"GERMAN CANNIBAL TELLS OF REGRETS"

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[BriarBey]

Last Updated: Sunday, 23 November, 2003, 11:59 GMT

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German 'cannibal' tells of regret

Meiwes said Brandes agreed to be eaten A German accused of killing and eating a man he met on a website for cannibals has expressed regret for his actions. Armin Meiwes, who is awaiting trial, told a German newspaper he wants to deter other people from copying him.

Mr Meiwes, from Rotenburg, says his victim was a willing participant who ate part of his own body before Mr Meiwes stabbed him to death and stored his remains in a freezer.

The 41-year-old computer expert is expected to go on trial on 3 December.

Advertised on internet

The grisly details of the case caused a sensation in the German media when Mr Meiwes was arrested in December, 2002.

Meiwes stored Brandes' remains at his house Mr Meiwes, a computer expert, met 43-year-old Bernd-Jurgen Brandes in early 2001, after Mr Meiwes advertised on websites for "young, well-built men aged 18 to 30 to slaughter", the German daily newspaper Bild reported at the time of his arrest.

Mr Meiwes told investigators he took Mr Brandes back to his home, where Mr Brandes agreed to have his penis cut off, which Mr Meiwes then flambeed and served up to eat together.

Mr Meiwes says he then killed Mr Brandes with his consent - recording the two-hour event on video.

Life story

"I admit what I've done," Mr Meiwes told Welt am Sonntag newspaper. "I accept that I am guilty and I regret my actions."

Mr Meiwes said he wants to write his life story with the aim of deterring anyone who wanted to copy him.

Disturbingly, a number of websites dedicated to Mr Meiwes have appeared, with people advertising for willing victims.

"They should go for treatment, so it doesn't escalate like it did with me," said Mr Meiwes.

He said he believed there were about 800 "cannibals" in Germany.

Prosecutors are seeking a conviction of murder for "sexual satisfaction", as cannibalism is not technically illegal under German law

[BriarBey]

Killing me softly
By
Laz
I heard he flambed a good penis,
I heard he killed with style,
And so I went to see him,
To be eaten for a while.

And there he was, this computer geek
A stranger before the laws eyes,
Cutting off my penis for lunch,
Sharing a dish we both love
Killing me softly for dinner
Killing me softly
For dinner
Ending my whole life
This winner
Killing me softly
For dinner.

I felt all flushed with microwaves,
Being cooked by one.
I felt like someone killed me
And ate parts of me for fun.

I prayed this cannibal would finish,
But he just kept right on
Killing me softly for dinner
Killing me softly
For dinner
Ending my whole life
With some vinager
Killing me softly
For dinner.



Lazamataz....you are either really extremely quick witted or I should be concerned for you!!!!!!!!!! rofl

[IrishCatholic]

I remember when this story first came out on Yahoo. The part this version leaves out is that after they flambeed the severed penis they tried it and it wasn't any good. So they then tried frying it.
I couldn't stop laughing. At some point do you think the entree realized that he cut off his penis and would eventually be devoured by a man that couldn't cook?

[Trickyguy]

Did you hear the one about the cannibal who passed the missionary in the jungle?

[Ronly Bonly Jones]

The reluctant cannibal. by Flanders & Swann, circa 1956.

The Reluctant Cannibal


1957 recording introduction:

Sorry about the language. It is justified, I think, don't you? We thought that after that we ought to take you somewhere warmer, to the Tropics, a song which we have entitled by way of compliment to the management: The Reluctant Cannibal


Seated one day at the Tom-tom,
I heard a welcome shout from the kitchens:
Come and get it!
Roast leg of insurance salesman.
A chorus of 'yum's ran round the table.
Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum....
Except for Junior, who pushed away his shell,
Got up from his log, and said
'I don't want any part of it'.
What? Why not?
I don't eat people,
Eh?
I won't eat people,
Huh?
I don't eat people,
I must be going deaf.
Eating people is wrong.
It's wrong?
Don't eat people,
Have you gone clean out of your mind?
I won't eat people,
What's the matter with the lad?
Don't eat people,
He keeps on repeating,
Eating people is bad.

But people have always eaten people,
What else is there to eat?
If the Jou-Jou had meant us not to eat people,
He wouldn't have made us of meat.
Don't eat people,
Oh no, not again.
I won't eat people,
All the day long,
Don't eat people,
He keeps on repeating,
Eating people is wrong.

Well, I've never heard of a more ridiculous idea in all my born days. To think that a son of mine should grow up to be a sissy... Me, chief assistant to the assistant chief. I suppose you realise, son, that if this gets around we may never get self-government.
I won't eat people!
Have you been talking to one of your Mothers again? You're not getting to be one of these cranks that thinks that eating people is cruel, are you, you see a man sitting in a pot and think he's suffering? Oh, it's not like that at all. Why, he's just had an invigorating chase through the forest. He's sitting there in the nice warm water, with all the carrots and dumplings and things, he's thinking 'Oh, the pleasure and happiness I'm going to give to a whole heap of people', that man in the pot there, he enjoys it.
Eating people is wrong!
Look, son, I admine your sincerity, always be sincere, whether you mean it or not. You're young, when you're young, you think you can change the whole world overnight, even eating people, I know, I've been young myself. Take it from your old dad, you've just got to learn to take the world as it is.
I won't let another man pass my lips!
I know why you say 'Don't eat people', because you are a coward, Francis, that's your trouble, yes, a yellow-livered coward. You wouldn't mind eating people if you weren't afraid of ending up in the pot yourself. Go on like this and you're liable to get me into hot water.

I won't eat people!
That's enough!
I don't eat people!
I don't want to....
Eating people is wrong!
Communist!
Going around saying 'don't eat people, that's the way to make people hate you!
We always have eaten people, always will eat people, you can't change human nature.I won't eat people!
I don't eat people!
I won't eat people!
I don't eat people!
I won't eat people!
I don't eat people!
I won't eat people!
I don't eat people!
It must be someone he ate.
Eating people is out!
I give up. You used to be a regular anthropophagi. If this crazy idealistic idea of your was to catch on, I just don't know where we would all be. It would just about ruin our entire internal economy. Fortunately, I suppose it catching on isn't very likely. Why, you might just as well go around saying 'don't fight people', for example?Don't fight people? Ha Ha!
Oh, that's my boy.
Ridiculous!

[BriarBey]

Did you hear the one about the cannibal who passed the missionary in the jungle?



NO, pray do tell. LOL

[Lazamataz]

I remember when this story first came out on Yahoo. The part this version leaves out is that after they flambeed the severed penis they tried it and it wasn't any good. So they then tried frying it.

"Yes, waiter -- this Flambeed Penis au Jus isn't very good. Could you bring me Testical Soup instead?"

I couldn't stop laughing. At some point do you think the entree realized that he cut off his penis and would eventually be devoured by a man that couldn't cook?

[Lazamataz]

Lazamataz....you are either really extremely quick witted or I should be concerned for you!!!!!!!!!!

The latter choice, please.

[BeAllYouCanBe]

" cannibalism isn't that far of a stretch "

I've heard of the seven deadly sins but this is the deadliest. I guess the left wingers could say that there is nothing in the Old or New Testement prohibiting cannibalism????

[BriarBey]

Would you care for a few green onions in your tesicle soup?
LOL I needed a little sick humor today!!!

[Lazamataz]

I guess the left wingers could say that there is nothing in the Old or New Testement prohibiting cannibalism????

Thou Shalt Not Kill (Unless you feel like a little nosh).

[PistolPaknMama]

advertised on websites for "young, well-built men aged 18 to 30 to slaughter

What the cripes?? WHO would answer such an ad? Bored on a Friday night? "Hey here's something I haven't tried." "You want to cut off my what? Sure, buddy, but be gentle."

This just passes all understanding.

[bandleader]

This is just ONE reason why you should NEVER "Meet"anyone via the internet!!

[BriarBey]

This just passes all understanding.



I find this myself alot these days. I have this perpetual...."WHAT THE?" look on my face. And my frown lines seem to be deepening. Botox anyone?

[BriarBey]

This is just ONE reason why you should NEVER "Meet"anyone via the internet!!


Gosh bandleader, I just met you.......care to come for dinner?


ROFL

[Consort]

Herr Cuisine.

[metalboy]

Has France made him an honorary citizen of Paris yet?

[Moose4]

(insert Atkins diet joke here)

}:-)4

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

Donner, party of 12...
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Donner, party of 11...
Tonights special - WIENER SCHNITZEL!!!

[rotstan]

they have no law for cannibalism, but apparently they have enough experience with murder for sexual satisfaction to have a law on the books about that. go figure.

also, 800 cannibals in a country of 80 million is a 1:100,000 rate - if the USA had a similar problem, there'd be at least 80-100 active cannibals in NYC alone!

[Michael81Dus]

Murder is illegal, and "killing on demand" is illegal, too. Convicted because of murder, you can be imprisoned for life - but if only convicted because of killing on the victims demand you can be imprisoned for 5 years only. It´s right that cannibalism (eating another human) is not illegal here. Not the corpse is protected by law, but life.