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To: OldAIMGuy who wrote (4744)	2/23/1998 1:11:00 PM
From: S K	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 62549

Darwin Award Wanna-be >From the LA Times > > "In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake. But it was only 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 after a felching session had gone seriously wrong. > > "I pushed a cardboard tube into 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 a 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. Tomazsewski'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." > > Tomazsewski 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.