This one definitely falls into the “you couldn’t make this stuff up” category. The Tyler (Texas) Morning Telegraph says: “Sheriff’s officials were astounded Thursday by a letter requesting the man accused of murdering his girlfriend and possibly participating in cannibalism be placed on a vegetarian diet to keep him from being ‘involved in any senseless killing’ while incarcerated. The letter was faxed to the Smith County Sheriff’s Jail from the national headquarters of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Thursday morning.”
One is almost tempted to suspect this was a prank by someone with a ghoulish sense of humor, but apparently not. What in the name of sanity would make a PETA spokesman think that controlling the diet of this inmate will do any good? For crying out loud, this psycho was eating a human being!!! Don’t you think eating hamburgers would be an improvement?!!!
The article goes on: “The Tyler Morning Telegraph received a copy of the letter before officials and notified Sheriff J.B. Smith. ‘You have to be kidding me, right?’ was his initial reaction to the news of the letter asking the jail to feed Christopher Lee McCuin, 25, a special vegetarian diet and no meat. McCuin is jailed for the murder of 21-year-old Jana Shearer and authorities have said, in previous stories, that when McCuin was taken into custody there was an ear boiling in a pot of water on the stove and a plate on the kitchen table with what appeared to be human flesh and a fork.”
The big question on everyone’s mind is: “Will the ACLU step in to defend McCuin by arguing that cannibalism is a traditional part of African culture?”
The article notes ” ‘It is up to you to prevent McCuin from contributing to any more suffering and death by placing him on a healthy, humane vegetarian diet,’ the letter by PETA Vice President Bruce Friedrich reads. In a phone interview with the Tyler Paper Thursday, Friedrich responded the letter was serious and was not intended to be funny… Friedrich said his organization hoped to help Smith County prepare a nutritional vegetarian menu and possibly help organize a menu for the entire jail population.”
How about serving inmates nothing but bread and water? After all they’re criminals. And for crying out loud take away their exercise equipment so they don’t come out of prison looking like a body builder. Prisoners should be on the frail side when released from prison. Giving them tasty meals, Internet access and cable TV while in prison is spoiling them.
The paper continues: “When asked how eating a hamburger compared to cannibalism… (Friedrich replied that) McCuin could become violent if he ate meat and could kill.”
Fortunately -for the sake of sanity- the sheriff had the last word. “Smith said that in all of his years as sheriff there has not been one case of cannibalism in his jail, much less cannibalism caused by serving meat to the prisoners. ‘Nope, that has never happened,’ he said. ‘Besides (McCuin) is isolated so the only person he’s going to bite is himself.’”
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