JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association), Nov. 11, 1988, p. 2697, "Soda Pop Vending Machine Injuries".

[Following summary by Jeremy Elson]

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"An article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (Nov. 11, 1988, p. 2697) documents 15 cases in which men trying to get a can out of the machine were crushed. 3 died, the other 12 required hospitalization for injuries such as fractures of the skull, toe, ankle, tibia, femur, and pelvis; intercerebral bleeding; knee contusion; and one punctured bladder." 

"Like to a hermit poor in place obscure,

I mean to spend my days of endless doubt,

To wail such woes as time cannot recure,

Where none but Love shall ever find me out...

And at my gate despair shall linger still,

To let in death when Love and Fortune will.

-Sir Walter Raleigh

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"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave." -Ernest Hemingway

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TERROR AT THE BEACH

This . . . is . . . just . . . WRONG!

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From lynnann

Fuel Crunch Leads to Rent-A-Corpse Scam

    "Two Zimbabwean mortuary workers have been arrested on charges they rented out corpses to motorists to enable them to take advantage of special fuel preferences given to hearses . . ."