Archive for August 6th, 2007
Pencil removed from woman’s head after 55 years
by Fukdatshhh Viewers on Aug.06, 2007, under Weird News
BERLIN (Reuters) – A 59-year-old German woman has had most of a pencil removed from inside her head after suffering nearly her whole life with the headaches and nosebleeds it caused, Bild newspaper reported Monday.
Margret Wegner fell over carrying the pencil in her hand when she was four.
“The pencil went right through my skin — and disappeared into my head,” Wegner told the newspaper.
It narrowly missed vital parts of her brain. At the time no one dared operate, but now technology has improved sufficiently for doctors to be able to remove it.
Most of the pencil, some three inches long, was taken out in an operation at a private Berlin clinic, but the tip had grown in so firmly that it was impossible to remove.
Blind man arrested for driving car
by Fukdatshhh Viewers on Aug.06, 2007, under Weird News
TALLINN (Reuters) - Police in the Baltic state of Estonia stopped a man who was driving erratically at the weekend, only to find he was blind.
The 20-year-old was driving in the southern city of Tartu early Sunday — helped by instructions from his 16-year-old passenger.
“At first they thought he was just drunk, but the man kept missing the tube for the breath test, then they realized he was blind” and arrested him, Tartu Police spokeswoman Marge Kohtla said Monday.
