Some persons use a fork to eat dinner. At least one person found an alternate use for the implement: “Urethral Foreign Body,” Krishanth Naidu, Amanda Chung, and Maurice Mulcahy, International Journal of Surgery Case Reports, 2013. The authors, at the Canberra Hospital, Canberra, Australia, report: “Lower urinary tract foreign body insertions have a low incidence. […]
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Odd injury: glass-eye/shoelace/fork
Investigator Tatiana Divens alerts us to a Washington Post account (part of an obituary) of an unusual means of injury: Paul Schaefer was born near Bonn in 1921. He had a glass eye, having accidentally gouged out his right eye while trying to untie a shoelace knot with a fork. He joined the Nazi youth […]