Just the Mushroom Tip

Police: Man high on mushrooms rips off part of penis

Tammy Stables Battaglia, Detroit Free Press

DETROIT -- A 41-year-old Columbus, Ohio, man is recovering after police say he ripped off part of his penis on a drug-fueled high in Ypsilanti Township, Mich.

Washtenaw County Sheriff's deputies found the man naked and screaming after responding to a burglar alarm at Ypsilanti Middle School about 1 a.m. last Tuesday, Sgt. Geoff Fox said Monday.

The man was kneeling outside the school, bloody from the waist down, with parts of his genitals ripped off, Fox said. He said parts of the man's body were transferred to the hospital with him.

Officers subdued the man for his own safety and called for an ambulance.

"He really wasn't saying much at all — a lot of yelling and screaming," Fox said, adding the man had broken a window to the school but didn't take anything. "He wasn't making sense. They couldn't really communicate with him in terms of constructive conversation."

The man later told investigators he picked up hallucinogenic mushrooms earlier in the day while he was in town visiting friends in a neighborhood near the school. The man does not have a history of mental problems or extensive drug use, Fox said.

"We've sent his blood off for further analysis to see if there was anything else, if the mushrooms could have been laced with something," Fox said, adding that toxicology results are pending.

Ypsilanti Township resident Brandon Simmons, 30, who often cuts through the middle-school yard while walking to and from his nearby apartment, said he was concerned about the man's recovery.

"I don't even know what to say — it sounds painful," Simmons said Monday. "Is he still alive? My prayers go out to him, and I hope he's going to make it. Wow?….I'm at a loss for words."



Take that bath salts! You make people into zombies? Well, mushrooms are back and now they make people rip off their junk!

I’ve never done mushrooms or bath salts so I can’t really speak to the types of high associated with drugs like that but I can’t imagine any drug blasting your mind so bad that you think your member needs to be, well, dismembered.

If the government was smart they’d get rid of those stupid commercials where cartoon dogs chastise cartoon pothead kids and plan an entire campaign around this dude. That would turn some heads at the next assembly, eh?

You wanna ditch class and smoke doobies? Well, prepare to pull your junk off and nearly die behind this school in about 20 years because that’s the door you’ve opened kid. It's the new version of living in a van down by the river.