Texas Inmate Pulled Out Own Eye And Ate It

1. Justin Lynes
   January 10th, 2009 at 7:58 am

   I. am. horrified.
   This sounds like the kind of guy who would turn out to be a horrible killer.

2. Geekazoid
   January 10th, 2009 at 8:49 am

   Maybe this fits in with that tuna eyeball story. Weirdest thing you ever ate, hard to top this!

3. Darragh
   January 10th, 2009 at 9:05 am

   Thanks Alex, it's great to get up in the morning and see this - first story - front page! It's pretty horrific.

4. Lew A
   January 10th, 2009 at 9:22 am

   This is probably going to sound retarded... but I don't think insane people pull out their eyes and eat them so they can get medical care.

   It seems like he was trying to act insane in order to get what he wanted. If he was truly insane, he'd pull out his eye and eat it without any justifications.

   But what do I know.

   Lew

5. Bret Hammond
   January 10th, 2009 at 10:01 am

   NEAT!

6. LisaL
   January 10th, 2009 at 10:19 am

   I guess you'd have to be pretty damn desperate to try to make yourself look insane (if he's not that is).
   I mean damn, that takes some crazy ass balls of steel to even think about doing something like that.
   UGH Making my own eyeballs hurt just thinking about it... BLEH

7. Gerry
   January 10th, 2009 at 11:10 am

   An animal will knaw off its own leg to get out of a steel trap before the trapper comes back to finish him off.... sounds like the same thing going on here.

   If he's insane, then he's too dangerous to himself or other to continue living. If he IS plotting, then he is WAY too dangerous to continue living.

   Continue with the execution; we don't need something like that living with the human race....

8. alice
   January 10th, 2009 at 11:14 am

   The pain you would feel whilst doing that I think would prevent you, or at least stop whilst doing it, from "acting insane".
   Also, the prison officer found him. If he wanted attention he would have done it in front of people.

9. rr
   January 10th, 2009 at 11:59 am

   i think this person (in my professional opinion) sounds like he truly has some psychiatric issues.

   i am surprised that no one has questioned whether it is right to condemn a man like him to die. truly i wonder if he had received care before things got this bad whether he would have done the things that got him on death row.

10. CheeseDuck
    January 10th, 2009 at 1:06 pm

    Maybe he just wanted to save his life, so he ate his eyeball? Hmm?

11. Lamonstrous
    January 10th, 2009 at 1:26 pm

    NOT NEAT! Leave this crap for rotten.com

12. whitcwa
    January 10th, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    He pulled out both eyeballs, on different occasions. After the first time the judge thought he was fit to stand trial. He should have been locked up forever for his and other's safety. We don't execute the mentally ill. That said, if one faced life in prison (or execution), I think that losing ones vision wouldn't be too bad. I'm serious. You might prefer not seeing your surroundings. I guess closing your eyes would work too...

13. violet
    January 10th, 2009 at 3:14 pm

    Whitcwa is correct: he had already plucked out one eye before trial, after which the judge said he was STILL FIT to stand. Obviously a, um, miscalculation.

    He's deeply sick and probably can't ever be well. Regular prison isn't the spot for him. And no, it's not okay to kill people who are so insane. They are dangerous and need to be isolated from society and protected from themselves, but obviously don't have the capacity to understand societal rules and should not be punished as if they do, i.e., with execution.

14. abeltwen
    January 10th, 2009 at 4:36 pm

    I love neatorama. But this is not very neat. At all.

15. GailW
    January 10th, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    Dude, way too gross for a cool site like Neatorama. Leave this gross stuff to Obscure Store Dot Com. Please!

16. Geekazoid
    January 10th, 2009 at 5:00 pm

    Oh lord, if it's not politics it's something else. Can't please everyone I guess.

17. just a guy
    January 10th, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    I thought this was 'neat' is a "Dude WTF" kind of way. Its not like its a story about 100 cages kitten buring to death on the week of christmas, or anything.

18. Johnny Cat
    January 11th, 2009 at 12:21 am

    The "Not Neat" crowd comes out in force.
    haha.

19. toynbeeconvector
    January 11th, 2009 at 2:40 am

    Their psychiatric unit is called the "Jester Unit"?

20. tortillapete
    January 11th, 2009 at 1:58 pm

    If he wanted "seefood", he should have gone to Red Lobster...wa-wa-waaaaa....

21. Anon
    January 12th, 2009 at 12:17 am

    The thought of this makes me ill. gross gross gross.
    Whats worse? I can't stop thinking about how gross it is. I think I need to go vomit.

22. Moodindigo
    January 12th, 2009 at 7:04 am

    I propose a 1 week joke sin-bin punishment for tortillapete.

    I agree with just a guy in thinking it's kinda neat in a “Dude WTF” way.

23. Lemon
    January 12th, 2009 at 3:58 pm

    Come on Neatorama has always posted this kind of stuff. It's neat in a gross way.
    And on topic poor fella must be blind now, unless they put the eye back in...

24. tortillapete
    January 13th, 2009 at 12:41 am

    sorry to offend - thought I was being "insightful"...

25. lisa
    January 13th, 2009 at 4:09 am

    I guess he's not much of a danger to people now that he can't see them! Must be insane... that's way to extreme to be faking it.

26. Roger Van Steeden
    January 13th, 2009 at 10:59 am

    Well once you rip out your eye detaching the optic nerve its impossible to to regain your sight as there are 1.2 million nerves to be connected

27. Kevin
    January 13th, 2009 at 2:01 pm

    Well I guess they arent going to "socket" to him now. He seems to have an "eye" for knowing the way around the law. FRY HIM!

28. Kevin
    January 13th, 2009 at 2:04 pm

    For all of you bleeding hearts that think he should be spared, do you know that he literaly tore the heart out of his wife and children? One was only 13 months old. Think about that!

29. Roger Van Steeden
    January 13th, 2009 at 8:07 pm

    How did he pull his eye out without screaming the place down as his eye is connected to his brain by the optic nerve and is held in place by other structures as well

30. Chandrielle
    January 15th, 2009 at 2:00 pm

    D8

    Holy crap.

31. venkatraman
    August 3rd, 2009 at 9:12 am

    Why the motherfuck would someone pull his eye out? he is a utterly retarded muslim moron like allah the pedophile.

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