Today in "The Sun Made This Up": Raccoon Bites Man's Manhood

Posted by Colleen Kane

 

Scanner is turning into the Castration Station today, what with this story and Emily's post. But what do you expect from monstrous feminists

So, the British rag The Sun claims that a drunk man was trying to have a go at a racoon. You know, the old raping-the-racoon trick? According to the story, the fiesty raccoon fought back, biting the man's penis. 

“He’s been told they can get things working again but they can’t sew back on what the raccoon bit off," according to a pal of the man. 

OK, here's a few reasons why this story seems dubious. 

--Sex with a raccoon? Wouldn't this drunk man have to catch the raccoon first? 

--The man in question, Alexander Kirilov, is conveniently Russian, making it difficult for English-only speakers to confirm the story. A Google News search leads to a handful of stories about this in Italian, Czechoslovakian, and Norwegian, but none in Russian.

--Anyone can alert The Sun to a story tip via text message. Anyone can text message from anywhere, including from a pub whilst pinted up. 

On the other hand, here's a reason it could be true: people are dumb. 

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Comments

Luke said:

Racoons are pretty scare in Europe.

January 26, 2009 2:09 PM

Maxwell Hammer said:

Also, raccons are native to north america. There aren't any in Russia. Was it in a zoo?

January 26, 2009 2:21 PM

luke said:

Racoons were introduced to Europe for the fur industry in the 30's, mostly in Germany but some in Russia.  So it's not inconceivable.

January 26, 2009 2:46 PM

Truth said:

Here it is the article in Russian media:

http://www.life.ru/news/54405

January 27, 2009 3:09 AM

GeeBee said:

In times past the Sun and other UK rags used to get all their implausible shit from German papers (Bild usually). Since the fall of the Soviet bloc they seem to come from Russia.

January 29, 2009 8:29 PM

About Colleen Kane

Colleen has been an editor at BUST and Playgirl magazines and has written for the endangered species of dead-tree magazines like SPIN and Plenty, as well as Radar Online and other websites. She lives in exile in Baton Rouge with her fiance, two dogs, and her former cat. Read her personal blogs at ColleenKane.com.

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