http://www.miamiherald.c...illed-on-macarthur.html

in miami saturday, a naked homeless man was shot to death for eating the face off of someone. if that person turns and if others start turning i'm stocking up.

oh shit.. that's fuckin nuts!!... did you read where it said that it took more than one shot to take the guy down!?

it's crazy.. we take psychadelics to wake up..and realize the zombie like life we were living in... and then there's all kinds of pharmaceuticals that can put you in a zombie like state... and there's various parasites that take over the host...

i know most people hate hearing about the bible,, but a friend told me about this scripture in revalations, that says the dead will rise.. even the bible talks about a zombie apocalypse,, crazzzzy...

The zombie apocalypse is already in progress. It just takes an open mind to see that.

This new LSD is bad news.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn....tack-bath-salts-lsd?lite

its true, i got some and ate my cat, poor tiddles

I've never heard such terrible quaff. Could LSD even BE any more 'potent' for it's weight? I've never even heard of anyone on acid being violent, let alone turning into a zombie.

Seems like some horrible amphetaminy research chemical is the far more likely culprit. You know, the stuff they are more than happy to flog in American petrol stations.

Police and the media don't half talk crap sometimes.

I'm just so glad DMT wasn't mentioned, because we all know how cannibalistic it makes us. Mmmm mm, nothing like a long pig.

What I wanna know is, How come I can never find any lsd when I want some, but weird face chewing naked homeless dudes are eating sheets of the stuff?

Hm. While I'm no drug expert, I've never heard of a case where LSD produced the physiological effects discussed in the article. This sounds a lot more like someone on PCP to me personally, especially after hearing that the first gunshot didn't stop the 'zombie'. I don't know though, I mean this is 2012, aren't we due for a zombie apocalypse sometime soon?

My mind isn't open enough I guess, so what are you referring to? The way we live in a zombie like manor?

Once again ignorance and disinformation, misinformation AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/...en-leaves-1-dead-1-hurt/

News stories contain more and more fnords these days.


I can muster up neither surprise nor outrage.

Until toxoligy reports come back there's no way of telling what the hell that guy was on.
I'm not saying it was "bath salts" but it could have been.
All these new drugs come out everyday with different ingredients to stay a step a head of law enforcement. There's no way of telling if someone could have a negative reaction until it happens.

What happened in Miami is just crazy no matter what that guy was on.

So far I've heard it was PCP or a "new" form of LSD, Cocaine and now bath salts..

I guess in time the story will unfold some more.

Yeah there is a lot of ignorance in that article.

Reporters should get facts straight first.

LSD is LSD

if a new drug is on the streets they shouldn't bundle them all into one catagory.

Glad to see they're finally getting tough!

I read that this was due to bathsalt-psychosis. In the article they referred to "bath-salts" (legal stimulant-entactogen RC's, usually beta-ketones of cathinones or amphetamines) as "the NEW LSD". WTF.

This misinformation campaign is getting stupidly ridiculous... or hasn't it always been.

I've just come across this article on the guardian website...

Witness describes incident as 'really, really horrific' as police and doctors suggest attacker was on drug called bath salts


A man shot dead by police as he ate the face of another man may have been under the influence of a potent variant of LSD called bath salts, investigators believe.

Homicide detectives looking into Saturday's gruesome incident on a Miami causeway suspect that Rudy Eugene, 31, may have overdosed before chewing on his victim's lips, ears, eyes and nose and ripping off strips of flesh with his teeth.

An eyewitness said that Eugene was "like a zombie", tearing off almost all of 65-year-old Ronald Poppo's face and growling like a wild animal at an officer who shot him.

Eugene was naked and Poppo was wearing only a shirt when police arrived, possibly a result of the delirium-inducing drug, which is similar to cocaine and other forms of LSD. It can raise users' body temperature significantly and make them feel they are burning up inside.

"When a person has taken all of his clothes off and become violent, it's indicative of this excited delirium that's caused by overdose of drugs," Armando Aguilar, head of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police, told the city's WSVN news.

"What's happening is, inside their body their organs are burning up alive."
Doctors at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital, where Poppo remained in critical condition on Tuesday, support the theory of drug-induced psychosis to explain Eugene's bizarre behaviour.

Paul Adams, an emergency room doctor, said that synthetic stimulant drugs such as bath salts, named for its powdery substance, can make users feel invincible and give them superhuman strength, but can also trigger aggression, extreme paranoia and hallucinations.

"It's the new designer drug," he told the Guardian. "It causes a state of excited delirium, raises the body temperature and causes irritability and confusion, which is heightened when combined with a lack of adequate hydration. You find yourself not making sense, and you don't control your emotions or your actions."

Bath salts, an increasingly popular drug, are responsible for rising numbers of hospital admissions and calls to the American Association of Poison Control Centers, which leapt from 304 in 2010 to more than 6,000 in 2011. A single fix for inhalation can be obtained for as low as $15, drugs experts say.

Eugene, who had a number of arrests for marijuana possession and one for assault, and Poppo, who also had an extensive history of arrests, were homeless and living on the streets close to the MacArthur causeway where a cyclist saw them fighting and called police.

An officer who arrived quickly at the scene opened fire after Eugene ignored a command to leave the other man alone.

Detective William Moreno of the Miami police department said homicide detectives were trying to piece together the events leading up to the attack. Eugene, he said, continued to chew on his victim's face even after he was shot, and it took five further shots to disable and kill him.

Security video from the adjacent Miami Herald building showed the victim writhing in agony after Eugene was dead.

Larry Vega, the cyclist who called police, gave a grisly account of the encounter and said he may seek counselling to help him get over what he saw.
"The guy was like tearing him to pieces with his mouth, so I told him, 'Get off!'" he told WSVN in an interview. "He just kept eating the other guy away, like ripping his skin. The police officer came over, told him several times to get off, and an officer climbed over the divider and got in front of him and said: 'Get off!'

"He told him several times and the guy just stood his head up like that with a piece of flesh in his mouth and growled. The guy, he was like a zombie, blood dripping. It was intense.

"The closest thing I've seen to it? The Walking Dead. I never thought I would see someone eating someone. It was really, really horrific."

Former classmates of Eugene, who graduated from North Miami Beach High School in 2000, were surprised to learn he was involved, remembering the former American football player as a polite man always willing to help somebody in need.

"The Rudy we know was a nice gentleman with a warm smile and funny. He's not like that at all," Victoria Forte told the Miami Herald.

Javier Ortiz, the Miami police union's vice-president, told The Guardian: "It's the most bizarre thing I've ever come across, to see the condition of this poor man who has had his face completely eaten.

"We don't know what drugs he might have been on or whether the guy was mentally ill, but there's no doubt had the officer not shot the man, the victim would have died, and there'd have been a good chance the subject would have turned on the officer."

This nonsense was written and posted by an anonymous journalist and I was given no option to comment on it!! My blood is boiling....

I just lost respect for the Guardian, BIG TIME.

Hes not like what? A face eating zombie? That's kind of a silly statement. Is this person really defending that fact?

And how is bath salts a variant of LSD? Especially since they say it changes to "fool" the authorities? I am extremely confused. I thought bath salts were being sold in stores. Are they now on the street or something? And if they are indeed being sold in stores why can't they find the people that are manufacturing it? Don't you have to have a business license and be a real business to be able to sell products through a vendor like that?