>From an article in the Los Angeles 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 tube, 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.
>
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>Anonymous response to dangerous rodent:
>
>O.K., here’s the top ten things that scared me the most in reading this
>story:
>
>10) “I pushed a cardboard tube up his rectum . . .” Ouch!!!
> 9) “So I peered into the tube . . .” Aaaaaahhhhhhh. I’m sorry, but
> that’s like looking through a telescope into hell. I’d rather use
> binoculars to stare at the sun.
> 8) That poor gerbil (who obviously suffers from low self esteem)
> being shot out of the guy’s ass like Rocky the Flying Squirrel on
> Rocky & Bullwinkle.
> 7) Suffering a broken nose from a gerbil being launched out of
> someone’s ass. I’m just guessing, but I seriously doubt said
> gerbil was springtime fresh after his little journey into Kiki’s
> “tunnel of love.”
> 6) People walking around with these volcanic-like pockets of gas in
> their rectums.
> 5) People who do this kind of thing and then admit what they were
> doing when taken to the emergency room. Sorry, but I think I
> would have made up a story about a gang of roving, pyromaniac, anal
> sex fiends breaking into my house and sodomizing me with a charcoal
> lighter before I admitted the truth. Call me old fashioned, but I
> just can’t imagine looking at a doctor and saying “Well doc, it’s
> like this. See we have this gerbil named Raggot and we took this
> cardboard tube . . .”
> 4) “First and second degree burns to the anus”. Wouldn’t this make
> the burning itch and discomfort of hemmoroids a welcome relief?
> How does one ever take a healthy shit after something like this?
> And the smell of burning anus must be in the top five most
> horrible scents on the face of the earth.
> 3) People named “Kiki” which is obviously a Polynesian word for
> “Idiotic white men who insert rodents up their butts.”
> 2) What kind of a hospital would hold a press conference on this?
> 1) This happened in Salt Lake City. What kind of people are those
> Mormons? I’m starting to get a whole new image of the Osmond
> family.