Bear keeper in Ohio attack dies in bizarre fashion

Associated Press ^ | July 13, 2011 | MEGHAN BARR

[Free ThinkerNY]

CLEVELAND (AP) -- An exotic-animal keeper who made headlines after one of his bears killed a caretaker was found dead and chained to his bed, asphyxiated in an apparent accident during sexual role-playing, authorities said.

Sam Mazzola, 49, was found last week face down on his water bed, wearing a mask and with his arms and legs restrained, said Dr. Frank P. Miller III, a pathologist at the Lorain County coroner's office. He had choked on a sex toy, Miller said in an e-mailed statement.

[Hot Tabasco]

It's like your mother always warning you to wear clean underwear.

I stay away from this type of kinky sex because if you die doing it like this guy did, then your name and your weirdness are going to be headline news........like David Carradine. And you just know that at the next class reunion everybody's gonna be talking about you........

[fnord]

and the bear was heard to have said just before wandering off: “Admit it Sam, this is why you took up gamekeeping ...”

[Mobties]

Mazzola?!! Isn’t that some sort of corn oil?

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

There must be a poem or a mournful Country and Western tune somewhere in this story!

[Fido969]

There must be a poem or a mournful Country and Western tune somewhere in this story!

"Ah'm tied up and choked up, and can't bear missin' you..."

[RichInOC]

“Bear lie! Bear lie!”

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Mazzola found it was not a joke,

When upon his sex toy he did choke.

Buy Burma Shave

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

You’ve got soul!

[AngelesCrestHighway]

This is unbearable.....

[Hoffer Rand]

This is not how someone wants to be remembered

Yeah. Ask David Carradine.

[martin_fierro]

asphyxiated in an apparent accident during sexual role-playing

Grisly. Bare.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

L O U B. R E C A N T

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Shouldn’t you be on a Palin thread with your PDS repellent spray can or something? Whatever PDS means?

[gov_bean_ counter]

I have never accused anyone of having PDS. I do happen to think that is rather childish.

My candidate of the ones who have announced is Mr. Cain. The others just don't have any appeal to me for various reasons.

[katana]

A friend of mine used to reserve tables at restaurants using the name Mazzola ... just for the giggle of hearing the maitre’d call out “Mazzola party of #”. We were a very bored bunch of sick puppies in those days.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

May God be with them all but Romney. Just watch Trump jump in and he wants West as VP last I heard.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Almost with you there, but OMG(oodness) LTC West is impressive. He needs to be VP on someone’s ticket. He hasn't given any indication that he would turn down that opportunity.

[crusty old prospector]

All that keeps going through my head is the jingle. “Mazzola. Corn goodness.”