Actual Article from the LA Times

 "In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake. But Iwas only
trying to retrieve the gerbil," Eric Tomaszewski told bemused doctors in
the Severe Burns Unit of Salt Lake City Hospital.  Tomaszewski, and his
homosexual partner Andrew "Kiki" Farnum, had been admitted for emergency
treatment after a felching session had gone seriously wrong. "I pushed a
cardboard tube up his rectum and slipped Raggot, our gerbil, in," he
explained. "As usual, Kiki shouted out "Armageddon", my cue that he'd had
enough. I tried to retrieve Raggot but he wouldn't come out again, so I
peered into the tube and struck a match, thinking the light might attract
him." At a hushed pressconference, a hospital spokesman described what
happened next.  "The match ignited a pocket of intestinal gas and a flame
shot out the tubing, igniting Mr Tomaszewski's hair and severely burning
his face.  It also set fire to the gerbil's fur and whiskers which in turn
ignited a larger pocket of gas further up the intestine, propelling the
rodent out like a cannonball." Tomaszewski suffered second degree burns
and a broken nose from the impact of the gerbil, while Farnum suffered
first and second degree burns to his anus and lower intestinal tract.

 TOP TEN SCAREST THINGS ABOUT THIS STORY
 
 
10)  "I pushed a cardboard tube up his rectum . . ."  Ouch!!! 
 
9)  "So I peered into the tube . . ."  Aaaaaahhhhhhh.  I'm sorry, but
that's like looking through a telescope into hell.  I'd rather use
binoculars to stare at the sun. 
 
8)  That poor gerbil (who obviously suffers from low self-esteem) being
shot out of the guy's anus like Rocky the Flying Squirrel on Rocky &
Bullwinkle
 
7)  Suffering a broken nose from a gerbil being launched out of someone's
anus.  I'm just guessing, but I seriously doubt the said gerbil was
springtime fresh after his little journey into Kiki's "tunnel of love." 

6)  People walking around with these volcanic-like pockets of gas in their
rectums. 
 
5)  People who do this kind of thing and then admit what they were doing
when taken to the emergency room.  Sorry, but I think I would have made up
a story about a gang of roving, pyromaniac, anal sex fiends breaking into
my house and sodomizing me with a charcoal lighter before I admitted the
truth.  Call me old fashioned, but I just can't imagine looking at a
doctor and saying "Well doc, it's like this.  See we have this gerbil
named Raggot and we took this cardboard tube . . ." 
 
4)  "First and second degree burns to the anus".  Wouldn't this make the
burning itch and discomfort of hemmoroids a welcome relief?  How does one
ever take a healthy poop after something like this?  And the smell of
burning anus must be in the top five most horrible scents on the face of
God's green earth. 

3)  People named "Kiki" which is obviously a Polynesian word for: 
"Idiotic white men who insert rodents up their butts." 

2)  What kind of a hospital would hold a press conference on this? 
 
1)  This happened in Salt Lake City.  What kind of people are those
Mormons?  I'm starting to get a whole new image of the Osmond family.