It was nearly a year ago today that we all had a very uncomfortable pre-Memorial Day BBQ when news broke of the “Causeway Cannibal” in Miami, Florida. On May 26th, Rudy Eugene, likely wonked out on bath salts, assaulted Ronald Poppo, who was homeless at the time, and bit off his large chunks of his face. Poppo amazingly survived, and after a month spent in a trauma center, he was transferred to a long-term care facility Jackson Memorial Perdue Medical Center. Earlier today, he released a video from the Jackson Memorial, updating everyone on his condition.
Nearly a year after his face was horribly maimed in a vicious attack on the MacArthur Causeway, Ronald Poppo spoke publicly for the first time in a video released by Jackson Memorial Hospital Tuesday.
Wearing a Miami Heat hat and sitting on a hospital bed, Poppo is seen strumming a guitar before giving thanks to his doctors and the community.
“Thanks for considering, helping out, people in my predicament need to be helped out and I’m sure there’s other people also that have the same type of predicament,” Poppo said in the brief video. “I thank the outpouring of people in the community, I will always be grateful for them.” (Via)
Poppo is now officially the greatest guitarist who’s ever had their face bitten off by a drug-fueled manic. Eat it, Keith Richards. But not really.
(Via NBC)
