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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Man Trips Over Woman; Her Family Eats Him?
2004-08-10
A man and his two sons have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a neighbor and then eating parts of his body after he tripped over a woman relative at a dance, Philippine police said on Tuesday. The three men are suspected of stabbing neighbor Benjie Ganoy to death last month in a remote village in the southwestern island of Palawan. They ate his ears, tongue and arms after roasting the body over a fire, provincial police chief Michael Garraez said. "They stabbed him repeatedly, cut off the man's ears, pulled out his tongue and ate it," Garraez told Reuters by telephone. He was quoting a sworn statement by a witness, who said he had been forced to eat some flesh taken from the victim's arms. Garraez said there was no tradition of cannibalism in the area.
"It's not a tradition, really, just a hobby"
He said the father had apparently been angry after Ganoy accidentally tripped over his daughter during a dance party.
Guess "I'm sorry" just wasn't enough.
It was the fact that he impregnated her when he tripped that was the problem.
Police said the victim disappeared after the dance party on July 17. The witness led them to the burned body almost a week later.
Posted by:2%

#13  BH - you made me spit my food out on that one.
Posted by: jawa   2004-08-10 22:12  

#12  When confronted with the bum-grabbing incident, Ganoy made a huge mistake in telling the girl's family to, "bite me!"
Posted by: Zenster   2004-08-10 19:06  

#11  Kill 'em an' Grill 'em boys.
Posted by: 2%   2004-08-10 17:28  

#10  Daad! When I called him a turkey, I didn't mean it literally.
Posted by: ed   2004-08-10 17:27  

#9  The arms taste like chicken.....
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-08-10 17:22  

#8  Without a tradition of cannibalism how does one know that arms are tasty? Did they read up on the subject beforehand? Or was it sort of a buffet sort of thing, try a bit of this, a bit of that.
Posted by: yank   2004-08-10 15:29  

#7  Really weird. It seems they did NOT cook the tongue before eating it.

And what about this 'arm flesh' being eaten? Who knew arms were tasty?
Posted by: Brett_the_Quarkian   2004-08-10 13:04  

#6  ...and I finished off his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti....

---Hannibal Lechter
Posted by: BigEd   2004-08-10 12:47  

#5  CrazyFool: Nah, he wasn't clumsy. Just reeling from hunger. That's the problem with eating filipinos - you're hungry again an hour later.
Posted by: BH   2004-08-10 11:06  

#4  Some guys go to dances to pick up chics, for others its more of an eat-in / carry-out mentality.
Posted by: 2%   2004-08-10 11:02  

#3  When you eat your enemies, you gain their suberb dancing abilities.

Given that he tripped over the daughter I think you mispelled clumsy.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2004-08-10 11:02  

#2  Garraez said there was no tradition of cannibalism in the area.

There is now.
Posted by: tu3031   2004-08-10 10:57  

#1  When you eat your enemies, you gain their suberb dancing abilities.
Posted by: BH   2004-08-10 10:55  

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