A jealous lover in South Africa stabbed a rival, cut out his heart and ate it with a knife and fork, police and media reported Thursday.
Police were called to the gruesome scene at a house in Cape Town's Gugulethu township by frantic neighbours, spokesman Frederick van Wyk told the Cape Times.
"On the scene they found a suspect, a Zimbabwean national, busy eating the heart of a human with a knife and fork," he said.
The woman at the centre of the love triangle told police that her former lover had visited the house where she was living with her current partner and they had chatted together before he gave her money to buy liquor and she left.
When she returned she found her partner, 62-year-old Mbuyiselo Manona, had been stabbed, Van Wyk said.
Neighbours alerted by the commotion said they had peered through the house windows to see the man cutting out Manona's heart and eating it.
Comment: Unfortunately it seems this will become a reality for more and more people as they are forced to realize that the American Dream was just that - a dream. A couple of people in the article seem to think that being Republican can somehow save them from poverty. What will it take for people to let go of their various ideologies that keep us fighting each other and see that the issue isn't Republican vs Democrat, white vs black, gay vs straight, women vs men, middle class vs the poor, America vs the rest of the world, but rather psychopaths (especially those in power) vs human beings?
Poverty has always been a reality for some people and, too often, those people have found themselves demonized by the more fortunate who have managed to avoid it, but now, as things get progressively worse and pathologicals tighten their grip, many in the upper and middle classes are being schooled in the uncomfortable and inconvenient truth that many in the US and around the world have known for centuries: that most governments are corrupt and anyone can suddenly find themselves on the bottom rung at any time.
For more insight on how the American Dream has been a nightmare for many, see these Sott links:
The facade of the American dream
The American Dream: How the Banksters captured and subverted the United States
American Eulogy