Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Owner of Killer Bear Chokes to Death on Sex Toy
ktla ^ | July 13, 2011 | KTLA News

Posted on 07/14/2011 7:10:05 AM PDT by tlb

CLEVELAND, OHIO -- Police say man well known for his collection of exotic animals has died after choking on a sex toy.

Sam Mazzola, 49, was found dead in his Columbia Station home on Sunday.

Last year, Mazzola came under scrutiny when a black bear, named Cherokee, killed an employee of the sanctuary.

According to Lorain County Chief Deputy Coroner Dr. Frank Miller, Mazzola was found face down on his water bed, restrained with handcuffs, chains and padlocks.

An autopsy determined the preliminary cause of death was asphyxia due to airway obstruction by foreign body.

Mazzola had a sex toy in his throat, which apparently obstructed his breathing, Miller said.

He was also wearing a leather mask with the eyes and mouth zipped shut and a two-piece metal sphere covering his head, according to the coroner.

According to detectives, Mazzola had help with the bondage equipment, but his assistant had left before he died.

No one has been charged in the death, which authorities believe was accidental.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: accident; bears; cleveland; headlines; napl; ohio
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-73 next last
To: tlb

Dontcha know that perversion is dangerous to health?


21 posted on 07/14/2011 7:30:51 AM PDT by Lumper20
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tlb
I'm no shrinking violet, but what kind of sex toy goes in your mouth?
22 posted on 07/14/2011 7:31:53 AM PDT by synbad600
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tlb

“Owner of Killer Bear Chokes to Death on Sex Toy”

With a headline like that, who needs to read the article, or even care what it’s about?

Just sayin’....


23 posted on 07/14/2011 7:34:36 AM PDT by Grumplestiltskin (I may look new, but it's only deja vu!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tlb
Owner of Killer Bear Chokes to Death on Sex Toy

I'd be willing to bet that was the first time in human history that phrase has ever been written.

24 posted on 07/14/2011 7:36:28 AM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tlb

The guy put himself in that situation but...Couldn’t the assistant face charges for tying someone up and leaving them?? Anyhow that’s got to be an em(bear)essing way to go!! LOL


25 posted on 07/14/2011 7:36:33 AM PDT by jakerobins
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: apillar

Mazzola was found face down on his water bed, restrained with handcuffs, chains and padlocks.
Mazzola had a sex toy in his throat.

He was also wearing a leather mask with the eyes and mouth zipped shut and a two-piece metal sphere covering his head,

That would make a great GRAVESTONE EPITAPH....


26 posted on 07/14/2011 7:36:48 AM PDT by traumer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: traumer

You know, the day his parents gave birth to that baby boy, could they have ever known it would have all ended like this?


27 posted on 07/14/2011 7:38:23 AM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: synbad600
I'm no shrinking violet, but what kind of sex toy goes in your mouth? I'm guessing, since he seemed to be into bondage, it was what is called a "ball gag" basically a ball that fits in the mouth with a strap that goes around the back of the head. I'm assuming the strap came loose and he swallowed the ball. (and no, I'm not into bondage myself and I'm honestly not sure how I know this, probably something from back in my college days.)
28 posted on 07/14/2011 7:38:38 AM PDT by apillar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: dfwgator

29 posted on 07/14/2011 7:39:10 AM PDT by traumer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: apillar
I'm assuming the strap came loose and he swallowed the ball.

Don't you just hate it when that happens?

30 posted on 07/14/2011 7:39:56 AM PDT by dfwgator
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: Tigerized

Arkansas. The safe word is always Arkansas.


31 posted on 07/14/2011 7:43:33 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: tlb
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
-Thomas Aquinas
32 posted on 07/14/2011 7:46:06 AM PDT by Pan_Yan
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tlb
I had to read the article because I didn't understand the headline. I'm sorry I did.

5.56mm

33 posted on 07/14/2011 7:48:59 AM PDT by M Kehoe
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: builder

I know how you feel. When I was in college a guy who lived next door to me hung himself from the rod in his closet. I always thought he was a suicide, but many years later a university official told me he accidentally hung himself while masturbating. At first I thought he was kidding. I was in my early forties, yet I had never heard of such a thing.

When the incident happened there was a campus rumor that he was found naked, but I never heard a single person even speculate that it was an accidental death. Times were so different then. We thought we were really hip when in reality we were all blissfully ignorant. I am happily married to my high school sweetheart, so I am sure there is much in the sexual arena I don’t know and that’s just as well.


34 posted on 07/14/2011 7:52:44 AM PDT by .45 Long Colt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: tlb
Kinda reminds me of the story about the guy found dead at the bottom of a lake with chains tied around his feet - and they said it looked like the worst case of suicide ever . . .
35 posted on 07/14/2011 7:55:05 AM PDT by builder (I don't want a piece of someone else's pie)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: thefactor; Tigerized

>>> Arkansas. The safe word is always Arkansas.

He’d be alive today if he had chosen instead the safe word “Mmmmphhhh!”


36 posted on 07/14/2011 7:55:33 AM PDT by tlb
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: Tigerized

“Palomino”


37 posted on 07/14/2011 8:00:03 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (In 2012 you will awaken from your HOPEnosis and have no recollection of this... "Constitution")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: tlb

Oh, brother. What an undignified way to go. RIP.


38 posted on 07/14/2011 8:01:34 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: apillar
Remember Pulp Fiction? Here's where you might have seen it...


39 posted on 07/14/2011 8:06:11 AM PDT by Pharmboy (What always made the state a hell has been that man tried to make it heaven-Hoelderlin)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 28 | View Replies]

To: tlb

Very sad indeed. It’s not funny that this man should
go into eternity that way.


40 posted on 07/14/2011 8:08:23 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-73 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson