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January 21st, 2003, 05:49 PM
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SAPA (South African Press Association)
January 20, 2003
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HEADLINE: SOUTH AFRICAN WOMAN STRANGLES OSTRICH IN SELF-DEFENCE
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When faced with an agressive male ostrich on a farm outside Cape Town, a 19-year-old South African medical student strangled the bird in self-defence, the Beeld newspaper said Monday. Corlize Steyn said she had been jogging on an ostrich farm in the town of Touws River while visiting friends when she encountered the ostrich. Twice she grabbed its neck as it charged, but it was only when it attempted a third lunge that she had a chance to get a good grip, she recalled. "I thought that the closer I stayed to it, the less it could do to me. I warned it: "I'm going to kill you!," the second-year Stellenbosch University student recalled. When Steyn returned to the farmhouse all scratched and bruised, the farm owner responded with initial skepticism. "I have never seen anything like it," Coenraad Bezuidenhout was quoted as saying. The ostrich was slaughtered - and some of its meat offered to its killer.
All rights reserved
Global News Wire
Copyright 2003 SAPA
SAPA (South African Press Association)
January 20, 2003
LENGTH: 158 words
HEADLINE: SOUTH AFRICAN WOMAN STRANGLES OSTRICH IN SELF-DEFENCE
BODY:
When faced with an agressive male ostrich on a farm outside Cape Town, a 19-year-old South African medical student strangled the bird in self-defence, the Beeld newspaper said Monday. Corlize Steyn said she had been jogging on an ostrich farm in the town of Touws River while visiting friends when she encountered the ostrich. Twice she grabbed its neck as it charged, but it was only when it attempted a third lunge that she had a chance to get a good grip, she recalled. "I thought that the closer I stayed to it, the less it could do to me. I warned it: "I'm going to kill you!," the second-year Stellenbosch University student recalled. When Steyn returned to the farmhouse all scratched and bruised, the farm owner responded with initial skepticism. "I have never seen anything like it," Coenraad Bezuidenhout was quoted as saying. The ostrich was slaughtered - and some of its meat offered to its killer.