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There are many reasons to fear parts of California not near the coast. So much so, in fact, that LAist editor Zach Behrens and your SFist editor tend to argue about which of us has to write about items in central, non-coastline parts of the state. Here's one reason why: a Bakersfield father is in jail "after allegedly biting out one of his 4-year-old son's eyes and mutilating the other." The child told investigators, "My daddy ate my eyes." Neighbors who found the injured kid also discovered the boy's father, Angel Vidal Mendoza, 34, in the backyard of a nearby home "hacking his own legs with an ax." Mendoza has been charged with mayhem, torture, child cruelty and inflicting an injury to a child. This raises questions about the quality, or lack thereof, of Kern County's Child Protective Services department. It seems Mendoza and the boy's 23-year-old mother were "charged with being under the influence of PCP in 2006 and pleaded no contest to child cruelty charges in that case."
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Jesus Christ. We need to be able to block posts like these. I can't come back here today if there's a hance I can read this puke-inducing hed again.
Speak for yourself. "We" don't need to do anything. I find this post highly newsworthy. No one seems to have a problem with KPIX posting the story. Maybe there's a "hance" you're being a little dramatic...
Typo smack? Come now.
Ye gods, you are annoying.
i lol'd
Beth, what is it you actually do?
She makes me jealous that I'm not nearly as creative, smart, or as hard-working, just for starters.
OK, everybody, group hug.
Sometimes when I'm bored, I stare out the window and wonder what I could do to annoy the anonymous commenter who calls him or herself KatyG.
And then I realize, nothing. Not one thing. Just being alive is enough. And I am at peace.
And Sleestack, I have a regular day job, hang out with saucy eye-eaters like Brock and write the occasional blog post, which I will continue to do until I get my "those who can't, comment" t-shirt business off the ground.
What is it that you do?
Eegads, is that what sobriety has done to you? Staring off into space and wondering about SFist commenters?
Now I'm afraid to stop drinking.
Let me know how that business goes. I want a t-shirt like that. Preferably with the wording phrased in a youtube style comment box.
WTF. Seriously. That's all there is to say.
No WTF, PCP! Makes one impervious to baton, taser, pepper spray, and the first clip of bullets.
At least do what Boing Boing does and post a unicorn chaser. (Here it's probably a Photo du Jour of some hot dude in Dolores Park.)
i heart you all dearly. but i'm not here to powder your tender bottoms. seriously, if you think this is upsetting, try HAVING YOU EYEBALLS EATEN.
Yeah, but to be fair, you just posted it for shock value...Bakersfield is to SF like Redding is to LA.
well, of course i did.
Bakersfield literally has no redeeming features whatsoever
You probably haven't been there at any point in the last decade.
I was there in 2005.
That was enough.
Spoken like someone who has never been to Dewar's.
The ads on this story are charming.
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Damn, and I thought my parents were strict.
I think if I ever did something that resulted in me being legally charged with "mayhem" then I would put it on my resume.
I haven't been able to shake this story all day, not really for the gross-out aspects of it as much as how incredibly sad it is.
Delicious PCP... makes me wanna go home, put the baby to bed and jack myself up till I smash my face through a plate glass window.
I'm kind of surprised that nobody at least commended the guy for having the decency and fortitude to try to hack his own legs off as a follow up.
If you ate your own kid's eyes, what would your follow up be?
Vomiting.
Too passive. You lose.
Tell him to suck it up and go clean his room with his one good eye. (I'm going to slip in the shower for that).
When you find yourself in the backyard sawing off your own legs after eating your child's eyes, somewhere along the way, you made some bad life choices.
Not to mention that is going to be one fucked up hangover.
I lam a local... and sad as it is to admit, PCP abuse is a real problem out here... East Bakersfield in particular
Dear editor,
Your website was the first to make me aware of this story, and I appreciate that you have posted it. In the future, please to do not censor your content at the request of a small group of readers. You have readers out here who appreciate you bringing otherwise unreported news to the forefront. We are all adults here, and we can take responsibility for what we choose to read.
Thank you very much.
Chill pill, please. And pardon me if I had an immediate visceral and disgusted reaction to the idea of a child's eyes being eaten.
If *only* people listened to my every word!