Seattle man dies after sex with horse

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Seattle man dies after sex with horse
Police say death was accidental, investigate farm on cruelty suspicions


SEATTLE - A Seattle man died after engaging in anal sex with a horse at a farm suspected of being a gathering place for people seeking to have sex with livestock, police said Friday. The horse involved in the incident was not harmed, and an autopsy of the
unnamed man concluded that "the manner of death was acidental ... due to perforation of the colon," a police spokesman said.

"The information that we have is that people would find this place via chat rooms on the Web," said Sgt. John Urquhart of the King County Sheriff's Department.

Although sex with animals is not illegal in Washington state, Urquhart said that investigators were looking into whether the farm, located in Enumclaw, 40 miles southeast of Seattle, allowed sex with smaller animals that resulted in animal cruelty, which is a crime.

"If you're talking about sheep or goats, there could be some issues," Urquhart said.


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