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04-10-2014, 09:59 AM
Dahmer home for sale, PETA suggests converting it to vegan restaurant
April 7, 2014 4:17 PM By Cora Van Olson
4/9/2014 update: PETA’s restaurant project alas, cannot go through due to zoning issues with turning the property into a restaurant. Plans for a vegan bed and breakfast also have reportedly been tabled because they doubt anyone would want to travel to spend the night in that house.
On its website PETA suggested that the Akron, Ohio, home of cannibal killer Jeffrey Dahmer, which is up for sale, could be re-purposed as a vegan restaurant. We salute anyone, especially anyone who shuns meat, who thinks they could eat a meal in that house, or even in the yard, after reading this.
Optimistically, PETA blogger Jennifer O’Connell wrote, “We’re always looking for ways to turn cruelty on its ugly head, so when we heard that serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer‘s childhood home had been put up for sale, we saw an opportunity to create good out of evil. Rather than remaining as a stark reminder of its dark past, the building can instead become the site of a celebration of culinary compassion.”
This is not an uninspired idea, but in the interests of full disclosure, knowing what happened in the house at 4480 West Bath Road would leave most people nauseated and unable to eat .
This is the house in which in 1978 Jeffrey Dahmer, then 18, killed his first victim, hitchhiker Steven Mark Hicks, also 18. Dahmer was living alone in the house some weeks after his parents split, and had just spent several hours drinking and getting high with Hicks when the teen decide it was time to leave. Dahmer didn’t want him to leave. So, he bludgeoned the young man to death with a 10-pound dumbbell. He then stripped the corpse, and as he masturbated on it realized that he was aroused by “the captivity of another human being, just as he’d been aroused as a boy over dissecting road kill, and then when he cut the body into pieces for disposal, he was excited all over again so he masturbated over the body.”
After dismembering Hicks’ body, Dahmer stuck it in the home’s crawlspace. He later retrieved the pieces, and put them in a shallow grave behind the house. Weeks later he dug up the pieces, stripped the meat off the bones, dissolved what he could in acid and flushed the rest down the toilet. He smashed the bones with a sledgehammer and scattered the shards behind the home. What FBI could find of Hicks’ remains was removed after Dahmer’s arrest and confession in 1991. It does not seem that Dahmer ate any of Hicks’ remains, though cannibalism and sex acts with the pieces of meat would later become part of his fetishistic ritual. Dahmer would go on to kill 17 more men and boys, drugging some and keeping them alive as his sex slaves/zombies for days.
In her post O’Connell likens Dahmer’s victims to “cows, pigs, and chickens” who “fear for their lives when confronted by a man with a knife. They are also drugged and dragged, and their limbs are bound. Their struggles and screams are ignored as they are killed and cut up to be consumed. Their bones are thrown away like garbage.” She feels that if the home were converted into a “cruelty-free vegan dining spot” patrons would be inspired “to choose nonviolent meals and practice compassion with every bite they take.”
She suggests naming the joint “Eat for Life—Home Cooking.”
The home is currently listed at $295,000, only serious offers get the tour
April 7, 2014 4:17 PM By Cora Van Olson
4/9/2014 update: PETA’s restaurant project alas, cannot go through due to zoning issues with turning the property into a restaurant. Plans for a vegan bed and breakfast also have reportedly been tabled because they doubt anyone would want to travel to spend the night in that house.
On its website PETA suggested that the Akron, Ohio, home of cannibal killer Jeffrey Dahmer, which is up for sale, could be re-purposed as a vegan restaurant. We salute anyone, especially anyone who shuns meat, who thinks they could eat a meal in that house, or even in the yard, after reading this.
Optimistically, PETA blogger Jennifer O’Connell wrote, “We’re always looking for ways to turn cruelty on its ugly head, so when we heard that serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer‘s childhood home had been put up for sale, we saw an opportunity to create good out of evil. Rather than remaining as a stark reminder of its dark past, the building can instead become the site of a celebration of culinary compassion.”
This is not an uninspired idea, but in the interests of full disclosure, knowing what happened in the house at 4480 West Bath Road would leave most people nauseated and unable to eat .
This is the house in which in 1978 Jeffrey Dahmer, then 18, killed his first victim, hitchhiker Steven Mark Hicks, also 18. Dahmer was living alone in the house some weeks after his parents split, and had just spent several hours drinking and getting high with Hicks when the teen decide it was time to leave. Dahmer didn’t want him to leave. So, he bludgeoned the young man to death with a 10-pound dumbbell. He then stripped the corpse, and as he masturbated on it realized that he was aroused by “the captivity of another human being, just as he’d been aroused as a boy over dissecting road kill, and then when he cut the body into pieces for disposal, he was excited all over again so he masturbated over the body.”
After dismembering Hicks’ body, Dahmer stuck it in the home’s crawlspace. He later retrieved the pieces, and put them in a shallow grave behind the house. Weeks later he dug up the pieces, stripped the meat off the bones, dissolved what he could in acid and flushed the rest down the toilet. He smashed the bones with a sledgehammer and scattered the shards behind the home. What FBI could find of Hicks’ remains was removed after Dahmer’s arrest and confession in 1991. It does not seem that Dahmer ate any of Hicks’ remains, though cannibalism and sex acts with the pieces of meat would later become part of his fetishistic ritual. Dahmer would go on to kill 17 more men and boys, drugging some and keeping them alive as his sex slaves/zombies for days.
In her post O’Connell likens Dahmer’s victims to “cows, pigs, and chickens” who “fear for their lives when confronted by a man with a knife. They are also drugged and dragged, and their limbs are bound. Their struggles and screams are ignored as they are killed and cut up to be consumed. Their bones are thrown away like garbage.” She feels that if the home were converted into a “cruelty-free vegan dining spot” patrons would be inspired “to choose nonviolent meals and practice compassion with every bite they take.”
She suggests naming the joint “Eat for Life—Home Cooking.”
The home is currently listed at $295,000, only serious offers get the tour