Bizarre accidents..

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This was funny.

"two people bitten by centipedes"

 

Brits hurt by melting pyjamas, alligators and centipedes

 

Staff and agencies

Tuesday March 29, 2005

 

Bizarre accidents including melting pyjamas, being attacked by an alligator and bitten by centipedes put almost 1 million Britons in hospital last year, it emerged today.

 

Volcanic eruptions, lightning strikes, lizard bites and hornet stings caused some of the more unusual injuries listed by the Department of Health (DoH).

 

Accidents cost the NHS about £1bn a year. The most common cause of injury was falling, which led to 119,203 admissions to casualty.

 

Thousands suffered attacks from a wide variety of animals. These included 451 people stung by hornets, 46 bitten by venomous snakes and lizards, 24 bitten by rats, 15 injured in contact with a marine mammal, two people bitten by centipedes and one attacked by an alligator. But dogs accounted for most injuries with 3,508 people suffering bites.

 

Hundreds more fell victims to natural hazards, with 54 people struck by lightning, 37 victims of "volcanic eruption", 25 injured in "catacylsmic storms", 12 suffered from avalanches and seven were victims of earthquakes. A further 107 were exposed to "unspecified forces of nature".

 

Other unusual injuries included four victims of noise exposure, four of vibration and 40 from contact with a high-pressure jet.

 

There were 22 incidents involving the "ignition or melting of nightwear", with stray cigarettes and faulty electric blankets likely to blame.

 

But falls made up the bulk of the A&E admissions. With 119,203 suffering "unspecified" falls and 24,475 falling from stairs and steps. Another 12,042 involved the bed, 7,114 fell from a chair and 4,533 from ice skates, roller skates, skis or skateboards.

 

The definitions for the admissions were devised by the World Health Organisation, with some of the accidents taking place abroad which then led to hospital treatment back home.

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Other unusual injuries included four victims of noise exposure

I wonder if they were in Japan at election time?

The vans are doing the rounds in my neighbourhood this week. Sensitive issue.

[nzlegend 1]

How about goofy Australians?

I personally like the 543 Australians injured opening bottles of beer with their teeth or eye socket! hehe - get a can

 

 

31 Australians have died since 1996 by watering their Christmas tree while the fairy lights were plugged in.

 

 

19 Australians have died in the last 3 years by eating Christmas decorations they believed were chocolate.

 

 

Hospitals reported 4 broken arms last year after cracker pulling incidents.

 

 

101 Australians since 1997 have had to have broken parts of plastic toys pulled out of the soles of their feet.

 

 

18 Australians had serious burns in 1998 trying on a new jumper with a lit cigarette in their mouth.

 

 

A massive 543 Australians were admitted to casualty in the last two years after opening bottles of beer with their teeth or eye socket.

 

 

5 Australians were injured last year in accidents involving out of control scalextric cars.

 

 

3 Australians die each year testing if a 9V battery works on their tongue.

 

 

142 Australians were injured in 1998 by not removing all the pins from new shirts.

 

 

58 Australians are injured each year by using sharp knives instead of screwdrivers.

 

 

8 Australians cracked their skull in 1997 after falling asleep (passing out) while throwing up into the toilet.

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A massive 543 Australians were admitted to casualty in the last two years after opening bottles of beer with their teeth or eye socket.

I'm just trying to visualise this.....

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http://www.darwinawards.com/

[jared 0]

You can die from testing 9v batts on your tounge????

I should be dead 100 times over.

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Here's another candidate for the Darwin Awards.

 

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19089029-1702,00.html

 

"POLICE have arrested a man who drove away from a Sydney court where he had just lost his licence for driving under the influence.

The 27-year-old faced Parramatta Local Court yesterday and was convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol or a drug.

 

He was disqualified from driving for six months and surrendered his driver's licence to the court.

 

But minutes after walking out of court, the man allegedly got into a nearby car and drove on to Phillip Street at Parramatta.

 

Police arrested the man and charged him with driving while disqualified.

 

He was refused bail and is due to face Parramatta Local Court again today."

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There should be an award for the most bizzare presentation at an emergency department too. The best (or worst depends on your point of veiw) was the chap who rocked up with a length of aquarium tubing in his bladder. Yes IN his bladder AND it had a blob of blu-tack on the end of it. Apparantly its how he gets his jollys. But he lost his toy and the incredulous staff of .......... Hospital had to get it back for him.

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Heard about a kid (this is quite some years ago now) in Perth who blew himself up with the electric air-pump at a service station. Seems that it was a bit of a fad for some youngsters to insert the pump into their rear end and pump spurts of pressurized air in there for their jollies Anyway, this unfortunate lad had some trouble turning it off or getting it out and ruptured his insides. What a way to go eh!

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I didn't have the time to check if this was an urban legend or not, but I was told by a fellow mechanic back in my wrenching days that someone in some industrial setting was using a high-pressure air hose to blow some sort of dust of shavings off of his hand. This unlucky fellow forgot about a fairly deep cut on his hand, and the jet of air entered the cut, delaminated the skin from his palm and burst it like a balloon!

[bushpig 0]

That made me shudder...

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Air lines can be a big safety problem. In the more professionally managed places I've worked in, messing around with air lines would get you sacked on the spot.