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Broiled Buddie

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

My dog decided to cook himself yesterday. We have one of those in-wall electric heating units in the bathroom. Sometimes we leave it running because the cats like to snuggle in front of it when it’s cold. While I was watching USC crush Michigan in the Rose Bowl, my girlfriend asked me if I smelled something burning. I immediately jumped and ran into the bathroom; I was thinking that maybe one of the magazines had caught fire. But no. It was Budrick the Lion-hearted. He was standing with his rump on the heater slowly cooking himself. The stench of burning dog hair was overwhelming.

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Vegetable Slicer Thumb

Friday, February 2, 2001

Officials determined the thumb piece belonged to a cafeteria worker who had severed the top of her thumb in a vegetable slicer this week.

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Thursday News Two-Fer

Thursday, January 25, 2001

Man Saws Off Hand, Shoots Nails into Head
Bartron had shot several nails into his head with a pneumatic gun “because he could not stand the pain from the amputation.”

Castro Says He Hopes Bush “Not as Stupid as He Seems”
Castro said that “someone very strange, with very little promise, has taken charge of the leadership of the great empire that we have as a neighbor.”

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