Make it two, lmao.
For those that don't know. Back in the early 80's a Philadelphia news anchor was caught in a Baltimore hospital with a dead gerbil in his rectum. In Wikipedia they claim it is an urban legend, however, I remember quite clearly when Philadelphia news legend Jack Jones, the first black news anchor in Philadelphia reported on KYW-3 news that Jerry Penacoli was in a Baltimore hospital after a gerbil died in his rectum from a cocaine over dose. The story is a fact.
After the incident Jerry was demoted at channel 3 and when his contract was up, it was not renewed. Soon after this incident was when all the fake Richard Gere stories started.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerbilling