I heard about that self-castration story in a late night comedy monologue back in March...pretty insane stuff.
The other day on 6/06/06, a man in Russia who cited that "God would protect him" made his way over a security fence & down a steep cliff with a rope into a lion habitat. He was killed.
http://www.crisscross.com/world/news/27597
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