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Man steals phone from Ebola patient, gets infected
The Daily Monitor ^
| 26 August 2012
| Francis Mugerwa
Posted on 08/27/2012 9:33:06 PM PDT by verum ago
Security and medical officials in Kibaale District have registered a case in which a man allegedly went in an isolation ward at Kagadi Hospital and stole a cellular phone from one of the Ebola patients.
The 40-year-old resident of Kyakabugahya LCI in Kagadi Town Council travelled about three kilometers to the hospital to apparently obtain a phone estimated to be valued at Shs60,000 more than two weeks ago.
The suspect allegedly broke into the isolation ward on the night of Tuesday August 14, undetected by hospital guards. The patient, who has since succumbed to the deadly hemorrhagic fever, then reported the theft to the hospital security that then embarked on tracing the alleged thief.
Police detectives began tracking him after he apparently began communicating to his friends using the phone. But as police zeroed in on him, he developed symptoms similar to those of Ebola and sought medication at the hospital.
(Excerpt) Read more at monitor.co.ug ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: cellphone; ebola; irony; karma; poeticjustice; theft; uganda
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If you're a bastard, karma's a bitch.
Hmm maybe I just coined myself a new signature
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posted on
08/27/2012 9:33:15 PM PDT
by
verum ago
To: verum ago
Oh, and for the curious:
60,000 Uganda Shillings is about $23.95
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posted on
08/27/2012 9:34:23 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(A good physical therapist is half friend, half sadist.)
To: verum ago
Crap.
Now that you’ve already said that, I got nuthin’.
:-\
[karma’s a bitch and then you really die?]
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posted on
08/27/2012 9:35:46 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Happiness is a warm Python.)
To: verum ago
that’s a disease I wouldn’t want to wish on my worst enemy.
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posted on
08/27/2012 9:40:51 PM PDT
by
mnehring
To: Salamander
Speaking of signatures, yours made me a giggle a little bit. Thought of a very juvenile pun (I’m guessing you weren’t “aiming” for that though, so I’ll spare you from it). Just in a weird mood tonight.
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posted on
08/27/2012 9:45:38 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(A good physical therapist is half friend, half sadist.)
To: verum ago
I am sooooooooo stealing that!!!
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:00:47 PM PDT
by
Ronin
(Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
To: verum ago
I am sooooooooo stealing that!!!
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:00:47 PM PDT
by
Ronin
(Dumb, dependent and Democrat is no way to go through life - Rep. L. Gohmert, Tex)
To: Ronin
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:04:06 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(Be a bastard, and Karma'll be a bitch.)
To: verum ago; neverdem; ProtectOurFreedom; Mother Abigail; EBH; vetvetdoug; Smokin' Joe; Global2010; ..
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:04:40 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1316 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
To: null and void
Wait, is there actually an Ebola ping list..?
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:07:07 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(Be a bastard, and Karma'll be a bitch.)
To: verum ago
There was. It’s now a bring out your dead ping list.
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:23:08 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1316 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
To: null and void
Sign me up, please
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:30:46 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(Be a bastard, and Karma'll be a bitch.)
To: verum ago
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:34:20 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Day 1316 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
To: null and void
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:37:35 PM PDT
by
verum ago
(Be a bastard, and Karma'll be a bitch.)
To: verum ago
There's no telling what I'm "aiming for" at any given moment.
I may [or may not] be enjoying the ambiguity
:)
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posted on
08/27/2012 10:57:32 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Holy muscle of love. I got a muscle of love.)
To: verum ago
Broke into the isolation ward? Serious Darwin contender.
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posted on
08/28/2012 12:02:55 AM PDT
by
I still care
(I miss my friends, bagels, and the NYC skyline - but not the taxes. I love the South.)
To: verum ago
instant kharma...
ain’t it sweet
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posted on
08/28/2012 1:36:30 AM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: verum ago
I’m guessing he wanted to some skin in the game and found out what’s eating him....
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posted on
08/28/2012 3:11:50 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
To: verum ago
I bet Ebola will give you a little more than a Ping!
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posted on
08/28/2012 3:18:18 AM PDT
by
Safetgiver
( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: null and void
Can you add me to the ping list, too? Thanks
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posted on
08/28/2012 4:25:09 AM PDT
by
Wage Slave
(Army Mom!)
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