- The man was discovered running down the street in a state of toxic psychosis
A semi-naked man high on crystal meth was found running through a village in the Czech Republic after cutting off his ears and penis before telling rescuers: ‘I don’t know why I did that’.
The man was first discovered running down the street of a village near the northern town of Usti nad Labem with a swollen face by police officers who quickly called paramedics to the scene.
But when paramedics arrived they discovered the man, who was behaving ‘creepily’, had suffered injuries far more serious than a swollen face.
Noticing blood on his face, paramedics removed the man’s hair from his face and discovered that both of his ears had been cut off. They soon discovered that his penis had also been cut off, doctors said.
“At the scene, ambulance crews discovered the amputation of the auricle on both sides and the penis above the scrotum,” a spokesperson said. medical report published by the paramedics, adding that the man became volatile and unresponsive.
A half-naked man high on crystal meth was found running through a village in the Czech Republic after cutting off his ears and penis before telling rescuers: ‘I don’t know why I did that’ (file image)
But after being given a sedative, the man admitted to paramedics that he had cut off his own ears and genitals before adding: ‘I don’t know why I did that.’ The man said the swelling in his face was the result of falling to the ground.
Medics said the man was suffering from a state of toxic psychosis after discovering he had a dangerous combination of crystal meth and cannabis in his blood. Experts say that such a state of toxic psychosis is similar to the effects of schizophrenia.
The man was rushed to a local hospital by paramedics for further treatment.
The Usti region rescue service published the anonymized medical report to warn drug users about the effects of crystal meth, the most abused drug in the Czech Republic.
‘There are probably a thousand reasons not to use drugs. We are adding another to this rank,” the rescue service wrote on Facebook.
‘Our paramedics have recent experience with an unusual injury in a patient, probably due to toxic psychosis with amphetamine. We share this experience here as a warning against the use of addictive substances, usually meth in our region.’
Rescue service spokesman Prokop Volenik added: ‘Given the highly sensitive nature of the case, we will not publish more detailed information about where the event took place. Not even the neighborhood.’