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Updated
December 1, 2008
VOL.
13 No. 747 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER
9 - TUESDAY SEPTEMBER
15, 2008 ISSN 1116 - 7085 N70.00 |
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Mint
Misspells Country’s Name on
Coins
The general manager of the
Chilean mint has been sacked
after thousands of coins
were issued with the name of
the country spelt wrongly.
The 50-peso coins - worth
about 6p - were issued in
2008, but no-one noticed the
mistake until late last
year, reports the BBC.
Instead of C-H-I-L-E, the
coins had C-H-I-I-E stamped
on them.
The coins have since become
collectors’ items and the
mint says it has no plans to
take them out of
circulation.
People have reportedly been
hoarding the coins in the
hope their value rises.
But the mistake has cost the
mint’s general manager,
Gregorio Iniguez, and
several other employees,
their jobs.
It is not the first
embarrassing blunder at the
Chilean mint. Last October,
someone there sold a rare
medal, which should have
been housed in the
institution’s museum, to a
coin collector.
A month later,
another medal - this one
bearing the face of the
country’s then President
Michelle Bachelet - was
inadvertently sold on the
open market.
Doctor
gives Man two Left Feet
A prosthetics expert who
gave an elderly patient two
left feet by fitting the
wrong artificial limb, has
been struck off.
Patrick Morrison was looking
forward to walking properly
again with a new prosthetic
foot after his right limb
had to be amputated.
Mr. Morrison, 76, of
Bathgate, West Lothian,
found himself leaning to one
side but thought it was part
of the breaking-in process.
So he was devastated when he
discovered that prosthetist
Malcolm Griffiths had given
him a second left foot,
reports the Daily Mirror.
The pensioner’s ordeal began
when he had to have his big
toe amputated three years
ago. The wound became
infected with MRSA and he
later lost his right foot.
He got his new artificial
limb at the Smart disability
centre at Edinburgh’s Astley
Ainslie Hospital.
Man Drives
off a Car from the Roof
A motorist and his young son
had a lucky escape when he
accidentally drove his car
off the roof of his
apartment building.
The man was trying to park
his car on the rooftop
carpark when he accidentally
stepped on the accelerator,
reports Straits News.
The car shot backwards over
the edge of the roof,
through a low wire cable and
crashed 25ft down to the
alleyway below.
Amazingly, the man and his
five-year-old son, who was
sitting in the passenger
seat, were unhurt in the
accident.
The car smashed a
wall-mounted air
conditioning unit before
landing upside down, on its
boot, after the mishap in
Xiamen, southern China’s
Fujian province.
Actor
Collapses after Drinking
Real Vodka
A method actor was rushed to
hospital after he collapsed
on stage while drinking real
vodka to give a convincing
portrayal of a Russian
drunk.
Marc Schulze, 36 - appearing
in ‘Moscow - Petushki’ by
Russian satirist Venedict
Yerofeyev in Frankfurt,
Germany - had downed one
shot after another during
the course of the show.
But the audience realised
something was wrong when he
started missing his lines
and staring blankly at other
actors.
One theatre-goer said: “He
was turning in a very
realistic performance and it
looked really impressive. I
was amazed at how good his
drunken staggering was and
how he was slurring his
words.
“But as the performance went
on he started to miss lines
and looked really confused
and the audience could tell
there was something wrong.
Then he just collapsed.”
Now he has been ordered by
producers to stick to water
in future shows.
Pensioner
Smashes her Car into a River
A Devon pensioner trying to
reverse her car out of her
garage instead shot
forwards, smashing through a
wall and into a stream.
Pat Dancer escaped with only
minor injuries after a
gearbox error led her
demolish a brick wall at her
home in Chillaton near
Lifton.
She has been attempting to
manouevre the blue hatchback
out of her garage when she
scraped a side wall and
panicked, reports the Daily
Telegraph.
Amid the confusion, she took
the car out of reverse and
into a forward drive gear
before flooring the
accelerator.
The car landed on its front
bumper in the gulley with
Mrs. Dancer, aged in her
70s, trapped inside. A
neighbour spotted her in
distress and dialled 999.
Emergency services rushed to
the scene and freed Mrs.
Dancer before taking her to
Derriford Hospital in
Plymouth for treatment to
leg injuries and mild
hypothermia.
Her car was found in the
river with the front wheels
under water but luckily she
was largely unhurt.
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