A Bite Too Far
It's Monday, and that means it's time for more from the Daily Voice, the local tabloid around these parts. Past articles that I've put up on this site have been by varying degrees hilarious, or offensive, or just plain strange.
But the one that follows is simply disgusting. It's so over the top, I'm including it even though it looks like it was rewritten from wire copy. The headline from it was "A Bite Too Far."
A man died after choking on the flesh of his common-law wife's corpse.
The couple's two children apparently watched while their father afte the flesh off their dead mother's face on Friday morning.
Police spokesman Captain Tienkie van Vuuren said police were called to Thembalethu Village near Mkuze in the Tugela Ferry area at 3 a.m. on Friday after a 13-year-old girl ran to her neighbours for help.
She said when they arrived at the scene they had to force their way inside the house to rescue the other girl, 7, who had also been stabbed in the head by the father.
"Inside, police found the naked Jubulani Siphethu sitting on top of his common-law wife's body eating the flesh from her face," said van Vuuren.
"Only the forehead was still intact. The bone was visible where the rest of the face used to be."
Siphethu was very aggressive during the arrest and threatened police with a knife. He was eventually apprehended and taken outside.
"There, he suddenly choked and became unconscious and died.
"The seven-year-old girl was removed from the scene by ambulance together with her older sister who escaped unharmed," said van Vuuren.
She said a case of murder had been opened…
More articles on this same story--some from actual reputable sources--can be found here.
But the one that follows is simply disgusting. It's so over the top, I'm including it even though it looks like it was rewritten from wire copy. The headline from it was "A Bite Too Far."
A man died after choking on the flesh of his common-law wife's corpse.
The couple's two children apparently watched while their father afte the flesh off their dead mother's face on Friday morning.
Police spokesman Captain Tienkie van Vuuren said police were called to Thembalethu Village near Mkuze in the Tugela Ferry area at 3 a.m. on Friday after a 13-year-old girl ran to her neighbours for help.
She said when they arrived at the scene they had to force their way inside the house to rescue the other girl, 7, who had also been stabbed in the head by the father.
"Inside, police found the naked Jubulani Siphethu sitting on top of his common-law wife's body eating the flesh from her face," said van Vuuren.
"Only the forehead was still intact. The bone was visible where the rest of the face used to be."
Siphethu was very aggressive during the arrest and threatened police with a knife. He was eventually apprehended and taken outside.
"There, he suddenly choked and became unconscious and died.
"The seven-year-old girl was removed from the scene by ambulance together with her older sister who escaped unharmed," said van Vuuren.
She said a case of murder had been opened…
More articles on this same story--some from actual reputable sources--can be found here.
posted by Erik at 4:21 pm
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