Man Bites Off Own Tongue

from New York Post

A Brooklyn man with a long history of bloody encounters with the police barricaded his family in its apartment early yesterday. He then bit off his tongue and spat it at cops and EMTs as they struggled to take him into custody.

Kaijuan Corbett, 27, of Argyle Road, locked his family in its Alabama Avenue apartment in East New York at 12:45 AM. Authorities responded to a 911 call that said an emotionally disturbed person was inside the house.

Cops and paramedics, thinking that they had talked the raving Corbett into standing down, were wheeling him out of the building on a gurney when the troubled man shocked them by biting off his tongue and spitting it in their direction.

Corbett had already developed a reputation for staging bloody confrontations with cops that often ended with his chopping away at and cutting himself.

In 2003, he went so far as to stab himself in the left part of his chest, whack off his left ear and try to remove a piece of his scalp. The following year he rammed his head into a wall.