possible start to the zombie apocalypse?

[CynicalAvocado]

Man in Miami shot "at least half a dozen" times was eating the face of another man

personally I'm hoping it was a case of drug induced psychosis but...

[Ravens_cry]

Man in Miami shot "at least half a dozen" times was eating the face of another man

personally I'm hoping it was a case of drug induced psychosis but...

The human body can take a surprising degree of punishment and keep on ticking, at least temporarily, especially if you block out pain.

[Elemental]

The human body can take a surprising degree of punishment and keep on ticking, at least temporarily, especially if you block out pain.

Particularly if they're under the effects of a drug induced psychotic episode, like the original poster theorised.
Also, most likely scenario in my mind.

[Ravens_cry]

Particularly if they're under the effects of a drug induced psychotic episode, like the original poster theorised.
Also, most likely scenario in my mind.

Oh yeah, evolutionarily unprecedented chemicals in your synapses?
What could possibly go wrong there?

[Elemental]

Oh yeah, evolutionarily unprecedented chemicals in your synapses?
What could possibly go wrong there?

Well, there's always the possibility that the attacker was suffering from an unidentified psychiatric disorder. If that is the case, then the exact disorder is unlikely to ever be identified as the attacker is dead.

[LaZodiac]

I think there is a fine line between "the drugs are making me resistent" and "the drugs are making me a zombie". Because really, half a dozen shots seem like to many bullets, especialy if you're nude. Either that or the cop was a bad shot.

Also, unsure if this particular version of the article says it, but the person who's face was eaten is alive, and the police chief is calling the officer a hero due to this situation. If it DOES turn out that he just stopped the zombie apocolypse, he's definitly a hero. If not, he still is, just one micron less.

[Crow]

Forget all this attention on the guy who got shot. We need to keep the guy who got bitten under constant observation!

[CynicalAvocado]

this was after a disoriented and unruly Miami bound passenger was restrained on a flight from Jamaica.

hopefully he was just drunk and the story is unrelated

Forget all this attention on the guy who got shot. We need to keep the guy who got bitten under constant observation!

yeah, if we start hearing reports of hospital shootings from miami, i'm locking myself in my house and advising my friends to do the same. also this is the best time for someone in my location (texas) for a zedhead outbreak, right as summer starts. and it looks like it's going to be a hot one... my poor azaleas one the other hand

[Elemental]

Don't worry everyone. Soon, they'll release the results of the autopsy of the attacker, and we'll know if they were suffering from a drug-induced psychosis.

[Ravens_cry]

I think there is a fine line between "the drugs are making me resistent" and "the drugs are making me a zombie". Because really, half a dozen shots seem like to many bullets, especialy if you're nude. Either that or the cop was a bad shot.
.

Well, a lot of cops are bad shots, pistols being notoriously inaccurate, but, again, injury is weird.
Apparently a man survived been hit 19 times!
Modern medicine was certainly responsible foe his recovery, but the fact that he survived long enough to get treatment should tell you something.

[Elemental]

Well, a lot of cops are bad shots, pistols being notoriously inaccurate, but, again, injury is weird.
Apparently a man survived been hit 19 times!
Modern medicine was certainly responsible foe his recovery, but the fact that he survived long enough to get treatment should tell you something.

And anyway... I find it likely that the Police Officer in question was shooting more to disable than to kill at first. After all... You can't bring the dead to face the law.
But, I don't know how things are done in America, so I can't be certain on that last point.

[Crow]

Cops don't shoot to disable. Once the bullets start flying, you are most certainly using the lethal force section of the use of force continuum.

Also, pistols aren't notoriously inaccurate. Cops who are in a stressful, possibly panic-inducing situation, are notoriously inaccurate. I don't have the study at hand, so I could be wrong, but I heard something like only 1 in 17 shots discharged from police firearms in the united states actually hit their targets.

edit: Or maybe is was 17%, I don't remember.

[Ravens_cry]

Compared to a rifle?
Yes, they are inaccurate.
And yes, cops are often bad shots.
I agree that 'shooting to disable' is impractical at best.

[KuReshtin]

Compared to a rifle?
Yes, they are inaccurate.
And yes, cops are often bad shots.
I agree that 'shooting to disable' is impractical at best.

Comparing the accuracy between a rifle and a pistol isn't really fair, though. They're used in very different situations most of the time. Rifles are more for medium-to-long distances whereas pistols are more close quarter stuff.

[Elemental]

As I said, things are different in other parts of the world.
People are rarely shot at in Australia. At least, I rarely hear about it. Though there was a murder near where I live recently, but that didn't involve a gun.

[factotum]

Compared to a rifle?
Yes, they are inaccurate.
And yes, cops are often bad shots.
I agree that 'shooting to disable' is impractical at best.

Isn't it possible that this particular cop missed a few times because he was trying to avoid hitting the victim? The attacker and victim were necessarily quite close together!

[ForzaFiori]

I think there is a fine line between "the drugs are making me resistent" and "the drugs are making me a zombie". Because really, half a dozen shots seem like to many bullets, especialy if you're nude. Either that or the cop was a bad shot.

With the exception of upper chest and head shots (probably very hard to get if the person being shot is hunched over a civilian), pistol shots are almost never instantly fatal (or fast enough to be useful in a situation like this). 6 may have been slight overkill for your average human, but the fact that the guy was trying to eat someone's face makes me think that he wasn't exactly your average person, so I can understand the officer shooting a few extra times to make sure he's not gonna keep trying to eat people.

[Maxios]

Run, the apocalypse has come! EPA! EPA! EPA!

You just won the thread.

[CynicalAvocado]

well, it's been 2 days. if the victim hasn't died/turned by now i think we're safe. for now

[Melayl]

Cops don't shoot to disable. Once the bullets start flying, you are most certainly using the lethal force section of the use of force continuum.

Also, pistols aren't notoriously inaccurate. Cops who are in a stressful, possibly panic-inducing situation, are notoriously inaccurate. I don't have the study at hand, so I could be wrong, but I heard something like only 1 in 17 shots discharged from police firearms in the united states actually hit their targets.

edit: Or maybe is was 17%, I don't remember.

Speaking as someone who had been on the recieving end of officer aim (intraining/game situations with "live" but nonlethal rounds), I can say that both pistols and police officers are indeed quite accurate. I have had the bruises to prove it. They definitely know what they're doing, folks...

According to the article linked in the OP, the officer fired and stuck him once. The assailant did not stop his attack, so the officer continued to fire until the assailant stopped. In other words, it appears he tried to use minimally-lethal force at first, and needed to resort to fully-lethal force to stop the attack.

[The_Ditto]

Should have used a shotgun - everyone knows that's the best weapon to use against a mindless face-eating zombie

[truemane]

Should have used a shotgun - everyone knows that's the best weapon to use against a mindless face-eating zombie

Agreed. And failing that, an axe.


Also, it's official. It was Drugs. Stay away from the Brown Acid folks. It's no good.

[CynicalAvocado]

Agreed. And failing that, an axe.


Also, it's official. It was Drugs. Stay away from the Brown Acid folks. It's no good.

bad acid, pcp, and meth

the big three to stay the hell away from

[WalkingTarget]

Unrelated to the shooting/face-eating, but in-theme for the thread title. This is about an automated campus alert text/tweet that was sent out late last night from my university.

[Tyndmyr]

I think there is a fine line between "the drugs are making me resistent" and "the drugs are making me a zombie". Because really, half a dozen shots seem like to many bullets, especialy if you're nude. Either that or the cop was a bad shot.

Also, unsure if this particular version of the article says it, but the person who's face was eaten is alive, and the police chief is calling the officer a hero due to this situation. If it DOES turn out that he just stopped the zombie apocolypse, he's definitly a hero. If not, he still is, just one micron less.

I was told the cop shot him once, and the man refused to stop chewing the other man's face off. Then, the cop shot a few more times.

Seems pretty fair, really. That's some freaky stuff.

[Rallicus]

Because really, half a dozen shots seem like to many bullets, especialy if you're nude.

Fitty Cent got shot 9 times from point blank range and didn't have any real lasting damage. So honestly, it all depends.

Anyway, this is an incredibly distasteful topic. A man is dying in a hospital somewhere and you're all cracking jokes about zombies. I wonder how you'd feel if you were attacked by a psychotic naked person, had half your face eaten off, and then some people on the internet joked about it.

That said, here's a newsflash: zombies aren't real, and they will never be real. Shuffling brain dead corpses aren't going to cause an apocalypse, because it will never happen.

[Worira]

I imagine I'd think "Ow, goddamnit, stop making me laugh, it hurts when you're missing your face."

[Tyndmyr]

Fitty Cent got shot 9 times from point blank range and didn't have any real lasting damage. So honestly, it all depends.

Anyway, this is an incredibly distasteful topic. A man is dying in a hospital somewhere and you're all cracking jokes about zombies. I wonder how you'd feel if you were attacked by a psychotic naked person, had half your face eaten off, and then some people on the internet joked about it.

Probably exactly the same way I'd feel if I had a psychotic naked person eat half my face off and nobody joked about it.

The joking ain't the important part, the getting my face eaten off is the important part.

[Tanuki Tales]

That said, here's a newsflash: zombies aren't real, and they will never be real. Shuffling brain dead corpses aren't going to cause an apocalypse, because it will never happen.

Playing Devil's Advocate, that isn't exactly true. They'd just need to weaponize a highly infectious psychotropic vector that heightens aggression and hunger responses to basically get a Zombie Apocalypse.

[CynicalAvocado]

That said, here's a newsflash: zombies aren't real, and they will never be real. Shuffling brain dead corpses aren't going to cause an apocalypse, because it will never happen.

walking corpses? no

highly agressive, high pain tolerance, living beings? yes