The incident in combination with the “shouldn’t have provoked the poor guy” phrasing from event staff makes me think ASD, not that that would justify anything obviously, but it kind of explains why they might have let him stay at first. I had to take annual crisis prevention/intervention classes when I worked as a direct support professional in group homes and biting is a whole section of the training.
If someone (or something, works with animals too) is latched on, the first thing to try is to push whatever’s being bitten into the bite. This fills the mouth which can trigger the release reflex, or even the gag reflex, causing the mouth to open. The other main technique for human biters (idk if it works for animals, probably species-dependent), is to put your thumb or finger under the base of their nose and apply pressure upwards, or rub back and forth. It’s hard to trigger on yourself, but if someone else does it to you, it apparently really hurts and also triggers the release reflex. The biggest things to remember are not to pull away and not to let them pull away.
Thankfully I’ve never needed to use these techniques, I mostly dealt with verbal and other non-physical behaviors.
Why censor the booth name?
the vendor that did the attacking was allowed to stay and vend until the end of the event
The victims have been banned alongside the attacker
So, yeah, the attacker is clearly messed up & needs some intervention, but the organizers need to be locked up. At least Bitey seems to be mentally ill - get that dude some help - but damn the organizers heard all that and not only allowed the behavior, but punished the victims as well.
Yeah everyone who was at that convention should be concerned about this. Concerned enough to tell the con’s organizers to fuck off. Safety is paramount. This is falling well short of that. Tell (future) attendants to not go there. Tell artists not to have a booth there. It isn’t safe.
They must be school admin.
Same shit they do with bullying. (Well, here anyway)
“It’s not normal behaviour — not even cosplayers go around biting each other.”
Why this gratuitous stab at cosplayers? :(
Was he also a Harry Potter fan?
https://variety.com/2010/film/markets-festivals/stabbing-at-comic-con-delays-panels-1118022143/
You know what you did.
“It’s not normal behaviour — not even cosplayers go around biting each other.”
catching strays :)
Total piece of shit.
Bites are extremely violating. I hope they also get a little counseling during their medical care.
Go see a doctor. Being bitten by animals or humans comes with a high chance of serious medical issues.
People really comment on anything without reading it.
To be fair, it’s an honest mistake. It’s buried somewhere down in a line of paragraphs which all start with “Manton-Williams said her friend …” My eyes keep thinking I already read that line and skip to the next one.
I never learned to read
“She is still in the hospital”
what is she waiting for?! go see a doctor asap!
It’s Australia, the hospital system is half decent and often quicker than a doctor
I don’t understand. Are Australian hospitals run by electricians?
Just a basic socialist understanding that hasn’t been entirely squeezed out by capitalism yet
The state governments actually
I can’t complain, our system is pretty good
The state governments are run by electricians? That sounds like a strange system of government.
At least it isn’t run by pedophiles
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It’s Australia. There won’t be a bill.
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It was, but yeah it’s completely alien to us so it misses the mark
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Human bites, yes. Usually animal bites are way less problematic. However, rabbies is something that you usually only get by animal bites.
Rabies, Tetanus, there is a 10-20% infection rate because of all the bacteria in saliva. Some animals have long sharp front teeth (for example cats) which really get the bacteria deep down… General advise is doctor, bites are problematic.
Do we have any pics of his “art”?
Would love to see how bad it was
I would ckeck for rabies.
No rabies in Australia.
Huh. Never seen a human bite mark before. It bruises you? Eugh.
If that’s all it does you got off easy. Humans constantly bitch about not having wild animal threat, but even an incidental bite can cause nasty infections. Search “fight bite”.
“The human mouth is a disgusting place”
- Some fish guy, Finding Nemo
What is a “Glazer”?
One who unquestioningly supports something/someone. A MAGA individual would glaze Donald Trump. It’s always (as far as I’ve known) in the negative - accusing others of being too into something.
I’m pretty sure it’s got something to do with slobbing on knobs, but I’m not certain enough to verbalize it
I see it particularly used in reference to LLMs “glazing” users, i.e., validating and praising them and their ideas regardless of merit.
Someone who makes windows. This is a virtual one who took corporeal form.
