FL: Miami police shoot attacker in bizarre assault

[smoothoperator]

Do you people have to drag this garbage into every single thread?

- Jim

Has the zombie trend jumped the shark already?

[seamusTX]

The Dade County medical examiner reported that the now-deceased perpetrator of this attack had only marijuana in his system, not alcohol, "bath salts," LSD, or any other drug that could be detected.

The test results were confirmed by an independent toxicology lab.

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This article contains a few other interesting details.

- Jim

[gigag04]

PCP is worse than a stimulant, it's a dissociative anesthetic. It makes people really feel like they are from a different planet.

[WildBill]

I remember once when I worked in the ER having to contain a guy who was high on PCP and came charging out of his treatment room with a 500 lb gurney strapped to his back like it was a papoose. Didn't even slow him down. I also saw a guy on PCP once flex so hard against the leather wrist restraints that he snapped his own humerus mid-shaft. Made a heck of pop when it broke.

Wow... I didn't know our connective tissue and/or its attachments to our bones and muscles were strong enough for that to happen.

Your muscles are strong enought to break someone else's connective tissue and their bones. The thing that stops most people from doing it to their own tissues and bones is the pain. As Gigag04 stated, PCP is a dissociative anesthetic. So the person on PCP dissociates themselves from the pain and can do real damage to their own bodies without feeling it.

Many years ago there was a young woman who worked with my wife in a factory. One day the woman was methodically trimming metal parts on a foot-operated punch press. Since was so stoned on PCP that she cut off the tip of her finger and didn't notice until someone went over to her to see where all the blood was coming from. She just kept staring at her finger and kept on cutting parts.