Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Small Bits of News You Didn’t Know you Needed

Man goes for a nude swim in Imperial Palace moat
The 40-year-old man stripped naked and jumped into the moat, and it took over an hour and a half for police to capture him. As you can see from the video, he threw rocks at anyone who approached him in the water and clearly did not want to be apprehended.
It is not clear why the man went skinny dipping, but it may have had something to do with a group of foreign tourists that had been speaking to officers about a lost bag at a nearby police box at the same time the man prepared to make his jump into the moat.
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Tattoo clue led police to thief
A car thief who had his name and date of birth tattooed on his neck was caught after CCTV images of him were used to track him down.
Aarron Evans, 21, pleaded guilty at Bristol Magistrates' Court to breaking into a covert capture car in the city.
The car had been left by Avon and Somerset Police officers with a covert camera concealed inside, which took pictures of Evans.
Evans, an illiterate man of no fixed address, was sentenced to seven months.
"We get such excellent images from these cameras that there is often, and never more so than in this case, no doubt who the criminal is."
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Do you trust your doctor?
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Woman Declared Dead, Still Breathing in Morgue
Judith Johnson went to the Beebe Medical Center in Lewes, Delaware for what she thought was a bad case of indigestion.
An hour after being admitted, the hospital told Johnson’s husband his wife was dead, Wilmington's News Journal reported Tuesday.
When someone at the morgue noticed Johnson’s "corpse" was still breathing, Louis Johnson learned his wife was very much alive.
Judith Johnson, 61, of Georgetown, Del., was actually having a heart attack when she arrived at the hospital in May 2007. Less than 45 minutes after she arrived, she went into cardiac arrest.
She was given "multiple medicines and synchronized shocks," according to emergency room records, which also indicate she was not given supplemental oxygen. The records also say she "never regained a pulse," and was declared dead at 8:34 p.m.
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Doctors Remove Woman's Ovary, Fallopian Tube Instead of Appendix
A Swedish woman woke up from surgery and found that instead of having her appendix removed, surgeons instead took one of her ovaries and a Fallopian tube.
Although the incident occurred in October 2007, the county hospital in Sundsvall-Harnosand in Sweeden is just now reporting it to the National Board of Health and Welfare.
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Man, 58, Dies of Cardiac Arrest After 19-Hour Emergency Room Wait
A 58-year-old man died of cardiac arrest after waiting 19 hours in the emergency room, the Dallas Morning News reported Monday.
Mike Herrera, who helped his family start a chain of restaurants, went to Parkland Memorial Hospital just after 5 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 19 complaining of a stabbing sensation in his stomach.
There were 164 people ahead of him. Another 180 new patients would walk through the ER doors during the next 19 hours.
A surveillance video obtained by the Dallas Morning News showed that Herrera continued to wait in a chair, until 9:26 a.m. Saturday, when a physician finally ordered laboratory tests and an x-ray.
When Herrera’s sister arrived after noon, he went into cardiac arrest. Medical staff worked for more than two hours on him, but by 2:48 p.m. he was pronounced dead.
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