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A Kennewick man who apparently wasn't wearing pants has been accused of harassing a neighbor's horse. The Tri-City Herald reports the horse's owner spotted a bald man without any pants chasing the horse about 3:30 a.m. Friday in a corral. Benton County sheriff's deputies identified 26-year-old man, who lives next door, as the suspect and he was jailed for investigation of trespassing. Deputies also had been called to the home near Finley Thursday evening when the owner saw the same bald man scaring the horse enough to break through an electrical and barb-wire fence. He was wearing a black T-shirt...

A Conway woman who had video surveillance of a man having sexual intercourse with one of her horses said she found the suspect behind her barn Monday night and pointed a shotgun at his head until police arrived and arrested him. Rodell Vereen, 50, of Longs, is charged with buggery and trespassing after Barbara Kenley, who leases Lazy B Stables on Coates Road in the Wampee section of Horry County, told officers she had video of the suspect having sex with a horse then wanted to catch him at her barn. ``That stable was my getaway, my stress relief,'' said...

A Corvallis teenager was arrested after a surveillance camera captured him preparing to sexually abuse a horse inside a barn, police said. The owners of the barn installed the camera after reporting an assault on the horse last summer. In February, the owners noticed the halter of their mare had been moved, as well as some food dishes. When they checked the video, they saw a young man sexually assaulting the horse. Deputy Clay Stephens of the Benton County Sheriff's Office, who watched the video, said the youth, who could not be identified, seemed to be following a "very concise,...

Cannes - A semi-documentary about a group of US men who had sex with horses has taken the title as the most shocking movie at the Cannes film festival. But while Zoo has drawn big, curious crowds at its screenings, the real unsettling quality about the movie is its approach: it depicts the men in a sympathetic light, one that tries to push the viewers to understanding their sexual perversion. The documentary - in which actors recreate non-explicit scenes under audio interviews with some of the men involved - centres on a true-life incident. In July 2005, a 45-year-old man...

Sundance picks Seattle film on horse-sex case The Sundance Film Festival announced Wednesday that Seattle filmmaker Robinson Devor's documentary "Zoo" has been accepted into the 2007 festival's documentary competition. The film examines the widely reported case of an Enumclaw man who died in 2005 after having sex with a horse. "Zoo" is one of 16 documentaries selected for competition (out of 856 submitted), all of which will screen as world premieres. Devor has had two previous films at Sundance: the made-in-Seattle drama "Police Beat," and "The Woman Chaser." The Sundance Film Festival will take place Jan. 18-28 in Park City,...

A WOMAN has been charged with bestiality after she was allegedly caught naked in a paddock having sex with a horse. Officers allegedly found the 35-year-old woman commiting an indecent act with the horse when they were called to a field in Lismore, north of Sydney. "The woman was arrested and charged with bestiality and behaving in an offensive manner,'' a New South Wales police spokesman said.

A Serbian man needed emergency surgery after he had sex with a hedgehog on a witchdoctor's advice. Zoran Nikolovic, 35, from Belgrade, says the witchdoctor told him it would cure his premature ejaculation. But he ended up in an operating theatre after the hedgehog's needles left his penis severely lacerated. A hospital spokesman said: "The animal was apparently unhurt and the patient came off much worse from the encounter. We have managed to repair the damage to his penis."