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‘Zombie apocalypse’ trending as bad news spreads quickly
The term “zombie apocalypse” has been lighting up the internet all week and has been among the top Google trends Friday morning.
On the Web’s Urban Dictionary, here’s definition No. 4 of zombie apocalypse: “The End of the World, when people who have died rise again in rotten corpses searching for blood and brains to strengthen them.”
While we’re certain the dead are not rising, the past week has seen some of the most disturbing instances of human behavior imaginable.
A man in Miami happens upon a homeless man on the sidewalk and chews off 75% of his face in an 18-minute attack. The attacker’s mother later says her son is not a zombie as portrayed in the media.
Authorities in Canada have launched a massive manhunt for a suspect after a severed hand was sent to Canada’s Liberal Party, a foot to the Conservatives and a torso was stuffed in a suitcase and tossed in the trash of the Montreal apartment building where he lived.
A Maryland man admits to killing his housemate, cutting him up, then eating his heart and part of his brain.
A New Jersey man rips his torso open and throws bits of his intestines at police,according to the Bergen Record.
There have been other equally grisly crimes, but there’s no need to dwell on them.
Fact is, horrible crimes happen all the time.
“This is all nothing new,” said Scott Talan, professor of public communication at American University, with a long work history in public relations and the media.
Bad news attracts attention, he said, and when it happens in bunches, people like to attach a name to it, hence, “zombie apocalypse.”
People also like to see others in bigger trouble than they have themselves, Talan said.
“No matter how your life’s going, someone’s got it worse,” he said.
We like to think, “I’m better off than these people,” he said.
And that’s nothing new, Talan said, pointing out that ancient Roman philosophers used to lament that citizens felt little for the gladiators and what happened in their gruesome contests.
But he said while these stories catch fire quickly in our wired world, they flame out quickly, too.
Unless there’s another gruesome crime today, expect the zombie apocalypse to be done by next week, he said.
Even if that’s the case, there may be some good that can come of the attention zombie apocalypse has drawn on the Web.
A year ago, when zombie movies were the rage, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said if it could convince the public to prepare for the zombie apocalypse, maybe they’d be better prepared for disasters more likely to affect their lives, like earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes, or a major pandemic.
Or maybe the Mayan apocalypse. Talan points out that it isn’t real, it’s just a name like zombie apocalypse.
But then again, that isn’t supposed to happen until December. There’s still time for that go viral again.
Zombie apocalypse: NJ incident causes SWAT team to decontaminate from gore
Another zombie apocalypse-type incident took place in Hackensack, New Jersey over the weekend, with details surfacing today. Police broke down the door and tried to subdue the man, but they retreated and had the SWAT Team go in. This scene was so gory, that the SWAT team needed to go through decontamination because of all the blood.
Wayne Carter, 43, barricaded himself in his bedroom and started stabbing himself with a 12 inch knife. The deep stab wounds in his abdomen caused his intestines to squeeze out through the wounds. When the SWAT team came through the door, he started throwing pieces of his intestines and flesh at the officers, according to South Coast Today.
The police used two cans of pepper spray on Carter, but it was like he felt nothing and continued stabbing himself. It is unknown what caused Carter to behave this way. An unknown person called 911 to report that Carter had barricaded himself in his room with a knife and was intending to hurt himself. This was the call that set the ball rolling. Carter is in the hospital in critical condition.
Carter had at least 50 self-inflicted stab wounds all over his body and it didn’t appear to bother him at all. This is the second such incident reported this weekend, with the first happening in Miami. Rudy Eugene was found naked and eating the face of a homeless man in broad daylight on a highway off-ramp. When an officer ordered Eugene away from the man, he growled and continued to chew on the victim, according to SMSEO.
When the officer shot him, this still didn’t stop Eugene from eating the flesh of his victim. This left the officer no choice but to continue shooting him until he was dead. The 64 year-old victim, Ronald Poppo, had 80% of his face eaten by Eugene and he is in critical condition in an area hospital today.
See the pictures of the victim and the crime aftermath here on SMSEO.
Both of these two men demonstrated behavior that is not something the people who know them have seen before. Both men showed an unusual tolerance to pain, with one being able to pull out his own intestines and the other being shot without stopping his attack.
Is this some type of new drug that is putting people in such a state of psychosis that they don’t respond to excruciating pain? Conspiracy theories take this as a sign that the zombie apocalypse is beginning. Do you agree or do you think they’ve watched too many episodes of the “Walking Dead?”
Zombie apocalypse outbreak spreading?
A second grisly zombie-like incident, this time in New Jersey. A 43-year-old man named Wayne Carter stabbed himself 50 times. Then when a SWAT team arrived Carter began throwing his intestines at them. He is now in a hospital. Combined with the recent Miami face-eater, Patrick Jones wonders if bath salts and insanity is the kick off of the zombie apocalypse. Watch the video report at the bottom of this column.