I love the zombie genre, but there's been such a flood of zombie-themed things recently that I'm afraid it's getting beaten to death. (Or undeath.)Except now it's real life. Well, maybe not zombies, but cannibalism at least -- so much of it that Gawker asked, "Could People Stop Eating Other People's Body Parts?"
It's not just the "Miami Zombie," who ate another man's face.
[Update, 6/6: There's been another face-eating attack!]
A Maryland college student recently confessed to murdering his roommate and eating his heart and portions of his brain. [He didn't finish it? Doesn't he know that children are starving in Third World countries?]- In January, a Florida man was arrested for killing a man and eating his eyeball and part of his brain. [People are so wasteful.]
- In Brazil, three people were arrested for killing and eating two women.
- In Sweden, a man cut off and ate his wife's lips because he suspected her of cheating on him.
- Also in Sweden, a woman bit her boyfriend's private parts -- though not severing them nor eating them. [Maybe she's a vampire instead?]
- A Canadian porn star dismembered his lover, mailed body parts to officials, and -- you guessed it -- ate his flesh.
- A California cage fighter killed his training partner, cut off his tongue and part of his face, and (in real life, not a movie!) ripped out his still-beating heart. He cooked them, though he said it was to "stop the Devil" -- supposedly not to eat them.
- A Massachusetts man killed his wife and ate her arm.
- In Haiti and Brazil, people woke up at their own funerals, then died "again."
- Several cases of people infected with a flesh-eating virus. [Making them into zombies -- or is it a microscopic zombie itself?]
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) denied knowledge of zombies. (Note that they didn't say anything about cannibalism by live people.)
"CDC does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead (or one that would present zombie-like symptoms)."
Yeah, right. Then why do they have a Web page specifically about preparing for a zombie apocalypse? Also, the video below proves them wrong: zombies on the march in DC.
