Actually from the LA Times:
     
     "In retrospect, lighting the match was my big mistake. But I was only 
     trying to retrieve the gerbil," Eric Tomaszewski told bemused doctors 
     in 
     the Severe Burns Unit of Salt Lake City Hospital.  Tomaszewski, and 
     his 
     homosexual partner Andrew "Kiki" Farnum, had been admitted for 
     emergency 
     treatment after a felching session had gone seriously wrong. "I pushed 
     a 
     cardboard tube up his rectum and slipped Raggot, our gerbil, in," he 
     explained. "As usual, Kiki shouted out "Armageddon", my cue that he'd 
     had enough. I tried to retrieve Raggot but he wouldn't come out again, 
     so I peered into the tube and struck a match, thinking the light might 
     attract him."
     
     At a hushed press conference, a hospital spokesman described what 
     happened next. "The match ignited a pocket of intestinal
     gas and a flame shot out the tube, igniting Mr Tomaszewski's hair and 
     severely burning his face.  It also set fire to the gerbil's fur and 
     whiskers which in turn ignited a larger pocket of gas further up the 
     intestine, propelling the rodent out like a cannonball."
     
     Tomaszewski suffered second degree burns and a broken nose from the 
     impact of the gerbil, while Farnum suffered first and second degree 
     burns to his anus and lower intestinal tract.