I found this article on internet...was it a snake bite, is it confirmed?? Is he a terrorist??
SNAKE-BITE DEATH CAUSED BY NO SNAKE BITES
Or so say the pesky cops, who don't know what to do with this mystery in Arkansas.
The Scotsman covers the case of Garrick Wales of Kilmacolm, Scotland, who kicked the bucket in Arkansas. Poor bastard.
The tale, as best told:
Wales, 48, was found dead surrounded by vomit in a hire car near Little Rock airport in Arkansas on 13 May. Four highly poisonous snakes he had earlier ordered from a supplier in Florida were found in a box about half a mile away from his car two days later.
But yesterday, police said that earlier theories that he had been bitten by one of the snakes had not been confirmed by an autopsy carried out on Mr Wales’ body.
Sergeant Terry Hastings, of Little Rock Police Department, said the examination had not found any obvious wound on Mr Wales’ body, including a snake bite.
"The autopsy report didn’t give an indication of such. It’s a suspicious death. He didn’t have any obvious trauma to the body," he said.
Sgt Hastings said officers were waiting for the results of toxicology tests carried out on Mr Wales body that would show whether there was any snake venom or other poisons in his system.
Little Rock police are investigating Mr Wales’ background in an attempt to find out why he ordered the snakes and what he planned to do with them.
They have established from the Florida dealer that he had ordered snakes on several previous trips to the US.
Sgt Hastings said: "We don’t know anyone that he was in touch with in Arkansas but we are investigating that and trying to check into his past, where he has been and what he has been involved in, but right now we know very little."
A spokesman for Inverclyde Council said that following discussions with police and the family, it was satisfied that no dangerous animals were being kept at Mr Wales home in Kilmacolm, but said its officials had not actually inspected the premises.
Dead in Arkansas, surrounded by vomit. Is this another one of those pesky fraternity pranks gone bad?
Posted: Tue - May 25, 2004 at 07:35 AM CHATTER -- by Ron Davis Chatter Feedback
This is probably the best story in years to be made into a movie. I would want George Clooney as the Scotsman though. I don't know who would play the transvestite or the wife (maybe Demmi Moore?).
Unfortunate choice of wording in the circumstances.