FBI Agent Says Alleged Cannibal Cops Chatroom Talks Are "Real Crimes"
Defense attorney wanted to know where fantasy ended
A defense attorney for a police officer accused in a cannibalism plot pressed an FBI agent to explain where fantasy ends and reality begins yesterday after the investigator read aloud several-dozen Internet chats in which participants boasted of plans to cook and eat human flesh.
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Damned, looks like all my comments involving having people over for dinner weren't protected by the 1st Amendment after all.