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Accidents

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(Daily Mail)Thirteen high-end sports car owners – and one driver of a Toyota Prius – were probably close to tears last night after a £2.5million motorway pile-up.

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A single miscalculation from a Ferrari driver leading a convoy of sports car connoisseurs left a trail of twisted Italian and German metal trailing across this motorway in Japan.

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(Daily Mail By PAUL THOMPSON) - A fashion model had her hand sliced off and suffered severe facial injuries after accidentally walking into a spinning airplane propeller.

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Lauren Scruggs, 23, sustained horrific wounds to her head and shoulder but is now in a stable condition after undergoing emergency treatment where surgeons were forced to amputate her left hand.

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(NBC DFW By FRANK HEINZ) - A 51-year-old man was electrocuted while working on a Christmas lights display Friday morning.

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Jens Gardner, of Grand Prairie, was making some final adjustments to the Christmas lights hanging at the Historic Anderson Building when he was electrocuted.

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(Daily Mail By LUCY BUCKLAND) - When fire crews say they have seen it all, they really mean it.

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From freeing a man’s genitals from a titanium chastity belt to rescuing a woman wedged in a vending machine, firefighters in the capital have had some truly bizarre call-outs.

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(Daily Mail By MARK DUELL)A 15-year-old junior high school student suffered horrific burns to his face when a classroom when a classroom science experiment exploded.

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Dane Neuberger, of Maple Grove, Minnesota, was the most seriously injured of four students who were hurt by the accident on Thursday.

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(Daily Mail)A hospital patient is recovering today after her face caught on fire during a routine surgery.

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Kim Grice’s face was badly burned in the ‘flash fire’ that sparked during an outpatient procedure to have biopsies performed on cysts on her head in Florida Tuesday.

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Man Shot By HIS OWN DOG

December 1, 2011

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(KSL By PAT REAVY)It wasn’t his dog’s bark or bite that had a Brigham City man concerned, it was his aim.

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A man was recovering Wednesday after being shot over the weekend by his dog.

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(Daily Mail)A 36-year-old Oregon man accidentally shot himself in the foot while attempting to annihilate a pesky squirrel.

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Ethan Bennett told the Benton County sheriff’s department that he was at his home last Wednesday when the rodent began running up Mr Bennett’s left leg.

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(Daily Mail)A man suffered serious burns after climbing a high-voltage electricity pylon in an attempt to propose to his girlfriend.

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The would-be Romeo attempted the stunt two days after he has split up with his girlfriend in Quanzhou, southern China.

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(NBC Washington)It’s one thing to see dogs, cats and squirrels around neighborhoods.

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But imagine the surprise when Loudoun County homeowners spotted zebras roaming their streets.

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