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Chainsaw-using professor suffers series of accidents
A professor is recovering from a sequence of horrific accidents at his Santa Barbara home.
Alan Howell was up a ladder pruning a tree with a chainsaw when a branch fell on him.
It knocked the 56-year-old on to a bush, the chainsaw fell on his legs ripping his flesh to the bone, then the 200lb branch pinned him to the ground.
As he came round he found the bush contained a wasps'nest - and he was stung 100 times.
Professor Howell is recovering at home after suffering grazes, bruises, deep cuts and stings all over his body.
He said: "When the tree limb fell on me and pinned me down, I guess I lost a handle of it (the chainsaw) and that's when it cut my leg up. It sliced me straight down to the bone."
Professor Howell, an English lecturer at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, said: "The worse part was getting stung repeatedly by those things. They were very aggressive and all over my face.
"I couldn't move because the limb was on top of me, so I kept yelling out for water to get them to stop stinging."
Mr Howell's neighbours heard him yelping in pain, and hosed him down with water to dispel the swarm reports Newspress.com.
Story filed: 14:04 Friday 27th July 2001
I wonder if that was the guy in the shorts falling off his ladder?
A professor is recovering from a sequence of horrific accidents at his Santa Barbara home.
Alan Howell was up a ladder pruning a tree with a chainsaw when a branch fell on him.
It knocked the 56-year-old on to a bush, the chainsaw fell on his legs ripping his flesh to the bone, then the 200lb branch pinned him to the ground.
As he came round he found the bush contained a wasps'nest - and he was stung 100 times.
Professor Howell is recovering at home after suffering grazes, bruises, deep cuts and stings all over his body.
He said: "When the tree limb fell on me and pinned me down, I guess I lost a handle of it (the chainsaw) and that's when it cut my leg up. It sliced me straight down to the bone."
Professor Howell, an English lecturer at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, said: "The worse part was getting stung repeatedly by those things. They were very aggressive and all over my face.
"I couldn't move because the limb was on top of me, so I kept yelling out for water to get them to stop stinging."
Mr Howell's neighbours heard him yelping in pain, and hosed him down with water to dispel the swarm reports Newspress.com.
Story filed: 14:04 Friday 27th July 2001
I wonder if that was the guy in the shorts falling off his ladder?