ANGLER'S WEE FALL.AN ANGLER angler, common name for a member of the family Ceratiidae, European and American bottom-dwelling predacious fishes. The angler lies on the bottom and lures its prey with a long, wormlike appendage that extends forward and dangles over its mouth. was airlifted to hospital - after falling 20ft off a cliff as he did the toilet. The 71-year-old was bass fishing with a friend at Daddyhole Cove in Torquay, Devon, on Wednesday afternoon when he heard the call of nature. But he lost his footing on the slippery rocks as he urinated over the edge of a cliff and fell, dislocating his hip. Coastguard Steve Perrett said: "Luckily, his friend had a mobile phone and called the emergency services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' ." A holidaymaker said: "He went for a wee and slipped off, poor bloke." |
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