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The following item is from the New York Times 24 Aug 96...
COMPUTER INTERFACE CONTRIBUTES TO PLANE CRASH
The crash of a Cali-bound American Airlines jet last December in Colombia,
S.A., occurred because the plane's captain entered an incomplete command
into the onboard computer -- and the default action taken by the software
pointed the plane in the wrong direction. The beacons at the Cali and
Bogota airports both begin with the letter R, which is the only character
the pilot typed; instead of proceeding toward Cali, the plane turned in
the opposite direction (toward Bogata) and crashed into a mountain.
Send this story to a friend 1 A 20 year old man came to casualty with a stony mass in his rectum.
He said that he and his boyfriend were fooling around with concrete
mix, when his boyfriend had the idea of pouring the mix into his
anus using a funnel. The concrete then hardened, causing constipation and
pain. Under general anaesthesia, a perfect concrete cast of the man's
rectum was removed, along with a stray ping-pong ball!
Send this story to a friend 2 A World War II veteran came into a London clinic with a haemorrhoid
problem. One painful pile would often hang down from the man's anus and
he was in the habit of pushing it back up with an artillery shell. On
this occasion, the shell got stuck. Doctors were going to remove it
but the man told them the shell was still live. So the hospital called in
the army bomb disposal squad, who built a lead box around the
man's anus to defuse the shell before it could be removed.
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