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Diddy Dave - 07 Oct 2004 20:43 GMT

Los Angeles attorney Antonio Mendosa spent over three hours having his
mobile phone removed from his rectum. During the delicate operation,
his phone rang three times. After recovering at a trauma centre from
his ordeal, Mendosa explained: "My dog drags the phone all over the
house. He must have dragged it into the shower. I slipped on a tile,
tripped against the dog and sat down right on the thing."

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Steve Terry - 08 Oct 2004 02:18 GMT

> Los Angeles attorney Antonio Mendosa spent over three hours having his
> mobile phone removed from his rectum. During the delicate operation,
> his phone rang three times. After recovering at a trauma centre from
> his ordeal, Mendosa explained: "My dog drags the phone all over the
> house. He must have dragged it into the shower. I slipped on a tile,
> tripped against the dog and sat down right on the thing."

Apparently US hospitals are introducing specialist tools for removing
such items, including a plaster of Paris injector for injecting into
light bulbs in situ (to prevent the bulb from shattering when removing) !!

"The dog dragged a lightbulb into the shower, doc"
Nope I can't see that one fly ;-)

Steve Terry

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Andy M - Tampa Bay - 08 Oct 2004 15:33 GMT

>>> Los Angeles attorney Antonio Mendosa spent over three hours having
>>> his mobile phone removed from his rectum. During the delicate
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>>
>> Steve Terry

having spent 3 months working and traveling over Los Angeles metro and
southern california, i developed a habit of observing people (what if you
have no TV). well, californians are different species than the rest of us
hominoids. their tv coverage is all about the scott peterson trial, the
wildfires (actually drove thru one), or the weather (they have 4 types of
zones in one area).

the excuses i've got at work from guys who work under me (temp agncy
drivers)... worse than what attorney mendosa said. the best excuses come
from california, so i believe the dog was fed up with his owner not giving
him the right dog-food (apparently the attorney bought el-cheapo brand from
Petco - the pet supermarket (retail chain, believe that!)). doggie goes
ahead and shoves the phone right up attorney's a.s and says: that's what u
get for cheaping out, bloodsucker. don't buy me a $1.49 20 lb bag of
biscuits when u can afford to spend $5000 for each of ur secretaries' boob
jobs. and they don't even lick u.

next, the dog went to the landline and called the attorney's cellphone
number repeatedly. now, who's the master and who's his bitch?

ahh, glorious friday morning in florida, just the thing to help me vent my
feelings about lawyers (liars).

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Steve Sobol - 08 Oct 2004 16:07 GMT

> having spent 3 months working and traveling over Los Angeles metro and
> southern california, i developed a habit of observing people (what if you
> have no TV). well, californians are different species than the rest of us
> hominoids. their tv coverage is all about the scott peterson trial, the
> wildfires (actually drove thru one), or the weather (they have 4 types of
> zones in one area).

Which wildfires? Last October's were major; hundreds of thousands of acres
burned and thousands were displaced from their homes (I got lucky, they only
got within about 15 miles of my house). Oddly enough, lots of news outlets
nationwide picked up the story too. I'm sorry, is that not a major enough news
item for you? :)

Usually they don't get that much coverage. Due to the fact that Southern
California is almost all desert and most of it is quite dry and hot about 7-8
months out of each year, the entire area tends to be a tinderbox.

I agree with you that all of the Peterson coverage is useless.

> ahh, glorious friday morning in florida, just the thing to help me vent my
> feelings about lawyers (liars).

Don't get me started about Florida :)

**SJS (southern Californian, imported from Ohio)

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Steve Terry - 09 Oct 2004 02:05 GMT

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> Don't get me started about Florida :)

You have to wonder about the sanity of people who want to live in a state
where the weather tries to kill you 3 or 4 times a year :-)

Mind you Florida beaches are so nice, you can forgive the odd hurricane

Steve Terry

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Steve Sobol - 09 Oct 2004 04:06 GMT

>>Don't get me started about Florida :)
>
> You have to wonder about the sanity of people who want to live in a state
> where the weather tries to kill you 3 or 4 times a year :-)
>
> Mind you Florida beaches are so nice, you can forgive the odd hurricane

I'm a two hour drive away from the other ocean. Huntington Beach is beautiful,
we have surf (the Atlantic doesn't), and there aren't any hurricanes here.

Florida has Disney and Universal Studios. Big deal; so do we, plus we have Six
Flags. And Knotts.

Florida, unlike California, doesn't have winning baseball teams.

Should I go on? :)

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Ivor Jones - 09 Oct 2004 20:41 GMT

>>>Don't get me started about Florida :)
>>
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> beautiful, we have surf (the Atlantic doesn't), and there aren't any
> hurricanes here.

Couldn't agree more, I spent a beautiful few days driving up from San
Diego to San Francisco a few weeks ago :-)

How about some mobile base stations around the Big Sur area though..? ;-)

Ivor

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Andy M - Tampa Bay - 09 Oct 2004 03:41 GMT

>> Andy M - Tampa Bay wrote:
>>
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>> enough, lots of news outlets nationwide picked up the story too. I'm
>> sorry, is that not a major enough news item for you? :)

wildfires, that's one thing i feel sympathy for californians. drove thru one
in san bernardino natl forest (behind hemet, temecula, etc). and one small
one on 91 (anaheim hills) between lakewood exit and corona. but i've noticed
california's media (OC register, LA dailies) give a lot more coverage to
wildfires than news papers in west central florida (tampa tribune, st pete
times). there's more obsession with natural disasters in CA than in FL, IMO.

>> Usually they don't get that much coverage. Due to the fact that
>> Southern California is almost all desert and most of it is quite dry
>> and hot about 7-8 months out of each year, the entire area tends to
>> be a tinderbox.
>>
>> I agree with you that all of the Peterson coverage is useless.

>>> ahh, glorious friday morning in florida, just the thing to help me
>>> vent my feelings about lawyers (liars).
>>
>> Don't get me started about Florida :)

don't get me started too, esp with the prezzie elections coming up. we
having enough as it is with dubya's brother jeb and katherine harris
(miss-you-know-who did the whole 2000 scam).

only one thing i'm thankful to california for: i missed all 4 hurricanes
that hit home. but then did get some house damage.

hey, isn't apple valley on the way from LA to bakersfield?

>> **SJS (southern Californian, imported from Ohio)
>>
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>> Apple Valley, California Nothing scares me anymore. I have three
>> kids.

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Steve Sobol - 09 Oct 2004 04:13 GMT

> wildfires, that's one thing i feel sympathy for californians. drove thru one
> in san bernardino natl forest (behind hemet, temecula, etc).

Yes, I know where it is - coming from the closest major airport, you drive
through it to get to my house. :) Were you driving north up Interstate 15?

> and one small
> one on 91 (anaheim hills) between lakewood exit and corona. but i've noticed
> california's media (OC register, LA dailies) give a lot more coverage to
> wildfires than news papers in west central florida (tampa tribune, st pete
> times).

Well, duh. :) Of course they do.

> there's more obsession with natural disasters in CA than in FL, IMO.

Or it could just be that they happen more often. There are wildfires every year.

> don't get me started too, esp with the prezzie elections coming up. we
> having enough as it is with dubya's brother jeb and katherine harris
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>
> hey, isn't apple valley on the way from LA to bakersfield?

It depends on which way you drive. Come east on I-10 out of Los Angeles out
past the Ontario International Airport, and make a left turn onto northbound
I-15. Drive about a half-hour north through the Cajon Pass and the
aforementioned San Bernardino National Forest and bingo, you're in Apple
Valley. It's on the way to Barstow and Las Vegas. You can turn west at Barstow
and get there - Highway 58 runs between Barstow and Bakersfield.

If there's no traffic (and believe it or not, there ARE periods of extremely
light traffic on Los Angeles freeways) it'll take you about 90-95 minutes to
get to Apple Valley from LA. There are a number of ways to get there besides
the one mentioned above.

The other way to get there is to take I-5 north to Highway 99. Highway 99 will
take you directly into Bakersfield.

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R. Mark Clayton - 08 Oct 2004 10:29 GMT

Must have been set to vibrate then ring...

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Mogadon John - 25 Nov 2005 01:28 GMT

>Los Angeles attorney Antonio Mendosa spent over three hours having his
>mobile phone removed from his rectum. During the delicate operation,
>his phone rang three times. After recovering at a trauma centre from
>his ordeal, Mendosa explained: "My dog drags the phone all over the
>house. He must have dragged it into the shower. I slipped on a tile,
>tripped against the dog and sat down right on the thing."

When it rang, did he answer it?

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Dogfart - 25 Nov 2005 09:41 GMT

>>Los Angeles attorney Antonio Mendosa spent over three hours having his
>>mobile phone removed from his rectum. During the delicate operation,
>>his phone rang three times. After recovering at a trauma centre from
>>his ordeal, Mendosa explained: "My dog drags the phone all over the
>>house. He must have dragged it into the shower. I slipped on a tile,
>>tripped against the dog and sat down right on the thing."

> When it rang, did he answer it?

Was it on vibrate?

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