That’s one way to celebrate your 21st birthday.
A Georgia man threatened to eat human flesh, spewing about God, Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls and the Avengers, while stripped down to his underwear during a prolonged freak-out at a golf driving range, officials said.
During his rabid rant, Karl Laventure remarked, “I’ll eat you, I won’t eat you, I do want to eat you but I won’t,” according to cops on the scene.
Police in Gwinnett County said they’d never before seen a suspect fight through a blast of pepper spray or more than a dozen shots from a Taser.
They attribute Laventure’s ability to withstand pain and his incoherent babbling to the synthetic drugs he’d smoked for his 21st birthday.
“For a normal person, they get hit once or twice with the Taser, they’re pretty much done fighting,” said Cpl. Jake Smith of the Gwinnett County Police Department. “It’s like he couldn’t feel pain.”
Bath salts, an amphetamine-like drug now banned in several states, has been suspected in a series of “zombie” attacks in recent months. The drug has also been linked to psychotic outbursts, severe anxiety and hallucinations.
The latest bizarre occurrence to come to light unfolded June 14 at the Atlanta Golf Center in Lilburn, Ga., where Laventure appeared in the shop, dressed neatly on khakis and a polo shirt.
He then grabbed a club and marched outside, where a witness said he was “making animal noises” as he batted balls around the range. He then fell to his knees when approached by an employee who demanded he return the club.
Laventure then stripped to his boxers and jumped in a pond before running into nearby woods. The police were still talking to witnesses when Laventure emerged from the trees, running directly at two cops.
“It was like something out of National Geographic, when the lion is chasing the gazelle at a dead sprint,” Smith said.
One of the officers shot Laventure directly in the eyes with pepper spray, but Laventure refused orders to drop to the ground, and began ranting in a stream of consciousness.
“He didn’t even wipe his eyes, he just kept them open,” Officer Ross Hancock told WSB-TV.
It took at least four cops and several Taser shots to ultimately subdue Laventure in a parking lot.
According to a police report, emergency medical workers gave the handcuffed suspect a sedative, and he became more lucid, even apologizing for “doing things he could not remember.”
He also admitted smoking the bath salts, sprinkled in a marijuana joint, although he didn’t know when or where.
But after the sedative began to wear off at a nearby hospital, Laventure again became combative, climbing out of bed and threatening a nurse and security guard.
“Typically when we encounter someone who doesn’t seem to feel pain, they’re on PCP or is in a state of excited delirium on cocaine,” Smith said. “We haven’t seen anything like this before in our jurisdiction.”
Laventure was charged with disorderly conduct and obstructing a law enforcement officer, both misdemeanors.
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