Man High On Bath Salts Screams 'I'm Going To Eat You!' Resists Taser & Pepper Spray
July 3 2012, Published 1:00 p.m. ET
By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter
A terrifying 'zombie cannibal' is thought to have been high on bath salts when he attacked police officers with super human strength and threatened to eat them.
Frightened golfers at a driving range in Alpharetta, Georgia, called the cops when 21-year-old Karl Laventure went on a hysterical rampage running around half-naked waving a golf club, reported WSBTV.com.
Video footage shows the crazed man being held down by several officers as he screams incoherently about God, Biggie and Tupac, and then threatens, "I'll eat you! Don't make me eat you."
The rant is eerily similar to the notorious case of Rudy Eugene, who ate the face off a homeless man in Miami, Florida in May, while growling at the authorities when they tried to restrain him. It was strongly suspected that the 31-year-old was on bath salts, however, the Medical Examiner's office recently revealed that only marijuana was found in his system at the time of the attack.
During the latest incident, Laventure "came running at us out of the woodline," Officer Ross Hancock of the Gwinnett County Police Department told WSBTV, and when his partner blasted him with painful pepper spray. "He didn't even wipe his eyes, he just kept them open."
The lack of response called Hancock to pull out his Taser, and although Laventure initially went down, he hopped right back up again. "We had to Tase him approximately five more times on scene to get him down. It took several officers to hold him down to get him cuffed," revealed the officer.
"He was still talking gi