Extract from the Yorkshire Evening Post:
"A drunk who claimed he had been raped by a dog was yesterday jailed for 12 months by a judge. Martin Hoyle, 45, was arrested by police after a passing motorist and his girlfriend found a Staffordshire bull terrier, called Badger, having sex with him at the side of a road in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.
Prosecutor Ben Crosland said the couple had stopped to help because they thought Hoyle was being attacked by the animal. But when they got closer they saw that he had his trousers round his ankles, was down on all fours and the dog was straddling him from behind.
"The defendant mumbled something about the dog having taken a liking to him," said Mr Crosland. "The couple were extremely offended and sickened by what they saw." Another passing motorist contacted the police and Hoyle was arrested as he walked with the dog down the road.
Hoyle, of East view, Marsh, Huddersfield, told police "I can't help it if the dog took a liking to me. He tried to rape me."
He repeated the ra pe allegation at the police station and added "The dog pulled my trousers down." Hoyle, who has had a long-standing alcohol problem, was jailed for 12 months after he admitted committing an act which outraged public decency.
His barrister said Hoyle had no memory of the incident because of his drunken state, but was now very remorseful and incredibly embarrassed.
Jailing him, Judge Alistair McCallum told Hoyle "Never before in my time at the bar or on the bench have I ever had to deal with somebody who voluntarily allowed himself to be buggered by a dog on the public highway. Frankly it is beyond most of our comprehension. It is an absolutely disgusting thing for members of the public to have to witness"
Update: I posted this under "humour" because I assumed it was a hoax, but James has pointed out in the comments box this article that claims the story was printed in The Sun (not word for word) on Dec 1st 1998. That's hardly proof of truth, but you'd be wrong to dismiss it as a hoax.
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/3739/
Posted by: JRWB | January 26, 2006 at 11:07 PM
Next time I see Martin Hoyle - the Classical Music Editor of Time Out who happens to be 45 - I'll ask him if he can shed some light on the beast incident.
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Oddly I thought that its appearance in The Sun made the story less likely. After posting it though, I got to thinking about the James Frey situation, and wondered after-all whether it mattered one bit.
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ANIMAL ABUSE!
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Sometimes people drink so much that they keep falling over and can't get up so what must have happened is that his pants somehow fell down as he was struggling to get up and the dog must have decided to do what it did, you can't really blame someone who is out of control because he/she is drunk, its alcohol that shouldn't exist anymore because of the problems its causing and police know this but don't care because what ever bad situation that is caused from someone who is drunk gives them an excuse to fine them and get money out of them which is one way the the law is able to produce funds.
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