Doctors: Face-chewing victim 'awake and alert'

[The Northerner]

MIAMI -- A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack along a busy Miami street is now 'awake and alert," according to doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital's Ryder Trauma Center.

A photograph shown to reporters on Tuesday portrayed Ronald Poppo walking down a hospital hallway, supported by hospital staff on either side of him.

Doctors were planning to talk more about his condition at a Tuesday news conference.

The photo showed the upper two-thirds of Poppo's face covered in scabs. He's missing his nose and both eye sockets were covered, one with gauze and one with what appeared to be a skin graft. His gray beard was trimmed, leaving a mustache over his upper lip.

Poppo has been at Jackson Memorial Hospital since he was attacked on May 26 by Rudy Eugene. Emergency callers reported seeing a naked man swinging naked from a light pole on Miami's MacArthur Causeway a few minutes before the attack.

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[jpbollma]

1. This story still turns my stomach.

[Woody Woodpecker]

2. I saw his face post-attack

and it looks awful. He requires a long recovery and many surgeries to get a resemblace of a human face.

This should be a poster for any "bath-salt" attacks.

[Rittermeister]

3. Call me vain, but I own a handgun for just such a situation. N/t.

[thecrow]

4. Vain is not the word I would call you.

[lumberjack_jeff]

5. "Emergency callers reported seeing a naked man swinging naked from a light pole"

Redundant writer is an illegitimate bastard who should be whipped with pistol gun.