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Formal complaint filed in case of Cañas man's strange diet

By the A.M. Costa Rica staff


The most controversial news story in Costa Rica is not about the free trade treaty. It's not about narcotraffickers or even about robbers and scamsters. It's about a man who, they claim, eats cats.

Such a wacky story normally would be confined to discussions between the newspaper that published it and readers. But The World Society for the Protection of Animals made the issue a public one Friday when it announced that it had filed a criminal complaint.

The object of the complaint is a man named Douglas Barahona of Cañas. He was depicted July 20 in El Diario Extra eating a small chicken and a cat, both presumably alive when he started.

El Diario Extra is known for putting the dead body of the day on Page One and using other sensational, newspaper-selling techniques. The newspaper also has a reputation of publishing the most sensational available version of the truth.

Whether the story of the animal eater is true or a fabrication is yet to be determined. Newspapers have been known to publish hoaxes. And members of the public have been known to trick newspaper reporters and photographers.
Nevertheless, the story was republished in English elsewhere, and animal lovers have been, well, clawing at El Diaro Extra since.

The newspaper responded by publishing last week an unkind column by Mario Ugalde, a subdirector. He said, in part that "many animals live better than the average Costa Rican and surely many of their defenders have their fathers in an old folks home so as not to inconvenience the dog of the house." He also noted the obvious, that readers eat cows, pigs and chickens that have to be butchered.

Perhaps what upset animals lovers the most was the newspaper's front page photo of Barahona gnawing on the kitten. Inside was a series of photos also supposedly showing him eating a live chick. Such antics have been popular for centuries in carnivals and sideshows. The word geek used to mean one who bites the heads off animals instead of the current computer nerd reference.

Now the matter is in the hands of the Ministerio Pública, the nation's prosecutor, in Cañas. The animal protection society alleged cruelty to animals and, strangely, bestiality, although there was no indication of the later sex crime in the Diario Extra article. The charges come under Artículo 382 of the penal code for which the punishment is a fine. The cruelty to animals prohibition is in the same league as public drunkenness and using obscene words and gestures

Here is a new out take on eating P*ssy...:shock:

ENJOY...



Just makes me want to go out eat more p*ssy....

Iggy...