Hump-day goes awry: Camel sits on West Virginia woman

[SoCalDem]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2005-05-19-camel_x.htm

Hump-day goes awry: Camel sits on West Virginia woman
SHINNSTON, W.Va. (AP) —

A 1,500-pound camel picked an unfortunate place to take a breather.
A woman called for help on her cell phone Wednesday after a camel sat on top of her while she was painting a fence.

Firefighters and the camel's owner helped move the animal off the woman, who was having trouble breathing, ambulance driver Brent Hicks said.

"There is no protocol on something like this," he said.

The names of the woman and the camel's owner were not released.

[Demit]

1. That is so strange. It takes a while for a camel to get seated.

They kneel down first. How did this woman get into a position--painting--so that she let herself be under a camel? And wtf is a camel doing in West Va anyway? That's an offbeat story all right!