Dispensary Corner 14 Jul 10
July 14, 2010
ANIMAL instinct?
A New Zealand pup is at the
centre of a shooting accident,
after his owner suffered a rather
painful gunshot wound in his
buttocks.
According to reports, the man
had been happily driving his car
through Te Kopuru (North Island)
on the way back from a hunting
trip over the weekend, when he
felt a sudden stinging pain in his
derriere.
Lodged in his left buttock, the
man had to suffer through the
bullet pain as he waited to be
airlifted to the nearest hospital.
It was soon determined that
the bullet was fired from a .22
bolt-action rifle - in the back seat
of the car, with the culprit being
the man’s unwitting dog who had
bumped the gun at exactly the
wrong moment.
Moral: switch the safety on,
then drive.
SECURITY vs health.
Authorities in several countries
are raising concerns about the
installation of full body scanners
at airports, saying despite their
benefits not enough is known of
their potential health side-effects.
Installed in most US airports
the machines have been
deployed, in what some are
calling a knee-jerk reaction to
security concerns, without fully
testing their effects.
Officials at the European
Commission have said that they
would need ‘rigorous scientific
testing’ before they would
approve the scanners for use in
the EU.
TRIMMING the fat.
A brave team of workers have
been enlisted to clear fat out of
the central London sewage
network, after its entrance was
discovered to be blocked by a
massive solid wall of fat around
1.5 metres thick.
Deposited down the drains of
Leicester Square restaurants, the
fat will take an estimated twomonths
to clean out, and could
potentially fill around nine double
decker buses.
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