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Brains Are Thicker than Blood

Four friends, Jonathan Schrap, 24, Shelby Neuens, 27, Nick Laabs, and Preston Hyde (also known as “Bloody Ruckus”), were commemorating a fellow “Juggalo” — followers of the band Insane Clown Posse. Neuens told police they had been talking about blood-drinking cult rituals, and decided to try one themselves. “Shelby had volunteered to let Jon drink her blood,” the Brown County, Wisc., criminal complaint says. “Jon had taken a machete and made an approximate one inch laceration on her right side forearm.... Jon filled up a shot glass with her blood and drank her blood.” According to Neuens, the group then started talking about severing a finger, and she again volunteered. Schrap used the machete to cut her finger off, she said. “Jon then placed the finger in his freezer where he said he would cook it and eat it later,” the complaint says. “The group then attempted to stop the bleeding by using a car cigarette lighter which failed. They then used a blowtorch.” The torch, Neuens said, hurt more that getting her finger cut off. Neuens’s mother made her daughter go to the emergency room, where staff called the police. Laabs was released without charge, Schrap was charged with mayhem and reckless injury. “Bloody Ruckus” was held on a probation violation. (MS/WBAY Green Bay) ...Insane Clown Posse is just a name, not a suggestion.