[kj] OT: Feel-good story of the day

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE49N3MR20081024

German cannibal loses appeal in murder case
Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:08am EDT

[...]

In a tale that horrified Germany, Meiwes found his victim, Bernd-Juergen 
Brandes, over the Internet. The IT manager Brandes had posted an advert 
for someone to "obliterate his life and leave no trace."

Brandes traveled by train to meet Meiwes in the western town of 
Rotenburg in March 2001. There, the cannibal videotaped himself severing 
Brandes' penis with a knife before both men tried to eat it.

Bleeding profusely, Brandes fell unconscious. With the video recorder 
still rolling, Meiwes laid him out on a bench, kissing him on the lips 
before plunging a knife into his throat.

He suspended the victim on a meat hook and froze 30 kg of flesh in 
parcels and later ate some with cabbage and potatoes.