In February, when we ran a story about a kooky family-runbusiness that was selling faux zombie insurance, I was fairly certain it wastongue in cheek. Now I'm not so certain — and under thecircumstances, the term “tongue in cheek” is making me uneasy.
In case you've been away for awhile, this week a story wentviral about a guy in Miami who was shot and killed by policewhile he was in the act of chewing off a homeless man's face. By any accounts thestory is horrific, but the particulars of the case make itespecially chilling — especially that after having warning shotsfired at him by the cops, the guy looked up, growled, and kept onchewing.
Turns out the assailant was probably high on the syntheticstreet drug known as “bath salts” at the time of the assault. And that's a storyunto itself — because on the face of it, bath salts are technicallylegal, which it would seem could open up a big can of liability foran unsuspecting purveyor.
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