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Pet Camel Kills Australian Woman, In A Hump

by | 21st, October 2007

OVER the newswires: “A woman in Australia has been killed by her pet camel after the animal may have tried to have sex with her.”

Surely when a camel tries to have sex with you there is little room for uncertainty?

As the BBC reports: “The woman had been given the camel as a 60th birthday present earlier this year because of her love of exotic pets.”

We learn that the young camel “had come close to suffocating the family’s pet goat on a number of occasions”.

And then it went for the woman, a resident of Mitchell in Queensland. It knocked her to the ground, lay on top of her and displayed what the police term as “possible mating behaviour”.

“I’d say it’s probably been playing, or it may be even a sexual sort of thing,” says Queensland police Detective Senior Constable Craig Gregory.

More later…



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