


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.
