The man castrated by a tree

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@WorDazza this one’s for you! I read this story in the paper a few months ago. A man from Hull was jailed for violently attacking his friend and taking him hostage in an attempt to blackmail him. While released on bail he was driving with passengers when he crashed into another car, sped off without stopping, crashed into a second car coming the opposite way, attempted a dangerous overtake but hit a lamppost and flipped his own car, landing on the verge. A broken tree branch came through the windscreen and pierced his groin, and when he pulled it out he found his testicles dangling from the end. ‘Serve him right!’ you may well cry. He was incredibly lucky that neither he nor his passengers nor any of the occupants of the other vehicles was seriously injured or killed. What really made me laugh though was the comments of his lawyer, who said that in mitigation, his behaviour had been much improved since the accident. Well Duh! That is what happens – that’s the reason humans have been castrating their male domestic animals for millennia! Just a bit of a shame the same treatment can’t be deliberately applied to one or two other persistently violent criminals. Again I don't really have an appropriate photo so here are some pretty tree branches. All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2017.