tonite’s lead story in MX (a free paper handed out to evening commuters… like metro in london) was amazing..
computer injuries on rise was the headline
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Monash University figures show keyboard cowboys are suffering electric shocks, near-amputation and poisoning.
One person suffered a 2 cm-deep cut to their shin after they jumped on their computer screen.
Another almost amputated their right thumb when it got caught in the computer rack as they jumped off their desk.
A third endured accidental poisoning when the radiator coolant used to clean their computer got into their mouth.
Two hundred people went to Victorian emergency departments with a computer or keyboard related injury between October 1995 and June this year.
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TOOOOOOO FUNNY. jumping on screens, drinking cleaner, jumping off desks. and the best is that a whole 200 people had problems (there’s 3.4 million in melbourne… not sure how many in the state.. let’s randomly guess maybe 4.5) and it makes the front page of the paper!