Frostbite The Easy Way...
Why slog up high mountains when you can simply switch on the air con in your Jag and watch your toes turn a darker shade of blue?
Posted: 12 August 2003
by Jon
You can hear the national newspaper journos rubbing their hands
together in glee with the news that a Jaguar driver has suffered mild
frostite after exposing his naked foot to the air conditioning of his
swishmobile.
Mike Ball, 36, a solicitor from Manchester drove from London to
Manchester with the air con full on and directed at his naked,
insect-bitten foot - the car was an automatic, so the foot was
superfluous anyway. The next day one of his toes developed tell-tale
signs of frostnip developing a blackened colour...
Jaguar apparently say that the air con only goes down to 3 degrees
C, but you have to think things got a tad cooler. And there was us
thinking you needed to drag yourself up alpine north faces in winter
to mangle your tootsies...
More details see: The
Grauniad or The
Sun which has a pic, but sadly not of the toes or Femail
which places Mr Ball in Liverpool rather than Manchester. All the
same these northern cities yer know.
Mr Ball, says the Mail, 'said he had received "almost zero
sympathy" from his wife Louise and two daughters.' Nice.
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