“The Attorney General says a nursing home resident in Magee has been arrested for second degree murder involving the death of his roommate,” fox19.com reports. “63-year-old Jerrell Eubanks, a resident of the Hillcrest Nursing Center in Magee, was arrested Wednesday evening by investigators with the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, with assistance from the Magee Police Department. He has a bond of $100K. Eubanks is charged with second degree murder for the death of his roommate at the nursing home. He is accused of pushing a cellophane bag containing a sandwich down the throat of the 83 year old victim, causing his death.” [h/t JME]
That is seriously effed up.
Tell me about it…. I think I’d rather be shot than die that way.
This seems like a republished onion article
No one needs both sides of a sandwich.
Ban high capacity lunches.
So full of win.
Wonder if just crazy or an a failed attempt to simulate an accidental chocking.
I’m not going to agree with banning those type sandwiches! PB and Jelly was our lunch sandwich forever when we came to America in the 50’s.
RF: I will take you to court to prevent this banning.
I suppose you go the idea from MDA!
I think that you’re leaping to conclusions, here. It might’ve been the peanut butter IN the sandwich, or the strawberry jam, or the deadly combination of PB AND J, or the bread being a bit dry, or maybe the evil cellophane bag. To wildly condemn the sandwich as a whole, without forensic testing and proof is grossly unfair.
Should it arise that the cellophane bag was indeed the culprit, we should all remember that the 2nd Amendment was never intended to cover cellophane, a modern invention unforeseen by our Founding Fathers, but instead was meant to apply to waxed-paper wrappers. I don’t believe that any rational sandwich-maker would object to sane sandwich laws that included the outlawing of cellophane or other clear plastic wrap of any kind, when waxed paper is so much safer.
It’s for the children. And old people.
It’s for the children who will eventually become old people.
Sandwich of Death?
http://vimeo.com/58920860
Deathwich. And it’s recyclable.
We need to ban bread slicers that go up. For the (63-year-old) children.
PB&J sammiches don’t kill people; people kill people.
Two camps, those who would kill for a pbj, and those who would rather die than eat one.
You missed those who would die BECAUSE they ate one.
I want to know what the roommate did to make him SO angry… Then I vow to never do that myself.
You’ve never seen an 83-yo in a nursing home, have you?
I wonder if the sandwich halves were shaped like a gun?
I wonder if this will make any of the “mainstream” national newscasts. If the guy had shot his roomie it almost certainly would have: “See, guns enable–nay, empower– even the physically disabled to turn an ordinary dispute into a murder.” But since no gun was involved–well, heck, the room-temperature victim may not even count as “dead” with the newsies.
Whoa! Talk about burying the lede. You gotta get that action up higher in the story.
Look at Bill McClellan’s column in today’s St. Louis Post Dispatch: Assault With A Deadly Pork Sandwich. Homeless woman cuts up homeless man with box cutter. Woman says she just hit him with a pork steak sandwich. “It must have been the bone”, she say’s
How does this have anything to do with guns?
Directly? Nothing. They’re employing absurdity (ban sandwiches!) to illustrate absurdity (ban guns, ban Internet ammo sales, ban magazines of an arbitrary capacity, etc!)
Sandwiches, not unlike self-defense firearms, are useful, enjoyable and and a routine part of millions upon millions of people’s daily lives. Including….gasp!…..minors!
That a stray pyscho here and there occasionally uses a sandwich to murder someone, is no justification for denying many millions of other peaceful people their food, or firearms, freedoms.
Peanut butter is really sticky and clogs the air ways. It was the cause of death, no doubt. Mere civilians should not be allowed peanut butter as only certified chefs can handle something so deadly.
Peanut butter is a cop killer condiment. If we allow citizens to own it the rate of cop murders will surely rise!
nursing home sandwiches are dangerous and should be banned!
But i want to know why the medicaid fraud unit would be making the arrest, seems like homicide is local pd jurisdiction?
seems like killing a recipient would be saving tax dollars?
hmmmm
This story has made me hungry. I’m off to the kitchen.
Don’t forget, if you live in NYC, the limit is 7 sandwiches per day!
Maybe there was an exposed lead bullet in the sandwich. and the guy died from lead poisoning??
I wouldn’t put it past Bloomberg to try banning sandwiches:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/nyregion/bloomberg-plans-a-ban-on-large-sugared-drinks.html?smid=pl-share
Sorry to tell you, Bloomy, but banning things isn’t the solution to everything.
Ban high capacity sandwiches. You don’t need a sandwich over 1/2in thick.
Look, I have been around sandwiches my entire life – heck, I’ve even eaten a few myself – and I have never once seen a sandwich jump up and ram itself down the throat of an octogenarian on its own. Sandwiches are not animate objects and are not innately dangerous if consumed responsibly. People have an fundamental, natural, and innate right to eat and bear sandwiches.
So, the police arrested a nursing home patient and put him in federal prison? Sounds like the plan was to kill his roommate to get better accommodations.
Lee’s Summit the NRA is forfeiting our rights for profit and gain by generating fear. The kind of fear you are manifesting. They have authorized and played a role in all American gun control laws. But they are fine with you an your shotgun.
You should read the 2nd Amendment. There is No permission to hunt. It’s to fight an invader or a tyrannical government and today that would require more than a shotgun and a duck call.
If you have to ask for permission from a government its no longer a right. And if you have some time to catch up on history, look at the “Calculus” the Jews were given in Germany and ask any of our Vets that saw combat what they would have liked a shotgun or an AR-15?
You see its been ruled that we can own only military style weapons in the Miller decision. Your gun does not likely qualify and the ones you do not under stand do qualify.
Put some knowledge into your thinking.