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December 20, 2002
Man Bites Into Bat Burger
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 9:53 a.m. ET
JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) -- What would you like on your burger? Lettuce? Mayo? Pickles?
Perhaps some bat?
A Lexington teenager faces up to six years behind bars for placing a dead bat on a bun as a joke and giving it to a man who took a bite, thinking it was a burger, police said.
The girl, whose identity is being withheld because she is a juvenile, will be charged with violating a new law that prohibits tampering with someone's food and giving it as a gift, according to Lexington Police Investigator Donna Hetherington.
``It appears to be a practical joke that went very bad. She just wasn't using a whole lot of common sense,'' Hetherington said Thursday.
Timothy Gooch, 21, went to a local hospital's emergency room after biting into the bat Tuesday night. He was not injured and the bat tested negative for rabies, state Health Department spokeswoman Diane Denton said Thursday.
Hetherington said the bat had been killed when someone ran over it and that the teen had never seen one before. ``She thought this would be funny, but it wasn't,'' Hetherington said.
― Aaron W, Friday, 20 December 2002 15:13 (twenty-three years ago)
A dumb thing to do , but no way should she go to jail for it
― Mike Hanle y (mike), Friday, 20 December 2002 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)
heh if this happened to me i'm sure i'd have said something like "urrgh! it was
run over?!"
― bob zemko (bob), Friday, 20 December 2002 18:43 (twenty-three years ago)
They should just make her eat the rest of it as a punishment.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Friday, 20 December 2002 19:18 (twenty-three years ago)