Druggie eats live bandicoot

By Mal Taime

A drug addict was caught eating raw bandicoot yesterday.
The teenager from Mendi Southern Highlands ate a live bandicoot in South Wahgi district, Jiwaka Province after smoking marijuana.
Smoking marijuana makes smokers go hungry and it was obvious this teenager was so hungry that he ate a raw bandicoot.
The teenager is a drug addict and resides at Block 10 with some Southern Highlands that worked for WR Carpenters (Kudjip Tea Estate) in South Wahgi district in the Jiwaka Province.
Kudjip Tea/Coffee councilor Jacob Ali said the druggie was found eating a raw bandicoot when they caught him.
Mr Ali said: “We asked him why did you eat this raw bandicoot and he replied saying that it was good food for him after smoking marijuana,” he said.
Some frustrated youths beat him but he did not sustain any wounds and was laughing at them.
According to Mr Ali the druggie also went into a pig house and asked a pig to give him a fire to light his smoke.
Mr Ali said: “They found him asking a pig for fire to light his.”
He said this was a first time for the people to see such young man eating raw bandicoot that feared them.
Mr Ali said they feared he might eat children because he had already tasted blood.
He said this was related to drug and appealed to those that were smoking marijuana must stop because this is a dangerous plant.

SOME youths surrounding the druggie on Tuesday at Kudjip Tea in the Jiwaka Province with the raw bandicoot.