Boy, 6, Tries to Drive to Applebees
A 6-year-old boy was hungry and decided he’d go to Applebees. So he grabbed the car keys, took his booster seat from the back seat of his grandmother’s car and placed it in the driver’s seat, then made a go of driving himself to the restaurant Tuesday. He made it about 75 feet. Unable to [...]
Hospital Gives Man Drip-Feed of Vodka
Doctors plugged an Italian tourist into a drip-feed of vodka to save him at a hospital in Australia that ran out of the medicinal alcohol it would normally have used for treatment.The 24-year-old Italian, who was not further identified, was brought to Mackay Base Hospital in northeastern Queesland state and was diagnosed as having ingested [...]
Exotic Dancer Worker’s Comp Upheld
An Indiana appeals court upheld a worker’s compensation award Tuesday for an exotic dancer who was injured while performing on a pole at a strip club.The Indiana Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Angela Hobson and ordered the state Worker’s Compensation Board to determine if she was entitled to double compensation. Hobson claimed she [...]
New Zeland Doctor Lost Man’s False Teeth
New Zealand doctors lost an elderly man’s false teeth during surgery but found them four days later – stuck down his throat, a Health and Disability Commission report said today. However, the commission found that doctors had taken all due care during the surgery. The man had entered hospital for back surgery in February 2005 [...]