Picked this up on Tiggy's RibTickler's site... (I lost the URL before I could copy it though)...

Flaming Projectile Gerbil -- 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) Farnom, 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 that 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 of 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 Farnom suffered first and second degree burns to his anus and lower intestinal tract.

TOP 11 SCARIEST THINGS ABOUT THIS STORY

11. "I pushed a cardboard tube up his rectum." -Good start.

10. "As usual, Kiki shouted out "Armageddon" -They do this frequently? (Or, at least they have done this more than once).

9. "So I peered into the tube." - I'm sorry, but that's like looking through a telescope into hell. I'd rather use binoculars to stare at the sun.

8. The poor gerbil (who obviously suffers from low self esteem) being shot out of the guy's ass like Rocky the Flying Squirrel.

7. Suffering a broken nose from a gerbil being launched out of someone's anus. I'm just guessing, but I seriously doubt the 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. 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.

4. "First and second degree burns to the anus." Wouldn't this make the burning itch and discomfort of hemorrhoids a welcome relief? How does one ever take a healthy dump after something like this? And the smell of a burning anus must be in the top five most horrible scents on the face of God's green earth.

3. People named "Kiki" which is obviously a Polynesian word for: "Idiotic men who shove rodents up their butts."

2. What kind of hospital would hold a press conference on this?

1. 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. You see we have this gerbil named Raggot and we took this cardboard tube...
OK, I'll admit it. A friend of mine keeps an online journal on his website... I mentioned him once before and I called him a slacker because he hadn't updated it in a while..

Well, I've been slack because I haven't been back to read it. So, today, when he asked me if I had read what he had posted lately, I felt very bad and went to catch up, only to find that he had updated every day since Dec. 28 (That was a lot of reading to do).

But I know the real reason he wanted me to read his journal. I had a really bad day on Friday (in case you couldn't tell by my overly long and maudlin post), and he wrote something in his journal on Saturday for me.

For that, I'd like to make my own reply to him here....

You've been my best friend, my "family" and the most important person in my life for many years now. No matter what the distance is between us, I will always be there for you, as you have always been there for me. You never needed to say the words you wrote to me, but in saying them you brought tears to my eyes. You know that I do understand you and your idosyncracies, and that I will always love you in spite of them.
In understanding you, I came to understand myself, and learned how to paint a better picture of love than I had ever painted before.

I know that we don't look at that issue in the same way, but as I have always said, it doesn't matter to me. You have always supposed that you couldn't live up to my expectations. All I really ever wanted was for you to know that I didn't have any expectations.

I love the man you are now, and the man that I know you will grow to become. Thank you for being in my life.
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