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Man attempts to help woman, gets 6cm hole in head
A good samaritan has been left with a 6cm hole in his head after being smashed with a hammer while trying to save a woman being attacked at a party.
Christopher Thom, a 22-year-old father, says he will think twice before stepping in during a domestic dispute again after being seriously injured at the weekend.
He was in Waikato Hospital today with a hole in his skull about 6cm in diameter. His partner thought he was going to bleed to death when he walked up the driveway after the party covered in blood.
He told the Daily Post he was at a Thomas Cres party yesterday about 1am when he stepped in to help a young woman being assaulted by her former partner.
Mr Thom said he approached the pair - and moments later blood was running from his head after the former partner pulled a hammer out of his pocket and struck him in the head with it.
"He was punching the girl so I thought I'd see if I could help her. He just suddenly pulled a hammer out of his pocket and swung it at me. It was so quick, it hit me in the skull. Then he just ran away," he said.
After being admitted to Rotorua Hospital with a fractured skull, he was transferred to the Hamilton hospital with a build-up of air and fluid on his brain.
He is waiting to find out if he needs surgery.
Meanwhile, he says it's the last time he will intervene in fight.
"It was a bit close. People are just stupid sometimes. I'll only be looking after my own girlfriend and family from now on," he said.
His partner Andrea Leslie said she totally lost it when she saw her partner after the attack.
"There was a river of blood running down his face. He had this huge hole in his head and there was blood everywhere. It was just awful. How can people do this to another person?" she said.
Rotorua police have not released any further details about the incident but say they are speaking with someone about the fight and hammer attack.
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The newspapers Komsomolskaya Pravda and Gazeta both reported the case of a factory electrician in the town of Vologda, north of Moscow, who was stabbed by the building's security guard as they were having a drunken argument.
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13-year-old boy frazzled by tanning salon
A 13-year-old boy is recovering after sustaining severe burn blisters to his face after visiting a tanning salon 3 times in a day.
Obviously unhappy at his somewhat pasty looking skin, Kieron Saunders decided 21 minutes under a high-powered 'standing' tanning booth should give him that desired bronzed look. Unfortunately it didn't, as his mum explains: "His lips swelled up and he looked like Baloo the bear from the Jungle Book."
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The new pet sterilization ordinance requires most dogs and cats to be spayed or neutered by the time they are 4 months old.
The ordinance, signed by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, will take effect Oct. 1 and aims to settle the euthanization problem in Los Angeles' animal shelters every year.
The city's animal shelters took in 50,000 cats and dogs last year and euthanized approximately 15,000 at a cost of 2 million dollars.
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