Woman attacked by "500-year-old vampire"

Thu Aug 18, 2011 8:21 pm » by **Cageyone23**

A man has been arrested in Texas for breaking in to a woman's house and biting her on the neck.

19-year-old Lyle Monroe Bensley claimed that he'd done it because he was a 500-year-old vampire and that he needed to feed, he also cautioned police officers to restrain him for their own safety and that he "didn't want to have to feed on humans".

Texas police have arrested a teen after he broke into a woman's apartment and attacked her, making hissing sounds and claiming to be a 500-year-old vampire. Lyle Monroe Bensley, 19, of Galveston, allegedly entered the woman’s bedroom early Saturday morning and bit into her neck as she lay on the bed.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/10059141/vampire-bites-woman

Thu Aug 18, 2011 8:27 pm » by **Gbrown**

How old his parents?

Thu Aug 18, 2011 8:43 pm » by **Demobe**

hahahahah crazy shit

thanks for the post :flop:

Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:05 pm » by **Slamgunshark**

this is what twilight does to emo children and girls.

Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:07 pm » by **Thruster**

Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:13 pm » by **Cageyone23**

Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:16 pm » by **Kinninigan**

Somebody was smoking some good PCP

Thu Aug 18, 2011 10:06 pm » by **Thruster**

Lyle Monroe Bensley caused havoc at his preliminary hearing today, when he transformed himself into a 'Bat'.

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:lol:

Ok, Ok....I was kiddin'.

Thu Aug 18, 2011 10:28 pm » by **Cageyone23**

Here we go with the mass media blaming popular culture, why does there always have to be a
catalyst and not the said individual/s just being crazy as shit

The arrest of an American man who broke into a woman's house and tried to suck her blood over the weekend has sparked discussion about the impact of vampire books and movies on youth culture.

Whether pop culture played a role in the attack remains to be seen, as 19-year-old Lyle Monroe Bensley awaits a psychiatric evaluation in jail on burglary charges in Galveston, Texas.

Found growling and hissing in a parking lot and wearing only boxer shorts, the pierced and tattooed Bensley claimed he was a 500-year-old vampire who needed to "feed," Galveston Police Capt. Jeff Heyse said.

Vampires have been a focal point of literature since Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, "Dracula". But fascination, particularly among young people, has peaked in recent years with the popularity of the "Twilight" books about teenage vampires and the television series, "True Blood."

"I think the vampire is a metaphor for the outsider and the predator in all of us," said author Anne Rice, whose Vampire Chronicles series has captured the imaginations of horror fans since the 1970s.

"We're all conscious at times of being alone, of being alienated, of being a secret self that fears exposure to the judgments of others. So we feel like vampires," she told Reuters.

Bensley is now being held in the Galveston County Jail on a $40,000 bond for home burglary with intent to commit a felony.

The woman, who lived near Bensley and did not know him, escaped the attack unharmed, Heyse said.

Kevin Petroff, chief of the Galveston County District Attorney's office, told Reuters no defense attorney has been appointed to date, and if Bensley had hired a lawyer privately, no notice had been filed.

YOUTHFUL FOR ETERNITY

Dr. Thomas Garza, who teaches a course in vampire lore at the University of Texas, said young people might aspire to be like vampires because they cheat death and are able to stay beautiful, powerful, and youthful for eternity.

The modern vampire in popular culture is more attractive, suave, and fashionably dressed than the Old World Slavic vampires, adding to the resurgence of their appeal, he added.

"I would say that it is the Twilight saga in particular that has brought out the younger teen fans. In that connection, Edward is a very 'safe' vampire, a kind of 'starter vamp' for beginners, if you will," Garza said.

"He's pretty, yes, so the seduction's there, but he's more than reluctant to act on his and Bella's sexual desires. He can go out in daylight - and even 'sparkles' in the sun, giving him a completely non-threatening character. He drives a Volvo, for goodness sake."

While Bensley's Texas antics have captured international attention, the delusion of actually being a vampire has been a contributing factor in other criminal cases as well.

In 1996, a 16-year-old Kentucky youth obsessed with the role-playing game, "Vampire, the Masquerade," enlisted three other teenagers to go with him to Florida to help kill the parents of his former girlfriend.

Two years later, a San Francisco man claiming to be a 2,000-year-old vampire was arrested for slashing the necks of four homeless people, one fatally. A serial killer arrested in England in 1949 allegedly drank a cup of blood from each of his six victims.

Rice has interacted with thousands of fans of her Vampire Chronicles novels, but said such intense personal identification with vampires was "quite beyond me."

"My readers are romantics. They're into the poetry and the romance of vampires; they don't think they themselves are vampires," Rice said. "I have never personally met anyone in all these years who claimed to be a vampire."

(Edited by Karen Brooks and Cynthia Johnston)

But if thats how you get your rocks of why not just try this for starters

Thu Aug 18, 2011 10:59 pm » by **E6722maj**

vampires are gay

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