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.

[Red Badger]

He didn’t tie himself down....................

[almost done by half]

Who was the real animal in the zoo?

[ColdOne]

Oh my!

[FeliciaCat]

You just can make this crap up....truth is always stranger then fiction.

[FeliciaCat]

You just can make this crap up....truth is always stranger then fiction.

[org.whodat]

Not all nuts are found under a tree.

[LukeL]

I guess he had been a very bad boy and needed to be punished.

[ColdOne]

Someone else was at the home and helped Mazzola undertake the acts but left before he died How was he supposed to untie himself?

[gibsosa]

Wha... WTH?????

[Williams]

Sort of no connection between the two incidents?

[freedomlover]

[WOBBLY BOB]

“Weekend at Barney’s IV”

[AnAmericanAbroad]

Of course, the story would’ve been FAR more interesting if he’d managed to combine his professional life with his (ahem!) unusual sexual predilictions.

[NoGrayZone]

Ewwwwwww!

[Vaquero]

is it

An exotic-animal keeper

or

An exotic animal-keeper

[Steely Tom]

Someone else was at the home and helped Mazzola undertake the acts but left before he died...

A Person of Too Much Information.

[Williams]

“Zoo keeper don’t care, he’s a horny bastard.”

[ColdOne]

;)

[andy58-in-nh]

Another day, another “chained bear keeper chokes on sex toy” story. WTF.