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J&D’s Bacon Salt, maker of a variety of bacon-themed and bacon-flavoured products, has created a way to take your love of everyone’s favourite wonderful, magical animal with you to the grave: a bacon-patterned coffin. You can make this box of “18-gauge gasketed steel with premium bacon exterior/interior” your final resting place for the low price of $2,999 — no returns accepted.
Ron Swanson has probably already made his arrangements.
28-year-old Monique Jeffrey of Melbourne, Australia, dislocated two vertebrae in her neck with a single, violent sneeze. The fateful sneeze came while Jeffrey was in bed reading emails on her phone and watching her 10-month-old son. Although the sneeze left her unable to move, Jeffrey was able to use the phone, still in her hand, to text her husband for help.
At first, emergency personnel diagnosed her with a “wry neck” and prescribed exercises, but after her left arm went numb, a specialist discovered the real injury: her cervical 1 and cervical 2 vertebrae had literally jumped over one another, leaving her head locked in position.
Doctors have fitted Jeffrey with a halo traction to shift the vertebrae back into place, and they say there was no neurological damage or injury to her spinal cord.
“Honestly, who sneezes and does this? Every time I think of it now I laugh, I just can’t believe it,” she said.
[Gizmodo]
Although the RCMP officers were polite enough not to interrupt his heartfelt rendition of the rock opera — even when he changed the lyrics to “nothing really matters … even the RCMP” — they did not let him go (let him go!).
