If you haven’t heard by now, recently a German man named Armin Meiwes killed and ate another man whom he met on the Internet. Bernd Juergen Brandes wanted to die and was actually willing to be eaten. Very odd. Odder still was that the courts couldn’t find anything to charge this guy with as his victim wasn’t a victim at all, but rather a participant. One statement said, “The accused supposedly first cut off the penis of the victim by mutual agreement because they wanted to eat it together.”
There’s been lots of interest in this very strange case. A Chicago based ‘Murder Metal’ band called Macabre even wrote a song about it (check put their ode to the Hillside Stranglers right here [1.12mb MP3]). Here are the lyrics to The Wustenfeld Man Eater (Armin Meiwes):
was an ad for a man’s demise
then after death he’d eat his prize
a cannibal in modern times
Then to his ad a man replied
agreed to what was advertised
his penis was cut off while still alive
he ate half his own penis before he died
Officials finally tried and have convicted Meiwes of manslaughter sentencing him to eight and a half years in the slammer.
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