• Re: Be careful with small animals

    From Susan Cohen@thickirish@cunt.com to rec.pets.cats.anecdotes on Sun Apr 5 13:10:50 2020
    From Newsgroup: rec.pets.cats.anecdotes

    Thank you for sharing. Please everyone, DON'T try this at home.


    On Sun, 05 Apr 2020 00:34:50 -0400, The Peeler
    <finishingoff@TheRevd.invalid> wrote:


    Direct from the LA Times:

    "In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake. But I was only
    trying to retrieve the gerbil," Greg Carr told bemused doctors in the
    Severe Burns Unit of Salt Lake City Hospital. Carr and his homosexual >partner, Klaus Schadenfreude 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, Klause 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 Carr'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."

    Carr 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.



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