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Injuries

Life Lesson Learned

Jamie Bisceglia learned that if you catch an octopus while fishing, it’s not a good idea to put it on your face for the sake of a funny picture:

She put the small eight-limbed mollusc on her face and posed, but the octopus grabbed her with its suckers and burrowed its beak into her chin.
"It had barreled its beak into my chin and then let go a little bit and did it again,” she explained.
“It was a really intense pain when it went inside and it just bled, dripping blood for a long time.”…
The painful experience has taught Bisceglia a lesson in handling live animals. "This was not a good idea. Hindsight looking back, I will never do it again," she said.

More info: CTV News

Posted By: Alex - Fri Aug 09, 2019 - Comments (3)
Category: Animals, Injuries

Man kicked in face by dead cow

Cows that attack have been a recurring theme on WU for quite a while (see here and here). Apparently, dead cows are just as dangerous as the living ones.

BERLIN (AP) — Police in southern Germany say a slaughterhouse worker suffered serious injuries after being kicked in the face by a dead cow.

In a statement, police said the cow was “killed according to regulations” early Thursday at an abattoir in Aalen, and hung from a meat hook for further processing.

Police said the carcass then kicked the man in the face, apparently due to a nerve impulse that experts say isn’t uncommon.

The 41-year-old worker was hospitalized.

Source

Posted By: Alex - Fri Mar 22, 2019 - Comments (4)
Category: Injuries, Cows

Knocked out by brick tied to cow tail

One of the many hazards of working on a farm, back in the 1930s. Though I'm having a hard time imagining how a cow could actually lift a brick with its tail and then swing it with enough force to knock someone out.

The Daily Free Press (Carbondale, Illinois) - Jan 21, 1931



BRICK TIED TO COW'S TAIL KNOCKS MILKER UNCONSCIOUS
TOLEDO, Ore., Jan 18 — Jack Horsfall, Toledo high school student, decided to stop his cow's practice of switching her tail while he milked. He tied a brick to her tail. The cow switched her tail anyway, and the brick struck Horsfall behind the ear. He fell unconscious. When he had recovered he untied the brick.

Posted By: Alex - Sat Oct 10, 2015 - Comments (5)
Category: Injuries, Cows, 1930s

Kiss Of Death

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Next up for Darwin Award near miss- guy who tried to kiss a cottonmouth snake on the lips. Yeah, he's from Florida.

Posted By: Alex - Wed Apr 22, 2015 - Comments (6)
Category: Animals, Injuries, Really Bad Ideas, Screwups, Pain, Self-inflicted and Otherwise

Ancient Remedy

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Scientists recreated a thousand year old medicinal remedy to study its efficacy and got a big surprise. The mixture, which includes cow bile, garlic, leeks and wine, kills the antibiotic resistant staph infection MRSA.

Posted By: Alex - Mon Mar 30, 2015 - Comments (8)
Category: Culture and Civilization, Injuries, Disease

Natural Body Brace

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Unnatural is more like it!

Original ad here.

Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 07, 2014 - Comments (4)
Category: Body, Injuries, Inventions, 1920s

Miss Curity Coloring Book

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Click on each page to expand.

1) Yes, that's a fishhook in the lad's finger. How it was extracted before application of bandaid is not known.

2) Do NOT invite Miss Curity to your party--she's a jinx!

3) Why are they peeing into the lemonade?

Please color within the lines!

Posted By: Paul - Wed Mar 27, 2013 - Comments (9)
Category: Art, Comics, Injuries, Advertising, 1950s

Johnson Smith Catalog Item #26

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It is generally understood that the necktie is a symbol of male virility. Thus, when the Marx Brothers or the Three Stooges cut someone's tie off while the fellow is wearing it, it is a symbol of emasculation, and we laugh.

So a necktie that instantly sproings erect on command is surely the best alpha-dog symbol of all! This is why Dilbert rules!

Just don't poke out anybody's eye with that thing!

Posted By: Paul - Mon Oct 15, 2012 - Comments (9)
Category: Fashion, Injuries, Johnson Smith Catalog, Sexuality, Chindogu, Pranks

Johnson Smith Catalog Item #15

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What's good for pigs is good for people!

From the 1950 catalog.

Posted By: Paul - Mon Dec 12, 2011 - Comments (3)
Category: Agriculture, Animals, Injuries, Johnson Smith Catalog, 1950s, Pranks

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