Fish, chili, organs and morons
Pet store expects fish shipment, but gets corpse
Employees of a Philadelphia pet store expecting to get a shipment of tropical fish and salt water by air cargo ended up getting a human body instead. Mark Arabia owns the Pets Plus store in Northeast Philadelphia where the mix-up was discovered Tuesday. He said he eventually learned that the body he got was that of a 65-year-old San Diego-area man who died of early onset Alzheimer's disease. The body was supposed to go to a laboratory in Allentown so samples could be taken for medical research. US Airways released a statement saying the problem was caused by a "verbal miscommunication between a delivery driver and the cargo representative." The airline said it's deeply sorry.Arabia said he believes the fish died as a result.
Fish
...That's quite the mix-up.
China police hot-wire sleepy drivers with chili
Police in southwest China are spicing up drivers with raw chili in a bid to stop them falling asleep at the wheel, a newspaper said on Wednesday. Police in the Chongqing region have started serving drivers chili peppers at highway service stations, holding to the traditional Chinese belief that people often feel more sleepy in the Spring, the Chongqing Evening News said. Most of the drivers are from neighboring Sichuan, Yunnan and Hunan provinces, where chilies are a local favorite, it added. "It's really good to have some hot peppers when you are tired from driving," van driver Chen Jun was quoted by the newspaper as saying. "They make you alert."
Chili
Mmmmmmmmm chili....I DEMAND THEY INSTITUTE THAT IN NORTH AMERICA!
Girl survives after six organs removed in surgery
A seven-year-old girl was released from hospital on Tuesday after a ground-breaking 23-hour operation four weeks ago in which doctors took out six of her organs to remove a cancerous tumor in her abdomen. Heather McNamara, from Long Island, New York, is believed to be the first child and only the second person in the world to have the surgery known as auto-transplant, her doctors said. McNamara's pancreas, liver, spleen, stomach and small and large intestines were taken out and put in ice-cold temperatures so doctors could take out the cancerous growth. Lead surgeon Dr. Tomoaki Kato said the tumor was in the abdomen and pancreas and tangled with two major blood vessels. In order to remove it, a team of seven surgeons and eight clinicians removed six organs, but they were unable to replace the pancreas, spleen and stomach. Because it is impossible to survive without a stomach Kato created a pouch in her body to hold food before it moves to the small intestine.
Organs
Ok, fine a pouch. But how the hell does she digest anything? If she has no real stomach, she has no gastric juices... idgi.
And Dear Germany,
If you want to woo people, don't use an oxymoron - that just simply makes you look like... a moron:
"Berlin has a reputation in Germany of being a rude city, but we're a rude city with a heart".
Employees of a Philadelphia pet store expecting to get a shipment of tropical fish and salt water by air cargo ended up getting a human body instead. Mark Arabia owns the Pets Plus store in Northeast Philadelphia where the mix-up was discovered Tuesday. He said he eventually learned that the body he got was that of a 65-year-old San Diego-area man who died of early onset Alzheimer's disease. The body was supposed to go to a laboratory in Allentown so samples could be taken for medical research. US Airways released a statement saying the problem was caused by a "verbal miscommunication between a delivery driver and the cargo representative." The airline said it's deeply sorry.Arabia said he believes the fish died as a result.
Fish
...That's quite the mix-up.
China police hot-wire sleepy drivers with chili
Police in southwest China are spicing up drivers with raw chili in a bid to stop them falling asleep at the wheel, a newspaper said on Wednesday. Police in the Chongqing region have started serving drivers chili peppers at highway service stations, holding to the traditional Chinese belief that people often feel more sleepy in the Spring, the Chongqing Evening News said. Most of the drivers are from neighboring Sichuan, Yunnan and Hunan provinces, where chilies are a local favorite, it added. "It's really good to have some hot peppers when you are tired from driving," van driver Chen Jun was quoted by the newspaper as saying. "They make you alert."
Chili
Mmmmmmmmm chili....I DEMAND THEY INSTITUTE THAT IN NORTH AMERICA!
Girl survives after six organs removed in surgery
A seven-year-old girl was released from hospital on Tuesday after a ground-breaking 23-hour operation four weeks ago in which doctors took out six of her organs to remove a cancerous tumor in her abdomen. Heather McNamara, from Long Island, New York, is believed to be the first child and only the second person in the world to have the surgery known as auto-transplant, her doctors said. McNamara's pancreas, liver, spleen, stomach and small and large intestines were taken out and put in ice-cold temperatures so doctors could take out the cancerous growth. Lead surgeon Dr. Tomoaki Kato said the tumor was in the abdomen and pancreas and tangled with two major blood vessels. In order to remove it, a team of seven surgeons and eight clinicians removed six organs, but they were unable to replace the pancreas, spleen and stomach. Because it is impossible to survive without a stomach Kato created a pouch in her body to hold food before it moves to the small intestine.
Organs
Ok, fine a pouch. But how the hell does she digest anything? If she has no real stomach, she has no gastric juices... idgi.
And Dear Germany,
If you want to woo people, don't use an oxymoron - that just simply makes you look like... a moron:
"Berlin has a reputation in Germany of being a rude city, but we're a rude city with a heart".