Ow. And Ower.

[major_clanger]

As various people are noting here on LJ, a bunch of Exeter students have given themselves a lasting momento of their time at Uni:

BBC: Students burned in branding caper

Fortunately for those involved (who will I suspect be the target of enough ridicule and mirth) the police seem to be keeping out of all this. Perhaps more liberal views have emerged since the Spanner case, or it may be that it seems here the students injured themselves rather than each other.

Mind you, they're still not anywhere near the league of this chap:

Fulminant acute colitis following a self-administered hydrofluoric acid enema

Comments

[cuboid-ursinoid.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how out of your mind you have to be to administer a hydrofluoric acid enema to anybody, let alone yourself, but I'm pretty sure I've never been there.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I am not reading any link that ends "hydrofluoric acid enema".

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

I think the only bit you need to know is the comment "while intoxicated from intranasal cocaine administration", which as cuboid_ursinoid notes explains a lot.

[cleanskies.livejournal.com]

The related articles on that second link are the killer...

[cdave]

I was chatting to someone who had got an epilator caught on the back of their knee (they later sued the manufacturers who settled out of court (it later turned out she wasn't the only one to do so, there was a major design flaw)).

When she was laying face down on a hospital gurney, in pain but laughing with the doctor, he asked if he could write this up for the humorous bit in the BMJ.

[emmajking.livejournal.com]

News story says "branded themselves" - if they were actually holding the coat hangers and applying them to their own chests, that might explain why no police involvement - presumably that would be treated like self-harm, rather than ABH?

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

Perhaps more liberal views have emerged since the Spanner case, or it may be that it seems here the students injured themselves rather than each other.

Unfortunately the gender of the participants, and the presence or absence of a sexual motive, could also make a difference here. Where there was a sexual motive, juries have shown themselves more reluctant to convict opposite-sex couples than same-sex couples, and the police will be aware of this. I also suspect that juries would generally be more reluctant to convict in a non-sexual case, particularly one that can be characterised as "students larking about", which has a certain sort of social acceptability about it. Basically, I think the more you conform to the cultural narrative of what is acceptable behaviour for someone of your gender and life-stage, the less likely you are to be convicted, regardless of what the letter of the law says.

[scotiva.livejournal.com]

TL:DR: STICKING STUFF THAT CAN DISSOLVE GLASS UP YOUR A-HOLE IS A BAD IDEA!

Seriously. What. The. Fuck.