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Admin · Posted January 12th, 2009, 09:18 AM

This is one crazy dude...

Original story is here.

Inmate rips out eye, then claims he ate it
Judge ruled him competent to stand trial after similar incident in 2004

A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye, authorities said Friday.

Andre Thomas told officers he ate it.

Thomas, 25, was arrested for the fatal stabbings of his estranged wife, their young son and her 13-month-old daughter in March 2004. Their hearts also had been ripped out. He was convicted and condemned for the infant's death.

While in the Grayson County Jail in Sherman, Thomas similarly had plucked out his right eye before his trial later in 2004. A judge subsequently ruled he was competent to stand trial.

A death-row officer at the Polunsky Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice found Thomas in his cell with blood on his face and had him taken to the unit infirmary.

"Thomas said he pulled out his eye and subsequently ingested it," agency spokesman Jason Clark said Friday.

Thomas was treated at East Texas Medical Center in Tyler after the Dec. 9 incident. Then he was transferred and remains at the Jester Unit, a prison psychiatric facility southwest of Houston.

"He will finally be able to receive the mental health care that we had wanted and begged for from day 1," Bobbie Peterson-Cate, Thomas' trial attorney, told the Sherman Herald Democrat. "He is insane and mentally ill. It is exactly the same reason he pulled out the last one."

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Zoe · Posted January 12th, 2009, 10:55 AM

Well, good for him, now he's blind! People will do ANYTHING to get the judge to think they've gone insane. Sure, it IS insane, but at least it looks like the judge wasn't fooled the first time, either.

-Ra- · Posted January 13th, 2009, 07:54 AM

If he's really insane, he should rip off his nuts, only THEN I'll believe he's "truly" insane.

Ra,

Zoe · Posted January 13th, 2009, 10:33 AM

Originally Posted by -Ra-

If he's really insane, he should rip off his nuts, only THEN I'll believe he's "truly" insane.

Ra,

Yeah! Then he should stick them in his eye sockets!

Admin · Posted January 13th, 2009, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by Zoe

Yeah! Then he should stick them in his eye sockets!

I can hear the talk in th eprison yard already... "Hey there goes crazy ol' nuteyes."

TigerLily013 · Posted January 13th, 2009, 12:38 PM

Originally Posted by Admin

I can hear the talk in th eprison yard already... "Hey there goes crazy ol' nuteyes."

Prisoner: HEY! He's got a lot of balls to be looking at me like that!

Quite literally.

Zoe · Posted January 13th, 2009, 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by TigerLily013

Prisoner: HEY! He's got a lot of balls to be looking at me like that!

Quite literally.

The man's a nutter!

Dr. Pwner · Posted January 14th, 2009, 10:46 AM

I've said it before, you people are sick. It's so nice to find a place where I fit in. :p

OK, taking kind of a serious tack: Accident insurance policies often pay out the same amount for certain injuries as for death. For example, if a policyholder loses both eyes, he receives the same benefit payment as his beneficiaries would have received if he had died. Maybe the penal system should use this as a model. Now that this guy is blind, how likely is he to commit another violent crime? (To paraphrase the old saying, "See no evil, do no evil.") Unless the aim of capital punishment is retaliation or simply eliminating an unwanted citizen (rather than preventing future offenses), why not consider this guy's execution completed? I've heard that it actually costs much more in legal fees, etc., to execute someone than to keep them in prison for life. I'll bet establishing a home for blind ex-convicts and offering real rehabilitative training (braille, etc.) would be cheaper still. I think blinding might be a more humane alternative to frying, hanging, or lethally injecting - and even if it's not, doesn't it seem that a guy deserves some kind of break for taking such a bold initiative himself?

Always thinking...

Admin · Posted January 14th, 2009, 12:23 PM

Great point... Though I seriously question your phrasing of "taking such a bold initiative himself" since I question his sanity enough to think it is not so much a bold initiative as it is an episode of the crazies. :p

It is hard for me to answer the aim of capital punishment since I have not been in the situation of wanting a guy killed off because thats what he did to a loved one. I can say that the aim is a higher and more moral one... However, if somebody were to, for example, harm my mother or nice I would likely be trying to harm them myself and/or push for severe punishment. Let's put this aside though for the sake of argument. I think the aim of capital punishment SHOULD be for rehabilitation. Now is a person really rehabilitated just because they can not see an easy target? I have to think the person would find a new way to do some harm... It may be more difficult... I have to assume the tendencies and/or the lack of conscience are still there with or without eyeballs.

Naughty KP · Posted January 14th, 2009, 05:20 PM

Thanks admin! Didn't you know Half blind mental cases put me off my food! Now look what you've done! I'm never eating these again!

*vomits/lol*

NKP

Admin · Posted January 14th, 2009, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by Naughty Kuchi-Patchi

Thanks admin! Didn't you know Half blind mental cases put me off my food! Now look what you've done! I'm never eating these again!

*vomits/lol*

NKP

WTF are those?!

Naughty KP · Posted January 14th, 2009, 06:38 PM

Originally Posted by Admin

WTF are those?!

Gummy Eyeball Lollies of course!

They taste like strawberry.

NKP

Surfer_Girl · Posted January 14th, 2009, 09:19 PM

Originally Posted by Naughty Kuchi-Patchi

Gummy Eyeball Lollies of course!

They taste like strawberry.

NKP

WHERE DO THEY SELL THESE? (I want some. xD)

~SG~

Colortchi · Posted January 14th, 2009, 09:28 PM

Originally Posted by Naughty Kuchi-Patchi

Gummy Eyeball Lollies of course!

They taste like strawberry.

NKP

I ate one of those before.

They are good. Anyone want a snack? -rips put left eyeball-
Tastes like banana

.

TigerLily013 · Posted January 14th, 2009, 11:51 PM

Originally Posted by Colortchi

I ate one of those before.
They are good. Anyone want a snack? -rips put left eyeball-
Tastes like banana .

That's WAY too easy after all the previous talk about him stuffing his testicles in his eye sockets. WAY toooooo easssyyyyyy.

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Zoe Senior Member Posts: 2,584 Blog Entries: 5 Thanked 434 Times LOLed 403 Times	#2 Posted January 12th, 2009, 10:55 AM Well, good for him, now he's blind! People will do ANYTHING to get the judge to think they've gone insane. Sure, it IS insane, but at least it looks like the judge wasn't fooled the first time, either.

-Ra- Senior Member Posts: 2,058 Thanked 445 Times LOLed 714 Times	#3 Posted January 13th, 2009, 07:54 AM If he's really insane, he should rip off his nuts, only THEN I'll believe he's "truly" insane. Ra,

Zoe Senior Member Posts: 2,584 Blog Entries: 5 Thanked 434 Times LOLed 403 Times	#4 Posted January 13th, 2009, 10:33 AM Originally Posted by -Ra- If he's really insane, he should rip off his nuts, only THEN I'll believe he's "truly" insane. Ra, Yeah! Then he should stick them in his eye sockets!

Admin Administrator Posts: 4,412 Blog Entries: 23 Thanked 261 Times LOLed 363 Times	#5 Posted January 13th, 2009, 12:32 PM Originally Posted by Zoe Yeah! Then he should stick them in his eye sockets! I can hear the talk in th eprison yard already... "Hey there goes crazy ol' nuteyes."

TigerLily013 Senior Member Posts: 458 Thanked 65 Times LOLed 48 Times	#6 Posted January 13th, 2009, 12:38 PM Originally Posted by Admin I can hear the talk in th eprison yard already... "Hey there goes crazy ol' nuteyes." Prisoner: HEY! He's got a lot of balls to be looking at me like that! Quite literally.

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Zoe Senior Member Posts: 2,584 Blog Entries: 5 Thanked 434 Times LOLed 403 Times	#7 Posted January 13th, 2009, 01:26 PM Originally Posted by TigerLily013 Prisoner: HEY! He's got a lot of balls to be looking at me like that! Quite literally. The man's a nutter!

Naughty KP Senior Member Posts: 1,867 Blog Entries: 239 Thanked 112 Times LOLed 209 Times	#10 Posted January 14th, 2009, 05:20 PM Thanks admin! Didn't you know Half blind mental cases put me off my food! Now look what you've done! I'm never eating these again! vomits/lol NKP

Admin Administrator Posts: 4,412 Blog Entries: 23 Thanked 261 Times LOLed 363 Times	#11 Posted January 14th, 2009, 05:58 PM Originally Posted by Naughty Kuchi-Patchi Thanks admin! Didn't you know Half blind mental cases put me off my food! Now look what you've done! I'm never eating these again! vomits/lol NKP WTF are those?!

Naughty KP Senior Member Posts: 1,867 Blog Entries: 239 Thanked 112 Times LOLed 209 Times	#12 Posted January 14th, 2009, 06:38 PM Originally Posted by Admin WTF are those?! Gummy Eyeball Lollies of course! They taste like strawberry. NKP

Surfer_Girl Member Posts: 153 Thanked 14 Times LOLed 21 Times	#13 Posted January 14th, 2009, 09:19 PM Originally Posted by Naughty Kuchi-Patchi Gummy Eyeball Lollies of course! They taste like strawberry. NKP WHERE DO THEY SELL THESE? (I want some. xD) ~SG~

Colortchi New Member Posts: 16 LOLed 0 Times	#14 Posted January 14th, 2009, 09:28 PM Originally Posted by Naughty Kuchi-Patchi Gummy Eyeball Lollies of course! They taste like strawberry. NKP I ate one of those before. They are good. Anyone want a snack? -rips put left eyeball- Tastes like banana .

TigerLily013 Senior Member Posts: 458 Thanked 65 Times LOLed 48 Times	#15 Posted January 14th, 2009, 11:51 PM Originally Posted by Colortchi I ate one of those before. They are good. Anyone want a snack? -rips put left eyeball- Tastes like banana . That's WAY too easy after all the previous talk about him stuffing his testicles in his eye sockets. WAY toooooo easssyyyyyy.