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According to Yahoo's "Oddly enough" news, a Mexican man killed his lover in a drunken drugged fight then cooked him in a tomato and onion sauce and ate him over three days The news story is below:

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A Mexican man killed his lover in a drunken, drugged fight then cooked the man's body in tomato and onion sauce and ate it over three days.

 

Police found Gumaro de Dios Arias grilling rotting human flesh for his breakfast, including part of a heart, when they raided a shack he lived in near the Caribbean beach resort of Playa del Carmen, a police chief said on Wednesday.

"He was preparing stews. There was a grill where he was cooking part of the heart and bits he had cut off the body. It was terrible, terrible," said local police chief Martin Estrada, who was among a dozen police who raided the shack.

Arias told police the victim, a young man, arrived at his cardboard hut in a wasteland area with a mutual friend who then left the two of them drinking and taking drugs.

The pair had sex and afterward a fight broke out during which he killed the man with blows to the head, police said.

Police arrested Arias, 25, on Tuesday after a tip off.

"They said there was a person eating a person," Estrada said.

"We found him lying on a folding bed and to one side was the corpse which had been torn apart and which it seems he had been eating for three days," he told Reuters.

The corpse, which had its back ripped open and its innards pulled out, was missing various parts, like a thigh, he said.


Comments
on Dec 16, 2004
I think I am going to be sick now. Thanks Gideon.
on Dec 16, 2004
Some days I wish I wasn't curious.
on Dec 16, 2004
A good example of how the average person is ignorant about meat preservation techniques. There's no excuse for this to be "rotting human flesh" in just three days.

Homosexuals are gonna have to start a press campaign to distance themselves from cannibalism. They can't afford many more Dahmers....
on Dec 16, 2004
A good example of how the average person is ignorant about meat preservation techniques.


I'm kinda ignorant on how to preserve meat in room temperate. Not that I want to preserve human meat.

Oh man. I guess guy didn't want to waste all that 'long pig' meat.
on Dec 16, 2004

right, baker...haven't these guys ever heard of a chest freezer? Even a poorly butchered body can be stored away for later processing in a good sized chest freezer.

But, you are definitely right in your second statement. This leads to an interesting moral question as to gay marriages, though...does the recognition of gay marriage include a right to gastronomic use of the corpse post mortem for those spouses so inclined?

on Dec 16, 2004
said local police chief Martin Estrada


hmmmm.... now I know how Erik Estrada got his job on C.H.I.P.S....It''s all who you know
on Dec 16, 2004
"I'm kinda ignorant on how to preserve meat in room temperate. Not that I want to preserve human meat. "


In coastal Mexico the ability to dry, salt, and brine meat abound!!

"This leads to an interesting moral question as to gay marriages, though...does the recognition of gay marriage include a right to gastronomic use of the corpse post mortem for those spouses so inclined?"


It might also, though, balance the burden some predict on the divorce courts. Unfortunately, adoption could be an issue when a two-parent home could quickly become a single parent home with buffet...

on Dec 16, 2004
Gee... I've been sitting here thinking about what I want to eat which would actually be breaking the stupid diet I'm currently on. You have saved me a calorific explosion. Thank you.

Now I'm off in search of some Chuck Palahnuik, and then I shall develop an aversion based therapy for dieters. Excellent.
on Dec 16, 2004
Some days I wish I wasn't curious.


Exactly.
on Dec 16, 2004
I couldn't help a "ugh!" on this one. Trying to erase mental picture, getting .....s i c k ...just thinking about it...yuck.

Then as the conversations went on.... you guys crack me up!
on Dec 16, 2004
Floozie, we just won't eat meat for a week!
on Dec 16, 2004
all I can say is "Ewwwww!"