
The Daily Tulip — News From Around The World
Thursday 24th August 2017
Good Morning Gentle Reader…. The week has gone quickly, the week end is almost here, but we have Thursday to contend with first and the high cloud is back again, and I saw the temperature as I left the house indicating 22c with a high later in the day of 32c .. I’m sure this high cloud will burn off and the beaches will be full of people… but now as Bella and I walk the town is quiet, all we can hear is the sound of the street cleaners spraying water onto the sidewalk and the occasional sound of snoring emitting from an open bedroom window… we cross over the main boulevard and walk by the ocean for a moment, hardly a wave, a single fishing boat is pulling his nets in and in the distance a supertanker sails silently by heading towards the Middle East.. we turn, things to do, places to be and coffee to drink…
MAN SHOT IN HEART BY NAIL GUN DRIVES SELF TO HOSPITAL…. A Wisconsin man building a house accidentally shot himself in the heart with a nail gun — and drove himself to the hospital. Doug Bergeson said he was working on the fireplace for a home he’s building near Peshtigo when his nail gun fired off accidentally and shot a 3–1/2 inch framing nail into his heart. “I was just bringing the nail gun forward and I was on my tip-toes and I just didn’t quite have enough room, and it fired before I was really ready for it, and then it dropped down and it fired again,” Bergeson told WBAY-TV. “It didn’t really hurt. It just felt like it kind of stung me. And I looked down and I didn’t see anything and I put my hand there and… That’s not good,” Bergeson said. “When I saw it moving with my heart, it’s kind of like… I’m not going to get anything done today! I can see that already!” “So, I drove in to the emergency room,” he said. “It seemed like the thing to do! I felt fine, other than having a little too much iron in my diet.” Bergeson said the wound started to hurt by the time he finished his 12-mile drive to the emergency room at Bay Area Medical Center in Marinette. The hospital quickly transferred Bergeson to BayCare Medical Center, where cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Alexander Roitstein conducted surgery to remove the nail. “A wrong heartbeat, a wrong position and he would have had a much more complicated problem than he was bargaining for,” Roitstein said. “And so he’s quite fortunate from that standpoint.” Bergeson said doctors told him the nail was about a paper’s thickness away from a main artery in his heart. “He was very astute not to remove it, because he remembered Steve Irwin, and that’s what played through his head,” Roitstein said.
Roitstein said Bergeson’s injury will completely heal, with only a scar to show it ever happened. Bergeson said he hopes his close call will inspire others working construction to remember that nail guns shoot with the speed of a .22-caliber rifle. “Accidents, they can happen so quickly, and fortunately this one had a good ending,” Bergeson said.
MAN THROWN FROM MOTORCYCLE LANDS ON ROAD SIGN…. A motorcyclist who blew through a red light and was hit by a car in China was saved from serious injury when he was thrown into a road sign. The video, recorded by a security camera in Guigang, Guangxi Province, shows the man on a motorcycle run through a red light. The motorcycle is struck by a car and the rider goes flying into a road sign, which gives way and breaks his fall. The man is seen getting up seconds later, having avoided serious injury.
BRITISH MAN TOTALED BRAND NEW FERRARI AN HOUR AFTER PICKING IT UP…. A driver in England told police he crashed his brand new luxury sports car just about an hour after he bought it. South Yorkshire Police shared photos of the totaled Ferrari 430 Scuderia after the car had veered off the roadway and burst into flames. “Road conditions were wet at the time and as officers arrived on scene it became clear there was a vehicle well alight and colleagues from South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue were in attendance squirting water all over some kind of sporty motor some 50 or so meters down a banking,” police said. Curious officers asked the driver what kind of car it was, as the vehicle was barely recognizable following the crash. “It was a Ferrari,” the driver told police. “I’ve only just got it, picked it up an hour ago.” Despite the severe damage to the brand new sports car, officers said the man was very lucky to have walked away from the scene with only minor cuts and bruises. “Over the past couple of weeks there has been a number of collisions where driving styles have not reflected the road weather conditions,” police said. “Please take more care!” After speaking to witnesses police added that “officers do not believe excess speed was a contributory factor in this collision.”
FALLEN CRATES SPILL ONIONS ONTO IDAHO HIGHWAY…. A road in Idaho was left covered in onions after several crates fell off a truck on Tuesday afternoon. Nampa Police Department shared a photo of the massive spillage that obstructed traffic in both directions on a local high way and encouraged drivers to avoid the area if possible.
Lieutenant Joe Ramirez said the truck was not involved in a crash and the crates simply fell off the truck at about 4 p.m. after it stopped too quickly. “It was a random onion spill, someone on their way to harvest,” Ramirez said. Traffic was backed up for about two hours as police and the City of Nampa Street Department worked to clean up the street.
“We are lucky to have such great partners,” police said. “We’ll let you know when it’s all cleaned up!” It was unknown what happened to the onions after the clean-up, but some were spotted at the scene carrying bags in hopes of taking some home.
OREGON CREWS DEAL WITH STICKY MESS AFTER GLUE TRUCK CRASH…. Oregon Department of Transportation crews responded to a sticky mess at scene of a truck crash in Eugene that spilled 350 gallons of glue onto the road. The department said an Oak Harbor Freight truck tipped over on an Interstate 105 on-ramp near the Washington Jefferson Street Bridge about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and spilled 250 gallons of a “resin epoxy” — glue intended for use in plywood. Brian Smith of Eugene-Springfield Fire said the spilled polyurethane glue was being transported along with an activator chemical that, when mixed, turns it into hardened glue. “It’s sticky and it’s hardening on the pavement,” Kevin Finch, ODOT Transportation Maintenance manager, told KVAL-TV. “We’re struggling to get it off the pavement at this point without using extremely hazardous chemicals.” The cleanup efforts stretched into Wednesday afternoon, when all lanes of traffic were reopened. Angela Beers-Seydel, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Transportation’s Region 2 office, said drains in the area were plugged during the cleanup. “It was determined to be the most environmentally friendly option, least damaging to the existing pavement, and it worked,” Beers-Seydel told The Register-Guard newspaper Wednesday afternoon. “No pavement will need to be replaced. The other option would have been to grind out the pavement and repave [Wednesday night]. Thankfully, we didn’t have to do that.”.. Well that brings a whole new meaning the phase “Stuck in traffic!”….
Well Gentle Reader I hope you enjoyed our look at the news from around the world this, Thursday morning… …
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A Sincere Thank You for your company and Thank You for your likes and comments I love them and always try to reply, so please keep them coming, it’s always good fun, As is my custom, I will go and get myself another mug of “Colombian” Coffee and wish you a safe Thursday 24th August 2017 from my home on the southern coast of Spain, where the blue waters of the Alboran Sea washes the coast of Africa and Europe and the smell of the night blooming Jasmine and Honeysuckle fills the air…and a crazy old guy and his dog Bella go out for a walk at 4:00 am…on the streets of Estepona…
All good stuff….But remember it’s a dangerous world we live in
Be safe out there…
Robert McAngus
