Police: New mom smoked bath salts in Pa. hospital

File Under:  People are still losing their damn minds.  Associated Press, via Century Link:

ALTOONA, Pa. (AP) — A new mother has been charged with smoking the powerful synthetic stimulant known as bath salts two days after she gave birth, while still in the maternity ward of a central Pennsylvania hospital.


Online court records don't list an attorney for 31-year-old Carla Murphy, of Altoona, who is charged with aggravated assault and various drug counts for allegedly stripping naked and fighting with staff at the Altoona Regional Hospital on June 17. She faces a preliminary hearing Aug. 8.


The Altoona Mirror ( bit.ly/NawCAx) reports hospital police had to be called to subdue Murphy after she stripped, rolled around on the shower floor, and couldn't answer questions from hospital staff.


Police later found the drugs in Murphy's personal effects and at her home.

That little Gemini baby's best chance is a new family.  Yikes. 

The good news?  At least she didn't eat the baby.  This is beginning to look like a copycat "Those-dudes-freaked-out, but-I-can-handle-it" type phenomenon.  Stupid people who don't give psychoactive substances the proper respect are intrigued, and more of these cases will pop up as awareness and curiosity increases.  The media will most certainly create more awareness of bath salts, therefore more incidents will occur, therefore the media will report those incidents, growing awareness.  And more people will be intrigued and curious..

There are A Lot of stupid people around, so I doubt this phenomenon will dissipate anytime soon.  My guess is that these incidents will occur in locations where there is already heavy methamphetamine manufacturing, distribution, and usage problems.

Zombies, meet Bible Belt.  Bible Belt; Zombies..

Zombie Apocalypse: Face-Eating In China (Pics)

Must the Chinese jump on every American fad?  Face eating is ours, damnit!  WebProNews.  Excerpts:


The newest “zombie” story to come out is from China, where a bus driver reportedly stopped his bus in traffic, blocking a woman’s car. He then got off the bus, climbed up on the hood of the woman’s car, and began beating at her windshield. When she got out of the car in a panic, he jumped on her and began chewing her face. Allegedly, several people tried to pull the man off, to no avail…although someone had the presence of mind to snap pictures as it was happening. Thank goodness for bystanders! Police eventually responded and took the man into custody.



The bus driver is said to have only been under the influence of alcohol during the attack (although why he was drunk and driving a bus is a question I hope is answered soon). The woman, who was only identified in the Chinese news story as Du (her surname), survived the attack but will undergo surgery to repair her nose and mouth.



Why are people losing their minds in such a spectacular manner?  Are we in the very preliminary stages of some form of global mass hysteria?  Are these isolated incidents signalling a much larger, coming phenomenon?  Is there a combination of factors, or one unifying circumstance overriding peaceful decorum, inciting these violent outbursts?  Still no answers, just more questions..

Bath Salts May Be Behind Naked Man Confronting Girl In Park

This whole Zombies-and-bath-salts meme is super-inclusive.  Now we're including near misses with crazy homeless people, not even physical attacks.  Question to myself:  Am I prepetuating a false meme by reposting the story, even though my comments point to the artifice of said meme?  CBS Miami.  The Whole Thing:

The drug that made headlines after the causeway cannibal case is back in the news again.

This time, North Miami Beach Police said a man believed to be on bath salts stripped nearly naked at a childrens playground and threatened a three-year-old girl with sexual advances.

Police said surviellance video shows Shane Shuyler stripping in the tot lot and then going very close to a three-year-old girl.

The girl’s mother told police that she and her daughter had entered the park at 20th Avenue and NE 168th street and were headed to the tot lot when they saw Schuyler lying on a park bench. The woman said the man was completely naked and his genitals were exposed.



She told police she tried to walk past the man, but said he stood up, exposed his genitals to the girl.



The police report said he told the child, “Come here little girl, I want to stick it in you.”


The woman fled her with daughter. The man never got close to them.


The bizarre incident unfolded in the tot lot that is located literally in the back yard of the North Miami Beach Police Department. Police arrested Shuyler and a detective in court said his behavior could be explained through a drug called bath salts.

“In his wallet was what appears to be bath salts,” said the detective. “Upon talking to him, he made some statements to me which led me to believe that he was cooling off in the fountain by the tot lot because he was hot; which is consistent with ingesting bath salts.”



Mothers bringing their children to the park Monday were alarmed to learn about the story.

“Its so scary, its very scary,“ said Glorida Moutran, a mother of two young kids. “You would expect that it would be safe especially here like we said its next to a police station you would expect it would be safe.”

If this dude were a booze hound, would we be reading about this?  The exact same behavior, sans bath salts add whiskey?  No, we would not.  City life (not fucking suburban life..) affords these types of encounters; A lot of these encounters.  My distant past includes life in both St. Louis and Denver with no car.  I walked everywhere, or rode the bus.  This type of encounter with street people is not unusual;  I've had plenty of "near misses" with the agitated, the schizophrenic, the homeless..  Life in the city, babies.  It's just the way that it is.

This incident is more "Dumbass, waste-oid pedophile pervs it up next to cop shop; Gets caught," Don't you think?

Of interest regarding this widening meme, though:  Did the zombie insanity actually expose a serial killer?  Maybe..

Zombie Attack--Cajun Style!

Violent Attack in Scott, Man Accused of Biting Off Chunk of Victim's Face  Not really a zombie attack as much as twanked out cajun gets bite-y.  But it fits the meme.  KATC/Lafayette, LA.  Excerpts:

A violent attack in Scott is eerily similar to a case out of Florida connected to the dangerous drug known as bath salts.


The disturbing attack in Florida ended when police shot and killed the suspect after he would not stop biting and chewing at another man's face.

Now, a similar case over the weekend in Lafayette Parish.

"During the attack, the suspect bit a chunk of the victim's face off," said Scott Assistant Police Chief, Kert Thomas.

Police say 43-year-old Carl Jacquneaux knew the victim, Todd Credeur, and was upset over a domestic issue. Credeur declined an on-camera interview, but told KATC he was working in his front yard when Jacquneaux showed up at his house and attacked him. Credeur said he was shocked when Jacquneaux bit him on the face.

That's when Credeur said he sprayed wasp spray in Jacquneaux's face to try and stop the attack. Police said he then left Credeur's house and showed up at another acquaintance's house in Carencro where he held him at knife point and stole a hand gun. It was there that deputies caught up with Jacquneaux and arrested him.

"Very unusual, it's not something we see everyday," said Thomas.

That unusual behavior could be due to drugs. Sheriff's deputies said Jacquneaux was clearly under the influence of some kind of drug. A friend of the victim said she believes he was using bath salts, a drug police said can cause a state of excited delirium and dangerous behavior.

Again with the bath salts?  Any proof other than he-looked-high?

But police said we may never know if Jacquneaux was under the influence of bath salts, because no blood tests were performed before he was booked into jail.  So..  No..  Are you kidding me?  No blood test?  Did someone forget?

The big differences between this and the Miami zombie?  The attacker lived, the victim is in much better shape than the poor guy in Miami, there's no video, he left the scene and went after someone else, he's charged with burglary, and the whole incident is much less gory, much, much less sensational than Miami.  The article tries drawing similarities between these two attacks, but not effectively. 

What if, however, these events were a sensitivity issue rather than a drug issue?  Clif High's webbots have, in the past, pointed to unknown energies from space, bombarding earth, initiating and intensifying societal/neurological override, where great numbers of people are eventually rendered motionless, drooling.  This narrative includes those unfortunate souls with highly sensitive antennae, as they are the first to experience these new energies, and the first to freak out. 

Maybe these "zombie" attacks are a harbinger for these(And more)yet-to-be-identified energies?  As of right now, "unknown energy" has just about as much credibility as this bath salt story making the rounds, serving as explanation..  For the moment..  This one continues to unfold.  We shall see where it goes..

CDC Claims ‘Zombie Virus’ Not a Real Thing as Cannibal Attacks Continue

Hi; Welcome to 2012, where the headlines are "real" and the stories freaktastic!  Hockey masks as hot fashion accessory for the Very Afraid in 3..  2..  
Gawker.  The whole thing:

The Department of Health's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today issued an official statement denying the existence of a "Zombie Virus" following a recent spate of incidents involving people behaving in a zombie-like manner.


"CDC does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead (or one that would present zombie-like symptoms)," the agency's spokesman, David Daigle, told the Huffington Post.

The denial comes on the heel of multiple zombie-esque events throughout the country and the world, as well as a rash of ominous occurrences across the state of Florida leading up to last Saturday's face-eating attack.

Despite the CDC's reassurance, another case of man-eat-man was reported in Staten Island yesterday, as one diner patron bit off the eat of another customer in the midst of an altercation over which TV channel to put on.

"He chewed his ear - he must have been hungry," an eyewitness told the New York Daily News. "He must have been reading about that cannibal down in Miami or something."

The CDC just last year created a website dedicated to "Zombie Preparedness." Alleging to be an "entertaining way to introduce emergency preparedness," the campaign specifically singled out the "zombie apocalypse" as a "kind of emergency" Americans should prepare for.

I love entertainment and mixed messages, and "Zombie Preparedness" sounds amazing!  Do It!  Prepare NOW!  Website For Entertainment Only, Run!  Sharpen your axes!  Relax--It's a comic book!  What the hell are you doing still reading this?  RUN!

I'm dizzy with entertainment already!

I Keep Crawling Away, But The Zombies Keep Pulling Me Back..

The meme gains cohesion.  Presented as a grouping of events, whatever this is is ominous.  How many more high profile attacks happen before mass hysteria begins?

Zombie Instances, May 2012   Reports of flesh eating bacteria included.  Clinically described Super Crazy.

Is this what happened?  Scientist accused of playing God after creating artificial life by making designer microbe from scratch - but could it wipe out humanity?  Unintended consequences, much?  (Found this through Godlike Productions.)

Unrelated, but included for the shocking brutality and Drama:  Mailing body parts?  This guy's a psychopathic attention whore, but he's no zombie.  And he seems to be escaping much faster with more success than his fellow murderous weirdos.

Girlfriend: 'Miami Zombie' may have had voodoo spell that made him chew off a man's face  If he's close to who she describes, I bet this tragedy would be devastating.  Tampa Bay Times.  Excerpts:


The man being depicted by the media as a "face eater" or a "monster" is not the man she knew, she said. He smoked marijuana often, though had recently said he wanted to quit, but he didn't use stronger recreational drugs and even refused to take over-the-counter medication for simple ailments like headaches, she said. He was sweet and well-mannered, she said.


Eugene's girlfriend has her own theory on what happened that day. She believes Eugene was drugged unknowingly. The only other explanation, she said, was supernatural — that someone put a voodoo curse on him. The girlfriend, who unlike Eugene is not Haitian, said she has never believed in voodoo, until now.

"I don't know how else to explain this," she said.

Possible Zombie Outbreak? Or Mass Hysteria?