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Monday, October 31, 2005
9:19:00 AM EST
Hearing Still listening to Hamlet, Op. 67
Apparently the Tooth Fairy isn't allowed in British hospitals:
Doctors refused to let a little girl take her pulled teeth home for the tooth fairy - claiming they are now classed as body parts. Last night four-year-old Kimberley Cumming's mum hit out: "A stupid rule has basically killed the magic of the tooth fairy for my little girl.
"My daughter was hysterical when she left the hospital without her teeth."
At the end of the story, there's a hospital spokesperson saying that it was all a misunderstanding, but tell that to all the fairies you just put on the dole, you corporate medical ogres!
This reminds me a little bit of a story I wrote up in the Book of the Dumb 2, in which British butcher are no longer supposed to give bones to customers to give to their pets, on the idea that if a bone is removed from the meat, it's not "waste" and must be disposed of via certain EU regulations. On the other hand, if the customers asks for the bones for his own use, well that's fine, nod nod, wink wink. That's just silliness.
In any event, here's hoping the tooth fairy is soon free to roam about Britain again. Feel free to insert your own snarky comment about British orthodonture here, but know that for the record all the Brits I know have perfect fabulous teeth.
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Hearing Still listening to Hamlet, Op. 67
First They Came for the Tooth Fairy, And I Said Nothing
Apparently the Tooth Fairy isn't allowed in British hospitals:
Doctors refused to let a little girl take her pulled teeth home for the tooth fairy - claiming they are now classed as body parts. Last night four-year-old Kimberley Cumming's mum hit out: "A stupid rule has basically killed the magic of the tooth fairy for my little girl.
"My daughter was hysterical when she left the hospital without her teeth."
At the end of the story, there's a hospital spokesperson saying that it was all a misunderstanding, but tell that to all the fairies you just put on the dole, you corporate medical ogres!
This reminds me a little bit of a story I wrote up in the Book of the Dumb 2, in which British butcher are no longer supposed to give bones to customers to give to their pets, on the idea that if a bone is removed from the meat, it's not "waste" and must be disposed of via certain EU regulations. On the other hand, if the customers asks for the bones for his own use, well that's fine, nod nod, wink wink. That's just silliness.
In any event, here's hoping the tooth fairy is soon free to roam about Britain again. Feel free to insert your own snarky comment about British orthodonture here, but know that for the record all the Brits I know have perfect fabulous teeth.
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That is just pathetic! My dad is a dentist so I sent that to him! We'll see what he says!
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What a stupid rule that ruins it for children
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Wouldn't the teeth be HERS? I'd grow a third arm to hire more lawyers to sue that hospital.... or hire someone to perhaps extract a few replacement Molars from whoever told that girl that she can't keep her teeth. I can recommend some people on the Continent who will work cheap, if someone knows this kid's parents.
The opposite of this story was the tale of disgraced Civil War General Dan Sickles, he of the Barton Key affair and the Peach Orchard. He had his leg blown off at Gettysburg, and asked to keep it. He eventually donated it to the Smithsonian or something, and used to take women there to visit it. -
That is riduiculous not to let her keep her teeth, I have seen where people here in America keep all sorts of removed body parts after a surgical procedure, gross but true. How unfortunate for the little girl, make you wonder how the mom is going to explain that to her.
Trick or treat!
Lisa
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11/1/05 11:53 PM
umm(clearing my throat.)... You know John tooth fairies have alot of strong magic!
(Monponsett knows this)...They can move that tooth from teh lab to the kid's house so she can collect her quarter or dollar! Theya re Pro Active today, if not in a union they sure know how to act like a union!No worries Mate! Just have the mom give them a dial and things will be on the up and up!Ta ta...
natalie