I don’t believe it! The not so serious side of the industry
©BBC Driving you crazy?
KEEN golfers are being warned by doctors that they could be risking their hearing for their sport.
Players who use a new generation of thin-faced titanium drivers to propel the ball further should consider wearing ear plugs, experts advise.
Ear specialists suspect the “sonic boom” the metal club head makes when it strikes the ball damaged the hearing of a 55-year-old golfer they treated.
The man had been playing with a King Cobra LD titanium club three times a week for 18 months and commented that the noise of the club hitting the ball was “like a gun going off”.
Cricket Strip!
Doctors at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital carried out tests on the keen golfer after he attended their clinic with unexplained tinnitus and reduced hearing in his right ear.
Dr. Malcom Buchanan, an ENT specialist and a keen golfer, said: “Our tests show that thin-faced titanium drivers may produce sufficient sound to induce temporary or even
A black and white case!
A BRITISH tourist visiting a nature reserve in Kenya made one big mistake when he wandered off into the bush wearing his beloved Newcastle United shirt. Despite being warned to stay close to the main group and not wander off, the as yet unnamed 52 year old from Newcastle ignored the warnings.
permanent cochlear damage in susceptible individuals.” He said golfers should be careful when playing with these thin-faced clubs as they make a lot more noise, and suggested they could wear earplugs for protection. Pardon?
His mangled body was later found by park officials who confirmed that he had been attacked by a male zebra who had mistaken him for the female of his kind because of the black and white striped shirt he had been wearing.
A camp spokesman said that nothing like this had ever happened before and that it was a very tragic and freak accident. He went on to say that his clothing would have made him “highly vulnerable”.
The man died from injuries to his neck, back and err ... rectum!
Getting the bird ...
A FOOTBALL mad parrot halted play - with his perfect impression of the referee’s whistle.
Me-Tu is a regular at matches at his local ground near Hertford and often entertains fans by repeating what they say.
DARING residents of the Thames Valley village of Hurley bared all for a calendar that raised more than £2,000 for charity. Amongst them was former Hurley Cricket Club
groundsman, Fred Furneaux, who was snapped mowing in the nude a day before his 70th birthday.
I’m not an exhibitionist. Fred continued “You do have to be a bit discreet about doing these pictures. You don’t want to offend anyone. Everyone volunteered to take part. No one had to be press-ganged into it because it was for a great cause.”
Fred needed a couple of drinks and a bit of persuasion before he would strip off. “I didn’t think I would ever do anything like that” he said.
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Jackie Hobbs, volunteer for the air ambulance charity, said: “We are very grateful. It’s a brilliant calendar and I think they were very brave to pose like this.”
But referee Gary Bailey was not impressed when the parrot mimicked his whistle and brought the quarter-final of the Hertfordshire Senior Centenary Trophy to a standstill. Me-Tu was yellow carded!
position, by the way). Sadly (or
not,
Mind you, it could have been worse. During the Tigres vs San Lorenzo game in Argentina, San Lorenzo’s Gaston Aguirre hit a shot that was supposedly at goal, but actually hit a flock of pigeons who were hanging around on the pitch (in a clearly offside
depending
on whether you see pigeons as beautiful birds or rats with wings) one of the pigeons was killed by the impact.
Aguirre was aiming for the goal when he struck the ball in the direction of a group of pigeons near the corner flag. A burst of feathers followed and the pigeons flew away - except one!
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