Topic: Sigh...Only in America!
uk1971's photo
Tue 08/21/07 06:22 PM
Actual article from the LA Times:

"In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake. But I was only trying to retrieve the gerbil, " Eric Tomaszewski told bemused doctors in the Severe Burns Unit of Salt Lake City Hospital.
Tomaszewski, and his homosexual partner Andrew "Kiki" Farnum, had been admitted for emergency treatment after a felching session had gone seriously wrong. "I pushed a cardboard tube up his rectum and slipped Raggot, our gerbil, in, " he explained. "As usual, Kiki shouted out "Armageddon", my cue that he'd had enough. I tried to retrieve Raggot but he wouldn't come out again, so I peered into the tube and struck a match, thinking the light might attract him." At a hushed press conference, a hospital spokesman described what happened next. "The match ignited a pocket of intestinal gas and a flame shot out the tubing, igniting Mr Tomaszewski's hair and severely burning his face. It also set fire to the gerbil's fur and whiskers which in turn ignited a larger pocket of gas further up the intestine, propelling the rodent out like a cannonball." Tomaszewski suffered second degree burns and a broken nose from the impact of the gerbil, while Farnum suffered first and second degree burns to his anus and lower intestinal tract.

noway bigsmile glasses

Phxlilly's photo
Tue 08/21/07 06:29 PM
Oh My Gosh.....noway noway noway

Motevia's photo
Tue 08/21/07 06:44 PM
laugh laugh laugh laugh laugh

It's so horrible, I know, but I'm a very visual person. I can't stop laughing!

joe1973's photo
Thu 09/06/07 08:14 AM
omg!laugh

blonderockermom's photo
Thu 09/06/07 08:16 AM
No comment!!!laugh laugh