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| '''Kenneth Pinyan''' ([[June 22]], [[1960]] - [[July 2]], [[2005]]) was a [[Gig Harbor]]<ref>http://www.courierherald.com/articles/2006/07/12/news/news2.txt</ref>, [[Washington (U.S. state)|Washington]] (a [[suburb]] in the greater [[Seattle-Tacoma]] area) resident who engaged in [[sexual activity]] with full-size [[stallion (horse)|stallion]]s at a farm near the city of [[Enumclaw, Washington|Enumclaw]]. He videotaped those sex acts and distributed them informally under the name '''Mr. Hands'''.
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| During a July 2005 sex act, which was being videotaped by a friend of his, he suffered a [[gastrointestinal perforation|perforated colon]], and later died of his injuries. The story was reported in the ''[[The Seattle Times]]'' and was one of that paper's most read stories of 2005<ref>{{cite news|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002711400_danny30.html|accessdate=2006-05-15|title=Horse sex story was online hit|publisher=The Seattle Times|date=December 30, 2005}}</ref>.
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| Pinyan's death prompted the passing of a bill in Washington State prohibiting both [[bestiality|sex with animals]], and the videotaping of the same, some months later. However, the video seen by many others was before the accident.
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| A documentary of the life and death of Pinyan, and the life led by those who came to the farm near Enumclaw as he did, debuted at the [[Sundance Film Festival]] 2007 under the title ''[[Zoo (movie)|Zoo]]''. It was one of 16 winners out of 856 candidates for the festival,<ref>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003459228_danny03.html</ref> and played at numerous regional festivals in the USA thereafter.<ref>http://blogs.indiewire.com/mattdentler/archives/013464.html</ref> Following Sundance, it was also selected as one of the top five American films to be presented at the "prestigious" Directors Fortnight sidebar at the 2007 [[Cannes Film Festival]].<ref>"''Zoo'', which opens today in NY and LA, has just been selected as one of the features of the prestigious Directors Fortnight sidebar at this year's Cannes Film Festival". [http://emanuellevy.com/article.php?articleID=5686 Zoo: Inside the Controversial Documentary about Bestiality]</ref><ref>Eugene Hernandez, "[http://www.indiewire.com/ots/2007/05/cannes_07_slate.html CANNES '07: Slate Set for 49th Directors' Fortnight]", IndieWIRE, [[May 3]], [[2007]].</ref>
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| The media outlets that reported the story withheld Pinyan's name. His name was revealed on national radio by talk show host [[Tom Leykis]] in the summer of 2005.{{Fact|date=April 2007}}
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| == Death ==
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| Prosecutors later determined that the horse, an [[Arabian horse|Arabian stallion]] which had apparently regularly engaged in penetrative sex acts of this kind, had not been injured by being allowed to engage in sex in this manner. The photographer, 54-year old James Michael Tait of Enumclaw,<ref>{{cite news|author=Rick Anderson|url=http://www.seattleweekly.com/2005-11-09/news/closing-the-barn-door.php|title=Closing the Barn Door|publisher=Seattle Weekly|date=[[November 9]], [[2005]]}}</ref> was later charged with [[trespass]]ing, since this act took place on a third party's property. A third man alleged to have been present was not charged as his identity was not proven by evidence. According to the Medical Examiner's Office, Pinyan "died of acute [[peritonitis]] due to perforation of the [[Colon (anatomy)|colon]]",<ref name="seattle1">{{cite news|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002384648_farm16m.html|accessdate=2006-04-30|title=Videotapes show bestiality, Enumclaw police say|publisher=The Seattle Times|date=[[July 15]], [[2005]]}}</ref> and the death was ruled "accidental".<ref name="seattle2">{{cite news|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002382718_horse15m.html|accessdate=2006-04-30|title=Enumclaw-area animal-sex case investigated|publisher=The Seattle Times|date=[[July 15]], [[2002]]}}</ref> A further source states that the stallion was owned by Pinyan, who merely boarded it at the property concerned.<ref name="gagreport">{{cite news|url=http://www.gagreport.com/bizarrenews_8-19-05_horse_sex_death.htm|accessdate=2006-04-30|title=Enumclaw man dies after sex with a horse|publisher=The Gag Report|date=August 20, 2005}}</ref>
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| Other factors surrounding the death were apparently that the deceased, concerned about appearing in hospital with an unusual internal injury and the effect on his [[security clearance]] as an engineer for aerospace company [[Boeing]], had apparently refused his friends' urging to go to the hospital for several hours after being aware he was internally injured, and was either beyond treatment, or dead, when he finally reached the [[Emergency room|ER]].
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| Media reports at the time of the trial suggested that despite seizing and examining carefully a large number of such videos from the property, no evidence of abuse was found, and that the trespass charge against Tait were brought due to lack of grounds for any other matter:
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| {{quotation|It was only after Pinyan died, when law enforcement looked for one way to punish his associates, that the legality of bestiality in Washington State became an issue [...] The prosecutor's office wanted to charge [his friend] with animal abuse, but the police found no evidence of abused animals on the many videotapes they collected from his home. As there was no law against humanely [having sex with] one horse, the prosecutors could only charge [him] with trespassing.|<ref name="thestranger">{{cite news|url=http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=30811|accessdate=2006-04-30|title=The Animal In You|publisher=The Stranger|date=February-March 2006}}</ref>}}
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| {{quotation|The prosecutor's office says no animal cruelty charges were filed because there was no evidence of injury to the horses.|<ref name="seattle3">{{cite news|url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002568970_webhorse.html|accessdate=2006-04-30|title=Charge filed in connection with man who died having horse sex|publisher=The Seattle Times|date=October 18, 2005|author=Associated Press}}</ref>}}
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| ==See also==
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| * [[List of unusual deaths]]
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| * [[Zoophilia]]
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| * [[Anal sex]]
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| * [[List of horse accidents]]
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| * [[Zoo (film)|''Zoo'']], a documentary about his lifestyle and his death
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| ==References==
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| <references />
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| ==External links==
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| *[http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000981095 ...What's a Reporter to Do?], ''[[Editor & Publisher]]'', [[July 18]] [[2005]] - Subscription required
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| *[http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002569751_horsesex19m.html Trespassing charged in horse-sex case], ''[[The Seattle Times]]'', [[October 19]] [[2005]]
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| *[http://profiles.yahoo.com/mrhands60?warn=1 Kenneth Pinyan's Yahoo profile] (contains nudity)
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| *[http://www.boeing.com/news/frontiers/archive/2005/september/i_im.html Boeing condolences archive, September 2005]
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