November 3rd, 2006 at 4:49 pm
Did you know that Scott Adams, the cartoonist that creates Dilbert, is recovering from spasmodic dysphonia, a bizarre medical condition in which the brain areas controlling speech get weird, on and off.
When it gets weird it can really get weird, sometimes victims can speak only in falsetto, or only right after sneezing.
Scott Adams spasmodic dysphonia allowed him only to be able to speak when reciting poetry or when he pinched his nose. Now isn’t that odd? Apparently one person in 10,000 suffers from this, usually in mid-life.
Adams seems to have recovered, but it’s quite an interesting coincidence that his Dilbert character has no mouth.
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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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April 22nd, 2006 at 4:16 pm
The count down has begun. There is only 8 1/2 hours left for my readers to visit Matt from MTMD. He has a great site, and his contest is going full blast now. Come on and join in the fun.
A Sticky Situation For Two Men:
A Southern California man took two men hostage at gunpoint, stripped them naked, bound their hands together with super glue and poured glue into their mouths, police said on Friday.
Rene Avila, 36, was arrested early on Friday after releasing his hostages during the night. They were treated at the scene and released.
The motive behind the bizarre incident was unclear but police speculate a possible relationship among the three may have triggered Avila’s behavior.
“There was some kind of dispute there and he put the super glue in their mouths before calling his sister.” Los Angeles police LT. Ernest Eskridge said.”We don’t know if that was his cry for help.”
Wow! Super glue is bad enough if you get it on your fingers or hand, but in your MOUTH!
A foul place to live:
Charlotte: Utility workers trying to blast out a grease clog from a sewer line forced 3,000 gallons of raw sewage into a couple’s home. forcing them to abandon their house while hoping that the city makes good on a promise to clean up and repair the damage.
Mac and Meg McCormick say city leaders have also promised to pay for their stay in a hotel until the repairs are complete.
The couple doesn’t have any of the agreement in writing, and city officials have declined to discuss the case because it’s ongoing.
“We feel we have no choice but to put our trust and faith in the hands of the city” Meg McCormick said this week as movers hauled damaged furniture from her house. “And I’ll be honest. that’s a little scary.”
Scott Denham, the risk manager for Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, declined to discuss the details of the sewage backup, but did say, “There’s no question of the severity of this event.” City officials don’t even know how much the repairs and cleanup will cost, Denham said.
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