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  • This Is Stupidity. "Hospitalized smoker burns room, is hurt"

    11:24 PM CDT on Thursday, July 13, 2006

    From Staff Reports


    A patient wearing an oxygen mask lit a cigarette and ignited a fire Thursday that charred his room at Methodist Dallas Medical Center, fire officials said.

    The man suffered significant burns and was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, said Kim Hollon, an executive vice president of the Methodist Health System.

    The fire broke out about 7:45 p.m. on the hospital's 10th floor and forced 114 patients to move. No one besides the man was seriously hurt.

    "He somehow got the strength to smoke a cigarette with a nonremovable [oxygen] mask," said Dallas Fire-Rescue Capt. Paul Martinez.

    "I don't know how he did it, but he did it."

    The automatic sprinkler in the room prevented the blaze from becoming a larger emergency, Capt. Martinez said.

    A nurse quickly pulled the patient from his burning bed. Nearby machinery melted.

    "The fire would have advanced to the hallway horizontally and then vertically. Instead of eight or nine alarms, it was just two alarms," Capt. Martinez said. "Everything worked like it was supposed to."
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  • #2
    Woot. Now he can sue the hospital!!
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    • #3
      You know, I imagine he will.
      Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
      "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
      He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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      • #4
        Dumbass.

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        • #5
          Wow. Yeah, that's pretty stupid all right.
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          • #6
            Unfortunate that he will be unable to win a Darwin award for this.
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            • #7
              That assumes he won't die from his burns or smoke inhalation. I expect he's in very serious condition.
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              • #8
                Crispy Critter, I would expect.
                Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
                "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
                He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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                • #9
                  This kind of stuff happens all the time. VA hospitals are notorious for patients on oxygen smoking and causing sever burns in their esophagus.

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                  • #10
                    Oh, that's right. Veterans are soooo zany.
                    Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
                    "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
                    He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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                    • #11
                      Is this a ploy by the anti-smoking lobby ?
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                      • #12
                        He is dumb, but who is the "compassionate" soul that gave him a sigarette?

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                        • #13
                          I mean - you can't walk away to buy a pack at nearby shop, when you have a nonremovable mask on your face.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by molly bloom
                            Is this a ploy by the anti-smoking lobby ?
                            No, the anti-oxygen lobby.
                            Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.
                            "Hating America is something best left to Mobius. He is an expert Yank hater.
                            He also hates Texans and Australians, he does diversify." ~ Braindead

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                            • #15
                              They can have my oxygen when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
                              Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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