# Cannibal in South Beach - Someone buy this dude a Big Mac **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 27, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254 "2012-05-27T16:16:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254/41 "2012-05-30T05:25:55Z")
Victim is Ronald Poppo, a 65-year-old homeless man. Been on the streets since the 70’s. > **[Ronald Poppo, Face-Eating Victim, Had Been Shot in Bayfront Park Back in 1976...](https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/ronald-poppo-face-eating-victim-had-been-shot-in-bayfront-park-back-in-1976-updated-6553751)** > > Ronald Poppo is currently in critical condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital after having large portions of his face chewed off by Rudy Eugene on Saturday near the MacArthur Causeway. However, it's not Poppo's first trip to Jackson Memorial Hospital... > [@](#): > > Poppo, described by police as homeless, also had a lengthy criminal record, and once had charges dismissed after pleading insanity. > > According to a lien filed by Dade County in 1976, Poppo was admitted to Jackson Memorial Hospital on January 14. Poppo was shot at the Bayfront Park bandshell by an unidentified “John Doe.” His injuries were serious enough that Poppo spent five days in the hospital, and his ultimate hospital bill came to $1,406.05. > > At the time Poppo was also homeless and listed his address as the Salvation Army at 905 W Flagler Street. > > Poppo, 65, also has a long list of criminal charges that date back in Miami-Dade as far as 1978. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254/42 "2012-05-30T05:49:35Z")
> [@Savannah](#): > > If you come across a link to the picture of the victim, do not click on it. You will be much better off without that image in your mind. Ho. Lee. Crap. How is somebody in that shape even alive? Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254/43 "2012-05-30T06:20:56Z")
> [@Savannah](#): > > If you come across a link to the picture of the victim, do not click on it. You will be much better off without that image in your mind. Why, oh WHY didn’t I listen? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254/44 "2012-05-30T12:05:23Z")
I confess to a gruesome curiosity, but I am trying very hard to resist temptation. ---
**Author:** ![westsidejay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d9b06d/32.png) [@westsidejay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/westsidejay)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254/45 "2012-05-30T12:23:40Z")
Good times on A1A. The nude homeless guy was confused because he just heard that the market took a huge bite out of many people’s facebook investments. He thought they said FACEBOOK RESTAURANTS. Thank you!! ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254/46 "2012-05-30T13:11:37Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > I confess to a gruesome curiosity, but I am trying very hard to resist temptation. I Google Imaged Ronald Poppo; it’s bad but imho the woman who got maimed by the chimpanzee was worse. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254/47 "2012-05-30T13:27:07Z")
Hmm… yeah, maybe I’ve just seen enough gore that that wasn’t the worst I’ve seen. Yes, Charla Nash was pretty damn awful. So was that young Indian girl who had her face and scalp ripped off by farm machinery (that case had a happy outcome - they were able to put everything back on. You can tell she’s been in a terrible accident but she’s not hideous, just has some nasty scars, and her face is fully functional). It _does_ resemble chimp attack injuries more than the usual human-on-human assault, though. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254/48 "2012-05-30T13:40:09Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Victim is Ronald Poppo, a 65-year-old homeless man. Been on the streets since the 70’s. > [http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2012/05/ronald\_poppo\_face\_eating\_victi.php](http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2012/05/ronald_poppo_face_eating_victi.php) You gotta be crazy hungry to get past the flavor of homeless guy face. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254/49 "2012-05-30T13:40:53Z")
The chimp attack lady got a face transplant. It came out pretty well for her. She’s not exactly the same as before the injury. But she looks a lot better than I would have expected. She also had both hands mangled & amputated in the chimp attack. Last I heard the hand transplant they tried failed. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254/50 "2012-05-30T15:17:32Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > You gotta be crazy hungry to get past the flavor of homeless guy face. See, I think it’d be like beef jerky – with a jelly doughnut center. ---
**Author:** ![thinksnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thinksnow/32/2849_2.png) [@thinksnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thinksnow)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254/51 "2012-05-30T15:52:17Z")
From [this story](http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57443456-504083/ronald-poppo-victim-of-fla-face-eating-man-rudy-eugene-is-a-65-year-old-homeless-man-police-say/): “He had his face eaten down to his goatee. The forehead was just bone. No nose, no mouth,” said Sgt. Armando Aguilar, president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police. “In my opinion, he just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.” Sgt. Javier Ortiz, vice president of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police, said it was one of the bloodiest “and goriest scenes I’ve ever been to.” ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254/52 "2012-05-30T15:54:52Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > I Google Imaged Ronald Poppo; it’s bad but imho the woman who got maimed by the chimpanzee was worse. I just looked at the images and holy shit - no I don’t think that chimp lady images were worse. Albeit he still appears to have at least one eyeball left, whereas the chimp lady lost both of hers, but the reason these pics seem worse to me is because the wounds are still fresh. The only pics I saw of chimp lady were some time after the attack and she’d been cleaned up. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254/53 "2012-05-30T18:44:55Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > I confess to a gruesome curiosity, but I am trying very hard to resist temptation. Same here. Did somebody say something about his _eyeballs_ being ripped out? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254/54 "2012-05-30T19:00:57Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > . Albeit he still appears to have at least one eyeball left, whereas the chimp lady lost both of hers, but the reason these pics seem worse to me is because the wounds are still Glad to hear that. Some sight is way better than none. ---
**Author:** ![dngnb8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@dngnb8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dngnb8)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254/55 "2012-05-30T22:46:58Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > You gotta be crazy hungry to get past the flavor of homeless guy face. Well he tried the hockey arena first. He heard they had a face off in the corner. ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 9:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254/56 "2012-05-31T09:11:05Z")
i wonder if, during the initial stages of investigation while not much details is known, the victim was placed under quarantine and armed guard. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254/57 "2012-05-31T13:46:47Z")
One of the newpapers referred to Eugene as the “Causeway Cannibal.” ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254/58 "2012-05-31T18:08:57Z")
He was probably on artificial cannibanoids, bath salts. > **[Chemists Outrun Laws in War on Synthetic Drugs](https://www.wired.com/2012/05/synthetic-drug-war/)** > > Synthetic mimics of marijuana, dissociative drugs and stimulants -- such as the "bath salts" allegedly consumed by Randy Eugene, the Florida man shot after a horrific face-eating assault -- are growing in popularity and hard to control. Every time a... That turned him into a cannibal. Can the Kanamits be far behind? > **[To Serve Man (The Twilight Zone)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zone))** > > "To Serve Man" is the 24th episode of the third season of the anthology series The Twilight Zone, and the 89th overall. It originally aired on March 2, 1962, on CBS. Based on Damon Knight's 1950 short story of the same title, the episode was written by Rod Serling and directed by Richard L. Bare. It is considered one of the best episodes from the series, particularly for its final twist. > Respectfully submitted for your perusal — a Kanamit. Height: a little over nine feet. Weight: in the neighb... ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2012, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254/59 "2012-05-31T18:36:51Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > He was probably on artificial cannibanoids, bath salts. > > That turned him into a cannibal. Cannibalnoids? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254/60 "2012-06-01T03:07:58Z")
What is going on these days? There’s this case. There’s the asexual Japanese chef who removed and cooked his genitals and served them to paying diners. There’s the porn start sending body parts to political parties in Canada. What’s up?" 😕 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cannibal-in-south-beach-someone-buy-this-dude-a-big-mac/623254.md?page=4)