Daylight Zombie Attack in Miami?

[Ron Caliburn]

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, police said.

The bloodshed 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. Witnesses said a woman saw the two men fighting and flagged down a police officer who was in the area.

The officer, who has not been identified, approached and saw that the naked man was actually chewing the other man’s head, according to witnesses. The officer ordered the naked man to back away, and when he continued the assault, the officer shot him. The attacker continued to eat the man, despite 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 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.’’

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[Grace]

I hate zombies. They don't even have the decency to hide during the day.

At least the cop took the right action.

Curious that the identities of neither man were released. What do you suppose happened to the other man?

[Ron Caliburn]

He's probably already been whisked away to a secure location so that they may run experiments on him during and after the transformation.

His family will probably get notice that he died of his injuries or some such.

[Ron Caliburn]

More witness reports that they haven't been able to suppress.

A naked man chewing on the face of another naked man on a Miami highway ramp growled at a police officer who tried to make him stop, a witness to the grisly attack said.

Larry Vega told WSVN-TV in Miami he was riding his bicycle off the MacArthur Causeway on Saturday when he saw one man biting the face of another.

“He was ripping into his face with his teeth, he was ripping his skin, his neck," Larry Vega told WSVN-TV in Miami. "He had him held down, the guy couldn’t move and he was tearing into his flesh.”

“The guy was like tearing him to pieces with his mouth, so I told him, 'Get off!'" "You know, it's like the guy just kept eating the other guy away, like ripping his skin."

Vega said he quickly flagged down a police officer and watched in horror.

“It’s one of the most gruesome things I’ve ever seen in my life in person,” he told WSVN-TV.

The officer, who was not identified, ordered the naked man to back away, but when the man continued the assault, the officer shot him, according to the Miami Herald. Other witnesses told the Herald the wounded attacker continued to eat his victim, so the officer continued firing.

Report: Miami police shoot naked man chewing on victim's face

"Police officer came over, told him several times to get off and a police officer climbed over the divider and got in front of him and said, 'Get off!' And told him several times and the guy just stood his head up like that with a piece of flesh in his mouth and growled," Vega said.

The officer fired several more times, eventually killing the attacker, the Herald reported.

A Miami Herald surveillance camera captured the aftermath as the attacker and the victim lay side by side on the ground with their bare legs visible.

The victim, believed to be a homeless man, was in critical condition on Sunday at Jackson Memorial Hospital, the Herald said.

According to WSVN-TV, the victim lost 75 percent of his face.

Authorities have not released the identity of either man.

Miami police were still trying to determine what prompted the macabre act, but theorized that the attacker had suffered from a drug-induced craze, the Herald reported.

[Hannah]

We've also had a guy who threw his own intestines at police in New Jersey and another guy who sent the cut up body parts of his victim through the mail (the head still hasn't arrived wherever it's going) in the last few weeks.


Maybe something is driving all these people into being so gruesomely violent. Maybe something to deal with those specters we have been chasing since the solstice?

Hannah

PS: By the way, Eeeeeeeww!!!

[Hannah]

More body parts in the news:

LOS ANGELES — Authorities are investigating what appear to be a pair of lungs found on a sidewalk in South Los Angeles.

A woman called to report finding what she believed to be the organs at 8:30 p.m. (11:30 p.m. ET) Sunday in the 13100 block of Avalon Boulevard.

Sheriff's deputies responded to the scene, and the coroner's office was also called.

Additional testing will determine if the remains are in fact lungs and whether they are human, police said.

Sgt. Robert Dean of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, told the Los Angeles Times: "We don't know what they are. It's really weird."

Ed Winter, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Coroner's office, told the newspaper the possible organs were not attached to a body, and he found the situation "a little strange." He said it was unclear when the examination would be performed.

NBC33 is an affiliate of NBC News.

Where are all these weirdos coming from?

Hannah

[Hannah]

Another one, San Antonio this time:

Associated Press reported that a 33 year old woman,Otty Sanchez, who didn't seem in a normal mental frame of mind,killed her 3&1/2 week old baby boy ate his brain after dismembering its body with a knife.Later she cut herself up and slit her throat but was saved in time and rushed to hospital.

It is believed from another report that the criminal screamed after she killed her baby, that' the devil' had forced her to commit the crime.

Otty's aunt was present at home with the former's two kids aged 5 and 7 who were unharmed.

Her aunt Gloria tearfully admitted to the police that her sister had been a mental patient and did not commit the act intentionally as she was not in a sane frame of mind.It is believed that Otty Sanchez's husband had just walked out on her a few days back..This act had made her very upset and caused her to commit the horrendous crime.

She was on bail for 1 million dollars.

[Ron Caliburn]

The Chinese are getting into the act:

A drunken bus driver left a woman needing plastic surgery after leaping on her and chewing her face, in the latest in a string of worldwide 'cannibal' attacks.

The entire incident, which took place last Tuesday in the city of Wenzhou in south eastern China, was caught on camera and posted on YouTube.

The bus driver, named locally as Dong, had apparently been drinking heavily during a lunch with friends before running out into a busy street and stopping traffic.

He proceeded to jump onto the bonnet of a car driven by his victim, identified as ‘Du’, and hammer on the windscreen while Du sat inside screaming.

As Du scrambled out of the car to escape, Dong chased after her, catching her and biting her face. As the two fell to the ground, Dong continued to chew on her face, leaving Du with major damage to her nose and lips.

Passers-by said they attempted to pull Dong off Du, but said he was so ‘crazed’ that they were unable to. Eventually police arrived at the scene and restrained and arrested him.

The attack is the latest in a string of ‘face chewing’ incidents around the world.

In May, 31-year-old Rudy Eugene ate the face of 65-year-old homeless man Ronald Poppo in Miami. Poppo lost his left eye, had his right eye badly damaged, and suffered extreme injuries to the rest of his face after Eugene attacked him. Eugene was shot and killed by police during the incident.

Also in May, Alexander Kinyua, a 21-year-old Morgan State University student, admitted to murdering his roommate Kujoe Bonsafo Agyei-Kodie and eating his brain and heart. The Kenyan student had apparently ranted on Facebook about 'mass human sacrifices' before the attack in the Baltimore suburbs.

In June, 26-year-old Charles Baker removed his clothes, stormed into his girlfriend’s house and bit and ate a chunk of a man’s arm, before powering through police taser guns until being tackled.

In another incident a 21-year-old man burst into a Florida restaurant shouting obscenities, and tried to bite the hand off a police officer.

And again in May, the Canadian porn star Luka Magnotta allegedly murdered his 33-year-old Chinese lover Jun Lin in a Montreal flat on the evening of May 24. Parts of the university student’s body were then posted to political offices in the city of Ottawa, including the Canadian Prime Minister’s party HQ.

A ten-minute video entitled ‘One Lunatic, One Ice Pick’ was posted online after the killing. The footage shows a man thought to be Magnotta attacking his naked, tied-up victim with an ice pick, before hacking him to pieces, eating parts of his flesh, and performing sexual acts on his corpse.

[LostSeeker]

I have to admit. This is too much freakiness just to be a coincidence. I just wish we had more hard data.

[Ron Caliburn]

Wanting more hard data is the primary entrance requirement for the Society, welcome aboard.

[LostSeeker]

Thank you, but to be honest, I am not real sure if I am going to stay.

[Clarity]

_____Why aren’t you sure, Mr. Lost? Did we type a speak say something wrong? Is there something you’re not saying that you really want to? It’s okay to keep some good secrets. Good secrets are secrets that don’t hurt people and feelings.
_____P.S. My sisters taught me that.

[LostSeeker]

No, you guys have not said anything wrong, and it has nothing to do with secrets. I have none, that I know of, that would affect you. I guess, after all this craziness is behind me, I just want to try and settle back into my normal routine again. Like back before my sister...

Never mind. Its not important right now.

P.S-
It's nice to meet you Clarity.

[Natasha]

I'll be perfectly frank with you now.
I never met anyone who has ever put the craziness behind them, plenty who wanted to though.

[Clarity]

_____Nice to meet you too, Mr. Lost! And I’m glad we haven’t helped you feel angry or offended. I hope we can help you. That’s why we’re here, I think. At least, that’s why I’m here. I like to help people feel safe and happy. It’s very nice to help others. Then I don’t feel so bad for not remembering everything I forgot.
_____P.S. Will it become important later, Mr. Lost?

[LostSeeker]

Well first off, you can call me Darren. Mr.Lost was my dad.

Secondly, I agree that it is important to feel safe and happy. You people seem like the real deal, and do seem to genuinely want to help. I appreciate that.

P.S.
If you have trouble remembering things, you should get a PDA, or a smart phone with a memo app. Those really help me when I have trouble remembering stuff.

[The Councilor]

My organization has been tracking these events, plus a number of others which have gone unreported. Something is drving these people mad. Unfortunately it seems that the cause is still a mystery.