{"id":506,"date":"2003-12-03T09:59:41","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T09:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbassford.com\/?p=506"},"modified":"2021-11-12T20:11:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T01:11:32","slug":"a_real_life_han","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/03\/a_real_life_han\/","title":{"rendered":"A real life Hannibal."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt from a <a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/World\/2003\/12\/03\/275864-ap.html\">news article<\/a> that I just read:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A computer expert accused of killing, dismembering and eating another man who allegedly agreed to the arrangement over the Internet went on trial for murder Wednesday at a court in central Germany.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure which aspect of this is more disturbing &#8211; the fact that somebody committed this act, or the fact that somebody actually (supposedly) wanted them to.<\/p>\n<p>It gives a whole new meaning to online ordering.  I wonder if the victim actually &#8220;delivered&#8221; himself to the customer&#8217;s door &#8211; and if he took Interac&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Later:<\/b> I obviously didn&#8217;t read the article carefully enough.  The killer went to the victim&#8217;s house.  Also, it was the killer who placed an online ad for anybody willing to be killed and eaten, and the victim who replied.  But it&#8217;s still disturbing.  Any which way you slice it.  (I&#8217;d better stop now.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt from a news article that I just read: &#8220;A computer expert accused of killing, dismembering and eating another man who allegedly agreed to the arrangement over the Internet went on trial for murder Wednesday at a court in central Germany.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure which aspect of this is more disturbing &#8211; the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/2003\/12\/03\/a_real_life_han\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;A real life Hannibal.&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbassford.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}