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A 2003 News of the Weird report heralded a rural Peruvian doctor, on a mountain far from a hospital, for performing lifesaving surgery to relieve swelling in a man’s skull, using only a carpenter’s drill and pliers. In a similar incident near Ketchum, Idaho, in December (with med-evac helicopters grounded by a blizzard), Dr. Keith Sivertson likewise saved Ben King’s life, but using a Makita power drill from a clinic’s maintenance shop.
In April, Sheryl Hardy, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for her role in the brutal death of her 2-year-old son in 1989 in Florida, asked the Department of Family Services in Illinois (where she now lives after early release) for the parenting equivalent of a golf “mulligan” by petitioning to be allowed to raise her follow-up baby, who had been immediately taken from her by the state after she gave birth in 2001.
In Edinburgh, Scotland, bus drivers are apparently subjected to so much abuse that transit officials recently gave all 1,800 operators DNA-collecting kits so that they can swab themselves when passengers spit on them.
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