virus: Two Charged After Human Catapult Death

From: Walter Watts (wlwatts@cox.net)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 16:02:34 MDT

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    Two Charged After Human Catapult Death

    Jul 15, 7:11 am ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - British police charged two men with manslaughter
    Tuesday following the death of an Oxford University student who was
    flung from a giant catapult. Bulgarian Konstadin Yankov, 19, died last
    November when the stunt near the West Country town of Bridgewater went
    wrong.

    "He had been thrown by a replica medieval catapult and failed to reach
    the landing net," said a police spokeswoman.

    Yankov was on an outing with the Oxford Stunt Factory, an unofficial
    club at Oxford University where he was studying biochemistry. He had
    been the sixth person that day to be launched from the "trebuchet"
    catapult.

    Organizers said at the time Yankov had been properly weighed and that
    the machine had been correctly calibrated before he was fired in a
    30-yard arc. They did not know what had gone wrong.

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