Originally Posted by Hyde
Rabies can cause hallucination, excitation, agitation and hyper salivation and once the onset of symptoms show death usually follows within days.
Rabies is another possibility, infact there's alot of mental diseases/disorders and such that could have possessed this man to do what he did.
One things for sure, i'm almost certain this is not a zombie outbreak ..most Americans are just paranoid/superstitious, no offence to anyone who is American.
Originally Posted by Dalliance
"Another more recent case involved a California man eating his 4-year-old son's eyeballs in 2009 while on PCP, leaving the child blind. (wiki cite)"
Except it can. Plus I was only PCP as an example. Chances are even if drugs were involved they'd only be part of the reason.
That was quite the disturbing read. But here is something I'd like to point out. The kid's dad stopped. The attacker in miami was undeterred by people yelling at him, shots fired at him, and I assume the victim struggled, and that whole growl thing is rather creepy, because you'd expect a human response. The persistence appears to be lacking in both of the cases you presented. On Lurch's victim, they found lots of bite marks on the victim. Nothing was truly eaten, despite vast amounts of flesh were consumed, and on the child, one eye was eaten, and the other was bitten into.
These small differences can make or break diagnostics.
Originally Posted by WickedHayo
Rabies is another possibility, infact there's alot of mental diseases/disorders and such that could have possessed this man to do what he did.
One things for sure, i'm almost certain this is not a zombie outbreak ..most Americans are just paranoid/superstitious, no offence to anyone who is American.
I'm leaning towards combination of drugs + previous mental illness, but, we'll see.
Hoss.
Originally Posted by Hyde
I'm leaning towards combination of drugs + previous mental illness, but, we'll see.
This. I'm no psychologist, toxicologist, pharmacist, nor even a medical professional, so it would be impossible for me to make a judgment. Drugs and illness pretty much covers everything.
The case is kind of interesting, but once you realize that the zombie apocalypse is just wishful thinking, it is pretty run of the mill. Sure it's pretty unusual to have a guy eating another guy's face, but weird things like that happen all the time (anyone remember veb's thread about a woman who chops guys' dicks off?).
As for getting shot 4 times, perhaps they were in quick succession, and people don't often react to getting shot straight away out of shock (going to throw in a random statistic here, but anyway, in the event of an unusual situation a large portion of people will act like nothing is wrong, you've probably seen people walk past dieing people on the street, or drive around a car accident victim, or stay seated on a crashed plane as they burn alive, so it's not unusual to see someone get shot and not react, I saw a guy on Cops get shot and then just walk around like normal (fun fact, his buddy shot him because the guy kept beating him in table tennis!).)... We don't really have all the info so it's more or less just wild guessing.
Originally Posted by Hyde
That was quite the disturbing read. But here is something I'd like to point out. The kid's dad stopped. The attacker in miami was undeterred by people yelling at him, shots fired at him, and I assume the victim struggled, and that whole growl thing is rather creepy, because you'd expect a human response. The persistence appears to be lacking in both of the cases you presented. On Lurch's victim, they found lots of bite marks on the victim. Nothing was truly eaten, despite vast amounts of flesh were consumed, and on the child, one eye was eaten, and the other was bitten into.
These small differences can make or break diagnostics.
These small differences mean next to nothing when you remember that drugs don't have the exact same effect on every single person.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, I'm not even convinced that the "differences" are differences at all. You can't say that the kid's dad stopped because someone stopped him, all that's known is that someone tried to check on him, and then he proceeded to go outside and attack his own legs with an axe - you're trying to put rationale into the mind of someone on a serious hallucinogen, and that's just not going to work. I'm also not sure what you're saying as far as "nothing being eaten". In the Lurch case, he ate part of his roommate's lung. In this case, you yourself said that part of the face were consumed. Mind clarifying that one?
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Originally Posted by Hyde
That was quite the disturbing read. But here is something I'd like to point out. The kid's dad stopped. The attacker in miami was undeterred by people yelling at him, shots fired at him, and I assume the victim struggled, and that whole growl thing is rather creepy, because you'd expect a human response. The persistence appears to be lacking in both of the cases you presented. On Lurch's victim, they found lots of bite marks on the victim. Nothing was truly eaten, despite vast amounts of flesh were consumed, and on the child, one eye was eaten, and the other was bitten into.
These small differences can make or break diagnostics.
I'm leaning towards combination of drugs + previous mental illness, but, we'll see.
so your saying that the man who attacked his son was most likely not under the influance of PCP, but the man in miami was since he was sporting un-human characteristics? rather they were both were and took(probably) a diffrent dosege of PCP and had different reactions?
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