Scientist Burns Penis with Hot Laptop
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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.
― Mike Hanle y (mike), Saturday, 23 November 2002 05:25 (twenty-three years ago)
Damn. So that vasectomy I had in the final year of my Copmputer Science degree was unnecessary?
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 23 November 2002 12:18 (twenty-three years ago)
Well I don't have huge faith in the National Health Service, but this was on a local anaesthetic, so I reckon I'd have noticed if they were that far off.
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 23 November 2002 15:24 (twenty-three years ago)
apparently if you masturbate at the max of yer capacities, your nipples drop off.
― nathalie (nathalie), Saturday, 23 November 2002 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)