A zoo keeper travelled to Africa to bring back a pair of large, horned, herbivore antelopes.

He bought a suitable pair from a dealer, but when he got them back home, something didn't look right. The horns were cardboard, and stuck on with sticky tape, and on close inspection, he found he had been sold a couple of donkeys.

Infuriated, he berated the poor donkeys for their part in the deception. This annoyed them so much that they lashed out with their hooves, and killed him.

The coroner ruled that he had been the victim of false gnus......