# Most Bizarre ... RO **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 16, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663 "2009-05-16T17:47:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663/41 "2009-05-19T12:20:57Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > Sometimes, yes. But not always. I have smoked PCP and while it was a wickedly strange high (and one I didn’t care to repeat), I was in no way transformed into a raving lunatic. > > YMMV, obviously. Same here, but we would snort it off of match heads. I’ve never understood the PCP-as-deadly-crazy-weapon thing. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663/42 "2009-05-19T13:27:31Z")
I always thought the PCP Turns You Into Homocidal Zombie thing was akin to the LSD Makes You Jump Off A Building Because You’ll Think You Can Fly thing. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663/43 "2009-05-19T14:17:39Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I always thought the PCP Turns You Into Homocidal Zombie thing was akin to the LSD Makes You Jump Off A Building Because You’ll Think You Can Fly thing. The cops seem to be the ones perpetuating the myth. I never hear it from anyone who actually indulged in the stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663/44 "2009-05-19T15:50:10Z")
Yeah, it’s a “reefer madness” kind of thing, although people can have hella bad psychotic reactions to different drugs. I think it’s user-specific rather than drug-specific, but then again I might be talking completely out of my ass. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663/45 "2009-05-19T16:33:17Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > Well said. I’ve never understood people who can’t pick up on this. They are too busy trying to display their moral superiority with righteous indignation. It takes a lot of energy and concentration. I have nothing funny to say about the OP though becaue I’m not clever enough. So here’s a picture of a [baby aye-aye](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/images/050419_aye-aye.jpg) instead. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663/46 "2009-05-19T16:36:22Z")
Holy crap that’s messed up. At least it didn’t happen in Florida. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663/47 "2009-05-19T16:38:22Z")
I saw this on the news while I was getting my nails done on Friday. I was horrified when I realized we were watching the local news and not like, Dateline. I mean, that sounds terrible to say, but wow. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663/48 "2009-05-19T16:46:41Z")
This story just makes me sad. My dad NEVER took me out to eat. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanTigerTamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@SuntanTigerTamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanTigerTamer)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663/49 "2009-05-19T17:11:26Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > This story just makes me sad. My dad NEVER took me out to eat. I want to kiss you on the mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663/50 "2009-05-19T17:21:32Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > But different people deal with shit in different ways. Don’t be so narrow-minded. > > One thing I’ve learned in life is that 4 people can witness a terrible event - 1 of them cries, 1 of them gets angry, 1 of them acts indifferent, and 1 of them laughs, and yet all 4 of them essentially feel exactly the same way about what just happened. They’re just expressing it in different ways. Exactly. It’s like if your mother dies and while she is being lowered into the ground the neighbor jokes “It’s a shame I won’t be able to fuck her daily anymore. Come to think of it, maybe I still can for a while…” That guy is _exactly_ as normal as everyone else at the funeral, and is just expressing himself in a different way. People shouldn’t be so narrow-minded. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663/51 "2009-05-19T17:22:21Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > Yeah, it’s a “reefer madness” kind of thing, although people can have hella bad psychotic reactions to different drugs. I think it’s user-specific rather than drug-specific, but then again I might be talking completely out of my ass. 🆒 When I was an EMT, I never saw the LSD-makes-you-think-you-can-fly thing, but I did see the PCP-makes-you-a-crazed-maniac thing. Obviously it’s not the drug alone, but an individual’s idiosyncratic reaction to the drug. That said, it’s not a total Reefer Madness propaganda ploy. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanTigerTamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@SuntanTigerTamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanTigerTamer)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663/52 "2009-05-19T17:27:57Z")
> [@Polerius](#): > > Exactly. It’s like if your mother dies and while she is being lowered into the ground the neighbor jokes “It’s a shame I won’t be able to fuck her daily anymore. Come to think of it, maybe I still can for a while…” > > That guy is _exactly_ as normal as everyone else at the funeral, and is just expressing himself in a different way. People shouldn’t be so narrow-minded. > > :rolleyes: :rolleyes: indeed. You don’t see a difference between the scenario that you posit above and posting an offhanded joke a message board? Really? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663/53 "2009-05-19T17:36:55Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#): > > They are too busy trying to display their moral superiority with righteous indignation. It takes a lot of energy and concentration. > > I have nothing funny to say about the OP though becaue I’m not clever enough. So here’s a picture of a [baby aye-aye](http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/04/images/050419_aye-aye.jpg) instead. Oh cute a Bushbaby. ---
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663/54 "2009-05-19T17:44:18Z")
> [@SuntanTigerTamer](#): > > :rolleyes: indeed. You don’t see a difference between the scenario that you posit above and posting an offhanded joke a message board? Really? You missed the point. **Cisco** ’s comment was not restricted to the case in the OP and the reactions in this thread. He made a general statement that people’s reactions to bad events (including real-life cases in his life of people dying) are just different and we should accept them all. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663/55 "2009-05-19T17:51:32Z")
> [@Polerius](#): > > You missed the point. **Cisco** ’s comment was not restricted to the case in the OP and the reactions in this thread. He made a general statement that people’s reactions to bad events (including real-life cases in his life of people dying) are just different and we should accept them all. What are you, retarded or something? ---
**Author:** ![Polerius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d78d45/32.png) [@Polerius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polerius)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663/56 "2009-05-19T18:02:49Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > What are you, retarded or something? What a dizzying intellect! Such a witty retort! Your mom must be very proud of you. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663/57 "2009-05-19T18:19:07Z")
I’d still like to see an answer to the question. Because I got to figure, anyone who reads, “There is a spectrum of acceptable responses to tragedy,” and interprets it as, “Any conceivable response to tragedy is acceptable,” has got to be suffering from some sort of higher cognitive malfunction. ---
**Author:** ![otorophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3ab097/32.png) [@otorophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otorophile)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663/58 "2009-05-19T18:21:16Z")
This reminds me of the [rapper](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Lurch) who, while high on PCP, ate someone’s heart. [QUOTE=wikipedia] The victim was found in her apartment by her friend Alisa Allen. Her chest had been torn open and a three-inch blade was found broken off in her shoulder blade. Teeth marks were found on her face and on her lungs, which had been torn from her chest. Eyewitnesses reported that when Singleton was picked up by police, he was naked, covered in blood, standing in the middle of the street and staring at the sky. A medical examination performed shortly after his capture found human flesh in his stomach which was not his own. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663/59 "2009-05-19T18:22:05Z")
While perusing my local Craigslist, I stumbled across [this ad](http://bakersfield.craigslist.org/zip/1178737014.html). Oh my. As you can tell, our town is more than a little shaken up over this. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanTigerTamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@SuntanTigerTamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanTigerTamer)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663/60 "2009-05-19T18:26:28Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > While perusing my local Craigslist, I stumbled across [this ad](http://bakersfield.craigslist.org/zip/1178737014.html). Oh my. As you can tell, our town is more than a little shaken up over this. I particularly enjoyed “Give me a reason to believe in God and humanity…someone kill this guy please…”. Talk about missing the forest for the trees. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-bizarre-ro/496663.md?page=4)