Eleven
people were clinging precariously to a wildly swinging rope
suspended from a crumbling outcropping on Mount Everest.
Ten were blonde, one was a brunette.
As a group they decided that one of the party should let
go. If that didn't happen, the rope would break and everyone
would perish. For an agonizing few moments no one volunteered.
Finally the brunette gave a truly touching speech saying
she would sacrifice herself to save the lives of the others.
What's a penis worth? $795,000, according to a court
ruling.
The court in Bucharest, Romania, ordered a doctor to pay that amount
in compensation after surgery that went horribly wrong.
The Romanian surgeon was ordered to hand over the money to a patient
whose penis he accidentally severed during a botched operation.
The court was told that in July 2004, Dr. Naum Ciomu made a surgical
error while operating on the man's testicles, severing the penis instead
of making an incision to the testicle.