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A23-year-old Thai man’s harrowing or- deal was document- ed in late January in the Jour- nal of Medical Case Reports, Gizmodo reported.
It’s A Case Of Too Much, Too Little, Too Late
At the hospital, doctors stopped his bleeding and created a new opening for his urethra, but his penis was too damaged to be reattached. He was diagnosed with sub- stance-induced psychotic disorder; after two weeks of hospitalization and anti-psy- chotic drugs, he reported no more symptoms.
Royal Disaster
Queen Elizabeth II’s plat- inum jubilee is celebrated this year, and the souvenir producers are hard at work creating tchotchkes to com- memorate it — but apparent- ly not hard enough at work to proofread their copy.
People magazine reported that because of a translating error, Karl Baxter, CEO of Wholesale Clearance U.K., is trying to sell more than 10,000 pieces that trumpet the queen’s “platinum jub- bly” — mugs, tea sets and plates featuring an illustration of Elizabeth and her coat of arms. Baxter hopes to salvage $44,000 from the lot and says the buyer could make a “po- tential profit” of $400,000.
Dec. 18 off O‘ahu, Hawai‘i, when she saw something floating like a log in the wa- ter, KITV reported.
Doctors at Chiang Mai University wrote that the young man, who had been a regular user of cannabis but had stopped for three months, had resumed his habit, with devastating effects. Two hours after hitting the bong, the man suffered a bout of psychosis and an “unwant- ed” erection, which prompt- ed him to use scissors to “trim the penile skin several times.” However, he went too far, eventually ending up with just an inch-long stump.
In other Weird happenings:
She at first thought it was a Hawaiian monk seal, but, she said, “That’s when I realized itwasapig,anditsawme. It started swimming toward me as fast as it could! It was very close and getting closer. I pushed the board between thepigandI,anditbitmy board.”
The website suggests using the items for a plate-smashing contest or a “dangerous game of Frisbee.”
Seiple thinks the wild boar was chased into the ocean by hunting dogs.
When Pigs Attack
You Dirty Swine!
ILLUSTRATION BY MARK GALACGAC
Seiple escaped the boar without harm, but no word on the pig’s condition.
Veteran surfer Ingrid Sei- ple was catching a wave on
“It looked like it had an injury on its face,” she said.
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