Has the zombie apocalypse begun?

[NRA]

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

By Jim Gold, msnbc.com

A Miami police officer fatally shot a naked man chewing the face of another man Saturday afternoon on a downtown causeway off-ramp, officials said.

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The Miami Herald reported that the naked man chewed off half the face of his victim, who is struggling for his life.

The violence started at 2 p.m. on the MacArthur Causeway off-ramp, just south of the Herald’s offices, the newspaper said.

Witnesses said that a woman saw two men fighting and flagged down a police officer, who came upon the naked man mauling the other man, the Herald reported.

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

Witnesses said they heard at least a half-dozen shots, the Herald said.

The naked man was later seen lying face down on the pedestrian walkway just below the newspaper’s two-story parking garage, the Herald said.

The naked man’s victim was transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital Ryder Trauma Center and had critical injuries, police told the Herald.

Neither man was identified.

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/26/11899538-report-miami-police-shoot-naked-man-chewing-on-victims-face?lite

[Guest pfries]

Things that make you say Hmmm

[mikegideon]

Things that make you say Hmmm

Damn right. If you believe the movies, zombies usually go down in one shot. Time to buy more ammo

[TN Outlaw]

hmmm

[TN Outlaw]

hmmm

[Guest Victor9er]

Just read about this yesterday, from what I understand the story keeps changing. Originally it was reported that BOTH men were naked and shot. Slowly it changed to what you see there, which is what I had read about. We'll have to wait to see if any more details come out, but my first thoughts were drugs... PCP is a helluva drug... besides, this is Florida we're talking about, is it any surprise that we're hearing about something crazy happening there?

That said.... I just bought myself an AR15 today... just in case Max Brooks was wrong about China producing "patient zero"

:panic:

Edited May 27, 2012 by Victor9er

[gun sane]

If only the cop had Hornady Zombie ammo, he wouldn't have had to shoot so many times.

[JKGlock17]

trippy

[QuietDan]

The news reports do not cite race for either the victim or the perpetrator, therefore it is probably black-on-black violence. Any other combination of race and it would be noted in the first paragraph.

Is this the beginning of the Hip Hop Festival week in that area?

(And after a quick search, the answer is "yes."):

As Hip-Hop Devotees Come in, Many Miami Beach Residents Prepare to Leave

By LIZETTE ALVAREZ

Published: May 25, 2012

MIAMI BEACH — This small city is accustomed to big events. But every Urban Beach Week, residents and businesses take in a collective deep breath and do not exhale until it’s over.

Since 2001, hundreds of thousands of young hip-hop devotees from around the country have descended on the South Beach neighborhood for Memorial Day weekend to hear some of country’s leading artists and D.J.’s. As the visitors converge, a reverse migration ensues: Rresidents, beaten down by the traffic and chaos of the event, hop in their cars en masse and head to the mainland for a few days.

“There is no other weekend of group activity that causes the mayhem that this weekend causes,†said Scott Diffenderfer, a Miami Beach resident and real estate broker.

During its best-behaved years, Memorial Day weekend goes relatively smoothly here; 200,000 to 300,000 visitors pour into private clubs to hear performers like Flo Rida and Twista and gather on the streets to hang out.

On its worst years, fights break out, punctuated by bursts of gunfire and stampedes. Last year, the police fired more than 100 bullets at the driver of a car they claimed was armed, killing him and injuring four bystanders. By weekend’s end, 431 people had been arrested, 56 more than in 2010.

Billed by promoters and social media as a weekend of hip-hop revelry, the loosely organized event draws a mostly black crowd. The city does not sponsor the event and there is no one organizer; instead, it is a weekend of rolling performances in private venues that make events difficult to control.

After last year’s shooting and the outrage that followed, leaders toyed with the idea of cutting back drinking hours or imposing a curfew; both were deemed unworkable. Plans to make it a city-sanctioned organized event fizzled.

Instead, the city and the Police Department are stepping up law enforcement this year and taking a tougher stance on minor infractions. The police are putting up more watch towers to observe Ocean Drive, closing lanes on the causeways leading to Miami Beach and using license plate readers to check for outstanding warrants, stolen cars and suspended licenses. The idea is to stop the offenders before they arrive on South Beach. Nearly 600 officers will be working; plans call for one on every corner.

“This year we can’t give many breaks to people because we can’t let the problem get bigger†said Sgt. Bobby Hernandez, spokesman for the Miami Beach police.

City leaders said that the violence is not fueled by race but by the size of the crowd, its youth, and a contingent of South Florida criminals who make a yearly pilgrimage. The police said that most of the arrests are of local men who drive in, not fly. Their presence spurs others to bring guns for protection. But Ed Tobin, a Miami Beach city commissioner, said that “90 percent of the people are coming here to have fun.â€

Luther Campbell, a record label owner and a columnist for Miami New Times who grew up on Miami Beach and is critical of the event, said the city should change the reputation of the weekend by creating a festival with food tastings and performers like Mary J. Blige. Instead, he said, they take in the revenue from the 300,000 who come to watch gangsta rappers perform in clubs that can accommodate only a tiny slice of the visitors and then must “create a police state†to deal with the crowd. The mayor of Miami Beach and several city commissioners did not return phone calls to comment.

With the exception of several nightclubs and limousine companies, many business owners on South Beach gird themselves for the event. A few are shutting down altogether this year; others are making changes.

Jerry’s Famous Deli, a 24-hour restaurant, is opening only at night, with a limited menu and a cover charge for alcohol. This will bring in enough money to pay for security. Last year a melee broke out, and employees hustled out the knife-wielding brawlers. The restaurant then shut down for two days.

“We had a small riot,†said Jason Starkman, the owner. “I can’t take that risk anymore with my staff.â€

A few blocks away at Mango’s Tropical Cafe on Ocean Drive, a popular club and cabaret, David Wallack, the owner, said that after last year’s event his staff voted overwhelmingly to close this weekend. Mango’s decided to remain open but Mr. Wallack has removed the sidewalk cafe to protect customers; a shuttle bus will ferry employees to their cars because last year several were robbed of their tips.

Worse still, Mr. Wallack said the event chased away other customers and was a financial loss for the cafe.

“The statement that ‘Oh, but look at all the money it brings into the city’ is simply not true,†he added.

http://www.nytimes.c...e-to-leave.html

Edited May 27, 2012 by QuietDan

[mikegideon]

Maybe Black on Black face eating is a new gangsta thing. Guess we'll have to see if it catches on.

[Guest Victor9er]

The news reports do not cite race for either the victim or the perpetrator, therefore it is probably black-on-black violence. Any other combination of race and it would be noted in the first paragraph.

Is this the beginning of the Hip Hop Festival week in that area?

(And after a quick search, the answer is "yes."):

All that effort and if you would have looked at the photos or the video from the article you would have answered your own question and saved some searching.

From the surveillance video you can clearly see that both men are white, and it does indeed appear that both men were naked, not just the attacker.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/26/2818832/naked-man-shot-killed-on-macarthur.html

(click on the video and skip to about the 3:00 mark)

[MattCary]

While it does appear that both men are naked (at least from the waist down,) I'm not sure race can be determined from that shot. The sun is very bright and they could both be almost any complexion other than pasty white.

The images appear over-exposed due to the brightness of the scene, note that the shadows are washed out as well.

[runningfree]

Just posted outside of Miami.

[QuietDan]

All that effort and if you would have looked at the photos or the video from the article you would have answered your own question and saved some searching.

From the surveillance video you can clearly see that both men are white, and it does indeed appear that both men were naked, not just the attacker.

http://www.miamihera...-macarthur.html

(click on the video and skip to about the 3:00 mark)

Beg to differ. Washed out video, perhaps on purpose. A lot of white concrete and bright sunshine.

Picture on Drudge of one man shows otherwise. I'm still calling "probably" on the black-on-black aspect.

And, again, this is at the peak of Urban Week/Hip Hop Week and that's a "certainly."

And, again, if it were a "Republican", it would say so in the first paragraph. And, if it were a "white man", it would say so in the first paragraph.

So, we don't know for sure, but all signs point to.

Have a nice day!

Edited May 28, 2012 by QuietDan

[Guest mikedwood]

We have an outbreak! Prowling around the internet I found this (actually I was reading comments on the original article and someone mentioned this) the article is from April 17th

http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Police-Investigate-After-Naked-Man-Shot-With-Stun-Gun-Dies-147758165.html

Same deal naked man completely out of his mind trying to bite and bite and bite another guy.

Apparently the guy doing the biting had just gotten certified as a personal trainer.

We can only pray that DHS is better at containment then they are in the movies.

[Guest adamparker86]

gotta be either zombies or pcp or maybe zombies on pcp