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Tim Barter has dented head repaired with stomach fat

Tim Barter has dented head repaired with stomach fat | Just plain weird | Scoop.it

Former Doctor Who special effects worker Tim Barter has had fat from his stomach inserted into his temple to help reshape his head after he suffered horrific injuries falling off a drainpipe.

Mr Barter, 32, fell 25ft (8m) after locking himself out of his house in Brixton, south London, in June 2009.

When he woke up ten days later at King's College Hospital he had a brain haemorrhage, a shattered eye socket and a broken leg.

 

Tim Barter says he has no recollection of the fall that led to his head injuries (Picture: King's College Hospital)

 

A large part of his skull on the right side of his head had also been removed in a life-saving procedure to cope with bleeding and swelling on the brain.

 

Using state of the art medical technology, doctors fitted a titanium plate to even out his head, while fat from his stomach was injected through his cheek to help fill out the concavity.

 

Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/891696-doctor-who-worker-has-dented-head-repaired-with-stomach-fat#ixzz1noJXNBly

 

 

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Labour politician 'fathered a child with an alien'

Labour politician 'fathered a child with an alien' | Just plain weird | Scoop.it
Labour councillor Simon Parkes claims that he fathered a child with an alien called Zarka, whom he has sexual relations with about four times a year.
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Beardvertising: The next big thing?

Beardvertising: The next big thing? | Just plain weird | Scoop.it
Beard growing enthusiasts could soon be raking in the cash should this fuzzy thinking advertising concept take off.
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'Idiotic' pair pictured carrying unexploded bombs in Dorset

'Idiotic' pair pictured carrying unexploded bombs in Dorset | Just plain weird | Scoop.it
The Ministry of Defence has launched an urgent appeal to find two men photographed walking nonchalantly in Dorset with two 'unexploded bombs' on their shoulders.
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Man drives himself to hospital after arm cut off

Man drives himself to hospital after arm cut off | Just plain weird | Scoop.it
The 37-year-old drove with one arm and blood pouring from his wound to ask doctors to reattach his severed limb
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Couple planted razor blades inside doughnuts then SWALLOWED ...

Couple planted razor blades inside doughnuts then SWALLOWED ... | Just plain weird | Scoop.it
A couple have been arrested after allegedly planting razor blades inside doughnuts then swallowing them to try and get compensation from a Utah grocery - Weird and Strange News.
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WEIRD NEWS: Chinese Man DIVORCE Wife, Sues Her For Being Ugly

WEIRD NEWS: Chinese Man DIVORCE Wife, Sues Her For Being Ugly | Just plain weird | Scoop.it

WEIRD NEWS: Chinese Man DIVORCE Wife, Sues Her For Being UGLY & Wins! Thursday, October 25, 2012 Mark No comments. A Northern China man, Jian Feng recently divorced his wife of many years then later files a ...

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Femen's topless warriors start boot camp for global feminism

Femen's topless warriors start boot camp for global feminism | Just plain weird | Scoop.it

Ukrainian activists set up an international training centre in Paris to teach women the art of naked protest...

In a chaotic and crumbling former public washhouse in a rundown district of northern Paris, Inna Shevchenko was explaining how a large leather punchbag hanging from the rafters might be used by the foot soldiers of a new generation of feminists.

 

As she prepared to welcome recruits to the Ukrainian-based feminist group Femen's first "international training camp", it was clear that the instruction would not be all ideological. The talk was of "war", "soldiers", "terrorism" and "enemies". Was it not curious, one French journalist asked, that Inna and her warriors had adopted the language of combat, traditionally a male domain, to describe their mission?

 

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Man deformed in womb sues drugs giant for €55,000

Man deformed in womb sues drugs giant for €55,000 | Just plain weird | Scoop.it

A teacher born with no penis and his bladder outside his body is battling the German pharmaceuticals giant Bayer for €55,000 compensation.

André Sommer, 35, needed nine operations and has to wear a urine bag because of birth defects he claims were caused by a pregancy-testing drug, Duogynon. His action against the company, which is being compared to the Thalidomide trials in Britain in the 1960s, opened in Berlin last week but judges rejected the case. His lawyers intend to appeal against the ruling at a higher court.

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German artist Georg Buchrucker incurs backlash over Adolf Hitler toilet roll

German artist Georg Buchrucker incurs backlash over Adolf Hitler toilet roll | Just plain weird | Scoop.it
Artist Georg Buchrucker has caused a stir by creating a toilet roll adorned with Adolf Hitler's face - inviting buyers to 'add a brown moustache' when when they use it.

 

If you ever fancied the face of one of history's most notorious figures nestled between your buttocks then your prayers have been answered.
Cheeky Georg has been heavily criticised for his Adolf Hitler toilet paper, with naysayers declaring that it trivialises the crimes of the dictator and his Third Reich movement.

 

However, Georg, from Bunn, Germany, disagrees as he has been getting a considerable amount of interest, both at home and abroad.

 

He said: 'I am getting e-mails now and orders from as far afield as America and Australia.

 

 

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Flying monk Li Wei defies gravity to take his art to new heights

Flying monk Li Wei defies gravity to take his art to new heights | Just plain weird | Scoop.it
Here's something you don't see every day - a Buddhist monk who appeared to be levitating effortlessly above a fountain was spotted hovering at at La Villette in Paris, over the Fontaine of Lyons.

 

Although, on closer inspection, it's possible to see how he does it, Chinese illusionist Li Wei uses his performance art and photography skills to create unusual snaps

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Dwarf Bullfighting Obsession Sends A Red Flag To Little People

Dwarf Bullfighting Obsession Sends A Red Flag To Little People | Just plain weird | Scoop.it
The little-known sport of dwarf bullfighting has raised a red flag for America's little people. The sport, which has dwarf toreadors battling baby calves, is a popular attraction in Mexico and other countries where bullfighting is popular.
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Tim Barter has dented head repaired with stomach fat

Tim Barter has dented head repaired with stomach fat | Just plain weird | Scoop.it

Former Doctor Who special effects worker Tim Barter has had fat from his stomach inserted into his temple to help reshape his head after he suffered horrific injuries falling off a drainpipe.

Mr Barter, 32, fell 25ft (8m) after locking himself out of his house in Brixton, south London, in June 2009.

When he woke up ten days later at King's College Hospital he had a brain haemorrhage, a shattered eye socket and a broken leg.

 

Tim Barter says he has no recollection of the fall that led to his head injuries (Picture: King's College Hospital)

 

A large part of his skull on the right side of his head had also been removed in a life-saving procedure to cope with bleeding and swelling on the brain.

 

Using state of the art medical technology, doctors fitted a titanium plate to even out his head, while fat from his stomach was injected through his cheek to help fill out the concavity.

 

Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/891696-doctor-who-worker-has-dented-head-repaired-with-stomach-fat#ixzz1noJXNBly

 

 

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Man stays in motel with girlfriend’s corpse, spends on her debit card

Man stays in motel with girlfriend’s corpse, spends on her debit card | Just plain weird | Scoop.it
An Illinois man kept the corpse of his girlfriend in a motel room for nearly two days. He also used her debit card to buy booze before calling emergency services.

 

Police said Tanke called 911 Friday morning and said his girlfriend needed an ambulance, according to the report.

 

Paramedics found Derek Tanke, 47, and the late Nancy Johnston, 54, Friday in a room at the Bel-Air Motel in Joliet with “a significant odour of decomposition.”
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Rocket-powered skateboarder fined

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A young man has been fined after riding a rocket-propelled skateboard down the main street of a central Queensland town.
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Swaziland bans witches from 150m flying

Swaziland bans witches from 150m flying | Just plain weird | Scoop.it
Swaziland has launched a crackdown on high-flying witches after banning them from hovering above 150metres.
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Brewer: Disabled kids like deformed lambs

Brewer: Disabled kids like deformed lambs | Just plain weird | Scoop.it
A councillor has sparked fresh outrage over his views on disabled children after comparing them to deformed animals that should be culled.
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Brighton resident 'finds vortex to another dimension'

Brighton resident 'finds vortex to another dimension' | Just plain weird | Scoop.it
Brighton could be the centre of an invasion from dimension-hopping snakes if a report from a resident that a wormhole exists in the city is anything to go by.
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It's Reality Vs. Fantasy In 'Cannibal Cop' Trial

It's Reality Vs. Fantasy In 'Cannibal Cop' Trial | Just plain weird | Scoop.it
NEW YORK — A defense lawyer resumed his attack Thursday on the government's claims that a city police officer conspired with Internet friends to kidnap, kill and eat women, asking an FBI agent why some communications were proof of a crime while...
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Brazilian woman sells virginity for $780000 - CANOE

Brazilian woman sells virginity for $780000 - CANOE | Just plain weird | Scoop.it

Brazilian woman sells virginity for $780000 #Weird News. October 25, 2012.

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Fliz - The bike with no pedals or a seat

Fliz - The bike with no pedals or a seat | Just plain weird | Scoop.it

You know what they say about there being no reason to reinvent the wheel? Well, that goes double for two-wheelers. German designers have unveiled a new urban bicycle, called the Fliz, that has no seat, no pedals, and from what we can tell, requires a great deal of walking and running.

 

The Fliz — inspired by a design from the 1800s and an entry in the annual James Dyson Award for technology, innovation and design — does have a frame, which fits over the rider’s head and attaches with a five-point harness.

To us, it looks like something you could seriously break your neck (or at least strain your back) while riding, but perhaps we just lack vision.

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Woman trapped under dresser for four days

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A Washington County woman was trapped under a fallen dresser for four days until Deputies found her.

 

Friday night Washington County deputies went to check on the welfare of a woman who lives in the Cedar Mill community of the county.

 

Neighbors told deputies they had not seen or spoke with Virginia Cartier in four days. They told deputies she lives alone but her car was still in the parking lot and she usually tells neighbors when she will be away.

 

Deputies decided to force their way into her home to check on her. They found she was hurt but alive. Cartier had been moving furniture in her home when a dresser fell and trapped her....

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Man saws off his own foot to avoid work - before throwing it in oven

Man saws off his own foot to avoid work - before throwing it in oven | Just plain weird | Scoop.it

An Austrian man has taken extreme measures in a bid to avoid work, sawing off his own foot and throwing the appendage into an oven.

The unemployed man was due to attend a meeting at the Labour Office to assess his health in order to see if he was fit to work, according to Austrian broadcaster ORF.

 

The unemployed man used a circular saw to cut off his foot Police in Mitterlabill, southern Austria, said the 56-year-old sliced his foot off above the ankle with a mechanical saw, before throwing it into an oven.

 

He then hobbled into his garage bleeding profusely and called the emergency services.

 

Local police chief Franz Fasching said the man had lost a lot of blood but was still conscious when officers arrived at the scene.

 

Emergency services 'looked in the oven and were able to recover the foot', Mr Fasching said....

 

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A strange addiction: Girl who can't stop inhaling gasoline

A strange addiction: Girl who can't stop inhaling gasoline | Just plain weird | Scoop.it
A strange addiction: Girl who can't stop inhaling gasoline. Lifting a red gas canister before the cameras, a girl named Shannon demonstrates her claimed addiction of consuming gasoline for TLC'S television program My Strange...
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Here's what a lightning strike can do to your skin

Here's what a lightning strike can do to your skin | Just plain weird | Scoop.it
Here's what a lightning strike can do to your skin on the wonderfully weird human body and the medical curiosities that make you go huh, eww or ouch! Got a delightfully disturbing idea?
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Fugates of Kentucky: 6 Generations of In-Breeding Cause Family to Turn Blue

Fugates of Kentucky: 6 Generations of In-Breeding Cause Family to Turn Blue | Just plain weird | Scoop.it

Genetics and In-Breeding Cause Six Generations of Family to Turn Blue...

Benjamin "Benjy" Stacy so frightened maternity doctors with the color of his skin -- "as Blue as Lake Louise" -- that he was rushed just hours after his birth in 1975 to University of Kentucky Medical Center.

 

As a transfusion was being readied, the baby's grandmother suggested to doctors that he looked like the "blue Fugates of Troublesome Creek." Relatives described the boy's great-grandmother Luna Fugate as "blue all over," and "the bluest woman I ever saw."

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