Kenneth "Mr. Hands" Pinyan
Kenneth "Mr. Hands" Pinyan (born 1960) was an Engineer, who worked for American Boeing living in Gig Harbor, King County, Washington, United States.
Death
During a July 2005 sex act, videotaped by a friend, he suffered a perforated colon from receptive anal intercourse from a stallion and later died of his injuries. The story was reported in The Seattle Times and was one of that paper's most-read stories of 2005. It was informally referred to as the Enumclaw horse sex case. The video footage was later disseminated through the Internet.
Notable Events
A documentary of the life and death of Pinyan, and the life led by those who came to the farm near Enumclaw, debuted at the Sundance Film Festival 2007 under the title Zoo. It was one of 16 winners out of 856 candidates for the festival and played at numerous regional festivals in the United States thereafter. 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.
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.
