Two men planning to throw lighted fireworks from a car were burned when they forgot to roll down the window. "They lit a large mortar rocket firework" and were going to throw it out the window, Salt Lake County sheriff's Sgt. John Barker said. "The passenger threw it out the window, but he forgot to roll the window down. It bounced back in his lap." Adam Weber, 24, was in fair condition Thursday at the Intermountain Burn Unit at University Hospital with second and third degree burns on his arms, legs and torso. "He's going to be in a lot of pain. I don't think it's life-threatening, but he's going to have a hard time. It's going to be a long process to get him healed up," Barker said. The driver, Jared Williams, only had minor burns to his back. The accident happened about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday. The investigation has been turned over to the Unified Fire Authority. An officer told KSL-TV any charges filed likely would be just misdemeanors. Sometimes life, fate, whaever, gives you exactly what you deserve. With any luck at all, it will also interfere with his ability to pass on those moron genes he so obviously has.
Bucharest - A Romanian surgeon who underwent a fit of madness while operating on a man's testicles proceeded to amputate his penis and cut it into three pieces, hospital officials said on Friday.
Their first clue something was wrong was when he asked the nurse for the Ginzu knife.
The surgeon, Naum Ciomu, was said to be a senior member of the hospital staff and a professor of anatomy. He had been operating on a 34-year-old man for a testicular malformation when he committed the act, the officials said.
Sooooo, this was a case of nut on nut violence
"We are shocked by what has happened. It is the first time we have had such a case," said Sorin Oprescu, head of the Bucharest emergency hospital where the operation took place.
Doctor Ciomu had been banned from entering an operating theatre for two months pending the results of an investigation by the medical council, Oprescu said.
Keeping him a couple of kilometers away from your front door would be a better idea.
Meanwhile, the wife of the unfortunate patient said she was suing Dr Ciomu.
I think she's got a case.
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via sfgate.com Lovestruck man sues dozens of times just to see female judge
(07-15) 20:36 PDT BUCHAREST, Romania (AP)
Sandu Gurguiatu first sued for money. Then he sued for love. Court TV would love to have this guy on...
The love-struck Romanian took his company to court four years ago for what he said was unfair dismissal. But after setting eyes on Judge Elena Lala, he sued his employers and others dozens of times -- just to see her. Ahem. Call it Just Obsession...
"I fell madly in love with her and when I found out she was married, I didn't know how I would manage to see her," he told the daily Libertatea on Thursday. "The only way was to see her in the courtroom, so I looked in the law book and came up with all kinds of excuses." An ethical man. Worthy.
Sometimes he would approach her in the halls of the courtroom in Focsani, a city some 125 miles northeast of Bucharest, but was too timid to talk to her about anything but legal matters, the paper reported. And probably stuttered and stammered through those, poor guy!
Eventually, the infatuation subsided and Gurguiatu decided to go public with his story. The Focsani court declined to comment on the report in the newspaper. Lala, the object of Gurguiatu's affection, told the paper she was "stunned." Lala. For those who've read Allen Sherman's The Rape of the Ape, this will be a scream!
"I remember judging his cases, but for me all cases are equal," she was quoted as saying. Sigh. Call it Just Blind...
Gurguiatu lost his first suit. But he won some subsequent ones against other companies -- including the right to have two towels and enough soap to wash up at work. Well, even unrequited love has its small compensations, it seems.
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Austrian fans of their famous compatriot Arnold Schwarzenegger will be able to lick the back of the California Governor when his image appears on a special edition of postage stamps at the end of this month. The former bodybuilder and film star chose the portrait of himself that will be used on one-euro stamps to be issued in Austria on his 57th birthday, July 30, a postal service spokesman said on Friday. "He is one of the most famous Austrians...We can be very proud of him," spokesman Siegfried Grobmann said. The stamp is a head-and-shoulders shot of Schwarzenegger with the U.S. Stars and Stripes on his right and a smaller Austrian flag to his left. A run of 600,000 stamps will be printed, Grobmann said.
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So, to mail a letter, you have to lick Schwarzenegger's backside?
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