Sun Tan Moron
This story is what’s known as an ‘at-risk survivor’ story. In other words they didn’t kill themselves this time, but their demise seems frighteningly inevitable. We’re in Wiltshire, England this time. A young man broke into Odstock Hospital in Salisbury. They have a high-voltage UV machine there which is basically the Ferrari of sun beds. The bloke was at a loose end and decided to hop in. He turned that bad boy on and stood in it for 45 minutes. Now these aren’t your regular sun beds, oh no, you’re only supposed to use them for a maximum of 10 seconds.
When our break-in-buffoon left the machine he was covered head to toe in blisters and in a pretty bad way. He somehow managed to get to Southampton General Hospital, 20 miles away in Hampshire. The staff became suspicious because he’d rocked up in a doctor’s coat, so they alerted the police.
He didn’t die, but he did get arrested and is now adorned with permanent scars. Maybe those scars will serve as a reminder that will keep a Darwin Award out of his hands? Only time will tell.
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