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- Subject: Who says you can't have fun in Kentucky??
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:16:21 GMT
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- Reports of a `man-ape' lead police to mud-covered man living in woods
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- Associated Press
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- OWENSBORO, KY -- A man authorities said is a former Louisville police officer
- was taken to a hospital for psychiatric evaluation after he was found covered
- with mud and manure in a wooded area near Horse Branch, police said.
- The 37-year-old man was admitted to the psychiatric unit at Owensboro-Daviess
- County Hospital on Friday, said David Osborne, Daviess County sheriff's deputy.
- He said the man was a Louisville police officer from 1973 to 1978, although
- that could not be confirmed with the Louisville police last night.
- Osborne said the man was found about seven miles southeast of Horse Branch on
- Friday by two Ohio County sheriff's deputies after a couple reported that a
- "man-ape" had tried to get into their car.
- Osborne said the man was naked except for a large rubber band around his
- waist. A comb was stuck to the rubber band, he said, and a bone was tied in
- his medium-length hair.
- The man was caked in a paste mad from mud and manure, Osborne said, and
- leaves covered his sex organs. He was unarmed and did not resist the officers.
- "It's definitely the strangest thing that I've ever run across in the seven
- years that I've been here," Osborne said.
- The man, who was found near a pile of animal bones, told police he had buried
- his belongings and was collecting fossils, Osborne said.
- "He talked to us. It didn't make a lot of sense ... but he talked to us."
- The man told police he had been in and out of Veterans' Administration
- hospitals, and officials believe he is a Vietnam veteran, Osborne said.
- Osborne said the man told him he had covered himself in manure and mud to repel
- insects.
- Police could not determine how long he had been living in the woods, Osborne
- said, but he told authorities he had previously been living with someone in
- Owensboro.
- Osborne said police had no reports that the man had harmed anyone, but had
- had two reports on July 2 of a large, hairy animal spotted walking upright in
- Daviess County. The frightened callers said the animal had stopped in the road
- in front of the cars and yelled.
- "The reports were from two different people. Three in one car and two in
- another. They didn't know each other," he said.
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