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Along the lines of some of my recent articles, which I could group under the title of ‘Idiots: Why They Should Not Have Pets,’ we have a case where Darwin almost got his man. Perhaps he should have, but modern science intervened.

Matt Wilkenson, of Oregon origins, evidently had some things in his house. He had snakes, he had friends, he had beer, he had a mouth, and he had a party. At which point did he decide that all of those things had to come together at the same instant? According to our friends at the UPI, Matt said “he'd been drinking with friends and apparently wasn't thinking with a clear head.” To impress his friends, he took his Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake and inserted it into his gaping maw face first.

Give Daddy some sugar, baby!

A few months ago, I wrote an article about a Malaysian witch-doctor that had gotten into trouble by treating demons from a particular young woman. The reason that he was specifically in trouble was that his treatment involved sexual concourse, and the young woman had believed that his male member was driving out a demon.

Maybe she really believed that, and maybe she didn’t. In backwards places you can always find people that are gullible because they have deep-seated superstitions that have passed down from the time of Grog, the Caveman, to our present day. In those cases I always think that you have to be careful about the victim. Even with that, I do have a healthy skepticism about motivations.

That is what brings me to this current story. In this case the victim is from a western nation, and I believe that she is either enormously stupid, or she is terrible at making up lies. It may be that both cases are true.

In Pembrokeshire, Wales, a man is on trial for allegedly having convinced a woman that she needed a peculiar medical treatment.