Bus Virgins Beware !!

Charges dropped in sherry enema death case

By RICHARD STEWART
Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle

ANGLETON — Prosecutors have dropped charges that a Lake Jackson woman caused her husband's death by giving him a sherry enema, leading to alcohol poisoning.

Tammy Jean Warner, 45, now of Texas City, had been scheduled to go on trial next Monday on a charge of negligent homicide. It was the sixth trial date set for the case.

Court records state that the case was dismissed Aug. 31 due to insufficient evidence.

Warner's husband, Michael Warner, a 58-year-old machine shop operator, died at their Lake Jackson home on May 21, 2004. An autopsy report said he had been administered an enema with enough sherry to get a blood alcohol level of 0.47 percent. That is almost six times the level that can lead to a driving while intoxicated charge.

Warner told the Houston Chronicle that her husband had been addicted to enemas since he was a child. She said he often used alcohol in that manner to get drunk.

I honestly don't know which would be worse - Getting a tube shoved up your arse or the taste of sherry. It would have to rate as one of the great mysteries of the world. Next bus trip we'll have to get a "volunteer" to do both ends at once to solve this mystery. Anyone like to put their hand up in the name of science?