First ask, then eat - or how was it again?

Pretty crazy story I've just read (again) in the NZZ (Swiss newspaper):

One of these days Armin Meiwes - a (seemingly) average German "computer expert" - meets the 43-year old Bernd Jürgen B. (hereinafter BJB) online. They chat and conclude a deal. BJB visits Armin Meiwes. Together they cut off Armin Meiwe's "well you know what", fry it in a pan and savour it. After this appetizer and once BJB has lost conscience, Armin Meiwes passes on to the main course. He carves up BJB, cuts him into pieces, neatly packs the pieces into Tupperware, puts stickers on each one of them stating "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday" (well, ok, I invented this last part..) and goes on savouring roughly 20kg of BJB over the following months; defrosting pieces portion by portion.

The striking difference between Hannibal Lector and his German counterpart is, that in the latter case the victim actually agreed to be put on the menu card...

Other things that struck me / jumped into my mind when reading the article:

• Psychiatric experts have found Meiwes to be sane.
• The defense lawyer argued that the crime should be classified a mercy killing. Hm, seems like a pretty "avant-gardist" form of euthanasia to me..
• Should a cannibal that asks his/her victim for permission before savouring him/her be considered a "polite cannibal"?
• Is this a sign of- and strategy to overcome boredom in tidy, "developed", democratically ordered societies such as Germany?
  
• Some of BJBs last words: "there's absolutely no way back for me, only forwards, through your teeth." Well, I'm not sure whether I should call this poetic..
  
• "Alive", the movie about the airplane crash of an Uruguayan Rugby-team in the Andes, should probably be renamed: "The big feast, on the rocks", or something alike...
  
• Oups, "computer expert" he was?! Guess I should talk with my boss about inserting a risk premium into my contract then.. Alternatively I might simply abandon my job at the IT company and apply for a job as physiotherapist of neurotic crocodiles or "Sterilise-ator" of killer rabbits right away..
  
• And I thought (some) Chinese butcheries were the Eldorado of any "carnivore species" imaginable... (you can get everything from boring, "normal" chicken, beef and horse to silkworms, scorpions and dogs)... Guess they should copy (no comment on this..) the strategy of "Joe's meat market" (picture below ((c) Spencer Tunik)) so as to satisfy even the "Armins" among us..
  

.. so, hey, if you feel like you didn't really need one of your arms, a leg or if you want to get rid of some fat pads before the bathing season starts: let me know. We might do something like the "Hannibal-light" apprenticeship programm...

Oh boy, what to do with that kind of information / stories?




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