The scuttlebutt is that Brad Pitt actually smells bad, because he rarely bathes.
But I like your translation, too.
Used to. Used to. Supposedly.
But still, eww.
Woman wears “100% silicone” buttplug, unaware that said plug has a metal core, suffers severe injuries from MRI machine.
Story here.
Is it real, that article is all over the place.
“the plug was pulled through the patient’s rectum and up into their chest cavity at the “speed of sound” and that the patient survived with “major injuries”
and
“The patient was checked out by the radiologist at the site before transport to ensure the patient was doing okay.”
That seems like a one or the other thing. I wouldn’t think someone could be described both as ‘survived with major injuries’ and also ‘doing okay’.
Also there’s a screen shot of a tweet, with the text of the tweet typed out. The typed out version has some spelling/grammar errors with “[sic]” next to them, however, those errors aren’t in the tweet.
One more, what’s an “estimated valley attorney”. I assume it’s a typo, but the only hit I got when I looked it up was broken link to someone else asking what it is.
Eh, that web site is News Corp Australia, and while it has the stink of Rupert Murdoch on it, it seems reputable enough.
All that being said, you point out a lot of mistakes, and if the editing is that sloppy the reporting might be as well.
ETA: I will also note that this story seems to be almost 2 years old, see these reports from May 2023 about an incident that happened in April of that year.
Note that these reports talk about it “being mentioned on social media” from the time, and seem sceptical.
Yet this is being reported now without anything new giving the story any more credibility than when it was originally posted. It’s like some reporters said, hey, it’s a slow news day, let’s dig up a 2-year-old internet rumor and write a new story on it.
The New York Post, Vice, Daily Mail, and some local Fox affiliate in Houston also reported on it.
As Vice put it in their recent article:
I mentioned the date specifically because this is one of those news stories that gets rediscovered every once in a while, and passed around as if it happened yesterday.
In other words, it’s a non-story for a slow news day, and regurgitating something a couple of years old doesn’t count as “news” to me.
A quick google search turns up other results for this same incident, with links for the Daily Mail, Vice, the New York Post and more.
The incident happened in Australia, so that might account for the potential awkwardness of the reporting. I’m not familiar enough with the Australian journalism standards to be able to assess that.
I agree it was oddly phrased, but it seems to be a legitimate article.
Was it in Australia? I didn’t see that in the reports, but I may have missed it.
It certainly happened down under.
From the article linked in the first post,
Why was it reported to the US FDA?
I’m sorry, but… whoosh.
You win the Internet.
MedWatch seems to be a branch of the FDA that collects these types of reports ‘from the public’ and acts on them if they feel it’s necessary. They seem to function more like a BBB/Consumer Protection outfit.
As for why someone would report it here, I don’t know. Maybe the MRI scanner was American made or the patient was American or there was some other tie back to the US. Or maybe someone just reported it because it looked like a place to report medical stuff. As far as I can tell, anyone can file a report there.
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch/index.cfm
Just to repeat, it’s almost two years old, and it’s just a report that’s available online from here:
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfmaude/detail.cfm?mdrfoi__id=16771275&pc=LNH
Some people on social media found that report and started speculating about it, and it got attention from a couple of news sites. Nobody has any real info on what happened.
Then out of nowhere a handful of media sites decided to talk about it again recently. I guess they had nothing better to publish.
It’s not a real news story.
Quick Update, 5 Days in jail.
If you don’t want to go to the link
It’s an adverse reaction report for a medical device
The only problem reported was pain and nausea. (And oddly, not until after the MRI was basically over)
Patient was sent to the hospital, and the MRI people never heard back from her, despite trying to follow up
I thought the thing these days was an EBT card that eliminated the paper form (I remember people using food stamps to buy one tootsie roll so they could accumulate enough change to get a bottle of Night Train Express or a pack of Marlboros.
Atlanta has one less homeless person to worry about:
That looks more evil than stupid, to me. OK, maybe it was stupid that they didn’t check all of the tents thoroughly before bulldozing them… but it’s evil that they were bulldozing them at all.
Even worse if the city charges his relatives a burial fee.