November 7th, 2006 at 9:50 pm
I wish I could take advantage of this offer – but I can’t since I’m in Canada – so I thought I’d pass it on to my faithful readers.
Vimo, an online company that makes it easier for individuals, families and small businesses to shop around for health insurance, doctors, dentists and even surgical procedures, has a great offer for anyone that wants to help them build their directory.
So what’s this offer? Simply go to the Vimo site and rate your doctor. Easy as that. When you finish rating your doctor you’ll receive a code that will allow you to get 5 free songs at emusic.com. See, I’d love that, I could get more music for my iPod. Another bonus- you’ll get a code for five free songs for every doctor you rate. Is that cool or what?
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October 15th, 2006 at 12:01 am
She was just brushing her teeth
A woman suffered severe burning to her anus after being struck by lightning which hit her in the mouth and passed right through her body.
Natasha Timarovic, 27, was cleaning her teeth at home when lightning struck the building.
She said: “I had just put my mouth under the tap to rinse away the toothpaste when the lightning must have struck the building.
I don’t remember much after that, but I was later told that the lightning had traveled down the water pipe and struck me on the mouth, passing through my body.
It was incredibly painful, I felt it pass through my torso and then I don’t remember much at all.”
Doctors at the city hospital where she was treated for burns to the mouth and rear said: “The accident is bizarre but not impossible”.
Of course it’s bizarre. Have you ever heard of such a thing happening before? I guess this is a lesson to all of us. Don’t brush your teeth (or shower, bathe etc) during a lightening storm. Or perhaps don’t bend down to sip water from the tap, use a plastic cup instead.
She was wearing rubber bathroom shoes at the time and so instead of earthing through her feet it appears the electricity shot out of her backside,” a medic told local television news. Ok, so I guess if you really must brush your teeth during a storm where you rubber soled shoes then. You might still get hurt but not as badly.
“It appears to have earthed through the damp shower curtain that she was touching as she bent over to put her mouth under the tap. If she had not been wearing the shoes she would probably have been killed by the blast.”
I wonder how long it will take the poor girl to recover. I wonder if her friends will call her “Lightening Butt” from now on? 
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September 12th, 2006 at 12:01 am
Joshua Shores, 34, a Subway restaurant employee in North Platte, Neb., who was allegedly caught on surveillance video pocketing the $502 he was supposed to drop into the restaurant’s safe, tried to tell police and a judge in August not to worry, that he is not a thief but an undercover CIA operative and that the agency would reimburse the money.
He had lost his CIA badge, he said, which is why he was working at the Subway, waiting for the agency to send him a new one.
Outrageous Medicine
In July, India’s Medical Association began investigating three doctors who appeared on television to promote their amputation services specifically to beggars, whose income prospects grow with the more sympathy they engender. One doctor said he would remove a leg below the knee, leaving it fairly easy to fit a prosthetic, for the equivalent of about $200.
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