Rare parasite may have caused Phoenix official to fall or jump from car

AZ Star (pm) ^ | 12-13-04 | az star

[Rakkasan1]

SCOTTSDALE - The city of Phoenix's longtime finance director died in Scottsdale after falling or jumping from a moving car.

Witnesses told police that Kevin Keogh, 55, climbed onto the top of his moving Mercedes-Benz, stretched out his arms and then jumped or fell from the car on Wednesday.

The car continued driverless until it crashed into another car. No one else was injured.

Investigators don't yet know whether the death was intentional, but the cruise control was apparently set at 50 mph. The medical examiner will determine if drugs or alcohol were involved.

City officials and Keogh's widow said they believe he was suffering from brain damage caused by a rare parasite that he picked up while traveling in Mexico a few years ago. The damage impairs a person's social decision-making abilities.

[Rakkasan1]

just damn. the only car I ever had that would have been safer to jump from was my 1st- a total bondo Ford Pinto.

[AzSteven]

Rare parasite? Like what, a goa'uld? Crikey!

[Poohbah]

One of those creepy-crawly things Khan used on Chekov and Terrell?

[Rakkasan1]

this WON'T be featured in the Mazatlan Times.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Great. I'm going back to Mexico again (vacation, not being deported, LOL!) at the end of January.

Now I've got the heebie-jeebies! ;)

[LibFreeOrDie]

Details (w. photos) of brain parasite here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1298482/posts

[CougarGA7]

The damage impairs a person's social decision-making abilities.

Ya Think?

[theFIRMbss]

>Rare parasite may have caused Phoenix official to fall or jump from car

Parasites? Yeah, sure! Everyone knows it was the Planet X Z-rays!

[Question_Assumptions]

I suppose I shouldn't mention the parasitic worms that one woman got in Mexico from unboiled water that became so numerous in a person's abdomen that the doctor could hear them "chirping", then?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

No. Please don't mention that. Thanks. LOL!

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

climbed onto the top of his moving Mercedes-Benz, stretched out his arms and then jumped or fell from the car on Wednesday...Investigators don't yet know whether the death was intentional...

[FierceDraka]

Yeah... It was stuck in his ear by this man

when he failed to give up the location of the perp's old enemy James T Kirk and the USS Enterprise.

[GeekDejure]

Oak Hay... How do we go about training these little critters to attack Islamofascists ???

[FierceDraka]

Nothing lightens up a discussion thread like Khan Singh!

[visualops]

Aye, the young of Ceti Alpha Five's only remaining indigenous inhabitant...

[Poohbah]

"KHA-A-A-AN!"

[dawn53]

LOL!

[PoorMuttly]

"RARE PARASITE may have caused Phoenix official to fall or jump from car"

Pretty sure I used to date one of those. I remember wanting to jump out of the moving car at the time, too.

Muttly have it on good authority that a case of the heebie-jeebies can prevent the development of the screaming mimis...which require professional treatment.

[TalBlack]

I would guess that the wife has read the insurance policy and discovered that it won't pay for a 'hold muh beer and watch this' moment.

So noW the guy died of an ILLNESS.

[Normal4me]

Investigators don't yet know whether the death was intentional??? What do they think, he climbed outside of the car at 50 mph for a breath of fresh air? I'd say anytime you leave control, get up out of your seat and start walking around on the outside of the speeding vehicle for any reason, it's pretty much intentional!