Issue 7

That's Crazy

In Peru, doctors performed an amputation... on the wrong foot. An 86 year old man needed his right foot amputated to stop the spreading of an infection. "It was a terrible shock when I lifted up the sheets and saw they had amputated his left foot," said the patient's daughter, Carmen Villanueva. The infection worsened. When the doctors realized their mistake, they amputated the right foot as well. The Sabogal Hospital has suspended the doctors while investigating the case. Carmen Villanueva said her family plans to sue.

In Wyoming, a 13 year old girl ran up her parents' cell phone bill - to $5000. It was all because of texts, thousands of them. The phone plan didn't cover texting and she had to learn this the hard way. The total text messaging count was almost 20,000. Her dad thought the texting had been disabled on her phone. Well, he was definitely wrong. When he got the bill he read the charges...and smashed the phone with a hammer. Verizon has agreed to knock the bill down to a reasonable amount. She has been grounded until the end of school. Her response? "She feels bad and has learned her lesson."

In Arizona, a woman fractured a sheriff's nose with her purse. In the purse was a large bottle of perfume and it weighed over 3 pounds. The sheriff was still able to arrest the woman even though she had a bloody nose. The suspect was trying to stop a friend's car from being impounded. She refused the sheriff's orders to move out of the way of a tow truck. The woman was put in jail and charged with a felony of aggravated assault with a "deadly weapon."

In Berlin, an elderly woman was involved in three car accidents in less than an hour. Seven vehicles were damaged but she suffered only minor injuries. The 69 year old woman first crashed into three cars while pulling out of a parking lot. A few moments later, she accidently stepped onto the accelerator and sped across a lawn before crashing into a nearby home. She was then being taken to the nearest hospital when the ambulance was hit by a truck. No one was seriously hurt in any of the accidents.


Mr. Moland, would you rather...?

1. Choke to death on a peanut or be crushed by a 10 ton elephant?
2. Go a year without bathing or brushing your teeth?
3. Have a yelling battle with Mrs. Desalvo or a fight with Coach Spann?
4. Be the fattest person in the world or the shortest person in the world?
5. Fall off of a high speed treadmill or fall all the way down an escalator?
6. Creamy or chunky peanut butter?
7. Go back to high school or go back to preschool?
8. Be called M-Dog or J-Money?
9. Grow a huge 'fro or a 6inch beard?
10. Run over a squirrel or hit a bird with your car?