Pornography can seriously damage your health.
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 1:31 am
Let this be a warning to you.
~UNhl~
Private Eye
Funny Old World
Compiled by Victor Lewis-Smith
0 "I was adding a fresh batch of magazines to
my stack when the pile became unstable,"
Patrick Moore told reporters from his hospital
bed in New York's St Barnabas Hospital. "And
before I knew it, I'd triggered an avalanche of
books and magazines that buried me naked
right up my neck, until I couldn't move. I kept
hollering 'Let me out! Let me out!' but nobody
came to help, and it was two days before an
ambulance crew finally turned up to rescue
me."
Later, a spokesman from St Barnabas gave
further details of what had happened to
Moore, 42, who was recovering in hospital
from multiple contusions, mild concussion,
damaged eardrums, skin burns, and dehydra-
tion. "He is an obsessive collector of maga-
zines, mostly pornography and science fiction,
and his entire apartment is stacked from floor
to ceiling with tens of thousands of publica-
tions, with barely any room to move. He'd
made a corridor through the books so he could
get in and out, but on this occasion he finally
unbalanced the stacks, and they fell on top of
him. His landlord, Bennie Jones, told us that
he'd heard Moore shouting on the Sunday, but
took no notice, because he's always shouting
obscenities to himself anyway. When our
ambulance crew were finally called on the
Tuesday, they were unable to open the apart-
ment door, because of the weight of magazines
behind it, so they removed the door from its
hinges, then clambered over the mountain of
paper to get to him. The man urgently needs
shelving."
The spokesman then recalled "a similar
case from 1947, when Harlem brothers Homer
and Langley Collier were crushed to death in
their own house by their own collection of
encyclopaedias and clutter. On that occasion, it
took eighteen days to find the bodies under the
debris, which included not just paper, but also
a Model T Ford, an antique motorcycle, a col
lection of stuffed rats, and ten pianos." (New
York Daily News, 30/12/03. Spotter: Tim
Richardson)
Mart
~UNhl~
Private Eye
Funny Old World
Compiled by Victor Lewis-Smith
0 "I was adding a fresh batch of magazines to
my stack when the pile became unstable,"
Patrick Moore told reporters from his hospital
bed in New York's St Barnabas Hospital. "And
before I knew it, I'd triggered an avalanche of
books and magazines that buried me naked
right up my neck, until I couldn't move. I kept
hollering 'Let me out! Let me out!' but nobody
came to help, and it was two days before an
ambulance crew finally turned up to rescue
me."
Later, a spokesman from St Barnabas gave
further details of what had happened to
Moore, 42, who was recovering in hospital
from multiple contusions, mild concussion,
damaged eardrums, skin burns, and dehydra-
tion. "He is an obsessive collector of maga-
zines, mostly pornography and science fiction,
and his entire apartment is stacked from floor
to ceiling with tens of thousands of publica-
tions, with barely any room to move. He'd
made a corridor through the books so he could
get in and out, but on this occasion he finally
unbalanced the stacks, and they fell on top of
him. His landlord, Bennie Jones, told us that
he'd heard Moore shouting on the Sunday, but
took no notice, because he's always shouting
obscenities to himself anyway. When our
ambulance crew were finally called on the
Tuesday, they were unable to open the apart-
ment door, because of the weight of magazines
behind it, so they removed the door from its
hinges, then clambered over the mountain of
paper to get to him. The man urgently needs
shelving."
The spokesman then recalled "a similar
case from 1947, when Harlem brothers Homer
and Langley Collier were crushed to death in
their own house by their own collection of
encyclopaedias and clutter. On that occasion, it
took eighteen days to find the bodies under the
debris, which included not just paper, but also
a Model T Ford, an antique motorcycle, a col
lection of stuffed rats, and ten pianos." (New
York Daily News, 30/12/03. Spotter: Tim
Richardson)
Mart
