Patra Caesar
06-05-2005, 11:51
In our first story tonight a woman has dozzens of maggots eating towards her brain. This could explain Paris Hilton...
In our second story we have a young lad who finds more than he bargins for in his breakfast. Snakes alive! Yummy!
Our third story is probably the stupidist case of laziness I have ever heard about...
Our fourth story is the tale about HOLY COW man! Holy war over dairy products!
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15186061-13762,00.html)
Maggots chew toward woman's brain
From correspondents in Bangkok
May 05, 2005
DOCTORS in northern Thailand have removed almost three dozen fly maggots from a woman's nose, where they were eating their way towards her brain, a report said.
The 38-year-old pig farmer from the northwestern city of Chiang Mai is believed to be the first reported case in Thailand of maggots nesting in a human's nose, Tawee Thanuparprangsan of Nakhon Ping hospital told The Nation newspaper.
The 38-year-old woman visited the doctor in late March, complaining of excruciating pain in her left cheek.
"I checked her nasal cavity and found a lot of fly maggots there," Tawee told the paper.
The maggots had eaten so much of her nasal tissue that some of her cartilage was exposed, Tawee added.
He anesthetized the woman and during an operation removed 34 maggots from inside her nose.
"She then needed antibiotics to treat the bacterial infection for five straight days before being allowed to return home," Tawee told the paper.
As a pig farmer, the woman was exposed to many flies every day.
"Probably while she was sleeping, a fly went up her nose and laid its eggs, which then hatched into larvae," Tawee said.
If the infected area had spread to her brain, she could have died, Tawee added.
Last week, the paper reported that an 84-year-old man on the southern resort isle of Phuket had 50 maggots removed from his ear, after he went to a hospital complaining of an itch. (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=857&ncid=757&e=10&u=/nm/20050427/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_thailand_maggots)
He had scratched his ears so hard that they started bleeding, and doctors said that flies apparently had gotten inside and laid eggs.
Last week, the same hospital removed an eight-centimetre-long leech from throat of a 19-year-old man who had complained of a constant sore throat.
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15186181-13762,00.html)
Boy finds live snake in cereal box
From correspondents in London
May 05, 2005
A five-year-old boy got a nasty surprise when a 60cm snake slithered out of his breakfast cereal box, his mother said.
Jordan Willett, from Dawley, Shropshire, in England's West Midlands, discovered the non-venomous reptile in his box of Golden Puffs.
"My lad, he went to open his cereal and luckily enough I was behind him because a snake popped out," said Willett's mother Theresa, 23.
"I just screamed. I grabbed the box off him and found some Sellotape. Jordan's still in shock today. He's not eating. Neither am I."
Netto, the supermarket chain from which the Willetts bought the cereal, said it was checking its stock and pursuing the matter with the makers of Golden Puffs, a Collier's brand.
An expert who examined the corn snake, which feeds on mice and birds, concluded it had been kept as a pet in England and had been well looked after.
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15174995-13762,00.html)
Stink over rat fails to sink cafe
By Joel Dullroy
May 04, 2005
A RESTAURATEUR who painted over a dead rat on the floor instead of cleaning it up has been fined $30,000 for gross breaches of the food standards code.
But the Gold Coast eatery remains open for business, despite being previously shut down and fined for similar offences.
Jo's Brasserie in the Oasis shopping centre at Broadbeach, owned by fallen Surfers Paradise property tycoon Theo Morris, was the site of the grisly discovery.
Gold Coast City Council health inspectors who raided Jo's Brasserie last August photographed the rat, covered in thick red paint to match the floor under the main food servery.
A massive fungus growth crawling with cockroaches was found nearby under the servery, along with heavily rusted stoves and food preparation areas.
Other rodents, both living and dead, were spotted by inspectors and rat faeces was littered across the kitchen.
The inspectors had acted on complaints from customers and staff, who alleged meals had been scooped out of rubbish bins and re-served.
Another customer cut into a fish, only to find it had not been gutted and cleaned. So horrified were they by the discovery, they took the plate home and froze it as evidence.
Following numerous complaints of food poisoning and unhygienic practices, inspectors slapped a closure order on the restaurant and ordered it to clean up its act.
Inspectors said the discoveries were among the worst hygiene offences they had witnessed, and noted a "distinct musty rodent odour" near the servery.
Southport Magistrate's Court yesterday found the restaurant and its owners guilty of three breaches of the food standards code.
Magistrate Ron Kilner said the state of the premises was "exposed by the disgusting photographs" tendered as evidence.
"It doesn't take an expert to see that the place is in a fairly unhygienic state," Mr Kilner said.
Morris ? once a millionaire hotel developer who has since fallen into financial strife ? was personally fined $25,000. The company controlling the restaurant, the unfortunately named Appetites International, was fined $5000.
It was the second order against the restaurateur. In March 2004, Morris was fined $15,000 and Appetites International $2000 for other food hygiene offences.
Outside, Morris said he would apply to have the case reheard, as he had not been present in the courtroom when the fine was handed down.
Onlookers likened the rodent-ridden kitchen to an infamous episode of the John Cleese comedy Fawlty Towers, in which waiter Manuel's pet ferret ran amok during a health inspection.
Jo's Brasserie was yesterday open for business, however only one customer ? a television cameraman carrying a hidden handycam ? was seated at its tables.
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15165935-13762,00.html)
'Holy war' declared on neighbour
By Johanna Leggatt
May 03, 2005
A MAN who declared a holy war against his flatmate and attacked him because he believed he had contaminated his dairy products has been jailed in Queensland.
Patrick Gerard Burke, 50, from Goodna, west of Brisbane, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court today to one count of unlawful wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Justice Bob Douglas sentenced Burke to three years' jail, suspended after 10 months with an operational period of three years.
The court was told the incident happened on November 19, 2001, at the Ipswich house Burke was renting with Adam Henry Owen.
While having a cup of tea with Owen, Burke attacked him with a brush hook, shouting: "Jihad, Jihad, Bin Laden, Bin Laden."
He swung the gardening implement at Owen, striking him in the ankle.
Owen escaped from the house with minor cuts and scratches.
Prosecutor Brendan Campbell said during the course of his stay at the house, Burke had become convinced that Owen was a drug dealer who had contaminated his food, specifically yoghurt and the milk, and was interfering in his room.
Burke would regularly punish Owen for his alleged indiscretions by turning the electricity supply off.
Burke's lawyer Jeff Hunter told the court Burke was on anti-depressants and his life had declined significantly since the mid-1990s.
He described him as a "solitary, somewhat eccentric man" who currently lived in a hotel room, playing his violin all day.
In our second story we have a young lad who finds more than he bargins for in his breakfast. Snakes alive! Yummy!
Our third story is probably the stupidist case of laziness I have ever heard about...
Our fourth story is the tale about HOLY COW man! Holy war over dairy products!
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15186061-13762,00.html)
Maggots chew toward woman's brain
From correspondents in Bangkok
May 05, 2005
DOCTORS in northern Thailand have removed almost three dozen fly maggots from a woman's nose, where they were eating their way towards her brain, a report said.
The 38-year-old pig farmer from the northwestern city of Chiang Mai is believed to be the first reported case in Thailand of maggots nesting in a human's nose, Tawee Thanuparprangsan of Nakhon Ping hospital told The Nation newspaper.
The 38-year-old woman visited the doctor in late March, complaining of excruciating pain in her left cheek.
"I checked her nasal cavity and found a lot of fly maggots there," Tawee told the paper.
The maggots had eaten so much of her nasal tissue that some of her cartilage was exposed, Tawee added.
He anesthetized the woman and during an operation removed 34 maggots from inside her nose.
"She then needed antibiotics to treat the bacterial infection for five straight days before being allowed to return home," Tawee told the paper.
As a pig farmer, the woman was exposed to many flies every day.
"Probably while she was sleeping, a fly went up her nose and laid its eggs, which then hatched into larvae," Tawee said.
If the infected area had spread to her brain, she could have died, Tawee added.
Last week, the paper reported that an 84-year-old man on the southern resort isle of Phuket had 50 maggots removed from his ear, after he went to a hospital complaining of an itch. (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=857&ncid=757&e=10&u=/nm/20050427/od_uk_nm/oukoe_odd_thailand_maggots)
He had scratched his ears so hard that they started bleeding, and doctors said that flies apparently had gotten inside and laid eggs.
Last week, the same hospital removed an eight-centimetre-long leech from throat of a 19-year-old man who had complained of a constant sore throat.
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15186181-13762,00.html)
Boy finds live snake in cereal box
From correspondents in London
May 05, 2005
A five-year-old boy got a nasty surprise when a 60cm snake slithered out of his breakfast cereal box, his mother said.
Jordan Willett, from Dawley, Shropshire, in England's West Midlands, discovered the non-venomous reptile in his box of Golden Puffs.
"My lad, he went to open his cereal and luckily enough I was behind him because a snake popped out," said Willett's mother Theresa, 23.
"I just screamed. I grabbed the box off him and found some Sellotape. Jordan's still in shock today. He's not eating. Neither am I."
Netto, the supermarket chain from which the Willetts bought the cereal, said it was checking its stock and pursuing the matter with the makers of Golden Puffs, a Collier's brand.
An expert who examined the corn snake, which feeds on mice and birds, concluded it had been kept as a pet in England and had been well looked after.
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15174995-13762,00.html)
Stink over rat fails to sink cafe
By Joel Dullroy
May 04, 2005
A RESTAURATEUR who painted over a dead rat on the floor instead of cleaning it up has been fined $30,000 for gross breaches of the food standards code.
But the Gold Coast eatery remains open for business, despite being previously shut down and fined for similar offences.
Jo's Brasserie in the Oasis shopping centre at Broadbeach, owned by fallen Surfers Paradise property tycoon Theo Morris, was the site of the grisly discovery.
Gold Coast City Council health inspectors who raided Jo's Brasserie last August photographed the rat, covered in thick red paint to match the floor under the main food servery.
A massive fungus growth crawling with cockroaches was found nearby under the servery, along with heavily rusted stoves and food preparation areas.
Other rodents, both living and dead, were spotted by inspectors and rat faeces was littered across the kitchen.
The inspectors had acted on complaints from customers and staff, who alleged meals had been scooped out of rubbish bins and re-served.
Another customer cut into a fish, only to find it had not been gutted and cleaned. So horrified were they by the discovery, they took the plate home and froze it as evidence.
Following numerous complaints of food poisoning and unhygienic practices, inspectors slapped a closure order on the restaurant and ordered it to clean up its act.
Inspectors said the discoveries were among the worst hygiene offences they had witnessed, and noted a "distinct musty rodent odour" near the servery.
Southport Magistrate's Court yesterday found the restaurant and its owners guilty of three breaches of the food standards code.
Magistrate Ron Kilner said the state of the premises was "exposed by the disgusting photographs" tendered as evidence.
"It doesn't take an expert to see that the place is in a fairly unhygienic state," Mr Kilner said.
Morris ? once a millionaire hotel developer who has since fallen into financial strife ? was personally fined $25,000. The company controlling the restaurant, the unfortunately named Appetites International, was fined $5000.
It was the second order against the restaurateur. In March 2004, Morris was fined $15,000 and Appetites International $2000 for other food hygiene offences.
Outside, Morris said he would apply to have the case reheard, as he had not been present in the courtroom when the fine was handed down.
Onlookers likened the rodent-ridden kitchen to an infamous episode of the John Cleese comedy Fawlty Towers, in which waiter Manuel's pet ferret ran amok during a health inspection.
Jo's Brasserie was yesterday open for business, however only one customer ? a television cameraman carrying a hidden handycam ? was seated at its tables.
Source (http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15165935-13762,00.html)
'Holy war' declared on neighbour
By Johanna Leggatt
May 03, 2005
A MAN who declared a holy war against his flatmate and attacked him because he believed he had contaminated his dairy products has been jailed in Queensland.
Patrick Gerard Burke, 50, from Goodna, west of Brisbane, pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court today to one count of unlawful wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
Justice Bob Douglas sentenced Burke to three years' jail, suspended after 10 months with an operational period of three years.
The court was told the incident happened on November 19, 2001, at the Ipswich house Burke was renting with Adam Henry Owen.
While having a cup of tea with Owen, Burke attacked him with a brush hook, shouting: "Jihad, Jihad, Bin Laden, Bin Laden."
He swung the gardening implement at Owen, striking him in the ankle.
Owen escaped from the house with minor cuts and scratches.
Prosecutor Brendan Campbell said during the course of his stay at the house, Burke had become convinced that Owen was a drug dealer who had contaminated his food, specifically yoghurt and the milk, and was interfering in his room.
Burke would regularly punish Owen for his alleged indiscretions by turning the electricity supply off.
Burke's lawyer Jeff Hunter told the court Burke was on anti-depressants and his life had declined significantly since the mid-1990s.
He described him as a "solitary, somewhat eccentric man" who currently lived in a hotel room, playing his violin all day.