Dog saves owner from lethal infection, and more
A Michigan man credits his dog with saving his life by chewing off his infected toe.
Dog saves owner from lethal infection
A Michigan man credits his dog with saving his life by chewing off his infected toe. Jerry Douthett, 48, says he passed out drunk and woke to find his toe gone and Kiko, a Jack Russell terrier, “looking at me with a blood mustache.” Douthett’s wife rushed him to the emergency room, where doctors diagnosed him with diabetes and a potentially lethal infection in what was left of his toe. Kiko “kind of chewed off the infected part and stopped at the good bone,” said Douthett. “The dog saved my life.”
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Amy Winehouse has insulted the King of the Zulus, said the London Sun. The troubled singer was seated at the head table last week of a London dinner honoring Goodwill Zwelithini, reigning monarch of the Zulu Nation. Winehouse arrived drunk and kept drinking, say witnesses, and her breast popped out of her skimpy top several times, as her boyfriend tried to tuck it back in. During Zwelithini’s speech, she fell conspicuously asleep, with her head on her boyfriend’s lap. “People were cringing,” said a witness. “Amy showed no respect.”
Firemen rescue man from cesspit beneath toilet
A Chinese man is recovering after two days spent up to his neck in human waste. The unnamed man had somehow fallen into the cesspit beneath an outdoor public toilet, and might not have survived had a toilet-goer not heard his feeble cries for help. After firemen pulled him from the muck, he was very weak and extremely pungent as well. “As soon as he came out,” said one rescuer, “he rushed to a nearby pond to have a bath.”
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