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29 March 2024

Bizarre: Dangerous stunt goes viral on the web

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PITTSBURGH: A 12-year-old boy was left with second degree burns on his back after applying salt directly on his skin and pressing it down with ice, which caused the skin to burn immediately. The horrific injury occurred due to a chemical reaction between the salt, ice and skin.

The boy was copying a challenge he checked out on YouTube. He wanted to see how long his capacity to endure excruciating pain.

The new fad, better known as the "Salt and Ice Challenge' has swept the online community. The pre-teen, his twin sibling and their friend heard about the stunt from social networking site Facebook. He took up the challenge when his friends dared him to do it, reports the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.

The Pittsburgh boy had to be taken to a hospital for treatment and it will take months before he can go out of his house.

The boy's mother has spoken out on this subject to raise awareness and to discourage youngsters from taking up such foolhardy stunts. 

 

Doc removes 13cm live worm from man's eye

MUMBAI: When an elderly Indian patient came to Dr V. Seetharaman with persistent pain in his eye, what the surgeon found was reminiscent of a far-fetched alien movie plot: a live, 13 centimetre-long worm.

On examining the 75-year-old at Mumbai's Fortis Hospital this week, the eye expert was shocked by the highly unusual sight of the writhing parasite and had to operate speedily to remove it before serious damage was caused.

"It was wriggling there under the conjunctiva," Seetharaman told AFP, referring to the thin membrane lining the eye. "It was the first time in my career of 30 years that I had seen such a case."

Retired patient P.K. Krishnamurthy had been suffering for more than two weeks with redness and irritation before the doctor pin-pointed the threadlike creature under a microscope on Wednesday.

"He was also confused and very much disturbed," said Seetharaman.

The specialist removed the 13-centimetre (five-inch) worm by making a small opening in the conjunctiva - a 15-minute operation that was observed by the patient's horrified wife, Saraswati.

"It just kept moving and jumping; it was scary for a bit," she told the Mumbai Mirror.

The patient was relieved of his symptoms while the worm, which was alive for another 30 minutes after surgery, was sent to the hospital's microbiologists to be identified.

Seetharaman had previously only heard of worms of about two to three centimetres being removed. "Probably this is a record," he said.

He suggested the creature could have entered the patient from a cut in his foot or from eating raw or improperly cooked food, before entering the bloodstream and travelling to the eye.

"If the worm was not removed it could have gone into the layers of the eye and caused visual loss," he said. "It could have entered the brain and caused major neurological problems."

Dr S. Narayani, the hospital's medical director, agreed it was an extremely rare case. "We have a very active ophthalmology department and we have not come across a case like this in the last 10 years," she said. (AFP)


 
Boy's hand rips off as skipping rope gets caught in passing car

BRITAIN: In a freak accident, a 5-year-old boy's hand was ripped off when the skipping rope wrapped around his wrist was caught by a vehicle.

The car in which the boy was riding was being driven by the boy's grandmother, reports Daily Mail.

The boy was seated in the back of the car and one end of his skipping rope was wrapped around his wrist while the other end was dangling outside the car. When another car approached their vehicle, the rope got entangled and as it drove way the rope severed the child's hand, says the daily.

A passer by helped the boy reach the hospital where a surgery was immediately done in order to attach the severed limb. However, it is not clear if the surgery was successful.

Passenger gets on wrong plane

UK: A teenager got on to a wrong flight due to last-minute gate change. He flew to Sweden instead of France.

The 19-year-old who is a professional surfer ended up in the wrong flight even thought Ryanair cabin crew checked his ticket not once but twice. They failed to spot the mistake, reveals Mirror.

The crew did not even realise that they had an extra passenger because they failed to count the correct number of passengers on board as a child was hiding.

The teenager realised something was amiss when the pilot announced: "We are flying over Denmark."

The airline flew him back to the UK and then to his destination in France.
 
Biker caught doing 110mph with girl, 11

BRITAIN: A man who was caught hurtling down a road in the dark on his bike with his 11-year-old daughter at the back has been let off lightly.

The 43-year-old man was riding at almost double the speed limit on a dual carriageway on his Yamaha bike, reports Daily Mail.

The police officials were more shocked to find the speeding dad breaking the law with his young daughter riding pillion.

The video footage of the chase that ensued after the patrolling car saw him overspeeding was played in court.

Even though the magistrate told the court that these sort of speeds is prefered on the race track, she fined him a mere £400 and handed out a 56-day ban. The lenient sentence has received a lot of flak from road safety campaigners.

Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents spokesman Kevin Clinton told The Sun: 'Riding at 110mph is utterly perlious. It reduces the opportunity to react.'