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• An unnamed 28-year-old man in search of a voluntary castration found himself drawn to a website offering such services, which led him to travel from Virginia to a cabin in the woods of Poteau, Oklahoma.
There, on Oct. 12, Bob Lee Allen, 53, and Thomas Evans Gates, 42, allegedly relieved the victim of his testicles during a two-hour surgery, The Oklahoman reported.
Allen told the victim that he has "a freezer of body parts" and that "he was going to consume the parts and laughed and said that he was a cannibal," an affidavit said.
The day following the operation, Allen took the victim to the hospital because he was bleeding badly, but cautioned him to say "he done it to himself."
The hospital contacted police, and investigators searched the property, finding suspected body parts in a deep freeze.
Allen and Gates were charged with multiple felonies and misdemeanors, including conspiracy to commit unlicensed surgery and failure to bury the body parts. [The Oklahoman, 10/22/2020]
• Tynette Housley, 73, of Black Forest, Colorado, was cited by Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials after her "pet" deer attacked and gored a neighbor who was out walking her dog on Oct. 16.
The buck, now sporting two-pronged antlers, was taken in by Housley when it was just a few days old and raised as a pet.
The victim tried to run first to another neighbor's home, then to her own, but the buck repeatedly knocked her down and gored her.
A CPW officer euthanized the deer and took it for testing for rabies and other diseases.
"We can't say it enough: Wild animals are not pets," said Frank McGee, CPW's area wildlife manager.
Housley was charged with illegal possession and illegal feeding of wildlife. [Colorado Parks and Wildlife, 10/19/2020]