Friday, November 9, 2012

People Eating People: The Circle of Life


Billy was robbed in a dark alley. Jane was brutally murdered. Joey was attacked outside his home while getting the mail. Blah blah blah. This is just stuff we hear all the time. I’m not suggesting that it is by any means acceptable. It is simply not all that out of the ordinary unfortunately. You know what is out of the ordinary? Cannibalism. That's right. People eating people. How many times do you look at someone and think. Ooo, they look tasty, but how should I cook them? Should I bake them, or chop them up and boil them? So many options!

Never. Want to know why? Because it's not normal. When I was searching current events on Google, I kind of wanted to write something on kidnapping, so I searched recent kidnappings but when I did, I found a story about how New York City policeman, 28 year old Gilberto Valle, had pictures and addresses, which he got from police database without permission, of 100 women he planned to torture and eat. He was not shy about it either. He openly disclosed things like how he wanted to cook a woman on low heat in order to keep her alive as long as possible. Seriously? Ew.

He didn’t actually carry out any of these …what do I even call them…eatings? However, he was arrested because he was sharing on online fetish sites that he was making plans to. He even communicated with one man about selling him a girl for $5,000. But before you start judging him, I must inform you of something. He’s really not THAT bad because he told the man that he did not want to participate in her rape. See? He’s really quite considerate when you think about it. He can kidnap, kill, and eat people, but rape? That just crosses the line. 

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