Killed By a Peanut Butter Sandwich

A 15-year-old Canadian girl with a peanut allergy died after kissing her boyfriend who had eaten a peanut butter sandwich 9 hours earlier, reports say.
Christina Desforges, of Saguenay, Quebec, died last week after she failed to respond to days of treatment.
She had been given an adrenaline shot, a standard treatment for anaphylactic shock, almost immediately after she suffered a reaction.
A peanut allergist in Montreal said the case is "very rare and worrisome".
Ms Desforges' 16-year-old boyfriend had kissed her some nine hours after he had eaten peanut butter on toast, the AFP news agency reported.
"She was extremely allergic to peanuts and her boyfriend didn't know," a reporter for Canadian broadcaster TVA said.
Hospital officials refused to comment. A post-mortem is due to be carried out.
Rhoda Kagan, a peanut allergist at Montreal's Children's Hospital, said some people have an "extremely low threshold" of resistance to peanuts and their traces.
"This varies greatly from person to person and is highly unpredictable," she was quoted by the Associated Press as saying.
Peanut allergy symptoms can include hives, a drop in blood pressure and swelling of the face and throat that can block breathing.extra reports
Studies show 1.5 percent of children may have a life-threatening case, and that number is growing. Doctors are unsure why, but it is thought to be due to genetics and exposure to peanuts in infancy. There is no cure for food allergies, except avoiding any trace of that food. Dr. Mary Kay Tobin said a new drug called Xolair may allow a tiny amount of peanut exposure.


Ladies & Gentlemen, what does that proves??? When it's your time to go, you will go!

Sony not the only one with problems

Whatever happen to the good old days of hacking to get personal info.
BTW, Mircosoft is having some crask problems on the X360. Read below

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4466688.stm

DEAD OR ALIVE

Singapore has won a silver on day three of the World Cyber Games. 24-year-old Wilson Chia is the only Singaporean gamer to make it to the finals. But the "Dead Or Alive Ultimate" player lost to his Japanese opponent, Tomoyuki Inui, 2-1 when it came to the crunch. Wilson use Gen-Fu in the finals while the Japanese guy was using Jann Lee. Was any of you as surpise as I was that a Singaporean exactly went into the Finals?

Passe...

The trend caught on long ago on our little island lah...our paper artists have progressed to 3G handphones, PDAs, DSLRs and all sorts of paper-electricals! Plain ol' handphones? Passe!

Not even in Death will we be part

Irish take mobile phone obsession to the grave

DUBLIN (AFP) - Ireland's obsession with the mobile phone has sunk to new depths with a growing number of people now taking them with them to the grave.The mobile phone has become a must-have accessory for young people with 94 percent of people owning one.Ireland has had a tradition of people being buried with some of their most treasured possessions alongside them in the coffin and there is a growing trend for a mobile phone to accompany people to the hereafter.
"People will sometimes leave mementos in coffins with the deceased and nowadays it is happening that people are taking their mobile phones with them," Peter Flanagan of Kirwan's funeral homes in Dublin told AFP."There is a fear that some people have that they will be buried alive. They have contact with the outside world if they have a mobile phone with them," he said Monday.Flanagan said that traditional items that are buried with people included family photographs and wedding rings. Some older people might be buried with their favourite tipple, such as a bottle of whiskeyFamilies burying phones with their loved ones are encouraged to either turn them off or switch them to silent or vibration alert."Obviously you don't want a phone ringing inside a coffin during a funeral," Flanagan said.
Another funeral director, Keith Massey, is also noticing the growing trend to bury mobiles, particularly with young people."There is a fair bit of it. When a young person dies, as opposed to as old person, it is very upsetting for most people."Lots of young people's friends don't know how to cope with death. You find the coffins are stuffed with the personal belongings of the deceased including increasingly their mobile phones."Mobile phones are a huge part of the lives of young people these days, particularly young girls."If they are fans of a sport there might also be a scarf in the coffin or some other memento."Massey said that even though people are embalmed some put a phone in for people to get in touch if they wake up."This is despite the fact that there is more chance of them being taken up into space by aliens than waking up."Some people are superstitious and insist the phone is turned off so that if they do wake up they will have battery power when the phone is turned on again," Massey said.According to ComReg, Ireland's telecommunications and broadcasting regulator, there are over 3.83 million mobile phones in the country and each owner sends an average of 91 text messages a month.

Sick, Sick, Sick

Top 10 Sickest Movies
Check out this...er interesting list, though how did Salo rank as low as that is something I can't understand.