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Offline Miss Mia

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Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« on: January 09, 2009, 06:09:40 PM »
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Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it



HOUSTON – A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye and told authorities he ate it. Andre 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 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 took him to the 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 near Richmond 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."

At his trial, defense lawyers also argued he suffered from alcohol and drug abuse.

Thomas does not have an execution date.

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ewwwwww  :puke:
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2009, 06:39:41 PM »
an eye for an I, so to speak.
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2009, 06:46:39 PM »
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2009, 08:15:00 PM »
Guess that last meal won't be necessary after all. Let's fire up Sparky and get this show on the road. Every day this asshat continues to breathe he's wasting taxpayer money.
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2009, 08:24:38 PM »
Quote from: Tantal on January 09, 2009, 08:15:00 PM
Guess that last meal won't be necessary after all. Let's fire up Sparky and get this show on the road. Every day this asshat continues to breathe he's wasting taxpayer money.

I shit my eyes out once, but that was because I was hammered the night before.
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2009, 08:26:14 PM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on January 09, 2009, 08:24:38 PM
I shit my eyes out once, but that was because I was hammered the night before.

TMI, WE.  T-M-I.
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2009, 09:01:25 PM »
Quote from: Miss Mia on January 09, 2009, 08:26:14 PM
TMI, WE.  T-M-I.


I shit a shoe out that morning, too.  I have no idea where THAT came from.
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2009, 09:02:49 PM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on January 09, 2009, 09:01:25 PM
I shit a shoe out that morning, too.  I have no idea where THAT came from.

Sneaker, loafer or pump?
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2009, 09:28:07 PM »
Quote from: Miss Mia on January 09, 2009, 09:02:49 PM
Sneaker, loafer or pump?

i didn't actually notice.  and I never wear pumps. :whatever: :-)
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2009, 09:30:15 PM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on January 09, 2009, 09:28:07 PM
i didn't actually notice.  and I never wear pumps outside the house :whatever: :-)


Fixed.   :-)
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2009, 09:39:18 PM »
Quote from: Miss Mia on January 09, 2009, 09:30:15 PM

Fixed.   :-)

yeah, that's much better. :whatever:
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2009, 09:44:03 PM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on January 09, 2009, 09:39:18 PM
yeah, that's much better. :whatever:

For my sense of humor it is.  It made me laugh.   :-)
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #12 on: January 09, 2009, 09:48:56 PM »
Quote from: Miss Mia on January 09, 2009, 09:44:03 PM
For my sense of humor it is.  It made me laugh.   :-)

you set yourself up for an easy KO on that one, but I won't take it. :-)
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #13 on: January 09, 2009, 09:49:55 PM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on January 09, 2009, 09:48:56 PM
you set yourself up for an easy KO on that one, but I won't take it. :-)

Come on, go ahead.  I won't be upset.
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #14 on: January 09, 2009, 10:03:17 PM »
Quote from: Miss Mia on January 09, 2009, 09:49:55 PM
Come on, go ahead.  I won't be upset.

i would feel guilty in the morning.
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #15 on: January 09, 2009, 10:05:40 PM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on January 09, 2009, 10:03:17 PM
i would feel guilty in the morning.

Not nearly as much as when you pulled the pump outta your butt.
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #16 on: January 09, 2009, 10:07:57 PM »
Quote from: Miss Mia on January 09, 2009, 10:05:40 PM
Not nearly as much as when you pulled the pump outta your butt.

strictly speaking, baby, that isn't "guilt".  it's a "typical hangover".
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #17 on: January 09, 2009, 10:09:04 PM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on January 09, 2009, 10:07:57 PM
strictly speaking, baby, that isn't "guilt".  it's a "typical hangover".

So do you have a whole collection of women's shoes that have been in your butt?
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #18 on: January 09, 2009, 10:11:36 PM »
Quote from: Miss Mia on January 09, 2009, 10:09:04 PM
So do you have a whole collection of women's shoes that have been in your butt?

under the bed, mostly.  across the room, frequently.  and in one incredible encounter, in the neighbor's front yard.
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #19 on: January 09, 2009, 10:13:09 PM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on January 09, 2009, 10:11:36 PM
under the bed, mostly.  across the room, frequently.  and in one incredible encounter, in the neighbor's front yard.

And your neighbor didn't call the police.  Cool neighborhood.
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #20 on: January 09, 2009, 10:15:55 PM »
Quote from: Miss Mia on January 09, 2009, 10:13:09 PM
And your neighbor didn't call the police.  Cool neighborhood.

nope.  he called the fire department.
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #21 on: January 09, 2009, 10:20:24 PM »
Quote from: Wretched Excess on January 09, 2009, 10:15:55 PM
nope.  he called the fire department.

Okay, I was looking for that scene from Tommy Boy where Chris Farley is getting sprayed down by water at the gas station singing "I'm a maniac," but I couldn't so this will have to suffice.

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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #22 on: January 11, 2009, 06:57:49 AM »
It could get messy if this guy gets a hankering for chitlins.
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #23 on: January 11, 2009, 06:59:41 AM »
He is clearly mentally ill.
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Re: Texas death row inmate pulls out eye, eats it
« Reply #24 on: January 11, 2009, 07:16:21 AM »
Mentally ill or not, why is he still breathing?
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