Dr. Grumpy's crack team of reporters, bringing you the stories that shape your world.
Dateline: Shanghai, China. A flight from Shanghai to Guangzhou was delayed for 5 hours when an 80 year-old woman threw a handful of coins into one of the plane's engines. She apparently did this to ensure good luck on the flight.
A team of airplane mechanics had to disassemble and inspect the Airbus's engine to make sure none of the turbines were damaged and to remove all coins.
The total value of the coins involved was roughly 20 U.S. pennies.
Dateline: Tulsa, Oklahoma. A dead body was found inside a Walmart bathroom. It had apparently been there for 3 days.
A security camera recorded the 29-year-old woman entering the bathroom on Friday. At some point over the weekend an employee couldn't get the bathroom door open, and hung up an "Out of Order" sign. A repair crew found the body on Monday.
Police captain Todd Enzbrenner commented "It’s not every day you find this sort of thing in a business."
Dateline: Allyn, Washington. A man found a dead roadkill raccoon on the road, and decided to use it as bait to catch crabs. Like most dead things, it smelled awful, so he tied a rope to it to drag it about 15 feet behind him as he walked home.
Two drivers pulled over and confronted him, believing he was dragging a dead dog down the street. One of them shot the raccoon-dragging guy in the leg and drove away. He is expected to recover (the guy, not the raccoon). Police are searching for suspects.
Sheriff's department Lt. Travis Adams told reporters "I've been doing this for 21-plus years, and I've never quite heard the
'raccoon being dragged down the road' story before, so it's a new one
for all of us."
Dateline: Modesto, California. A 45 year man was arrested for starting a fire in a Walgreen's bathroom.
The man told police that he'd had "an accident," and soiled his underwear. He went into the bathroom to take them off and, for unclear reasons, felt the best way to do so was to light them on fire - while still in them.
This got the underwear off, and the man tossed them in the toilet to extinguish the blaze. While no damage was done to the store (or, amazingly, him), this set off the fire alarm and they had to evacuate the building.
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Monday, June 26, 2017
Bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay
Mary: "Dr. Grumpy's office, this is Mary."
Mrs. Woof: "I need to get into Dr. Grumpy right away! I was bitten by a dog, and may have suffered nerve damage!"
Mary: "Okay, we don't have anything until next week, are..."
Mrs. Woof: "But this needs to be done urgently. I think I need stitches!"
Mary: "Um, when did this occur?'
Mrs. Woof: "Five, maybe ten minutes ago. It's bleeding all over the place!"
Mary: "You need to go to ER. Dr. Grumpy doesn't handle injuries like this."
Mrs. Woof: "But there might be nerve damage! He's a nerve doctor!"
Mary: "Yes, but he's not going to put stitches in it, or know what else to do. You need to go to ER, and let them see what's going on."
Mrs. Woof: "You people are a waste of time!"
(click)
Mrs. Woof: "I need to get into Dr. Grumpy right away! I was bitten by a dog, and may have suffered nerve damage!"
Mary: "Okay, we don't have anything until next week, are..."
Mrs. Woof: "But this needs to be done urgently. I think I need stitches!"
Mary: "Um, when did this occur?'
Mrs. Woof: "Five, maybe ten minutes ago. It's bleeding all over the place!"
Mary: "You need to go to ER. Dr. Grumpy doesn't handle injuries like this."
Mrs. Woof: "But there might be nerve damage! He's a nerve doctor!"
Mary: "Yes, but he's not going to put stitches in it, or know what else to do. You need to go to ER, and let them see what's going on."
Mrs. Woof: "You people are a waste of time!"
(click)
Friday, June 23, 2017
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Projection
Mrs. Pesce: "That's not the same fish you had at my last visit, is it? I thought it was a different color."
Dr. Grumpy: "Yeah. It's a new fish. Ed, uh, retired.”
Mrs. Pesce : "So what's this one's name?"
Dr. Grumpy: "Ed. I name them all Ed. Makes life easier."
Mrs. Pesce: "You know, I didn't like the last fish. Every time I came in he looked at me, really angry. Like he thought I was faking everything. I hate to say it, but I'm glad he's dead, because I'd been thinking about changing neurologists because of him and his attitude."
Dr. Grumpy: "Yeah. It's a new fish. Ed, uh, retired.”
Mrs. Pesce : "So what's this one's name?"
Dr. Grumpy: "Ed. I name them all Ed. Makes life easier."
Mrs. Pesce: "You know, I didn't like the last fish. Every time I came in he looked at me, really angry. Like he thought I was faking everything. I hate to say it, but I'm glad he's dead, because I'd been thinking about changing neurologists because of him and his attitude."
Monday, June 19, 2017
No shit, Sherlock
These are the kinds of warnings that modern, technologically advanced, highly sophisticated computer prescribing systems give us dumb ol' doctors when we're trying to refill your medication. Because even if we're just refilling it, the computer wants us to know that IT'S DANGEROUS TO DO SO because apparently you're already on it (which is the whole point of a refill, isn't it?).
And what's with the weird capital / lower case scheme on some of these?
And what's with the weird capital / lower case scheme on some of these?
Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Breaking news
Dr. Grumpy's crack team of reporters continue to bring you the stories that shape your world.
The summer amusement park season is upon us, and unfortunately tragedy has already struck at America's most legendary one.
This past Friday night 17 people, including 6 innocent children, were enjoying an up-till-then fun day at Disneyland. They were standing near Sleeping Beauty's castle when they were horrifically splattered with a large volume of bird poop from a passing flock of geese.
An unidentified bystander, who apparently doesn't know shit, called 911 to report that someone was throwing human turds at people.
This resulted in a city HazMat team being dispatched to the scene, hopefully in those bright yellow suits so people would think they were re-enacting a child alert from Monsters, Inc.
The crappy situation was resolved by taking the victims to a "private restroom" (what does that mean, anyway? No one has used it since Walt died, like the room over the fire station?). There they were provided with clean clothes ("Birds shit on me at Disneyland and all I got was this crappy T-shirt").
At press time the geese were unavailable for comment.
The summer amusement park season is upon us, and unfortunately tragedy has already struck at America's most legendary one.
This past Friday night 17 people, including 6 innocent children, were enjoying an up-till-then fun day at Disneyland. They were standing near Sleeping Beauty's castle when they were horrifically splattered with a large volume of bird poop from a passing flock of geese.
An unidentified bystander, who apparently doesn't know shit, called 911 to report that someone was throwing human turds at people.
This resulted in a city HazMat team being dispatched to the scene, hopefully in those bright yellow suits so people would think they were re-enacting a child alert from Monsters, Inc.
The crappy situation was resolved by taking the victims to a "private restroom" (what does that mean, anyway? No one has used it since Walt died, like the room over the fire station?). There they were provided with clean clothes ("Birds shit on me at Disneyland and all I got was this crappy T-shirt").
At press time the geese were unavailable for comment.
Monday, June 12, 2017
Research
Dr. Grumpy is no stranger to not-particularly-worthwhile research, having published some myself.
I get it. You didn't want to do it, but you're in training, and your chairman made you write up something embarrassingly bad in order to graduate. BTDT.
Last week, some of the biggest names in Parkinson's disease (besides James Parkinson) gathered in Vancouver, BC, for a conference.
One of my colleagues there noticed this poster hanging in the meeting's research hall:
To summarize:
Earthquakes are bad. Having Parkinson's disease, AND being in an earthquake, is worse.
The bigger the earthquake, the greater the effect will be on a Parkinson's patient.
Their symptoms will get worse in the immediate aftermath of the quake, but gradually return to baseline as things settle down.
Thank you, SMOD!
I get it. You didn't want to do it, but you're in training, and your chairman made you write up something embarrassingly bad in order to graduate. BTDT.
Last week, some of the biggest names in Parkinson's disease (besides James Parkinson) gathered in Vancouver, BC, for a conference.
One of my colleagues there noticed this poster hanging in the meeting's research hall:
To summarize:
Earthquakes are bad. Having Parkinson's disease, AND being in an earthquake, is worse.
The bigger the earthquake, the greater the effect will be on a Parkinson's patient.
Their symptoms will get worse in the immediate aftermath of the quake, but gradually return to baseline as things settle down.
Thank you, SMOD!