Possible Darwin Award Winner
Welcome to the Lovely Northern Territory of Australia. Early yesterday morning, a 20 year old man and a friend had been drinking when they decided to swim across crocodile infested waters to get more alcohol.
Northern Territory police have found his remains near the Daly River Community, about 150 Kilometers south of Darwin. Police had set up an exclusion zone on the river as part of their search for the young man.
The Daly Superintendent Jamie Chalker said, “It’s apparent that family members have seen the head of a crocodile making its way towards the man who’s now missing, plus the other person he was crossing the river with. As we now know, one made it and one didn’t.”
She Eight and Already Wed
We go back to Saudi Arabia. Back in Feb. I posted an article about a father in Saudi Arabia that traded his 8 year old daughter to pay off his outstanding debts. Click here for the original article.
Today a Saudi Arabian judge has refused to overturn a ruling that allowed the arranged marriage between the 8 year old girl and her soon to be 47 year old husband.
Judge Sheikh Habib Habib, ruled for the second time in Onaiza that the girl’s marriage to the older man was legal and binding. He did state that the child wife would be able to file for divorce, once she reached puberty.
Hair Today, Nipple-less Tomorrow
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center had started to make public a list of patient-protection measures to ensure safety, due to a botched plastic surgery last year. These corrective actions are in response to a Department of Public Health investigation report.
The report indicated that the hospital failed Michael Hick, 40, last summer. Dr. Loren J Borud, was impaired and operated in Hicks and then sent him home without proper care. Hicks went in for a chest reduction and liposuction which has left him with scarring, pain, mental anguish, and caused him to lose his left nipple.
At the time of the surgery, hospital administration was aware that Borud had twice undergone substance-abuse treatment. Borud has since been fired and Hicks has agreed to a settlement.
“We recognize that our previous process did not result in timely reporting up the internal chain of command, and are confident the corrective actions we have taken will prevent that from happening again and greatly improve our entire process going forward,” Patricia Folcarelli, director of patient safety, said in a statement.
Hicks’ case was the subject of an expose in the Sunday Herald. Hicks’ lawyer said that he believes that the Herald’s inquiries helped prompt the DPH’s about face.
World Record Get a Tree
Lets met Otok Ben-Hvar, 71, decided that he was going to set a world record for the longest time spent in a phone booth. He climbed inside a 1940′s era phone booth with wheels attached to it. He equipped the phone booth with everything he needs to live inside of it. He even went as far as having an old college buddy fashion it with a makeshift air-conditioning unit.
Ben-Hvar thinks that winning a World record will have 2 effects. The first would be for coursework at Pasco-Hernando Community College. The second is to get America’s First National Tree planted on the White House lawn. He wants to see a silver leafed Maple tree planted in the front lawn.
“Every American can identify with that tree,” he says. “That’s why it belongs there.”
Links:
Crocodile Darwin Nominee
She’s Married only 8
Telephone Booth Living, Plant a tree
Its all fun till you loose a nipple
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