On The Lighter Side
Well it’s Friday so it’s time for some funnier and light hearted stories doing the rounds.
Firstly a 27-year old German man managed to get stuck in a chimney for 12 hours after drinking heavily at Munich’s Oktoberfest bee festival.
The man climbed the roof of a neighbouring building after finding that his friend was not home about 2am (local time) on Thursday. He went for what he thought was a gap between the two houses but ended up sliding 98 feet head first into a chimney.
It was not until 2pm the next day when an 82-year old Hotel janitor heard his screams and managed to squeeze him back up. The fire brigade eventually knocked a hole into the side of the chimney to free the no doubt embarrassed man.
Moving back to home and Doctors at St Vincent’s Hospital have found that the smoking ban in pubs and clubs has produced better music sessions for the punters.
The ban has helped musicians clean up their instruments that were clogged up with dirt accumulated over many years. The survey was carried out with people involved with the cleaning, maintenance, repair and renovation care of accordions. Some of the dirt affected the instruments so much that it changed the pitch in certain reeds.
The doctors concluded the smoking ban has been “music to the ears of the people of Ireland.”
And finally, we have all had our major hangovers, but four weeks take the cake. A 37-year old man in Glasgow walked into a hospital complaining of blurred vision and claimed he had been getting a non stop headache lasting four weeks
After a battery of tests the doctors were stumped as to how a patient with no medical history of head injuries . It was not until an examination by an eye specialist that helped tell the real story.
The ophthalmologist found that the patient had swollen optical discs, greatly enlarged blind spots and what eye doctors call “flame haemorrhages,” or bleeding nerve fibres. The man then revealed that he had consumed 60 pints, around 35 litres, of beer in a four day period following a domestic crisis.
Dehydration lead to a rare condition called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST). CVST can cause seizures, impaired consciousness, loss of vision and neurological damage but is so rare that only 3 or 4 people in every million can get it.
After six months of blood thinning procedures the man has now returned to normal health.
Friday, September 28th, 2007 and is filed under Views on News.
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