Patra Caesar
20-04-2005, 07:32
The theme of today's news stories is: Things that you didn't expect to find there...
We start off today with a man who was injured in a drive by sausaging. Now he knows how his wife feels everytime he sticks his 'sausage' in her face. Won't somebody please think of the children?
Next we have pyroclastic surgery, someone set his heart on fire.
Finally we end with man's best friend, unless you're Earnie from Seasme Street who's only now just found his rubber duckie.
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15016272-13762,00.html)
Driver injured by frozen sausage
From correspondents in London
April 19, 2005
A DRIVER in Britain suffered a broken nose when a frozen sausage was thrown through an open window of his car.
The 46-year-old man was driving near his home in South Woodham Ferrers, Essex, when the "bizarre incident" occurred.
A spokesman for the Essex Ambulance Service said: "He was driving his car when the offending item came through his open window and hit him on the nose.
"He said he saw a car coming the other way and felt a searing pain in his nose.
"He managed to stop his car without hitting anyone else, at which point passers-by came to his aid."
The driver lost a lot of blood, but decided against going to hospital, the spokesman said.
"I feel very sorry for him - it must have been an incredibly lucky or unlucky shot to get the sausage through a moving car window," he said.
"I have never seen or heard of anything like this before."
Police said they were investigating the incident and wanted to hear from anyone with information.
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15029044-13762,00.html)
Man catches fire in surgery
April 20, 2005
SEATTLE police have launched an investigation to determine how a patient undergoing emergency heart surgery caught on fire at a local hospital in 2003.
The male patient, who was not identified, went up in flames after alcohol poured on his skin was ignited by a surgical instrument.
The patient died after the surgery but that was due to heart failure and not the fire, said Dr Robert Caplan, medical quality director of Virginia Mason.
Caplan said fires are known to occur in operating rooms although they were extremely rare.
The two-year-old incident became publicly known after an anonymous letter sent to the media mentioned it as a sign of unsafe health care at the hospital, and said the patient burned to death.
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15029070-13762,00.html)
Five-year old toy found in dog's stomach
April 20, 2005
A RUBBER duck sat in a dog's stomach for five years before being removed by Swedish vets, a local newspaper said today.
The owner of Apollo the Boxer dog assumed the toy had dissolved in his stomach over the years as it had not come out any other way, daily paper Lanstidningen said.
But the owner, from the northern Swedish town of Ostersund, took the animal to a vet when it began vomiting and refused to drink and the toy was removed.
The duck had turned black and gone rock hard, the newspaper said on its web Site, showing a photograph of the toy.
We start off today with a man who was injured in a drive by sausaging. Now he knows how his wife feels everytime he sticks his 'sausage' in her face. Won't somebody please think of the children?
Next we have pyroclastic surgery, someone set his heart on fire.
Finally we end with man's best friend, unless you're Earnie from Seasme Street who's only now just found his rubber duckie.
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15016272-13762,00.html)
Driver injured by frozen sausage
From correspondents in London
April 19, 2005
A DRIVER in Britain suffered a broken nose when a frozen sausage was thrown through an open window of his car.
The 46-year-old man was driving near his home in South Woodham Ferrers, Essex, when the "bizarre incident" occurred.
A spokesman for the Essex Ambulance Service said: "He was driving his car when the offending item came through his open window and hit him on the nose.
"He said he saw a car coming the other way and felt a searing pain in his nose.
"He managed to stop his car without hitting anyone else, at which point passers-by came to his aid."
The driver lost a lot of blood, but decided against going to hospital, the spokesman said.
"I feel very sorry for him - it must have been an incredibly lucky or unlucky shot to get the sausage through a moving car window," he said.
"I have never seen or heard of anything like this before."
Police said they were investigating the incident and wanted to hear from anyone with information.
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15029044-13762,00.html)
Man catches fire in surgery
April 20, 2005
SEATTLE police have launched an investigation to determine how a patient undergoing emergency heart surgery caught on fire at a local hospital in 2003.
The male patient, who was not identified, went up in flames after alcohol poured on his skin was ignited by a surgical instrument.
The patient died after the surgery but that was due to heart failure and not the fire, said Dr Robert Caplan, medical quality director of Virginia Mason.
Caplan said fires are known to occur in operating rooms although they were extremely rare.
The two-year-old incident became publicly known after an anonymous letter sent to the media mentioned it as a sign of unsafe health care at the hospital, and said the patient burned to death.
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15029070-13762,00.html)
Five-year old toy found in dog's stomach
April 20, 2005
A RUBBER duck sat in a dog's stomach for five years before being removed by Swedish vets, a local newspaper said today.
The owner of Apollo the Boxer dog assumed the toy had dissolved in his stomach over the years as it had not come out any other way, daily paper Lanstidningen said.
But the owner, from the northern Swedish town of Ostersund, took the animal to a vet when it began vomiting and refused to drink and the toy was removed.
The duck had turned black and gone rock hard, the newspaper said on its web Site, showing a photograph of the toy.