Adelaide, Freaky Death Capital

In the news:

A SOUTH AUSTRALIAN teenager impaled on the front gate of Adelaide Zoo may have been left for dead by a friend, police said today.
The 18-year-old's bloody body was discovered by police on Frome Road outside the zoo's main entrance about 6.50am (CST) yesterday.

It's believed the young man, from the nearby suburb of Medindie, was climbing over the gate and fell on the metal spikes at the top. The spikes speared his groin and ruptured an artery.

Police are investigating if he was involved in breaking into an ice-cream vending machine at the zoo and was trying to escape with another person.
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"We have reports that there may have been a second person involved in the incident," said Senior Constable Colin Haigh.

Police are also investigating whether the same person left the man to die at the scene.

"That's being investigated and police are now preparing a report for the coroner," he said.

It was revealed that police gave directions to the teenager around the same location about six hours earlier.

Adelaide Zoo and surrounding streets was closed for an hour yesterday as police and forensics gathered evidence from the scene.

The zoo's director Mark Craig said the metal front gates were not designed for security and were a heritage icon.

He said the gates had been there for 122 years and the accident was the first of its type in the zoo's history.

Zoo staff and volunteers have been offered private counselling.

I go past there almost every day on the bus.

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