Don't Mess With Hurricanes

Read an interesting CNN piece today about how hurricane waves can cause damage to innocent ocean swimmers that most people probably don't realize.

Aside from the known damage that hurricanes can cause to property and human life, Dr. Roy Cragway Jr. a physician with Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin, Maryland says that hurricane waves can cause a variety of less obvious damage.

Hurricane Danielle never reached the US, but swimmers still acquired cervical and shoulder damage. Additionally, hurricane waves can be so forceful that they can rupture eardrums. Usually ear damage is slight, bur Dr. Cragway says surgery is sometimes required.

Of course, Cragway also mentions that you can break your neck diving into water and a handful of other freak injuries that can happen any day at the beach. Nevertheless, hurricanes are obviously not worth messing with.

The Danger Of Plane Beverage Carts

Jerome Boateng, 22, a new signing for Manchester City, will be out several weeks after aggravating a previously existing knee injury when an airplane beverage cart smashed into him.

Boateng originally tore a tendon in his knee during an actual soccer game in early August, but he was recovering fine until his latest mishap.

"I imagined my start at City to be quite different, of course," Boateng says.

The demon beverage cart has delayed Boateng's return at least a month.

I'm terrified of flying because I'm scared of heights. Never accounted for the dangers of the plane's soda armories.