BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- The woman whose body was found stuck in a chimney in August wasn't drugged or drunk when she apparently climbed into the narrow flue.
Police previously said that Jacquelyn Kotarac, a 49-year-old doctor, likely climbed onto the roof and slid down the chimney in an effort to get into her boyfiend's home. Her boyfriend, 58-year-old William Moodie, escaped unnoticed from another exit "to avoid a confrontation," police said at the time.
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Reports at the time indicated Kotarac had been drinking earlier that evening at Cafe Med Restaurant on Stockdale Highway, but the coroner's office said Wednesday that toxicology tests were negative for alcohol and illicit drugs and showed normal "therapeutic" levels of prescription medication.
Kotarac died of asphyxia because she was squeezed into the chimney so tightly, the coroner's office said. Her body was not discovered for several days.
[Bakersfield Now]
Yes, I have heard that it's much easier to get down a chimney while drunk, because your body essentially becomes boneless, much like a mouse' does when it squeezes under doors, etc., etc.
ReplyDeleteExactly. Science has shown again and again that drunk people fare much better in car accidents than do sober people because of the well-documented rodentification effects of alcohol. You'd think someone who's a doctor like Ms. Kotarac would know this and never attempt something so reckless as a sober chimney dive.
ReplyDeleteIs rodentification a real word? If so, this blog may just have gone up a notch in my book.
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