Willing victim was eaten while still alive

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[SMGFan]

Willing victim was eaten while still alive

Self-confessed cannibal advertised online for a victim and a man showed up, ready to be mutilated and eaten before death

BERLIN - The advertisement on the Internet read: 'Seeking well-built man, 18-30 years old for slaughter.'

The man who answered it was killed and eaten by German computer expert Armin Meiwes, 42, described by his lawyer as a 'gentleman of the old school'.

Yesterday, Meiwes went on trial in a case of sexually inspired cannibalism so perplexing it could make legal history. He has confessed to the gruesome episode, and is charged with 'murder for sexual satisfaction'.

It is the first case of its kind in Germany. The problem is whether such consensual killing is really murder, as cannibalism is not a crime there. The trial began with the court hearing how horror films had fuelled his childhood fantasies of eating school friends, the BBC said.

Meiwes, a former soldier, actually received several replies to the Internet advertisement he placed two years ago. Some were hoaxes.

Another man broke off contact after Meiwes sent him photos of the specially-built killing room in his 44-room home, said a report in the Independent on Sunday.

Eventually, a well-paid Siemens microchip engineer, Bernd-Juergen Brandes, wrote back: 'I offer myself to you and will let you dine from my live body. Not butchery, dining!! Whoever REALLY wants to do it will need a REAL VICTIM!!'

He then took one day off from his job, bought a one-way train ticket and met Meiwes in his home town of Rotenburg in March 2001.

Meiwes claims that Brandes demanded to be mutilated and killed the same day, and even fasted so that his intestines were clear, according to an interview he gave to the German news magazine, Stern. Brandes took drugs to desensitise himself to the pain, and Meiwes got a kitchen knife, and turned on his video camera. Parts of the two-hour video are expected to be shown at the trial.

Meiwes first sliced off Brandes' penis, fried it, seasoned it with salt, pepper and garlic. Then he shared it with its former owner. Stern reported Meiwes saying the dish was 'tough and unpalatable'.

Meiwes' lawyer Harald Ermel said it took the victim nearly 10 hours to bleed to death and that he had urged Meiwes repeatedly to keep on cutting him. Meiwes cut up the body and stored parts in his freezer. 'He believes he ate about 20kg and there was about 10kg left over,' said Mr Ermel. 'He defrosted it little by little and ate it.'

Afterwards, Meiwes searched the Internet for more victims. The Independent said four more men answered. Meiwes wrapped each one in cellophane, and labelled each of their body parts like cold cuts.

But they were only interested in role-playing, not really being killed, so Meiwes let them go. He was arrested last December, after a tip-off from someone who had spotted another of his online ads. The prosecution will push for a life sentence on the grounds that Meiwes is too dangerous to ever be released. -- Reuters, AFP

[martin_fierro]

"Fritz ist Freund, NOT FOOD!" <|:P~

[07055]

In ten years, the US Supreme Court will find sexually inspired cannibalism to be yet another fundamental right...

[metalboy]

Oh I can`t stand it, I am getting so turned on! Where can I apply! Only in Germany.."Sprockets Dieter! Would you like to eat my monkey?" I think this explains their aversion to taking out Saddam, "Oh please! Ve look up to men like him!" I was in Germany about 10 years ago, and there`s something with those people, must be something in the water, people scolding you if you "do not properly cross ze street at ze crossing lane! you are not in order!" It`s like, Zieg Heil, shut up and mind your own business Hansel.

[HairOfTheDog]

This should not be read by anyone.... Why the heck did I click it?

yuck.

[Buck72]

A story like that's gotta be true.

[Rokke]

Of course it's a right. Why wouldn't it be. You must be a cannibleophob. Some people are born to be eaten by other people. It's all genetics. I mean, who would chose to be eaten alive? Nobody ever "choses" a lifestyle that falls well outside social norms. Actually, I think these folks, and the people who eat them fall under the American's with Disabilities act. I hope one of the Democrat candidates proposes government funding to provide killing rooms for these long neglected souls. And perhaps the FDA can research the nutritional value of human genitiles, and whether they can be considered part of a well balanced diet.

[Aeronaut]

Cannibles and victims should be allowed to marry.

[11th Earl of Mar]

How could pro-choicers argue with this arrangement? Sounds like they were both consenting adults.

[LucyJo]

In ten years, the US Supreme Court will find sexually inspired cannibalism to be yet another fundamental right...

There was a time when I would've chuckled at such an apparent sarcastic comment without a bit of trepidation...nowadays I fear it's prescience. (she said with a nervous laugh)

[FITZ]

Some people are born to be eaten by other people. It's all genetics.

They say that about suicide --- if it's okay to kill yourself, it should be okay not to want to go to waste if you do. At least allowing a cannibal to feast on you means you weren't a total failure.

[sweetliberty]

"in his home town of Rotenburg"

Rotenburg? ROTFL! Sounds like a low budget sci-fi movie, furthur proving that truth is stranger than fiction.

[sweetliberty]

I would HATE to be one of the people that had to watch that video! I'm afraid I would lose it. This is really WAY beyond sick.

[WayneM]

In her inimitable wisdom, Barbra Streisand sang about this years ago...

People,
People who eat people,
Are the luckiest people in the world
We're children, eating other children
And yet letting a grown-up pride
Hide all the need inside
Acting more like children than children
Lovers are very special people
They're the luckiest people in the world
With one person one very special person
A feeling deep in your soul
Says you were half now you're whole
No more hunger and thirst
But first be a person who eats people
People who eat people
Are the luckiest people in the world
With one person one very special person
No more hunger and thirst
But first be a person who eats people
People who eat people
Are the luckiest people in the world...


Always one of my favorites!

[ican'tbelieveit]

ROFL!!!!!!!!! Can't you see the books and movies already?

[putupon]

Cannibles and victims should be
allowed to marry.

In Vermont and Canada, Jeffrey
Dahlmer would only be guilty of bigamy.

[squidly]

described by his lawyer as a 'gentleman of the old school'

He must look like Anthony Hopkins.

[Heatseeker]

If the victim had been Gerhard Schroeder, I would vote to acquit. :)

[zook]

File under "How many times has this happened to you?"

[The Iguana]

I like to grok my friends.