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GenderQuest · Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Posts: 451

Not trans-specific news so I put it here.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7118093.stm

A prisoner at HMP Bristol has been treated for deep laceration wounds after cutting off his penis with a razor blade.

The inmate who is serving an 18-month sentence for possession of a knife, was found by wardens on Sunday morning.

Prison officials said the incident was "extremely serious".

The Ministry of Justice said the man, who was not on suicide watch, had since been returned to the prison, after receiving treatment in hospital.

A prison service spokeswoman said: "We can confirm a prisoner at HMP Bristol has seriously self-harmed.

"The prisoner was treated in hospital and has now returned to the prison."

GenderQuest · Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Posts: 451

Another one for this thread Smile

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/7131532.stm

Quote:

Fire crew aid in penis operation
Firefighters helped operate on a man who was rushed to hospital after getting a metal ring stuck on the end of his penis.

GenderQuest · Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Posts: 451

And yet another:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6586879.stm

Man cuts off penis in restaurant

A man cut off his penis with a knife in a packed London restaurant.

Police were forced to use CS gas to restrain the man when they entered the Zizzi restaurant in The Strand on Sunday evening.

A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said the man was aged between 30 and 40 and that his injuries were self-inflicted.

The man was then taken to hospital in south London where his condition is stable. It is understood surgeons were unable to reattach his penis.

**Flameboy** · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:29 am Post subject:

Yeah, I saw this in the "Most Popular Stories" section of the BBC website today, and considered posting it - until I noticed that the story is dated Tuesday, 24 April 2007! Wonder what's made it suddenly popular again...

Dave

GenderQuest · Joined: 12 Oct 2007 Posts: 451

Flameboy wrote:

until I noticed that the story is dated Tuesday, 24 April 2007! Wonder what's made it suddenly popular again...

Ooops that's not the first time I've got caught out like that.....

....makes note to self CHECK DATES :p

Stella Maru · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 2248 Location: Brighton

Flameboy wrote:

Yeah, I saw this in the "Most Popular Stories" section of the BBC website today, and considered posting it - until I noticed that the story is dated Tuesday, 24 April 2007! Wonder what's made it suddenly popular again...
Dave

'News' is a commodity like any other, with traders buying cheap and selling dear. The cheapest 'news' is re-heated news, quickly re-hashed at a workstation, with no reporters or syndication agencies to pay, which is why we see the same stories, 'revelations' and 'discoveries' coming round and round again.

**Flameboy** · Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:51 pm Post subject:

Stella Maru wrote:

Flameboy wrote:

Yeah, I saw this in the "Most Popular Stories" section of the BBC website today, and considered posting it - until I noticed that the story is dated Tuesday, 24 April 2007! Wonder what's made it suddenly popular again...
Dave

'News' is a commodity like any other, with traders buying cheap and selling dear. The cheapest 'news' is re-heated news, quickly re-hashed at a workstation, with no reporters or syndication agencies to pay, which is why we see the same stories, 'revelations' and 'discoveries' coming round and round again.

Well, we're always being encouraged to recycle more... Wink

Still, in this instance, it's not been rehashed or anything, as far as I can tell - it's just had a lot of views today, so it's reappeared on the main page of the BBC News website. Of course, I don't know how the BBC website works, so it might be that someone found the old story, sent it to all their mates, and the combined number of them who looked at the story were enough to put it in the listings - where more and more people saw it, clicked on it, and made it even more popular.

However, I've never really considered "news" as a commodity before - interesting; I'll certainly be bearing that in mind in the future...

Dave

**ice maiden** · Advisor Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 2691

another person did it in macdonalds i think

perhaps there is more to it than the 'authorites' realise

after all trans services and mental health is an uphill struggle

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Stella Maru · Joined: 11 Feb 2007 Posts: 2248 Location: Brighton

Flameboy wrote:

Still, in this instance, it's not been rehashed or anything, as far as I can tell - it's just had a lot of views today, so it's reappeared on the main page of the BBC News website. Of course, I don't know how the BBC website works, so it might be that someone found the old story, sent it to all their mates, and the combined number of them who looked at the story were enough to put it in the listings - where more and more people saw it, clicked on it, and made it even more popular... However, I've never really considered "news" as a commodity before - interesting; I'll certainly be bearing that in mind in the future... Dave

Yes, this case may be a bit different, but generally stories reappear for purely economic reasons - that the same material can be sold again and again, or re-invented, at little extra cost -

A Diana Witness Says Maddy with Elvis headline costs nothing more than the few calories the brain needs to invent it.