[2358] in Humor
HUMOR: Don't try this at home...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sharalee M. Field)
Fri Jun 26 16:26:58 1998
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 16:06:16 -0400
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From: "Sharalee M. Field" <sharalee_field@harvard.edu>
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>Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 15:58:25 -0400
>To: "Sharalee M. Field" <<sharalee_field@harvard.edu>
>From: immer@MIT.EDU (Stephen D. Immerman)
>Subject: Don't try this at home...
>
>An early favorite for the 1998 Darwin Award?
>
>PADERBORN, GERMANY - Overzealous zookeeper, Friedrich Riesfeldt, fed his
>constipated elephant Stefan 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a
>bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm
>finally let fly- and suffocated the keeper under 200 pounds of poop!
>Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the
>ailing elephant an olive-oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded on
>him like a dump truck full of mud.
>
>"The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr.
>Riesfeldt to the ground, where he struck his head on a rock and lay
>unconscious as the elephant continued to evacuate his bowels on top of
>him," said flabbergasted Paderborn police detective Erik Dern. "With no
>one there to help him, he lay under all that dung for at least an hour
>before a watchman came along, and during that time he suffocated. "It seems to
>> be just one of those freak accidents that happen."
>
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