My Mrs Fish impression...
My Mrs Fish impression...
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Podie

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46,647 posts

296 months

Tuesday 12th August 2003
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LONDON (Reuters) - The heatwave, which has claimed dozens of sunburn and heat exhaustion victims, has now produced its first case of frostbite.


A motorist was diagnosed with the condition after driving with his toes too close to the air conditioning vent on the 250 mile journey from London to Manchester.


One of his toes started to turn black and another went blue.


"It was incredibly hot," Mike Ball, 46, told the Guardian. "I slipped off my shoe and sock because my car is an automatic and I don't need to use my left foot.


"I didn't realise anything was wrong until the next day when my foot was extremely painful."


Ball went to his doctor and was prescribed a cure for mild frostbite. He is expected to make a full recovery.




_Al_

5,618 posts

279 months

Tuesday 12th August 2003
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Bit of a dumbass way to get injured!

d_drinks

1,426 posts

290 months

Tuesday 12th August 2003
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almost worthy of a Darwin award !!

N17 TVR

2,937 posts

292 months

Tuesday 12th August 2003
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Silly ar*e, he should be treated for mild insanity not frostbite.....

nchilds

4,703 posts

269 months

Tuesday 12th August 2003
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He needs a car with a nice warm transmission tunnel.

beano500

20,854 posts

296 months

Tuesday 12th August 2003
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Podie said:

"It was incredibly hot," Mike Ball, 46, told the Guardian. "I slipped off my shoe and sock because my car is an automatic and I don't need to use my brain at all when driving because I'm a fully paid up member of The Numptie Club."

Batty'BUG'Matty

12,268 posts

271 months

Tuesday 12th August 2003
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beano500 said:

Podie said:

"It was incredibly hot," Mike Ball, 46, told the Guardian. "I slipped off my shoe and sock because my car is an automatic and I don't need to use my brain at all when driving because I'm a fully paid up member of The Numptie Club."


.........who doesn't realise when my toes are becomin icicles

docevi1

10,430 posts

269 months

Tuesday 12th August 2003
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thats great, I love that. Hehe, I can just imagine the doctors surgery reception after he left..thats one medical problem I doubt is kept quiet!!!

I mean the press got hold of it, how?

Stefan

watkid

3,636 posts

274 months

Tuesday 12th August 2003
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I heard this on the news this morning. He had been bitten by a Mozzy and was trying to cool the bites down