Category: Strange News

Bystanders Mistake Woman’s Stabbing As Performance Art At Miami’s Art Basel

Insert eyeball emoji & cue the creepy Freddie Kruger music. 

A woman was viciously stabbed at Art Basel in Miami Beach in front of hundreds of people. 

The real stickler (no pun intended here) is that bystanders thought it was all a part of the show and didn’t immediately react to help the woman, instead mistaking her anguish as performance art.

Wow. Just wow. Unreal. 

Peep the story below and leave a comment. 

The stabbing victim at Art Basel in Miami Beach. Photo: Rudy Perez, courtesy the Miami Herald.

Peep the story from ArtNet.com: 

An altercation amid the aisles led to bloodshed at Art Basel in Miami Beach at about 5:15 p.m. last night as one visitor to the fair allegedly stabbed another with an X-Acto knife, according to the Miami Herald.

The incident, which involved two women, took place at the fair’s Nova sector, which focuses on young artists, near the booth of Los Angeles’s Freedman Fitzpatrick Gallery and an installation by Miami artist Naomi Fisher called The Swamp of Sagittarius.

The victim reportedly confronted her attacker, who has been identified as 24-year-old Siyuan Zhao, of New York, and accused her of following and repeatedly bumping into her. According to police, Zhao responded by stabbing her in the arms and neck.

The stabbing suspect, who has been identified as 24-year-old Siyuan Zhao, is arrested at Art Basel in Miami Beach. Photo: Rudy Perez, courtesy the Miami Herald.

The injuries were non-life threatening, and the victim was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital. As Zhao was arrested, according to police reports, she told officers “I had to kill her and two more!” and “I had to watch her bleed!” NBC reports that Zhao is facing an attempted murder charge.

Visitors to the fair were reportedly confused by the stabbing, mistaking it for performance art. The area was quickly marked off with police tape, which some people seem to have thought was part of the installation.

“A guy walked up to me and said, ‘I thought I saw a performance, and I thought it was fake blood, but it was real blood,” Fisher told the Herald. “It’s horrible… I’m so freaked out.”

The Herald reports that Art Basel had increased security measures at the fair following the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, and moved quickly to clean up evidence of the violent event, but not before local photographer Rudy Perez captured graphic images of the incident.

“The attack was an isolated incident that was immediately secured,” said Art Basel Miami Beach spokeswoman Sara Fitzmaurice in a statement. “Our thoughts are with the victim.”

   
 

GA Woman Places Craigslist Ad For Baby For 14 Year Old Daughter

     
In today’s creepier than creepy news:

CBS46 –A woman has been arrested for trying to obtain an unwanted baby for her 14-year-old daughter.

Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office detectives received a tip from a citizen about a suspicious Craigslist advertisement in Cumming, GA.

The advertisement was for unwanted babies and promised mothers they could drop off their baby in a “baby box”.

Police said Elaine Williams, 47, of Cumming, told police her daughter wanted a baby and would get one with or without her help, so she decided to help. Williams was charged with domestic-unlawful advertisement/inducement for adoption of children.

The ad says the baby must be placed in the box in a blanket, along with the birth certificate and health records of the baby. It also specifies that the baby should not be a disabled child. 

Below is a copy of the actual Craigslist ad:    

Two Men Set On Fire During Fight In Baltimore

An angry co-worker set two of his fellow co-workers on fire after an argument that sparked violence…this is graphic video so watch with your own discretion. Hit the jump for the full story and video.

Via In Flex We Trust– Chaos continues to reek havoc through the streets of Baltimore, Maryland as the death toll continues to climb – this time a man setting two other men on fire.

Christopher Harrison, 28, was arrested by Baltimore County Police on suspicion of setting two men ablaze Friday night alongside a highway in the community of White Marsh.

Authorities have stated that four coworkers who were traveling in two separate cars walked to a gas station after one car ran out of gas. When they returned to their cars, an argument amongst 3 broke out and a fight initiated.

David Widener, the cameraman, was just going to film a fight about to happen, but it instead turned into arson. The video footage that was captured is now being ruled as official police evidence in the attempted murder.

The arsonist Harrison, doused two fellow employees with gas before lighting them ablaze. One victim ran sporadically up an embankment while the other bolted across the highway screaming for help, than rolled on the concrete to put himself out. His clothes had already quickly burned away.

The two unnamed victims are both being treated at a local hospital with both in critical condition. One man has severe burn damage in over 90% of his body, while the other man suffers from 50% of his person burned.

Harrison is currently being held without bailed and is also facing assault charges.

See the video on In Flex We Trust