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Moral: Never swim with the whales

Darwin Award Candidate? (I think so...)


ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters-CP)

	A man found dead and naked on the back of a killer whale in a
tank at SeaWorld Orlando was a drifter who apparently drowned after
picking the wrong place to swim police said yesterday.  The same whale
had earlier been involved in a traner's death in Victoria.

	Police identified the man as Daniel Dukes, 27, a man who gave
his address as a Miami Hare Krishna Temple.

	"There was no foul play or anything sinister on his part," said
Jim Solmons, a spokesperson for the Orange County Sheriff's
Office.  "He was camped out in the park and just took the opportunity
to swim with the whale."

	An employee at the Orlando marine them park discovered Dukes
Tuesday morning, dead, nude and draped across the back of a killer
whale called Tillikum, named after the western North American Indian
Chinook word for "friend".

	Investigators said the 14-yea-old whale - almost 5,000 kilos,
the largest in captivity - may have played with Dukes' 82 kilo body as
if it were a toy.

	Tillikum was involved in a fatal 1991 incident at a park in
Victoria after the drowning of Keltie Byrne, who fell into the whales'
pool during a show.



Ouch!
Frankenstein Dentist

ATHENS, Greece (AP)

	A dentist whose patients accused him of leaving them in agony
by using various contraptions, including oversized screws for dental
implants, has been jailed for four years.  Theodoros Vassiliadis was
convicted of causing bodily harm to seven patients.  He used screws from
TV sets to fix implants.  "He destroyed the whole upper part of my
mouth", one patient said.  "The screws he put in were 30mm long."

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