Just in case you think_I"M _full of it--

[bearbvd@domain.elided (Greg Hermann)]

PADERBORN, GERMANY - Overzealous zookeeper Friedrich
Riesfeldt fed his constipated elephant Stefan 22 doses of animal
laxative and more than a bushel of berries, figs and prunes before
the plugged-up pachyderm finally let fly - and suffocated the keeper under
200 pounds of poop!

Investigators say ill-fated Friedrich, 46, was attempting to give the
ailing elephant an olive-oil enema when the relieved beast unloaded on him
like a dump truck full of mud.

"The sheer force of the elephant's unexpected defecation knocked
 Mr.Riesfeldt to the ground, where he struck his head on a rock
and lay unconscious as the elephant continued to evacuate his
bowels on top of him," said flabbergasted Paderborn police
detective Erik Dern.

"With no one there to help him, he lay under all that dung for at
least an hour before a watchman came along, and during that time
 he suffocated. It seems to be just one of those freak accidents.