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Ridiculous Accidents

The unlikely mishaps that have put people in hospital
Numbers of incidents needing hospital treatment and their NHS descriptions:

Bitten or struck by crocodile or alligator: 2
Bitten or crushed by other reptiles: 70
Contact with venomous snakes and lizards: 52
Contact with venomous spiders: 13
Contact with scorpions: 6
Contact with centipedes and venomous tropical millipedes: 1
Bitten by rat: 24
Prolonged stay in weightless environment: 4
Victim of cataclysmic storm: 30
Victim of earthquake: 4
Bitten or struck by dog: 5,837

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1WJcjAFab
 
It looks horrific- but it could have been worse...

US man impaled through eye with pruning shears
An 86-year-old Arizona man is lucky to be alive after he accidentally impaled himself with pruning shears.
7:00AM BST 30 Aug 2011

Leroy Luetscher was working in his back garden when he dropped a pair of pruning shears, which landed point-side down in the ground.
When Luetscher went to pick them up, he lost his balance and fell face-down on the handle. The handle penetrated his eye socket and went down into his neck, resting on the external carotid artery. Half the shears were left in his head, while the other half was sticking out.

An X-ray of Mr Luetscher's head showed the severity of the injury.
"You wouldn't believe your eyes," said doctor Julie Wynne.

Mr Luetscher was rushed to the hospital, where surgeons removed the shears and rebuilt his orbital floor with metal mesh, saving his eye.
Doctors say Mr Luetscher still has slight swelling in his eyelids and minor double vision but has otherwise recovered.

He has thanked the doctors at the University Medical Center for their remarkable work.
"I am so grateful to the doctors and staff at UMC," he said.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstop ... hears.html
 
da mail said:
The unlikely mishaps that have put people in hospital
Numbers of incidents needing hospital treatment and their NHS descriptions:

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Prolonged stay in weightless environment: 4
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Who are these space travellers? Or are they just people who have laid in bed too long?
 
eburacum said:
da mail said:
The unlikely mishaps that have put people in hospital
Numbers of incidents needing hospital treatment and their NHS descriptions:

...

Prolonged stay in weightless environment: 4
...
Who are these space travellers? Or are they just people who have laid in bed too long?

Astronauts from the ISS? After coming down, they do require a bit of time in hospital to recover.
 
eburacum said:
Numbers of incidents needing hospital treatment and their NHS descriptions:

...

Prolonged stay in weightless environment: 4
...
Who are these space travellers? Or are they just people who have laid in bed too long?
Well, you could always check on the posted link. 8)

And the answer is - er - not entirely helpful
Four patients even had to see a doctor about symptoms more normally associated with being stranded in space.

They were admitted with the effects of a ‘prolonged stay in a weightless environment’ – thought to refer to incidents in simulators rather than real interplanetary travel, although NHS officials could not shed any further light on the mystery.
The Vomit Comet is the only simulator that can produce weightlessness (though not for a prolonged 'stay').
Perhaps these folks hurt themselves when gravity returned and they hit the floor...?
 
Or maybe Britain does have a secret space program?
 
One method of reproducing the effects of weightlessness is indeed 'staying in bed too long';

experiments involving 'prolonged bed rest' are the closest that can be achieved to microgravity conditions without leaving the Earth.
 
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blo...ren-scruggs-body-mangled-plane-214636964.html
Entire Left Side of Lauren Scruggs' Body Mangled By Plane


Model Lauren Scruggs was able to respond to voice commands today by moving her arms and legs, less than two days after the 23-year-old walked into the propeller of a small airplane, leaving her body severely mangled.

Scruggs had just got off of a two seater plane at a private airport in McKinney, Texas, Saturday night after looking at Christmas lights when she ran into the plane's propeller. Her left hand, shoulder and face areas were hit.


The model, who also founded a lifestyle magazine, was rushed to Parkland Hospital in Dallas where her left hand was amputated.

She underwent several surgeries over the weekend and is now in stable condition. However the extent of her brain injury is still not known, family spokesperson Janee Harrell told ABCNews.com.

How Scruggs ran into the propeller remains unclear.

"It's speculative at this point, but what we're thinking is the plane landed and they were picking up the next passengers," Harrell said. "It was dark and we think she probably turned around to thank the pilot."

Harrell said Scruggs was not drinking at the time of the incident.

ABC News aviation consultant John Nance said incidents such as Scruggs' are extremely rare and underscore the need for pilots to be especially clear in issuing safety directions.

"It sounds like this is a combination of a bad procedure by the pilot and the passenger not properly realizing her proximity," Scruggs said. "One of the things I'd have to look at is why in the world a pilot permitted a passenger to board or deboard while a propeller was turning."

For now, Scruggs' recovery remains uncertain, but Nance said the model is extremely lucky.

"It's like walking into a big Cuisinart," he said. "I'm surprised it didn't tear her in half."
 
This is like a scene from Ab Fab!

Drunk woman falls between train and platform
Police are seeking to dissuade people from drinking too much over the festive period by releasing CCTV footage of an inebriated woman accidentally rolling under a train at a station.
[video]
Murray Wardrop
8:01AM GMT 22 Dec 2011

The cringeworthy footage shows the elegantly dressed woman appearing more than a little worse for wear as she alights from the late-night train at Barnsley station, South Yorks.

Wearing a hat, dress and what look to be flat shoes, she staggers off the a carriage of the Northern service before violently lurching to her right and tumbling over.
Throwing out an arm to support herself against the side of the train, she is unable to prevent her rapid descent and collapses on the ground before rolling off the platform. :shock:

The clip ends with the woman completely out of sight as she lays trapped between the train and the platform.
Another passenger raised the alarm and the woman was rescued before being taken to hospital suffering cuts and bruises.
The incident caused delays of around 20 minutes to trains passing through the station.

Officers from British Transport Police (BTP) are hoping the footage will increase people's awareness of taking care of themselves over the Christmas period.
Insp Graham Bridges, of BTP, said: "This woman was lucky to only end up with a few minor injuries and, had it not been for the alertness of other passengers who helped her, we could have been dealing with potentially serious injuries."

He added: "We understand that at this time of year, with Christmas fast approaching, people will be out at parties and will be consuming alcohol.
"We certainly do not want to spoil this and would simply ask that anyone drinking alcohol does so responsibly."

Police said the woman featured in the footage agreed to its release as part of the warning.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/chris ... tform.html
 
"It's like walking into a big Cuisinart," he said. "I'm surprised it didn't tear her in half."

There was a vaguely similar case in the UK in the 80s, where a parachutist got sucked into the blades of a helicopter as she came in to land. That had to be one hell of a mess.
 
That happened to a friend of mine - except he wasn't drunk. The platform had a thick layer of ice on it, which he slipped on, and down between the train and platform. He managed to grab on, but had to be pulled up with the help of other passengers, and suffered a nasty gash on his leg that needed quite a lot of antibiotics.

In his case certainly it was less a sign of people needing to take care of themselves and more the lack of health and safety considerations from the transport company, so I'm not sure they should be drawing attention to it :p
 
Monkey Business Suspected in North Side Wreck
http://radio.woai.com/cc-common/mainhea ... e=10251767
man hit by car was being pursued by a person wearing a gorilla costume
Jim Forsyth

Police say a man dashed into traffic on busy Highway 281 early this morning...because he was being chased by a man in a gorilla suit.

1200 WOAI news reports that witnesses saw the 32 year old man leave a north side nightclub with the gorilla costume guy in hot pursuit. The man jumped the barrier and darted onto 281, dodging several vehicles before he was hit by a white Infiniti.

He's hospitalized, but he'll be okay.

A police report says the Infiniti driver told officers he didn't see the man until it was too late.

No charges are expected.

Read more: http://radio.woai.com/cc-common/mainhea ... z202M6v5XY
 
Man accidentally hangs himself with nightclub's Halloween noose

A man was left in a critical condition after accidentally hanging himself on a noose that had been set up as a Halloween prop in a nightclub.


The 25-year-old was taken to hospital from Pink Punters in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, just after 11pm on Saturday, Thames Valley police said.

His condition has since improved and he is now talking to hospital staff. Officers said they will work with the local council to investigate the safety of the event.

Superintendent Barry Halliday said: " Police will work with the local council and other partner agencies to investigate the safety of the event."

The club's owner, Frank McMahon, said: "There was an accident involving a Halloween prop which had been in use for several years at the club. It is a safe system.

"It's just a rope with a large noose which doesn't go tight around the neck. People use it so they can have photographs taken. We've never had a previous incident with it.

"It's one of several props that we use, and is low down to the ground. We do have an excellent safety system in place and we believe it to be a freak accident."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/oct/2 ... sfeed=true

I don;t know the venue but people who do are saying it was so much of a prop they don;t know how he managed to 'hang' from it.
 
Santa stuck by beard at Reading shopping centre
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-20386903

Stranded Santa at Reading shopping centre; video courtesy Andrew Maunder

A Santa Claus was left dangling from the ceiling after his beard became trapped while abseiling inside a Reading shopping centre as part of a Christmas lights switch-on show.

He was stuck for about 30 minutes about 15ft off the ground in the Broad Street Mall on Saturday afternoon.

Eyewitness Ryan Gaudreau said: "Everyone was laughing at him - he didn't really know what to do."

Stephanie Maynard, marketing manager at the centre, said Santa was not hurt.

"He could have just taken his beard off and let himself down but he was such a professional and he didn't want to let the children down," she said.

"He lost his footing as he came through the hole in the ceiling and there was a sudden jolt and he got caught in the clip on the rope.

"Some people were absolutely mortified while others thought it was the funniest thing ever.

"They had to let another rope down and get him down and there was such a roar from the crowd.

"Usually after the lights switch-on the centre empties but there were so many people still there waiting to see if Father Christmas was going to get down."
 
I think after about five minutes most people would have said, well, no use being silly about this and whipped off the beard. I also think everyone there would be well aware he wasn't the real Santa anyway, especially after that incident.
 
Man burns his head after mistaking iron for phone

A Polish man has managed to burn the side of his head while doing housework after mistaking the iron for a phone.

Tomasz Paczkowski from the northern Polish town of Elblag now sports bandages around his head after a request from his wife to help with the housework while he enjoyed a few days off work backfired.

“My wife had gone to work and asked me to help with the housework,” the 32-year old told the Polish newspaper Fakt. “After breakfast I started to work. I turned on the boxing channel on the TV, opened a beer and started ironing.

“I was really getting involved in the boxing and was not really thinking about what I was doing,” he continued. “Suddenly the phone rang and I mucked things up: instead of grabbing the receiver I picked up the iron and put it to my ear.”

Mr Paczkowski said a burning sensation on his ear soon made him realise his mistake. To compound his misfortune a dash to the bathroom to cool his burn with water resulted in his head hitting a door frame, causing an injury just above the left eye.

As a result of his accident he said he would give up watching boxing on the television but would continue to iron.
 
In a way, I can sympathise. Years ago, my brother answered the phone while holding a lit Swan vesta match - he still has a scar where the burning head of the match stuck to his cheek... :oops:
 
Bride in coma after being hit by wardrobe door on dream holiday

Natalie Creane has recurring epileptic seizures and doctors have to put her in a coma to stop her accidentally causing damage to herself.

A holidaymaker is feared to be dying after a cupboard door fell on her head in a freak accident at a luxury hotel.

Tragic Natalie Creane, 34, has recurring epileptic seizures and doctors have to put her in a coma to stop her accidentally causing damage to herself.

Her condition is now deteriorating by the day and the only option left to save her is specialist surgery at a neurological hospital in New York.

But her husband Trevor and parents Angie and Derick Smith cannot afford the treatment after a court awarded only a fraction of the compensation for her injury that they had hoped for.

Now they fear they will be forced to watch as formerly bubbly and vivacious Natalie fades away.

They stayed in a £10,000 a night hotel, and a cupboard door fell on her head. :(
 
Motorist startled when chunk of steel penetrates roof of SUV

The story's a bit long-winded. The gist is that a lump of metal fell from a clear sky onto a car.
The photo of the object seems to show a length of piping.

The 54-year-old commercial real estate manager was driving his Ford Escape eastbound on the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway on his way downtown. He was waiting at a red light at about 8:50 a.m. where the Transitway crosses the parkway near Dominion Avenue, west of Island Park Drive, when he heard a very loud noise and felt an impact that shook the vehicle. He also saw the woman in the convertible beside him duck down.

Still, because he was late for jury duty selection, Gallagher kept going. It wasn’t until he got downtown that he saw an object had penetrated the frame on the driver's side. It was a v-shaped piece of steel bar, each wing about five inches long and half an inch in diameter.

“It landed exactly between the glass on the door and the glass on the back of the SUV. It landed dead in between those two,” said Gallagher, who counts himself lucky it didn’t get him.
 
Table-dancing MP Mark Harper breaks foot in Soho fall

Conservative MP Mark Harper has fallen off a table while dancing in a bar in Soho and broken his foot.
A spokesman for Mr Harper's office confirmed the 43-year-old MP for the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire had suffered the injury.
Mr Harper, who is the Minister for Immigration, is recovering and his foot is in a cast, the spokesman added.

"My wife Margaret was with me but thankfully she's a far better dancer so didn't fall off," Mr Harper said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gl ... e-23036325

No sense of decorum, some people. :twisted:
 
Beyonce gets hair caught in concert fan

Beyonce has soldiered through a concert in Montreal after her hair got tangled in the blades of a fan.
The pop star was performing Halo from an audience pit when the incident happened.
She continued to sing her encore while security guards tried to extract her from the fan, which was mounted on the edge of the stage.
Several people caught the mishap on video. The singer's Mrs Carter Show world tour runs until December.

Beyonce is not the first star to suffer a Spinal Tap moment on stage.
U2 got stuck inside a giant mechanical Lemon during a Norwegian date of their PopMart tour in 1997.

Fleetwood Mac brought a 70ft (21.3m) inflatable penguin on the road in 1977, intending for it to rise from the back of the stage and fly over the audience.
"It would never fully inflate - it must have had leaks or something," Lindsey Buckingham later told Rolling Stone . "This thing was limping and floundering at the back of the stage. It never flew."
Mick Fleetwood added: "It was a disaster."

Meanwhile, Ozzy Osbourne came a cropper when a catapult malfunctioned during his 1981 Diary Of A Madman tour.
"This catapult was supposed to throw this meat into the audience," he told the magazine.

"Well, they'd been trying it out all day, so the elastic wasn't quite as strong during the show. I'm standing there, I put my foot on this lever and several pounds of offal slowly comes and splats on the back of my head." :twisted:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23417699
 
rynner2 said:
Meanwhile, Ozzy Osbourne came a cropper when a catapult malfunctioned during his 1981 Diary Of A Madman tour.
"This catapult was supposed to throw this meat into the audience," he told the magazine.

"Well, they'd been trying it out all day, so the elastic wasn't quite as strong during the show. I'm standing there, I put my foot on this lever and several pounds of offal slowly comes and splats on the back of my head."

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
'Careless' Helston lorry driver dumped mobile building on car.
By West Briton.
Saturday, November 30, 2013.

A DRIVER caused a portable building to fall off the back of his lorry, crushing a car which had been waiting to pass.
The incident happened after the lorry became snagged on trees on a road near Tehidy.
Truro magistrates heard the 44-year-old lorry driver from Helston tried to force his way through the branches, causing his load to fall off.

On Wednesday, Stephen Hart, of Cunnack Close, Helston, admitted to driving without due care and attention.

The court heard Hart was driving a Scania heavy goods lorry, one of three vehicles in convoy, on June 21.
The incident happened after the lorries passed down an unclassified road between Illogan Downs and Mount Whistle.
A blue Honda car was coming in the opposite direction and had stopped to let the lorries pass, the court was told.

The prosecution said that as the third lorry, driven by Hart, attempted to pass the car, the mobile building on the back struck some tree branches overhanging the road. The lorry became stuck and the court heard how Hart increased power – but rather than breaking through the branches, the load on the back of the lorry fell off, smashing onto the Honda. :shock:
The driver was slightly injured and the car and building were substantially damaged.

At a previous hearing, Hart had pleaded not guilty to the charge but changed his plea at court last week.
He was fined £70 and had three points put on his diving licence. He was also ordered to pay £150 court costs and £20 victim surcharge.

Read more: http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Helston ... z2m7mV2wF4
 
I guess it counts as ridiculous because a dog was in the cab. But the bloody farmer was responsible!

Devon runaway tractor ends up in garden
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-25792684

Tractor overturned

The tractor ended upside down in the garden of a house at Colyton

A runaway tractor narrowly missed a Devon house when the brakes failed with only the farmer's collie dog in the cab.

Henry Selway, 77, had parked his tractor at the top of a hill in Colyton, east Devon, while he joined his daughter for lunch in the town.

But the tractor's handbrake failed and the vehicle hurtled down a steep road.

Molly the collie was uninjured when the tractor crashed through a garden fence, and came to rest in a garden.

Henry Selway said he was thankful no-one was hurt
Henry Selway said leaving a parked tractor in gear was no longer the "ultimate failsafe"
Mr Selway said: "I've been driving tractors since I was 14, and that day I parked my tractor as I always do - with the handbrake on and the wheels turned inwards.

"I only became aware of the incident when a scaffolder shouted over to me that the tractor was rolling off with my dog inside. I couldn't believe it."

The tractor was found with its handbrake still on and Molly still inside.

Insurers Cornish Mutual said cold weather could have been partly to blame for the brakes failing.

Mr Selway added: "The tractor caused quite a bit of damage, but thankfully no-one was injured and the damage to the property was limited to the owner's fence and a number of trees, which were replaced.

"I grew up leaving my tractor in gear as the ultimate failsafe, but with these new tractors you can't do that."
 
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