Unusual Accidents (well some of them)

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From the BBC Website

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4390397.stm

1. Two people were admitted after being in contact with venomous spiders. Both stayed in hospital for five days.

2. 22 people suffered from exposure to ignition or melting of nightwear, most of them men.

3. 1,481 people, most of them children, were injured by hot drinks, and most needing an overnight stay in hospital.

4. Two people needed five days' treatment after contact with centipedes or venomous millipedes.

5. 15 people were admitted after contact with a marine animal, needing an average of two days in hospital.

6. Four people had an average of two days' treatment after exposure to vibrations.
(Get your mind out of the gutter please folks!)

7. 1,839 people - 78% of them children - fell out of trees.

8. 4,533 people fell when using ice-skates, skis, roller-skates or skateboards. 57% of them were under 15.

9. One girl needed an overnight stay after being "bitten or struck" by an alligator. (By comparison, 3,508 people were bitten or struck by dogs.)

10. One child was admitted to hospital after "prolonged stay in a weightless environment". He or she did not stay overnight. There are no further details about who this person was or how they had come to need treatment.

 

this was the only weird one imo. cause I don't exactly understand it

 

The Phantom Dog Hurler Strikes Again!...not that he ever struck before...but hey.

Some one please explain how you get struck by a dog...collision would make sense, it ran into you with considerable force...but struck implies it was used as a bludgeoning instrument, with which you were struck.

*Giggles over mental image of Conan weilding terrified dog*

 

Enagonios - There are sensory deprivation chambers where people are suspended in body temperature water, and often claim to have out of body experiences. I think they can also be used for brainwashing.

 

Literally brainwashing? As in the washing of the brain, or the more common (well I assume it would be more common..) sort of indocrination?

 

Burnt the hairspray on my hair once when lighting a cigarette from the gas cooker at my friend's. It acted like heated sugar and melted on my hair, messing it up. The other time was with an ashtray in a pub.

 

Thats it! Hot drinks, trees, ice-skates, skis, roller-skates, skateboards and dogs should be outlawed immediately. Dogs can be substituted for alligators or venomous spiders.

 

I caught my member in my fly once. Thankfully it didn't make me Jewish. Interesting scar now though... doubt anyone wanted to know that.

 

Goddamn!...My condolences.

 

I knew someone that pierced their own 'member' once and split blood vessel. I wish I was there with him when he was explaining what he was doing to the doctor.

 

Oh Tal...

 

Perhaps the children were sitting in a tree.

 

Perhaps the tree ate the Hobbits

 

Hmm, well, alligators are clearly less dangerous than dogs then, no? So let us get rid of all dogs and keep alligators as pets instead

 

@Abomination

Been there, I probably have the a similar looking scar but I'm NOT comparing.

 

Weeeelll... it's kind'a reddy-purple acutually and about 2cm long near the-
No, comparing isn't something that appeals.

I'm certain the empathy over the sheer pain is there though.

 

yup definately

 

I have taken off my eyebrows and the front of my hair before. Three times in the same month once. I learned the hard way how not to light the BBQ.

 

Gee and it only took you 3 times to figure it out.

My personal way of starting the BBQ is to stand about 8 feet away and have my brother do it