Man killed, ate willing victim (Hold my... oh never mind! You won't believe this one!)

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | December 13 2002

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A man has confessed to murdering and eating a fellow homosexual who volunteered to be killed in one of the strangest murders in Germany in recent years.

Prosecutors say the 41-year-old accused recorded the crime on a video camera after finding the apparently willing victim through an advertisement posted on the internet.

The state prosecutor's office in the central German city of Kassel says in a statement the accused supposedly first cut off the victim's penis by mutual agreement because they wanted to eat it together.

The statement says the accused then killed the 37-year-old male victim with deep cuts to the neck, chopping the body into pieces which he deep froze and later ate.

Prosecutors say they are treating the case as murder and that the man made a full confession.

[MadIvan]

Is this what is referred to in the media as "rough trade"? ;)

Regards, Ivan

[mhking]

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

If you want on or off this list, please let me know!

[FeliciaCat]

what the he!!!????? are up with the Germans...Wasn't there another weird murder involving a German couple who were "vampires". Too strange.

[katykelly]

Oh my.

[Caliban]

Homosexuality is a MENTAL ILLNESS...

[boris]

Reminds me of Al Capp's all-purpose creatures. 'Shmoo', I think. They begged to be eaten, among other uses, as I recall.

--Boris

[Hatteras]

"You wanna piece of ME?!"

[boris]

Jeffrey Dahmer, call your office!

[boris]

The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo

By Al Capp

More than 50 years ago, America was taken by storm when Al Capp introduced the Shmoo into his comic strip Li'l Abner--where Sadie Hawkins Day also first appeared. In the words of Life magazine, the nation was "Shmoo-struck." The adorable squash-shaped character was so popular that it immediately spawned a massive merchandising craze: there were Shmoo dolls, Shmoo watches--even Shmoo ashtrays and Shmoo fishing lures. Shmoo clubs sprang up around the country--including a "Society for the Advancement of the Shmoo"--and inflatable Shmoos managed to reach German soil as part of the Berlin Air Lift. It was, as a reviewer in The New York Times commented, "a cultural event of enormous significance."

For the first time, Al Capp's essential comic strips featuring the Shmoo have been collected in one volume. It looks like the citizens of Dogpatch have it made: the charming little critters can lay eggs, give milk, and be broiled into steaks--all grade A--while their eyes make exquisite suspender buttons, their whiskers fine-grade toothpicks, and their hides the softest leather. The Shmoos provide for every need, and reproduce at such a prodigious rate that no one even fights over them! Soon, however, America's captains of industry wage war on the creatures to protect their profits. Will Li'l Abner, Daisy Mae, Mammy and Pappy Yokum, and the rest of America choose the Shmoo--or the status quo?

The Short Life and Happy Times of the Shmoo is Al Capp and his incisive social criticism at its best, making it clear why John Steinbeck once hailed the cartoonist as "the best satirist since Laurence Sterne." Author Biography: Al Capp (1909-1979) created Li'l Abner, considered by many the greatest comic strip of all time. With their first appearence in 1934, Capp's gang of Dogpatch hillbillies struck a chord with Depression-plagued Americans, and the strip was soon an overwhelming success.

We are about to experience a revolution of Shmoo. This volume, a compilation of two of Al Capp's graphic novels - The Life and Times of the Shmoo and The Return of the Shmoo - mark the first time so much Shmoo has ever been featured in one place. The wonderfully bad squash-shaped creation will be released in September - and will undoubtedly delight Shmoo fans everywhere. From the first time Li'l Abner "hears strange moosic" to his discovery of the Valley of the Shmoon to government pleas to eliminate all Shmoo, revisit all the fabulous residents of Dogpatch and imagine a time when, as Life magazine put it, America was "Shmoo-struck." It may happen again!

[SouthernFreebird]

LOL!

[kaylar]

Actually, there were TWO weird German vampire/cannibals...Three , if you count Peter Kurten, the Dusseldorf Vampire. There's Fritz Haarman and Karl Denke.

(I've rotted my brain with too many true crime books. Does it show?)

[Lucas1]

Quote"Homosexuality is a MENTAL ILLNESS..."

You obviously are a college graduate. /sarcasm

[dljordan]

That is absolutely SICK!!!! What is wrong with these people?

[catpuppy]

Just another alternate lifestyle. Nothing to see here. Can't we all just get along?

[Slicksadick]

prepared as weinerschnitzel or brautwurst w/ sauerkraut?

[Dane]

Germany's jeffrey dahmer.

What a sick individual. Of course in Germany there will be no death penalty, just like there was no death penalty for dahmer in Wisconsin, but dahmer met his fate in prison.

[blastdad51]

I think I'm gonna throw up after reading this.

[Terriergal]

Oh... my.... words fail. I am going to go vomit now.