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Pizza Delivery Man Gets $180K
Settlement After BeingCrushed
By400Poundsof Cheese
By Sophia Tewa
Meriden, Connecticut — Domino’s Pizza paid out $180,000 to a former employee who was injured while trans- porting 400 pounds of cheese into one of the chain’s restaurants in Connecticut about two years ago.
Mohamed Hassan, a 55-year-old Meriden resident, was unloading boxes of cheese from a truck on a rainy day in June 2016, when his hand truck slipped under the weight of the food, according to the Connecticut Law Tribune. The hand truck landed on Hassan after he fell onto his back, and he injured his ankle, knee and back, according to his lawyer, Brooke Goff.
America’s love of pizza has helped fuel an increase in cheese consump- tion over the past few decades. Americans con- sumed roughly 37 pounds of cheese per person in 2016,
up 36 percent from 27 pounds per per- son in 1995, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
For Hassan, how- ever, the mishap was no pizza party. He wore a leg brace for six months, and will likely need knee replacement sur- gery, Goff said. Domino’s had Hassan see three doctors and attend several hearings before settling the case on April 14, his lawyer said.
“He wants to work and provide for his family,” Goff said. “He’s looking for a
job that he can do within his limita- tions.”
On April 14, Domino’s and its insurer, Sedgwick Insurance, agreed to pay $180,000 to settle Hassan’s two-year-old work- ers’ compensation claim. Domino’s first offered $100,000; Hassan had initially asked for $325,000.
“I was satisfied with the settlement because it allows him to get back a lot of what he lost and leaves him something to begin his new career, whatever it is that he decides to do.”
Bloke Has SHOWER HEAD
RemovedFromRectumAfter
‘SlippingInTheBathroom’
By Christine Younan
Doctors were suspi- cious of the 26-year- old’s expla- nation and suspect the object was placed there for “auto- erotic purposes”.
He managed to detach the rest of the shower and make his way to the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in New Delhi, India.
The man’s case was subject to a report in the British Medical Journal which explained the bizarre incident.
Although he app eared to be in good health and was not bleed- ing, X-rays clear- ly showed the shower head was six inches inside his body.
According
to BMJ Report, after the man was under gen- eral anaesthetic, the surgeons used a technique of “mental anal stretching” before reaching in and pulling out the item.
The man recov- ered well and was discharged 48 hours later.
According to the Daily Mail, the report read: “History is often ambiguous and incomplete due to a high level of embarrassment and social stig- ma attached to the condition. The same was seen in our case.
"Though the patient reported accidental inser- tion of the show- er head and denied voluntary insertion, there is a high suspicion of voluntary insertion for auto-erotic pur- pose."
It was also noted that two thirds of patients who are admitted for these proce- dures are men in their 30s and 40s.
These men are typically using the objects – which can include vegeta- bles, rods and gas bulbs – for erotic purposes.
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