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You would think that this article German cannibal jailed for life for 'ultimate kick' couldn't get any stranger after the opening paragraphs of

A self-confessed German cannibal has been jailed for life after a court here found him guilty of murder for killing and partly eating an allegedly willing victim he had met on the Internet.
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The court in the western German city of Frankfurt found that Armin Meiwes, known as the "cannibal of Rotenburg," killed his victim to satisfy his sexual urges.

Meiwes, 44, immediately said that he would appeal the sentence, signaling another round in a long legal process that has laid bare a hitherto secret market in cannibalism.

but it really does get stranger from there.