![]() ![]() Katey Sagal had l ost her mother five years earlier to heart disease. In 1981, director Boris Sagal, father of actress Katey Sagal, was killed in Oregon during production of NBC’s World War III miniseries when he accidentally walked into the spinning tail rotor of a helicopter. That same year, legendary Indian action star Jayan was killed on a movie set while attempting to transfer from a speeding motorcycle to the skids of a low-flying helicopter that crashed on top of him. The pilot, Robert Sanders, was injured and his license was suspended for 90 days by the National Transportation Safety Board. when the low-flying helicopter he was riding in crashed into the Pacific Ocean off of Hawaii. In 1980, cameraman Robert Van Der Kar was killed while filming an episode of Magnum P.I. Related: Safety On Set: Three Workers Speak Out The ’80s were by far the deadliest decade for helicopter crashes on movie sets, accounting for all but five of the 31 helicopter-related film and TV production fatalities in the last 34 years. In the 1980s, two crashes alone - both being shot on the cheap in the Philippines by the same production company - claimed nine lives in the span of just two years. Related: Safety On Set: Camera Crew Outnumber Stunt Personnel 4-To-1 In On-Set Deaths and 15 more for American companies shooting abroad. Since 1980, 33 film and TV workers - nearly one a year - have been killed in helicopter accidents around the world, 14 in the U.S. ![]() Indeed, helicopter crashes have taken more lives on film sets than any other type of accident in modern times. ![]() But your chances of getting killed while making a movie go up dramatically the minute you step foot inside a helicopter. With all its car crashes, explosions, and hair-raising stunts, the film and TV industry is a notoriously dangerous business. In recent years there have been the cases of a Transkei man sentenced to 12 months’ jail for having sex with a sheep some Grahamstown youths caught “gangraping” a dog and a 23-year-old Free State farm worker arrested when he was spotted by passing motorists while standing on a dunghill with his trousers around his knees, having intercourse with a cow.ĭespite the increasing number of accusations, the NSPCA estimates that more than 20,000 animals have been sexually-abused in the country over the last two years.Related: The Death Of Sarah Jones: Safety Concerns Raised Over ‘Midnight Rider’ Crew’s Previous Film In Georgia She claims that South Africa has become a popular destination for zoophiles over the last few years, despite the authorities’ efforts to crack down on the phenomenon. The Executive director of the National Council of Societies for the Protection of Animals (NSPCA), Marcelle Meredith, says she wasn’t surprised when she learned about Mr Fitzgerald’s case. Khomotso Phahlane, says charges were filed because the animal abused. The South African National Police Commissioner, Lt. If found guilty, he faces a maximum sentence of two years in prison. There is no specific legislation against bestiality in Africa, but due to the circumstances, Mr Fitzgerald is accused of violating the Animals Protection Act, which makes it an offense to ill-treat, torture or terrify an animal. “Witnesses have seen him binding the animal to restrain its movements, attaching it to his jeep and then humping it,” said the South African National Police Commissioner, Lt. A few minutes later, his colleagues went looking for him and found him engaging in sexual-intercourse with one of the animals.Īccording to the South African Police Service (SAPS), 32-year old Brian Fitzgerald, from New Jersey, lured a young male zebra with pieces of fruits before tying it down with a rope and sodomizing it. An employee of National Geographic magazine was arrested this morning in Africa, for sexually assaulting a zebra while working in the Kruger National Park.Īccording to reports, Mr Fitzgerald was shooting a documentary film on Burchell’s zebras along with two other National Geographic employees and local guides, when he left the group to “get a closer look” of the animals. ![]()
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