Death Wish

There are some members of the Animal Uprising that behave in a suicidal manner. This has been well documented here at Blue Crab Boulevard. There have been reports of kamikaze pigeons, suicide turkeys and even flaming suicidal kamikaze squirrels. But as far as we can determine from this report, this animal merely had a death wish. How else can you explain what this camel did?

He ate 200 mince pies and washed it down with a six-pack of Guinness.

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Staff at an Irish riding school were forced to postpone festivities after Gus the camel chomped his way through 200 mince pies and several cans of Guinness intended for their Christmas party.

Gus, starring in the riding school's Santa's Magical Animal Kingdom show, helped himself to the feast while staff were getting changed for the party.

"Gus found his way out of his pen and helped himself," Robert Fagan, owner of the Mullingar Equestrian Centre in central Ireland, told Reuters.

The 11-year-old camel, originally from Morocco, cracked open six cans of Ireland's famous stout with his teeth after the door to his stall was left open.

Now, it is doubtful that the riding school's staff had properly filled out a risk assessment for the mince pies, which everyone knows are highly toxic. (Of course, if the staff had been serving fruitcake, the animal would be dead already. Those things are lethal.) But honestly, drinking a man's Guinness should be a death penalty offense.

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  By RebeccaH, Wednesday, 6 December , 2006 @ 12:49 pm

  Surely Allah will curse this camel for consuming alcohol. Mince pies are probably haram as well (at least, they should be).

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