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    Unusual injuries

    Extract from BBC Science:

    Figures published by the Department of Health have revealed a huge range of unusual accidents which put people in hospital in England in 2004. Here is just a small sample.

    1. Two people were admitted after being in contact with venomous spiders. Both stayed in hospital for five days.

    2. 22 people suffered from exposure to ignition or melting of nightwear, most of them men.

    3. 1,481 people, most of them children, were injured by hot drinks, and most needing an overnight stay in hospital.

    4. Two people needed five days' treatment after contact with centipedes or venomous millipedes.

    5. 15 people were admitted after contact with a marine animal, needing an average of two days in hospital.

    6. Four people had an average of two days' treatment after exposure to vibrations.

    7. 1,839 people - 78% of them children - fell out of trees.

    8. 4,533 people fell when using ice-skates, skis, roller-skates or skateboards. 57% of them were under 15.

    9. One girl needed an overnight stay after being "bitten or struck" by an alligator. (By comparison, 3,508 people were bitten or struck by dogs.)

    10. One child was admitted to hospital after "prolonged stay in a weightless environment". He or she did not stay overnight. There are no further details about who this person was or how they had come to need treatment.
    Venemous spiders, centipedes and....weightless environments?

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    Since when has a child been in a weightless environment???

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    Quote Originally Posted by Howard
    I saw something odd on the news the other day about people being struck down by centipedes, having mishaps with nightwear, etc. Most odd :\
    I once triped on a baboons tail and hurt elbow.

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    a gstring gave me a black eye once - i was so busy concentrating on the girl a few metres away whose skirt had lifted up in the wind to reveal a nice gstrng - that i walked into a parked bus.

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    I tried to pick a kid up at the ski centre on the soft slope, only to fall over and smash my face into the floor. The child was fine, my face was not.

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