Saturday, May 31, 2008

2008 Darwin Award Winner

Zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt ( Paderborn, Germany) fed his constipated elephant 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before the plugged-up pachyderm finally got relief.

Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the ailing elephant an olive oil enema (the poor man deserves some kind of award just attempting this ) when the relieved beast unloaded.

The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr. Riesfeldtto the ground where he struck his head on a rock as the elephant continued to evacuate 200 pounds of dung on top of him

6 comments:

Don G said...

That's worse than getting spit in the face by a camel !

Dougie G said...

lol.... There are so many comments I could make to this, I'm getting a head ache trying to control myself! I'll just say, that really stinks. hahaha.:)

Patti said...

Oh.


Dear.



That is a very bad day.

chRistine said...

did he die?

Bob said...

Yeah - I believe he did.

Just as well really - don't know if he would have ever got rid of the elephant poop smell :)

Every time he would walk into a room people would begin to sniff the air and ask each other "what's that smell" ??

Or even worse "I smell elephant dodo" "Is Friedrich here?"

Patti said...

I tagged you for a meme at my blog. It's OK if you ignore it.

:)