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Thursday, October 14, 2010
Supersize toddler 'a danger' to playmates
A desperate mother is begging doctors to help shrink her supersize toddler - who is already tipping the scales at a massive 10 stone (60kg). Three-year-old Xiao Hao already dwarfs his petite mum Xiao Lin and has been banned by several local nurseries in Guangzhou, southern China, as a health hazard to other youngsters.
"He means no harm he is just big and likes to play. I take him swimming for exercise but it is hard finding trunks to fit him and even the rubber rings are too small," sighed his mother.
Some medics believe he may have a growth hormone disorder while others say he is a victim of China's 'Little Emperor' syndrome where the families are allowed only one child - who is then spoiled rotten by doting relatives.
"He is not just overweight but very tall as well so we may be able to treat him if it really is hormonal," said Dr Lu Hong from the Guangdong childen's hospital. "But he cannot remain like this or his heart will never stand the strain."
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Serbian boy woke up speaking perfect English
Schoolboy Dimitrije Mitrovic baffled his family and teachers in Serbia when he woke up speaking only English - despite never being taught a word of the language. Mum Dragana says her son simply got out of bed one morning at the family home in Nis and began talking to her in perfect English.
Dimitrij - now 11 - is so word perfect that his family, friends and even his teachers can no longer understand him. "One day when he was only three years old, he just got out of bed and started to talk to me in English. I know some English so I could understand a bit but he was soon so good I had to get a translator to speak to him for me," explained his mum.
By the time he was five, Dimitrije was reciting entire Harry Potter novels to his pals in English and now he rarely speaks his mother tongue unless he has to. "I dream in English, speak it, and if stub my toe I'll curse in English too," he said.
Baffled medics believe Dimitrije may have acquired some sort of autistic talent for the language. "He is absolutely normal in every other way and a very nice young boy. He just seems to think he's English," said mum Dragana. English language expert Professor Tatjana Paunovic from Nis University explained: "It is fascinating. We have talked to him for an hour in English and he speaks the language better than we do, like he was born speaking it."
Man survives mile-and-a-half-long trip through sewage system
Daniel Collins was evacuated by medical helicopter
RAYMORE, MO - Firefighters who rescued a contract worker from a Raymore sewage drain say he's lucky to even be talking. Thirty-year-old Daniel Collins spent two hours in raw sewage after a harness he was wearing fell apart. He was then swept away by a torrent of raw sewage down a narrow pipe.
That pipe was just 27 inches wide. That's two feet, three inches. As for what's in the pipe, a Raymore engineer described it as whatever you brush or flush.
"It was really nasty," said Antonio Smith, the firefighter who rescued Collins. "Once you pop the cover, the methane gas just comes up to you, kind of stings you a little bit."
Raymore's Director of Public Works said Collins fell in the manhole at 615 Foxwood Drive. The sewage, running three thousand gallons a minute, forced Collins, a man weighing 130 pounds, through the narrow pipe and took him past 27 manhole covers. Firefighters found Collins a mile and a half away next to Creekmore Lake.
Firefighters described his body as banged up, battered and bruised.
"We asked him if he could get up, and he kind of stumbled to the ladder," Smith said. "By then his knees were buckling, so we knew he was kind of weak."
Collins was shivering and suffering from hypothermia. Firefighters worked to get his soiled, wet clothes off while they waited for the air ambulance.
Raymore's Director of Public Works said the crew, out of Springfield, was finishing up about a month-long project of relining 4,000 feet of sewer. There were expected to finish this week.
OSHA is investigating the accident. Collins is being treated for hypothermia and is being given antibiotics to ward off any bacteria he may have picked up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2snT01WmR1MWednesday, October 13, 2010
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Judge orders man to carry 'I am a thief' sign every weekend for six years
A man who stole money from victims of crime has been ordered to stand on a busy city street with a sign saying he is a thief - every weekend for the next six years. Daniel Mireles has been walking back and forth on Westheimer in Houston - in front of the Galleria shopping centre with a sign saying he is a thief.
In large capital letters, his sign reads: 'I am a thief. I stole $250,000 from the Harris County crime victim's fund. Daniel Mireles.' A judge ordered the public humiliation as part of Mireles's sentence.
Mireles says that he suffers abuse from passersby, but sometimes gets sympathy as well. He said: 'I've been stopped by two gentlemen who don't approve of me walking the street. This block right here. They don't approve of what I did, but they don't approve of this.'
Mireles said he must stand at the intersection for five hours every weekend for the next six years. His wife Eloise, a former county employee, was also convicted of theft in July. She'll serve the same public punishment once she gets out of jail.
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