed, as when he would have finally come out of whatever stupor he was in may have wanted to die, so that part of the story has a somewhat happy ending.
Not so for the man without a face. Will he survive the ordeal of surgeries and transplants and the horror of being maimed for the remainder of his life? And who will pay his medical bills?
And last, based on the quasi-cannibalism of the situation, I have to ask one simple question of the now-deceased face-eater: where were the Fava beans?
Image via: http://goldenblogs.blogsome.
Have to laugh at the your final sentence. Perfect ending to a tragic story that needs a laugh to handle the gruesome content. I saw a picture today of what the man's face looks like, there is no face. Complete blood. How is he alive?
ReplyDeleteAnother cannibal is running around - in france from montreal a man dismembered his rommate.....sent body parts to Canadian officals. Is the world going insane?
ReplyDeleteBDV ;>0
It's getting worse - another guy has been found to have eaten a friend's brain and heart.
ReplyDeleteThanks for posting Anon and BVD!