Dispensary Corner 20 Feb 13
February 20, 2013
PUSHING up daisies.
Bratislav Stojanovic is redefining what it means to push up daisies, after taking up residence in a used grave. The Serbian man found himself homeless a few months ago after having racked up debts, and spent many nights battling the bitter cold on the streets before bunking down with the dead. “It is dry and it is warm,” he said. “I have some lamps and my personal possessions. “It isn't a palace but it is more comfortable than the street,” he added. Surprisingly graveyard officials are not angling to get rid of their live squatter, saying “The family who owned the tomb are long gone so technically it belongs to no-one”. “If he behaves himself there are no plans to evict him,” they added.
TASTE is an individual thing.
In some cases taste can be as individual as a fingerprint, and in one particular instance that fingerprint got the taste for magnets, fridge magnets. A 12-month old Russian child recently underwent a procedure to remove a whopping 42 fridge magnets after developing a taste for the delicacy. “Over the years, I had to take a variety of foreign bodies including magnets from young patients,” said the child’s surgeon, Nikolay Rostovtsev. “Once I removed about 20 of them, but this incident of our little patient has broken all records,” he added.
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