Thu, 24 Apr 2003
This is how I expect to die, one day ...
Professor trapped for Easter under a pile of books
A Croatian professor has spent three days trapped under a pile of books
in his apartment in Zagreb before being saved by a neighbour who heard
his cries for help.
The Jutarnji List daily reports the unfortunate 60-year-old mathematics
professor, identified only by his initials DK, spent the Easter weekend lying
helplessly on the floor, trapped between a bed and a book-case under a pile of
books which fell on him.
The neighbour who called the police and paramedics told the daily that the
professor's apartment was very untidy, "filled up with books, tapes, furniture
and food."
"It looked like a real rubbish dump," he said, adding it was hard to imagine
how the rather corpulent professor, weighing some 120 kilograms, could freely
move around in it.
He was treated for exhaustion and dehydration in his apartment by paramedics,
and recovered enough to refuse hospital treatment.
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Banging out the hits
Y'know the RIAA insist that MP3s are a tool of terrorists?
Here's the evidence.
Now if only they did an 88mm armour-piercing MP3 player to go with this ...
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Duck Sausage Clock
I didn't make it to the Hinckley Eastercon. Probably a good thing, because
if this photograph by
Major Clanger
is anything to go by, I'd have come back with my sanity in tatters:
Some things are sane, some things are crazy, but it takes a very special
kind of mind to create a level of kitsch that qualifies as unsane.
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