THERE was an unusual medical emergency in Northern Ireland last weekend, with a teenage boy admitted to hospital after being struck by a falling sheep.
The youth was hiking with friends in the Mourne Mountains when the beast fell from a cliff above him, with 17 members of the local rescue team responding to a call for assistance.
He was treated for potential injuries to his head, neck, back, abdomen and leg before being evacuated by stretcher to Ulster Hospital, according to an online update from the rescuers.
The teenager was later discharged, while the sheep was also not seriously harmed and "left the scene unaided".
A Facebook post about the incident (pictured below) has led to a number of fairly predictable puns, with a selection below:
- How's the casualty? Hope he's not feeling baaad any more
- You must be baarrmmy to walk up there!
- Well done ewe lot!
- Sheep happens
- Accidents wool happen!
- Hope he isn't too baaaaadly hurt!!
- Makes a change from raining cats and dogs
- Mutton been looking where he was going; and of course:
- Ewe've got to be kidding!
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