Status: Undetermined
Ananova,
All Headline News, the
Mumbai Mirror, and a couple of other highly reputable news sources are reporting a story about a Hungarian woman who fell through the ice while ice skating, and stopped herself from drowning by gripping the edge of the ice with her teeth:
The 29-year-old woman was practicing on Lake Velence when the ice cracked and she fell in. With frostbite setting in and her hands unable to move, the only thing left was to grip the edge with her teeth. After being rescued doctors say her quick thinking saved her life.
This boggles my mind. If it was so cold that she couldn't use her arms, how could she still bite down on the edge of the ice? That would have to be very painful. Just thinking about it sends shivers down my spine. But I suppose it could be true, or the story could have been exaggerated and distorted as it made its way its way through the media. I don't know what to believe. The story apparently originally came from the Bilkk newspaper, which I can't find any record of online.
Comments
She can't have had sensitive teeth...
Still I am skeptic about clinging by the teeth.
http://www.blikk.hu/cikk.php?cikk=33188
Blikk is on par with Ananova.
Ah..I'm a bit slow...
I don't think it happened.
I don't see why this couldn't have happened. But that doesn't mean that it did happen, and the quality of the news sources reporting on it doesn't really give its credibility a lot of help.
*Shrug*
Just a possibility.