Man Pulls Own Eye Out - Recites Bible Scripture

[matcom]

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Andre Thomas, the Sherman man accused of killing his wife, son and his wife's young daughter a week ago, quoted a Bible scripture Friday night after he apparently used his hands to pull out his own right eye.

Grayson County Sheriff Keith Gary said Thomas was in a jail cell directly across from the book-in station when he turned his back on the jail staff. Gary said the staff heard a scream, and then Thomas turned around with his eyeball in his hand.

Thomas is charged with one count of capital murder for the death of Laura Christine (Boren) Thomas. Police also contend that Thomas killed his son Andre Lee Boren and Mrs. Thomas' daughter, Leyha Marie Hughes. All three of the victims were discovered March 27 in Ms. Thomas' Sherman apartment. The bodies of the three victims had been mutilated.

Thomas, who apparently turned his knife on himself, walked into the Sherman Police Department later that same day and confessed to killing his wife. He was suffering from knife wounds and was taken to Wilson N. Jones Medical Center, where he underwent surgery. He was later transferred to the Grayson County Jail and placed on "suicide watch."

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alternate link (in case the above doesn't work)
http://www.kten.com/article.asp?id=2405

[Parrcrow]

1. Jee-zus Matcom; where do you buy your newspapers?

[GOPisEvil]

2. Yeow!!!! That could NOT have felt good.

Damn, now I have the heebie-jeebies!

[Paragon]

3. Wasn't his hand the offending appendage?

Oh, well - I suppose it was easier to put out the eye.

[Kadie]

4. Link doesn't work for me

What scripture did he recite while doing this?

or maybe he is just working on his insanity defense?

[Dead_Parrot]

6. Try this...

http://www.kten.com/article.asp?id=2405

That's pretty fucked up...

[mopaul]

17. strangely enough...Matthew 5:29....

if thy right eye offend thee, plucketh it out and cast it away from you...etc......it's for real look it up. that's probably why he plucked out the right headlight

[muchacho]

5. gimmie that old time religion

blah!

[bif]

7. Mat, where do you find these stories?

[matcom]

11. its my 'nose for news'

:D

[bmbmd]

8. "Out, out

vile jelly"

[Screaming Lord Byron]

9. Kinda horrifying that you can actually do that.

I used to have this compulsion as a kid that because I knew I could do something like that, there'd be nothing to stop me actually doing it, and maybe I'd just start doing it. Kinda like that weird suicidal compulsion that comes on when you're driving along an undivided highway and you think 'hmm, I could just drive into the opposite lane, couldn't I?'. Just me, then? Fine. I ain't crazy. No sir.

:crazy:

[AlienGirl]

12. I had that same weird compulsion/fear

I was actually scared I might pull my eyeballs out in my sleep. So scared that sometimes I tied my hands together before bed or slept with my arms in my nightgown.

Yes, I *am* insane. :crazy:

Tucker

[Richardo]

13. That was a pivotal scene in "Annie Hall"

The "head-on crash" fantasy by a then-unknown Christopher Walken as Annie Hall's dark, neurotic brother. Set up a great sight gag as he then took Woody Allen's character back to the airport in a storm.

[smirkymonkey]

16. My favorite scene in the whole movie!!

[smirkymonkey]

15. Not just you...I have that too

but usually it jumping in front of a subway car or flinging myself off a tall building or other high up place. I don't know what it's about - maybe some kind of control thing over death or some subconscious death wish.

Any psych major's out there? Can you enlighten us?

[Beware the Beast Man]

10. What many fundies seem to ignore

Is that Jesus HIMSELF spoke metaphorically in order to get his teachings across..."If your left eye causes you to sin, pluck out your right eye" is a figure of speech! Anyway, I dont think all this guy's pistons were firing in the first place.

[htuttle]

14. Ray Milland, "Man with the X Ray Eyes"

He quotes that very passage when he tears his eyes out at the end of the movie: