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submitted by Sang on 02.26.2006 in Jokes

There are a group of comedians who trawl the news wires in search of ridiculous deaths to consider for the annual Darwin Award, so named after Charles of that ilk to reflect the fact that no matter how refined evolution becomes, the innate stupidity of the human being remains unsurpassed.

Lest the judges be accused of pro-American bias, however, this year’s Darwin Award again went to a European: German zookeeper Friedrich Riesfeldt of Paderborn. Riesfeldt, alarmed by a lengthy bout of constipation suffered by Stefan, an elephant in his charge, fed the animal 22 doses of animal laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes. This was not enough, however, to cause any movement and Friedrich, 46, decided to give the plugged-up pachyderm an olive-oil enema. This did the trick, though rather quicker than the keeper had imagined. Stefan let fly, with the keeper in the line of fire: Riesfeldt was suffocated under more than 200 pounds of discharge. The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked Mr Riesfeldt to the ground, where he struck his head on a rock and lay unconscious as the elephant continued to evacuate his bowels on top of him,' said Paderborn police detective Erik Dern.With no one there to help him, he lay under all that dung for at least an hour before a watchman came along, and during that time he suffocated.’

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