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by The Dragon » Fri Nov 16, 2007 12:16 am
(2007, Ontario, Canada) A friend related this story. His daughter is a plastic surgeon with expertise in reconstructive surgery. One day a patient was rushed into the hospital, needing a surgeon to reattach the tips of his fingers to his left hand.
While taking the patient history, it was found that this bright chap got the idea of holding his lawn mower sideways and applying it to his hedge. He was holding the mower deck, trimming the hedge, and things went well until the weight of the mower got to be a bit much. He readjusted his grip on the mower deck, and that was when the blade bit him.
When my friend's daughter was almost finished with the complex job of sewing this patient back together, another patient came in with the same injury! On investigation, it was found that this man, too, had been using his mower to trim his hedge. Apparently he was a neighbor of the first patient. He watched his neighbor trim his hedge and, missing the denoument, thought it was a bright idea.
This is a true story. Often fact is so much weirder than fiction.
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