Burned by a Laptop!?!

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Scientist Burns Penis with Hot Laptop

Fri Nov 22, 9:53 AM ET Add Oddly Enough -

 

LONDON (Reuters) - Laptops have always been a hot item but a 50-year-old scientist didn't realize to what extent until he burned his penis.

 

The previously healthy father of two remembered feeling a burning sensation after he had been writing a report at home for about an hour with the computer on his lap.

 

He noticed a redness and irritation the following day but it wasn't until he was examined by a doctor that he realized how much damage had been done.

 

"The ventral part of his scrotal skin had turned red, and there was a blister with a diameter of about two centimeters (0.8 inches)," Claes-Gorn Ostenson, of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, wrote in a letter published in The Lancet medical journal on Friday.

 

Two days later, the blisters broke and the wounds became infected and then crusted but after about a week the unidentified scientist was "healing quite rapidly."

 

Ostenson noted that the computer manual did warn against operating it directly on exposed skin but said the patient had lap burns even though he had been wearing trousers and underpants.

 

"This...story should be taken as a serious warning against use of a laptop in a literal sense," he added.

[jack]

Re: GE Stove Top

 

 

Several years ago, Jack Welch, GE President, began a speech to the Washington Press Club's Wednesday's meeting by saying how happy he was that GE had just that morning settled an unusal law suite. Apparently, a guy had burned his "thing" (as Welch described it to the Press group and nationally over PBS), on a GE range while cooking in the nude. Welch reported it was a particularly extended legal challenge becasue the guy had burned it on the back left burner. Of course, everybody, including Welch howaallled. :7

[+ deej]

One of the organizations I used to work with was one of the first customers when Xerox started selling copiers.

 

In those days, operators were strictly warned not to expose skin to the lamp because severe burns might happen.

 

One guy didn't get the word. }(

 

It's a military organization, so he had to suffer sick bay with all the cold sufferers, etc., and of course the gossips. And the jokes about getting a "really hot piece of ass". :o

[Barry]

That's not the only way to get "burned" by a laptop

 

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1672981