'Dead' man wakes up during autopsy
By correspondents in Caracas
September 15, 2007 06:57pm
A VENEZUELAN man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.
Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realise something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.
"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Mr Camejo told newspaper El Universal.
His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband's body only to find him moved into a corridor - and alive.
Mr Camejo showed the El Universal his facial scar and a document ordering the autopsy.
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Appeal for biker's stolen hand
A disabled biker has appealed for the return of his prosthetic hand which was stolen after he left it gripped on the handlebars.
Jack Baker, 19, lost his right arm after a head-on crash with a bus in Bristol in May, reports the Daily Telegraph.
But Jack refused to be beaten and had a prosthetic hand fitted, which allowed him to continue riding.
But the hand, which costs £450 to replace, was taken when he left it attached to his 400cc Suzuki DR-Z400SM while he was visiting his girlfriend last week.
"It was the first time I had left my hand on the bike," he said. "I thought I was only going to be 10 minutes, but I ended up staying for two hours.
"It's frustrating because my hand's no good to anyone else. I never thought anyone would take it though."
While the mechanic does have a spare hand - designed for racing - he says the stolen appendage is of better quality and does need to be replaced.
Avon and Somerset Police appealed for anyone who had seen the missing hand or knew who had it to contact them on 0845 456 7000.
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Hiss of life for fire snake
A snake rescued from a flat blaze was revived by oxygen kit normally used only on humans.
Pet iguanas, tortoises, terrapins and parrots were also evacuated, reports the Daily Mirror.
But firefighters opted for the breathing apparatus as the corn snake had inhaled too much smoke.
The flat owner escaped the 3am flames in Tipton, West Midlands, and went to hospital as a precaution while the RSPCA took his exotic menagerie into care.
But fire crews said: "We had to administer oxygen therapy to the snake - which wasn't an easy task.
"We hadn't dealt with anything like it before."
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When IT and taxidermy collide...
A US artist and inventor has combined IT and taxidermy to create a computer housed in a dead beaver.
Kasey McMahon, 34, from Los Angeles, spent three months creating his Compubeaver, reports Metro News.
And, in separate but related news, two more US inventors created a computer mouse housed in a real mouse.
Ms McMahon said of her Compubeaver: "I started thinking about the most ridiculous thing to put a computer into and decided it had to be a beaver.
"It looks at how nature relates to technology."
She bought the beaver ready-stuffed, before cutting out the foam insides with an electric kitchen knife. Once she had cut space for the computer tower, she reinforced it with fibreglass.
Meanwhile, biologist Christy Canida and environmental studies graduate Noah Weinsrein took the concept of a computer 'mouse' to its natural limit.
Both contribute to the Instructables website - which describes how to make similarly odd creations - and made the mouse using the skin of a real rodent bought dead from a US pet shop.
By correspondents in Caracas
September 15, 2007 06:57pm
A VENEZUELAN man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy.
Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realise something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face.
"I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Mr Camejo told newspaper El Universal.
His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband's body only to find him moved into a corridor - and alive.
Mr Camejo showed the El Universal his facial scar and a document ordering the autopsy.
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Appeal for biker's stolen hand
A disabled biker has appealed for the return of his prosthetic hand which was stolen after he left it gripped on the handlebars.
Jack Baker, 19, lost his right arm after a head-on crash with a bus in Bristol in May, reports the Daily Telegraph.
But Jack refused to be beaten and had a prosthetic hand fitted, which allowed him to continue riding.
But the hand, which costs £450 to replace, was taken when he left it attached to his 400cc Suzuki DR-Z400SM while he was visiting his girlfriend last week.
"It was the first time I had left my hand on the bike," he said. "I thought I was only going to be 10 minutes, but I ended up staying for two hours.
"It's frustrating because my hand's no good to anyone else. I never thought anyone would take it though."
While the mechanic does have a spare hand - designed for racing - he says the stolen appendage is of better quality and does need to be replaced.
Avon and Somerset Police appealed for anyone who had seen the missing hand or knew who had it to contact them on 0845 456 7000.
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Hiss of life for fire snake
A snake rescued from a flat blaze was revived by oxygen kit normally used only on humans.
Pet iguanas, tortoises, terrapins and parrots were also evacuated, reports the Daily Mirror.
But firefighters opted for the breathing apparatus as the corn snake had inhaled too much smoke.
The flat owner escaped the 3am flames in Tipton, West Midlands, and went to hospital as a precaution while the RSPCA took his exotic menagerie into care.
But fire crews said: "We had to administer oxygen therapy to the snake - which wasn't an easy task.
"We hadn't dealt with anything like it before."
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When IT and taxidermy collide...
A US artist and inventor has combined IT and taxidermy to create a computer housed in a dead beaver.
Kasey McMahon, 34, from Los Angeles, spent three months creating his Compubeaver, reports Metro News.
And, in separate but related news, two more US inventors created a computer mouse housed in a real mouse.
Ms McMahon said of her Compubeaver: "I started thinking about the most ridiculous thing to put a computer into and decided it had to be a beaver.
"It looks at how nature relates to technology."
She bought the beaver ready-stuffed, before cutting out the foam insides with an electric kitchen knife. Once she had cut space for the computer tower, she reinforced it with fibreglass.
Meanwhile, biologist Christy Canida and environmental studies graduate Noah Weinsrein took the concept of a computer 'mouse' to its natural limit.
Both contribute to the Instructables website - which describes how to make similarly odd creations - and made the mouse using the skin of a real rodent bought dead from a US pet shop.