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| ::darkshadows:: (blood@thirsty.net) |
2008/05/20 17:28 |
[Times of London]
A thief who sneaked into a hospital was scarred for life when he tried
to get a suntan. After evading security staff at Odstock Hospital in
Salisbury, Wiltshire, and helping himself to doctors' paging devices,
the thief spotted a vertical sunbed. He walked into the unit and
removed his clothes for a 45-minute tan. However, the high-voltage UV
machine at the hospital, which is renowned for its treatment of burns
victims, has a maximum dosage of ten seconds. After lying on the bed
for almost 300 times the recommended maximum time the man was covered
in blisters. Hours later, when the pain of the burns became
unbearable, he went to Southampton General Hospital, 20 miles away, in
Hampshire. Staff became suspicious because he was wearing a doctor's
coat. After tending his wounds they called the police. Southampton
police said: "This man broke into Odstock and decided he fancied a
quick suntan. Doctors say he is going to be scarred for life."
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St. Petersburg, Florida:
A Florida woman is offering to sell one of her kidneys
to pay off a hospital debt.
Ruth Sparrow ran an ad over the weekend in The
St. Petersburg Times. It read: "KIDNEY - Runs good. Taking offers."
Sparrow is serious. She owes $20,000 for gall bladder surgery,
and wants to pay it off.
She says both her kidneys work fine and she's willing to part
with one to settle her debt. She offered one directly to Bayfront
Medical Center, which turned it down.
The newspaper has stopped running the ad, since selling organs
is illegal in Florida
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English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law.
This is our idea of useless legislation.
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Greg tells me about his sister-in-law (yet another gorgeous blonde):
We were playing Trivial Pursuit on night. It was her turn, she rolled
the dice and she landed on "Science & Nature"
Her question was, "If you are in a vacuum and someone calls your name,
can you hear it? She thought for a time and then asked, "Is it on or
off".
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An American teenager ended up in hospital because of serious head
wounds received from an oncoming train.
When asked about how he received the injuries, the lad told the police
that he was simply trying to see how close he could get his head to a
moving train before he was hit.
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