When I talked to them, they weren't breaking the law, and they didn't want to. They were absolutely terrified of going to jail. Once the law came into effect, the whole Washington community of zoophiliacs moved to states where it was legal to do what they wanted to do. And if it does happen again, we'll know what to do.' No one has been arrested for bestiality in Washington since, to my knowledge.

Once the law changed, and bestiality was made illegal in Washington, everyone sort of said, 'It's over and it will never happen again. No one wants to talk about what happened, though. The town got rid of the sign on the farm where it happened-that was the only act of erasure that I noticed. Hands's death the other day?Ĭharles Mudede: Yes, I'm actually in Enumclaw, Washington, right now to take photos and see if anything interesting is going on. VICE: Were you aware that it was the ten-year anniversary of Mr. Hands suffered the injury that led to his death The gates outside the farm in Enumclaw where Mr. Hands and the group of male zoophiliacs who hung out together, got drunk, and lined up to get plowed by horses was the subject of a 2007 documentary called Zoo, which later went to Sundance and Cannes. Not only did the original Seattle Times report of the death become the publication's most-read online article that year, but the story of Mr. The accident, as well as the video documenting it, became national news and a viral sensation that bubbled out of creepy 4chan boards, seeping into the consciousness of internet users everywhere. The scandal was so salacious, however, that Washington State made bestiality a Class C felony-punishable by up to five years behind bars and a $10,000 fine-shortly after Pinyan's death, with the state senate voting unanimously for the bill. Hands' as his zoophile friends called him, being fucked by a horse they referred to as 'Big Dick.'Īt the time, bestiality was legal in Washington, and since there was no evidence of the men abusing the animals, Tait was only charged with trespassing. At the man's trailer, the police confiscated the recording of Pinyan, or 'Mr. Ten years ago this month, a resident of Enumclaw, Washington, named Kenneth Pinyan was pronounced dead due to 'acute peritonitis perforation of the sigmoid colon during anal intercourse with a horse.' A surveillance camera captured the license plate of the car that dropped the man off at the hospital after his horrific erotic encounter, leading detectives to 54-year-old James Michael Tait, who lived next to a 39-acre farm.

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