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Had a bang on the head? Then reach for the beer!

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I was interested to read this news article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8262393.stm

It seems that alcohol can help relieve the symptoms of head trauma.  It’s wonderful to know that there is a natural aid rather than an ‘artificial’ one but now this info has leaked out, there seems to be no excuse for binge drinkers over here in the UK to stop their Saturday night benders!  They can now drink heavily safe in the knowledge that if they get hit by a double decker bus on their journey home, they’re less likely to end up in a coma (other than an alcohol induced one of course!).

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It’s been a well known fact to me that booze can soften the impact of major injury.  A friend of mine was waiting for a bus under a fly-over in Norwich UK.  But it was with some surprise that, while she waited, a man landed at her feet from the sky above.  My friend, assuming the man had somehow fallen over the barrier, immediately dug out her mobile phone ready to contact the ambulance service.  She was certain the he was badly injured, if not dead, so you can imagine her amazement when she ran across to check for a pulse.

The man pushed her aside, stood up and, swearing at her loudly, staggered away to the nearest bench still clutching his bottle of cider before stretching himself out and falling asleep!  My friend, being the good samaritan, still phoned the ambulance service who came to check the guy out.  After much struggling between paramedics and down and out, they loaded him into the ambulance and told my friend that the guy was a ‘regular’ of theirs.  He enjoyed flying it seemed as they were often called out because he’d taken a ‘leap of faith’ but even they had to admit he’d never leapt off anything quite as high as the fly-over which, of necessity, was about twice the height of a double decker bus!!

Maybe in a previous life he’d been a member of the Mile High Club??!!  And I still wonder where his next spectacular freefall had taken place.  We’re not known for our skyscrapers in Norwich so maybe he moved on to pastures new – the London Eye perhaps?