2 posts tagged ‘injuries’

• Man Gets Eye Exam, Learns He's Had a Splinter Stuck in His Cornea for 15 Years

  Gizmodo, Dec 27, 2023

  Talk about an eyesore. In a case report this month, doctors have described finding a wooden splinter lodged inside a man’s cornea for apparently 15 years. Amazingly, the man’s vision appears unaffected by the foreign object and doctors have opted to simply monitor him for now rather than try to remove it. Read more...

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• Driver smashes $300,000 sports car into a building (video)

  Boing Boing, Nov 14, 2023

  A person driving a $300,000 sports car — a McLaren 720S — crashed it into the side of an office building in Portland, Oregon early Sunday morning, destroying the car and injuring themself. The crash also damaged the building, "breaking out the glass and damaging the facade of the structure," according to an official via ABC27. — Read the rest

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