Times of London
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A thief who sneaked into a hospital was scarred when he tried to get a suntan. After evading security staff at Odstock Hospital in Salisbury, Wiltshire, and helping himself to doctor's paging devices, the thief spotted a vertical sunbed. He walked into the unit and removed his clothes for a 45-minute tan.
However, the high voltage ultra-violet machine at the hospital, which is renowned for its treatment of burns victims, has a maximum dosage of 10 seconds. After lying on the bed for 270 times the recommended maximum time, the man was covered in blisters.
Hours later, when the pain of the burns became unbearable, he went to Southampton General Hospital, 20 miles away, in Hampshire. Staff became suspicious because he was wearing a doctor's coat. After tending his wounds they called the police.
"This man broke into Odstock and decided he fancied a quick suntan", Southampton police said. Doctors say he will be scarred for life.
JSkills' Commentary:
Ok so clearly this guy was out to grab whatever seemed to be free in life at the time - doctors clothes, pagers, and hey why not even get a tan out of it? But is a hosptial the place where one would want to choose to go on a spree of thievery?
And one other thing, if the dosage was only supposed to be 10 seconds, this machine had to be pretty intense. For this guy to have exceeded the maximum dosage by 270 times makes me think he may have also robbed and sampled some of the items in the hospital's pharmacy as well.
