{"id":1208,"date":"2010-09-13T19:30:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T01:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2010-09-13T19:30:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T01:30:29","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-september-13-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=1208","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For September 13, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Brutal Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Early morning shoppers at a supermarket in Jeddah were left reeling on March 2, 2008, with some falling unconscious, after a well-built Syrian man clinched a knife and decapitated his 15-month-old nephew in front of his mother in the store\u2019s fruit and vegetable section. In a brutal murder that has shocked the city, the 25-year-old man beheaded the boy, who was out shopping with his mother \u2014 in full glare of shoppers and staff at Al-Marhaba supermarket on Sari Street around 9.30 a.m. The man, who is the boy\u2019s maternal uncle, apparently killed the boy following a dispute with his sister and brother-in-law. Eyewitnesses said that the man picked up a knife from inside the store and severed the boy\u2019s head. The mother and a shopper standing close by fainted, while several other stood in shock and disbelief over what had happened. A police officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Arab News, \u201cThe murderer was in a dispute with the boy\u2019s mother and her husband. He chopped off the boy\u2019s head in front of the mother to get back at her.\u201d He added that the mother has been left traumatized and is in hospital. The boy\u2019s father was at work at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n

Culled from: Samir Al-Saadi
\nGenerously submitted by: Katchaya<\/p>\n

That’s really rude to do that sort of thing in front of the fruit and vegetable section. Think of all the vegetarians he may have grossed out! Decapitating babies should only ever be done in front of the meat section. Sheesh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Brutal Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Early morning shoppers at a supermarket in Jeddah were left reeling on March 2, 2008, with some falling unconscious, after a well-built Syrian man clinched a knife and decapitated his 15-month-old nephew in front of his mother in the store\u2019s fruit and vegetable section. In a brutal murder that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}