Posts by Nat Websta
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If you have to break a wrist make sure you do them individually and not simultaneously. Having two arms in plaster can make certain areas of personal hygiene rather challenging.
Indeed. An in-law of mine fell down some stairs and broke both her elbows (her elbows mind you!). She was stuck with one arm in a large plaster, and one arm in a sling but with no movement. Needless to say she and her fiance got rather better well aquainted...
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OK, where to begin? I am the most accident prone person I know, but one early highlight involves my 2 year old self.
My parents were away overseas, leaving me in the care of my two lovely grandmothers, staying in the good'ol Waipu Cove camping ground. Whilst the nanas were busy shelling pipis, I was clambering around the place trying to get a better view. The deck chair I climbed onto was one of those old aluminium and netting jobs, and as I kneeled on the seat and leaned over the back of it, it gave out.
The deck chair collapsed, and I fell face first onto the fin of a large malibu surfboard protruding from under the caravan. My horrified grandmas tell of having to extract me from the wreckage of the deckchair, whilst symultaneously trying to extract the surfboard fin from my nose, which it had rather effectively pierced.
The scar is with me still, but it is only one of very many...
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Thanks Damien for a post that pretty much sums up the way I've been feeling about the msm reporting on these incidents in the past week or so. "Whipping up hysteria" is a phrase that springs to mind. The Herald escalated their tone in a re-report of the lady who got bitten by the dog at the supermarket - she went from being bitten to having been "mauled" in the space of about 2 days.
I agree that introducing new laws isn't going to prevent the problem as IMHO it's far more likely to be the currently unregistered,allowed to rome free, largely uncared for section of the dog population doing most of the biting (or mauling). It's these dogs owners who are the problem as they don't give a s*&t what their dogs are up to and are unlikely to change their ways with the introduction of a couple of new or revised laws.