In Russia this week police arrested three vagrants suspected of eating a 25-year-old man they had butchered and selling other bits of the corpse to a local kebab house.

According to Reuters:

Suspicions were raised when dismembered parts of a human body were found near a bus stop in the outskirts of the Russian city of Perm, 1,150 km (720 miles) east of Moscow.

Three homeless men with previous criminal records have been arrested on suspicion of setting upon a foe with knives and a hammer before chopping up his corpse to eat, local investigators said in a statement on their www.susk.perm.ru Web site.

“After carrying out the crime, the corpse was divided up: part was eaten and part was also sold to a kiosk selling kebabs and pies,” the Prosecutor-General’s main investigative unit for the Perm region said in a statement issued Friday.

It was not immediately clear from the statement if any of the corpse had been sold to customers.

So I guess this stuff actually does happen in real life. But if you are absolutely honest with yourself you will admit that there is at least a 50% chance that every street kabob you’ve ever eaten was made with meat from a human corpse.

If cannibalism makes you laugh then you should check out the 2003 dark comedy, The Green Butchers directed by (and starring) Anders Thomas Jensen.

Thanks to Hans for tipping me off on this one.

[Via: Reuters]