The start of the Zombie Apocalypse?

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Attacker who ate victim's face "high on drugs"

A man shot dead by police after he was found naked and eating another man's face may have been high on drugs, police say.

The victim of the attack, who police believe is homeless, is in a critical condition in a Florida hospital after he was found unconscious, with a man hovering over him chewing on his eyeballs and flesh.

The circumstances surrounding the attack are still under investigation but a witness has come forward to describe the grisly scene he stumbled across while riding his bike on a Florida highway.

Larry Vega told a local television station he saw the nude attacker leaning across the man, taking bites out of his face.

"And the guy was like tearing him to pieces with his mouth, so I told him, 'Get off!'" he said.

"You know it's like the guy just kept eating the other guy away like ripping his skin."

Mr Vega was able to flag down a police officer, who approached the attacker and told him to step away, but the man simply 'stood his head up like that with a piece of flesh in his mouth and growled'.

The officer then had no choice but to shoot the man dead.

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[UndeadNed]

It just gets even weirder, with the other news stories occuring around the same time as this awful incident.

Grab Your Boomstick: The Zombie Apocalypse May Actually Be Upon Us

We joked around about [the face eating man] being the canary in the mine shaft of an impending zombie apocalypse. But as Tumblr blogger "I Hope Rick Santorum" helpfully points out in an appropriately viral post, this latest incident is not so much a warning shot as it is another in a disconcertingly intensifying stream of zombie-invoking headlines — all from the past two weeks, and all from the Sunshine State.

It all started on 5/16 with an ominous story about a "mysterious rash" at McArthur High School in Hollywood that launched a HazMat investigation. Twleve students and two teachers were treated and released. The source of the rash remains unknown.

Flashfoward two days: HazMat crews were called in to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport to determine the source of an "unknown chemical" that sent five people to the hospital. Theories abound, but an exact cause was not confirmed.

On 5/20, the first real sign of trouble: 41-year-old Dr. Zachary Bird, was arrested by the Florida Highway Patrol near Orlando and charged with felony battery charges for spitting blood in a patrolman's face. He was also "extremely agitated and enraged," and repeatedly banged his head on the patrol car's plexiglass partition "until he bled."

A few days later, another mystery rash was reported at yet another Broward County school. A HazMat team was once again called in to investigate, and once again left without any concrete answers.

The following day, a "disoriented" Canadian man was arrested aboard an American Airlines plane after he inexpicably attempted to rush the cockpit. The plane had just landed in Miami.

On Saturday, an unidentified homeless man had some 80% of his face bitten off by 31-year-old Rudy Eugene.

And here's the bad news: Whatever's happening in Florida appears to be spreading. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign tweeted the following the following warning to its students last night: "Hazardous materials released at Institute for Genomic Biology. Escape area if safe to do so. Otherwise seek shelter."

And in Hackensack, New Jersey, today, a man was rushed to the hospital after he reportedly cut out his own intestines and threw them at police officers.

[goonergaz]

saw this in the paper - some weird end of world stuff...:S