Cage fighter tips out still beating heart of trainer, blames mushrooms

[Dragonbreathp9d]

Im so sick of one of nature's and perhaps God's most beautiful things being demonized. The fear mongering has got to stop! Mushrooms bring people together and closer to The Truth. This psychopath chose his scapegoat.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1282647/US-cage-fighter-Jarrod-Wyatt-rips-training-partner-Taylor-Powells-heart.html

[Go Vols]

1. Thats

pretty fucked up.

[kenny blankenship]

2. Oh he thought the *other* guy was possessed?

Then I guess his actions must be exempted from prosecution under the first amendment freedom to the free exercise of insane beliefs in angels, demonic possessions and whatnot. ‘My client was trying to silence the devil,’ said James Fallman, of the defendant charged with cutting out the still beating heart of his associate.

[i[Jarrod Wyatt also cut out Taylor Powell's tongue and ripped off most of his face in a brutal assault that police said looked like a scene from a horror film, officers said.

They claim they found the 26-year-old standing naked over his friend's body with parts, including an eyeball, strewn around the blood splattered room in Klamath, California.

Bad? Certainly we can all agree that this constitutes bad behavior, but just imagine what the man under Diabolic possession must have been up to!

[Major Nikon]

3. Psilocybin can cause substance induced psychosis

It very commonly produces panic attacks, and the history of the drug most certainly includes homicide, suicide, and other very unfortunate events which may be rare, but still happen.

Whether it's 'natural' or not is irrelevant. It's a drug, and like most drugs it has the potential for some very serious and unwanted side effects. It's also possible they got the wrong kind of mushroom.

[eShirl]

7. I wonder if there were any other drugs involved

like steroids or other drugs that an athlete/fighter might use

[Webster Green]

11. I wonder if they were actually Psilocybin.

May have been Amanita muscaria or some other weird ass fungi.

In my experience, Psilocybin causes most folks feel wonderful and laugh their asses off.

There is always the exception though, as you noted.

[Major Nikon]

14. They were making tea out of the mushrooms

There are lots of possibilities. He could have gotten a massive dose without realizing it, it could be the wrong kind of mushroom, other drugs may have been involved, or he may have just been the rare type of person that gets a very bad trip from it.

From the description it almost certainly sounds like a drug induced psychosis. The question is what drug or drugs were involved.

[napoleon_in_rags]

4. Sometimes I wish the news could be presented entirely as a cartoon show.

In modern times I feel that would put a lot of the reporting in proper context.

[Blue_Tires]

19. Here you go:

http://www.youtube.com/user/NMAWorldEdition

[XemaSab]

5. Del Norte County, California

Is kind of a crazy place.

[Webster Green]

12. Yep.

Indeed!

[BlancheSplanchnik]

6. I call bullshit.

I can't explain why.


I just do. Wonder what kind of publication it's from? That would be an .. *ahem* .. clue.

[XemaSab]

13. It was reported in the local papers there

The Eureka Times-Standard and the Triplicate.

[opihimoimoi]

8. Sounds like "bath salts" to me ...

[Suich]

9. Article is from June, 2010!!! n/t

[XemaSab]

15. Still being kicked around on the front page of the local paper

http://www.times-standard.com/

[Major Nikon]

16. The criminal trial is set to start soon

It's been back in the news lately.

[REP]

10. Good thing you found this 2-year-old story to be upset about

[DCKit]

17. "Drugs Bad!1!@!1"

Hit'n'run poster... tipped out heart was the big clue. Not even interested in a modicum of accuracy.

[Javaman]

18. The dailymail? really. next time use a better sourse for your "news".

[dionysus]

20. i've seen people flip out pretty bad their first time on shrooms, but nothing violent like that.

perhaps it's possible for someone who makes their living beating the fucking shit out of people, to really go apeshit on a bad trip...