When boredom, isolation, and the desire to "innovate" go hilariously, terribly wrong....

[Corraleno]

A research fellow at a Melbourne university came up with the idea of a necklace that would buzz if you moved your hands too close to your face. Unfortunately, he didn't think it through very well and "accidentally invented a necklace that buzzes continuously unless you move your hand close to your face," said Reardon. While playing around with the tiny neodymium magnets he planned to use in his device, a couple of them got stuck up his nose, and things only got worse from there...

Reardon explains that he put two magnets inside his nostrils, with two on the outside. When he took the magnets off the outside of his nose, the other two stuck together on the inside. Then he tried to use the other magnets to remove them, which did not work out for him.

"At this point, my partner who works at a hospital was laughing at me," he said. "I was trying to pull them out but there is a ridge at the bottom of my nose you can't get past," he said. "After struggling for 20 minutes, I decided to Google the problem and found an article about an 11-year-old boy who had the same problem. The solution in that was more magnets to put on the outside to offset the pull from the ones inside."

"As I was pulling downwards to try and remove the magnets, they clipped on each other and I lost my grip. And those two magnets ended up in my left nostril while the other one was in my right. At this point I ran out of magnets," he said to The Guardian. Instead of going straight to the hospital, Reardon then decided to pull them out with pliers, but then the pliers themselves became magnetized by the magnets inside his nose.

"Every time I brought the pliers close to my nose, my entire nose would shift towards the pliers and then the pliers would stick to the magnet," he said. "It was a little bit painful at this point."

Then his partner took him to the hospital where she works — more for schadenfreude laughs than medical assistance, according to Reardon. The doctors found it amusing too, and said things like "This is an injury due to self-isolation and boredom," said Reardon. The doctors used an anesthetic spray to manually removed the magnets from the man's nose. After coughing the last one out, the astrophysicist said he had ruled out further experiments with face-touching magnets, and that he'd find new ways to pass the time at home.

😂 😂 😂 😂

[fairfarmhand]

Please post the link to this. I want to share it with my dd

[Corraleno]

16 minutes ago, fairfarmhand said:

Please post the link to this. I want to share it with my dd

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/mar/30/astrophysicist-gets-magnets-stuck-up-nose-while-inventing-coronavirus-device

[fairfarmhand]

6 hours ago, Corraleno said:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/mar/30/astrophysicist-gets-magnets-stuck-up-nose-while-inventing-coronavirus-device

Thank you

[BakersDozen]

Oh my...we "played" with neodymium magnets in my Physics class...those are seriously strong! Two students went home with Band-Aids on fingers and I lost one heavy-duty glass beaker. I cannot imagine having them by one's face...

[Farrar]

Oh my. Thank you for posting that. A couple of people shared on my FB feed, but I just saw the headline and didn't read - I figured he was just a total idiot. When smart people do dumb things, it's so much better.

Edited April 1, 2020 by Farrar