Associated Press – April 24, 2007:
An owner of an exotic animal farm has died after being kicked and then sat on by a camel. Cathie Ake and the 4-year-old camel were being filmed by a local television station on Sunday when the camel kicked her and then sat down during a break in filming.
Cathie Ake’s husband, Donnie Ake, said he would find a new home for Polo, the camel, The News Herald of Panama City reported Tuesday. He believes the 1,800-pound animal was agitated by mating season.
A reporter called 9-1-1 when Ake fell under the camel.
“To be honest with you, I don’t think there’s much that she could have done,” said Gulf County Sheriff Dalton Upchurch.
A deputy and paramedics moved the camel and recovered Cathie Ake’s body.
And I love this part:
Donnie Ake said he believes his wife either suffocated or was crushed by the animal.
Don’t go out on a limb there fella, are you sure she was either suffocated or crushed?!
I’ll forward your condolences.
Are you sure the camel didn’t have a gun?
So it wasn’t the kick that did it eh?
Simple… she suffocated, and he was crushed by it.
So camels have more than one vice beyond spiting. Cameras always go off when nature wants to do the world a favor, or maybe it was conspiracy. I think the television crew was in on it, definitely. I see a lawsuit on its way.
Who says rich people are above evolution?
Camels – killing people, one fat american at a time
What a hump.
It was an Arabian Camel … now there’s going to be dromedary profiling at the border.
John, would you say the same thing to the face of the man whose wife died? If not, then why did you post that? After all, didn’t you just post an op-ed about net civility?
10. “John, would you say the same thing to the face of the man whose wife died?”
First, John did not post it. I did. To answer your question to John: No, I probably would not say the same thing to the decedent’s husband.
“If not, then why did you post that?”
Because it was funny. Let me ask you this: Would you have sex with your wife (or girlfriend) in front of her dad? Of course not . Sometimes something that is utterly inappropriate in one context is perfectly appropriate in a different context. This posting is one such example.
“After all, didn’t you just post an op-ed about net civility?”
Once again, that was John, not me.
I happen to know the person who was crushed in this tragic accident. Not funny to those of us who know her, her parents, her sister, her brother, her children, her spouse, and her grand children.