Some mornings I get up and every thing seems all right in the world ![]()
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These are the few days I believe in corporal punishment. ![]()
WA doctors are alarmed by a series of attacks by youths throwing potatoes and frozen eggs at passers-by, including a recent case which caused a young man to lose part of his sight.
Hamilton Hill chef Chris Harvey, 25, has been left with permanent damage to his left eye after he was struck by a potato thrown from a car as he walked just metres from his home about 10pm on September 29.
"My girlfriend Sarah and I had just got off the bus from Fremantle where we had been for dinner and were waiting to cross over the road and walk to our house when some cars with kids being pretty loud came past," he said.
"They slowed down and threw a potato which hit my girlfriend's leg and one that hit me in the eye and then drove off. I was just in shock and clutched my eye."
With blood in his eye and his vision blurred, he went to Fremantle Hospital where doctors treated cuts around his eye and found he had a serious injury around his retina.
Ophthalmologist registrar Jason Lim said the injury was significant because the weight of the potato caused bleeding under the retina, which was a crucial area the eye used to capture light and see with.
"This guy's only 25 and he's lost 25 per cent of the vision in that eye," Dr Lim said. "It's hard to say yet what the long-term damage will be but certainly there will be some permanent loss of vision and he's at high risk of further loss of vision so will have to be followed up frequently."
Dr Lim said he was aware of another incident involving someone being hit in the eye by a potato in a random drive-past assault and an elderly man had lost some of his sight after a frozen egg was thrown at him.
"It's hard to understand how people could do these sorts of premeditated attacks," he said. "These objects can be just as dangerous as rocks when they're thrown."
Mr Harvey said he had been forced to take several days off work after the attack because it was too dangerous for a chef who had to handle sharp knives and hot ovens to have the use of only one eye.
He reported the attack to police, who told him that without a car registration number or proper witnesses there was not a lot they could do.
"I've still got a big blind spot now in the vision from my left eye and while the doctors say it will get smaller it's something that won't go away," he said.
^^^^^Your too nice Galah,
I would have left the ALMOST out.![]()
Let the punishment fit the crime...[}:)][}:)][}:)]
Even if they get the scumbags it will be a slap on the wrist and a " don't do it again". A specialist of some sort will blame their antics on the fact they had a bad upbringing or society is a bad influence or tv told them to do it or little johnny was drunk or stoned. The supposed well educated Judge will agree and the cycle continues. ![]()
I don't often feel sick when reading a sorry
but this one makes me physically ill. ![]()
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And this is one that was caught!
Ukrainian woman 'tries to sell toddler
Ukrainian police have detained a woman suspected of trying to sell her 2-year-old daughter to human organ traffickers.
The woman, 28, is described as an unemployed resident of the village of Uspenovka, in the eastern Zaporizhia region.
Police have evidence she intended to sell the toddler to human organ traffickers for $12,600, the Interfax news agency reports.
Law enforcement officials reportedly detained her on Saturday evening, shortly after she accepted payment for the child and its organs.
The baby girl was now "safe, healthy, and in the custody of a regional hospital," a Zaporizhia police statement said on Monday.
The woman will face charges of human organ trafficking with intent to sell abroad.
If convicted, she faces a prison term of between eight and 15 years, police said.
In recent years, Ukraine's government has attempted to reduce trafficking of people and human organs, with a state-run media campaign warning of the illegal trade's dangers.
The campaign has reduced the numbers of human organs exported from the country illegally and Ukrainians sold abroad into slavery, law-enforcement officials say.