According to a police report Jasha Lottin and her friend John Frost had purchased a 32-year-old dying horse in Richfield village of the US state of Wisconsin. Shortly after buying the animal Frost shot it in the head with a .300 Winchester Magnum hunting rifle, then the two skinned and gutted it before finally beginning their photo shoot.

The reason for climbing inside the animal was later explained to deputies as Lottin's desire to "be one with the animal."

That and her love of Star Wars.

From the police report:

Lottin said in the movie Star Wars the character Han Solo cut open an animal with his light saber and placed Luke Skywalker inside the animal. This was due to Luke freezing to death in cold weather. Lottin said there was nothing religious about what she did and didn't intend to offend anyone.

Washington County Sheriff's Office Sgt. David Thompson tells Seattle Weekly that while the case is "truly bizarre," deputies aren't interested in telling people what weird stuff to put or not put on the Internet.

"We've definitely never seen anything like that," Thompson says. "People do bad stuff to people and animals, but in this case it appears that animal was put down humanely, so there's really nothing to compare it to. It's just bizarre."

After posting the photos online, angry readers apparently started harassing Lottin and Frost to the point where they pulled their Facebook profiles offline.

However, Lottin said she doesn't understand what all the fuss is about and what she did was "just spontaneous."

The Daily Weekly