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• The latest trend in plastic surgery in China, according to Gulf Today, is the pointy ear.
The modified ears resemble those of animated characters or fairy tale creatures, and they give the face "a slender shape," the site reported on June 17.
Doctors first insert cartilage or an implant in the back of the ear, then fill it in with hyaluronic acid.
Plastic surgery clinics in China are experiencing such great demand that patients have to get on waiting lists. [Gulf Today, 6/17/2021]
• In December 2016, Cletus Snay hit a patch of black ice while driving in Bellevue, Ohio, and slammed into Matthew Burr's mailbox.
Doesn't seem all that dramatic, but postal service guidelines specify that mailbox poles be able to break away, which Burr's clearly did not do.
Burr had installed an 8-inch metal pole, buried 3 feet in the ground and fortified with rocks and dry cement poured on top, News5Cleveland reported.
This immoveable fixture caused Snay's truck to roll and left him a quadriplegic.
Attorney Kathleen St. John argued on June 16 to the Ohio Supreme Court that a property owner "is not justified in inflicting, without warning, bodily harm upon the person of a trespasser," but Burr's attorney, Doug Leak, calls the USPS recommendations "just guidelines" and said Burr was justified in reinforcing his mailbox after years of accidents and vandalism.
The court is expected to rule soon. [News5Cleveland, 6/16/2021]