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I, like many other Oregon men, enjoy sporting a healthy beard during the colder months and sometimes during the warmer months (and during other months, too). I love beards and sometimes I write about them. But I’ve never feared that my beard could be used against me.

That was until I saw this video about a man in Kentucky who, after a fight, was forced at knife-point to eat his own beard. The horror! And it all started, like so many fights do in Kentucky, over a lawnmower.

Take a look.

This article appears in Nov 11-17, 2010.

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Man Forced to Eat His Own Beard…seriously

by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon
November 12, 2010

<h1>Man Forced to Eat His Own Beard…seriously</h1> <p class="byline">by The Source Staff, The Source - Bend, Oregon <br />November 12, 2010</p> <p>I, like many other Oregon men, enjoy sporting a healthy beard during the colder months and sometimes during the warmer months (and during other months, too). I love beards and <a href="http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2010/06/uber-beardo-jack-passion-talks-national-beard-and-moustache-championship.html" target="_blank">sometimes I write about them</a>. But I've never feared that my beard could be used against me.</p> <p>That was until I saw this video about a man in Kentucky who, after a fight, was forced at knife-point to eat his own beard. The horror! And it all started, like so many fights do in Kentucky, over a lawnmower.</p> <p>Take a look.</p> <p><object><em>You need to use a flashplayer enabled browser in order to view this video</em></object></p> <p> </p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"> <div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> http://www.youtube.com/v/Um5QsTzjToY </div> </figure> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/man-forced-to-eat-his-own-beardseriously-2136558/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com&quot;&gt;The Source - Bend, Oregon&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.bendsource.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/cropped-Untitled-design-4.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;</p> &lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://www.bendsource.com/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=17994&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://www.bendsource.com/news/man-forced-to-eat-his-own-beardseriously-2136558/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/bendsource.com/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

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