Birthday Fishing Rod 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
I was a 1st year SHO in surgery, when on a Saturday afternoon a strange case presented itself to my attention.
A young man, who was an avid fishing amateur, had just celebrated his birthday. His parents had gotten him exactly what he'd been dreaming of for so long: a huge fishing rod with a lenght of fishing line that would make a professional sportsfisherman drool, and book his next trip to some secluded ocean fishing spot.
Lacking a real ocean in Belgium, and living quite far from the sea, he hiked out to his usual fishing haunt, a local lake.
He hurled out his line, then was hurled head over heels as the line snagged in the power cords high over his head. He had never noticed them before, as his former fishing rod was more appropriate to lake and river fishing, staying way below the dangerous cables.
He received severe grade 2 & 3 burns on the hands, and his great toe, which had apparently been the exit point of the current, had to be amputated later on. He had a serious arryhthmia afterwards, from which he did recover.
Becoming an appropriate Honourable Mention, he promised never to go fishing without checking overhead again. Submitted on 05/27/2002
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