More Darwin Awards entrants:
CLEANER POLISHES OFF PATIENTS
“For several months, our nurses have been baffled to find a patient dead
in
the same bed every Friday morning,” a
spokeswoman for the Pelonomi Hospital (Free State, South Africa) told
reporters. “There was no apparent cause
for any of the deaths, and extensive checks on the air conditioning
system,
and a search for possible bacterial infection, failed to reveal any
clues.”
However, further inquiries have now revealed the cause of these
deaths...
“It seems that every Friday morning a cleaning lady would enter the
ward,
remove the plug that powered the patient's life support system, plug her
floor polisher into the vacant socket, then go about her business. When
she
had finished her chores, she would plug the life support machine back in
and
leave, unaware that the patient was now dead. She could not, after all,
hear
the screams and eventual death rattle over the whirring of her
polisher”.
“We are sorry, and have sent a strong letter to the cleaner in question.
Further, the Free State Health and Welfare Department is arranging for
an
electrician to fit an extra socket, so there should be no repetition of
this
incident. The inquiry is now closed.” (Cape Times)
(a runner-up)
THEY SAY THOSE THINGS WILL KILL YOU
Not much was given to me on this unlucky fellow, but he qualifies
nonetheless. You see, there was a gentleman
from Korea who was killed by his cell phone...more or less. He was doing
the
usual “walking and talking” when he walked into a tree and managed to
somehow break his neck. Keep that in mind the next time you decide to
drive
and dial at the same time. |
