For some people, "hung like a horse" ain't so good...

Wikipedia, the online wiki encyclopedia, says this about peritonitis: "A major cause of bacterial peritonitis is internal perforation of the gastrointestinal tract, contaminating the abdominal cavity with bacteria from gastric contents."

It seems that someone in the army of wiki editors might want to add to the entry that the affliction can also be caused by a horse's dong getting rammed up one's sphincter.

Jennifer Sullivan of the Seattle Times is reporting that authorities have made an arrest in a case where a man died after having sex with a horse.

Apparently the arrested man, James Tait, 54, is the owner of a farm known on Internet chat rooms as a place people can go to engage in bestiality with farm animals. The dead guy, a 45-year-old Seattle man who is unnamed in the article, apparently died of acute peritonitis due to the perforation of the colon.

Bestiality isn't outlawed in the state, so authorities say the maximum charge for which they could get Tait is trespassing. (No, not trespassing into the dead guy's behind, as it was the horse who did that, but trespassing into his neighbor's property where he led the now-dead guy to do the deed.)

For the horse, methinks that the law-and-order folks probably could've considered a charge of date rape.

Witnesses said they heard the man scream "Stop! Stop! Stop!" only to hear the horse reply "Nay. Nay. Nay."