Natural Selection
I saw someone up for the Darwin Awards today in a cafe.
While waiting for my yerbe mate tea in a liberal/artsy-fartsy cafe, I noticed a tall dark goth-type guy walk in. He had black fingernails, a large black trench coat, and black cloths on. There also was a chance he was homeless because this cafe is located near a popular hangout for the homeless and so they wander in quite frequently to keep warm etc. To it's credit, the cafe is usually tolerant. However, this is not to say that all goth people are as weird as this man or necessarily homeless, I just thought it might shed some light on the strange behavior explained bellow.
Today this man came in and asked for butter. After he was directed to the shelf where it was kept, he took a couple packets and sat down at one of the tables in the middle of the cafe. He then proceeded to take out a family value sized pack of raw ground beef. Next he took pinches of the raw beef and pinches of the cold butter and stuffed the mixture in his mouth with his very dirty hands.
He was about a quarter of the way through the pack when he was asked to leave. It turned out that there were several vegetarians and vegans in the line behind me who were about to leave if he did not. The ground beef's visual similarity to intestines made this scene especially grisly.
Questions: Did he choose to sit in the middle of the store in order to draw attention to himself? And, assuming he did not have very much money to spend on food, was his choice to buy a lage pack of raw ground beef based on his desire for meat in general or some strange black arts thing? No matter why he chose to eat a huge portion of raw beef, I would not be surprised if he had a stomach ach later today.
While waiting for my yerbe mate tea in a liberal/artsy-fartsy cafe, I noticed a tall dark goth-type guy walk in. He had black fingernails, a large black trench coat, and black cloths on. There also was a chance he was homeless because this cafe is located near a popular hangout for the homeless and so they wander in quite frequently to keep warm etc. To it's credit, the cafe is usually tolerant. However, this is not to say that all goth people are as weird as this man or necessarily homeless, I just thought it might shed some light on the strange behavior explained bellow.
Today this man came in and asked for butter. After he was directed to the shelf where it was kept, he took a couple packets and sat down at one of the tables in the middle of the cafe. He then proceeded to take out a family value sized pack of raw ground beef. Next he took pinches of the raw beef and pinches of the cold butter and stuffed the mixture in his mouth with his very dirty hands.
He was about a quarter of the way through the pack when he was asked to leave. It turned out that there were several vegetarians and vegans in the line behind me who were about to leave if he did not. The ground beef's visual similarity to intestines made this scene especially grisly.
Questions: Did he choose to sit in the middle of the store in order to draw attention to himself? And, assuming he did not have very much money to spend on food, was his choice to buy a lage pack of raw ground beef based on his desire for meat in general or some strange black arts thing? No matter why he chose to eat a huge portion of raw beef, I would not be surprised if he had a stomach ach later today.
posted by El @ Wednesday, January 03, 2007
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