In the outward appearance, the whole-wide world has gone bat-shit crazy, maybe as a run-up to some real-bad episodes coming for mankind and its immediate offspring.

In Seattle, of all places, and in a “very mellow” coffee shop, this guy shoots and kills four people, later kills another during a carjacking, then later blows his own brains out: Detectives “feel very confident that unfortunately, these are all connected,” Assistant Police Chief Jim Pugel said.
No motive as of yet.

(Illustration found here).

Meanwhile, earlier this week in Miami, a guy tried to chew off another guy’s face: A nude man near the Miami Herald building pounced on a homeless man, chewing off his face. The man with pieces of flesh hanging from his teeth was shot dead by police.
Again no motive, other than some weird drug.

And further more up in New Jersey, another guy repeatedly stabbed himself and then threw pieces of his intestines at cops:

When he began throwing pieces of skin and intestines at the officers, they called in the Bergen County Police Department’s SWAT team, Lloyd said.
By the time they arrived, Carter’s intestines were “literally” hanging out of his body, an unnamed police official told the Pilot.
“The scene was a bloody mess,” the official said.
“The SWAT team members had to be decontaminated due to the amount of blood.”

This particular guy is still alive, barely, after emergency surgery on Monday.

Even further north, all the way into Canada to be exact, another guy, this one reportedly a bisexual porn actor and model named Luka Rocco Magnotta, is still at large after being charged with chopping up another guy and mailing body parts to government offices — and there is a video of the crime.
And there’s other like videos as well.
Via the Washington Post:

It was behind that building that police found a man’s torso in a suitcase in a heap of garbage Tuesday, police said.
That same day, a foot was found in a package mailed to the Conservative party headquarters in Ottawa, and a hand found at postal warehouse in the Canadian capital.
The package with the hand was addressed to the Liberal Party of Canada.
Early testing shows the three body parts come from the same man, police said.
…
“For most of the officers that were there all night long this is the kind of crime scene they’ve never seen in their career,” Montreal Police Cmdr. Ian Lafreniere said.
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Police discovered the severed foot after Jenni Bryne, a top political adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, opened a bloodstained box at Conservative party headquarters Tuesday.
When Bryne opened the box, a foul odor overcame the office.
“It was such a horrible odor. I’m sure many of us will not forget it,” Conservative Party spokesman Fred DeLorey said.
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An online video showing a man that looks like Magnotta shows him committing violent acts against kittens.
The video contains at least one photo made available by Montreal police Wedesday that identified the man as Magnotta.
For nearly two years, the name has been notorious among animal-rights activists looking for a man who tortured and killed cats and posted videos of it online.
“It’s very upsetting,” Opposition New Democrat member Yvon Godin said.
“It could be just one crazy person that did it, but at the same time we have lots of people unhappy in our country, the way the country is going.”

The way Canada is going?

Apparently, it’s the way the whole world is going — just take a look at the horror unfolding in Syria, where the slaughter of children makes Saddam look like a sweetheart.
On top of that, in the wake of the massacre in Houla, another slaughter-ground was discovered in Syria’s Deir el-Zour province where 13 bodies were found, killed execution style: The head of the U.N. observer team, Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, said he was “deeply disturbed by this appalling and inexcusable act.”
Not shit, sherlock.

As civilization starts its grind to an end beyond imagination, strange and terrible events will become near-commonplace while the powers-that-be try to figure how how to stop this runaway bullet train to disaster.
Weird shit buzzing 24/7 from all sorts of media will keep people peaked on a caffeine-like ugly and can be provoked into erratic behavior way-too easily — and it’s only going to get worse.
So just to add this for good measure:

Super-eruptions from massive volcanoes with the power to destroy humanity could take much less time to form than scientists previously thought, it was reported yesterday.
Supervolcanoes are a huge but little understood natural disaster waiting to happen.
Only a handful of such volcanoes exist in the world, but should one erupt the effect would be devastating.
It is thought the sound of a super-eruption would be heard all over the planet, black rain would fall and the sky would darken across the earth.
They are thought to be second only to a massive asteroid impact in terms of the devastation they would visit on the earth.

Body parts and killing kittens to chewing-off faces — welcome to the future.