He washed his hands hundreds of times a day and took frequent showers. He went to therapy, but the disorder took over his life. It forced him to drop out of school and quit his job.
In a particularly cruel moment, his mother told him, "if your life is so wretched, just go and shoot yourself."
George did this that. He went to his basement, put a .22 caliber gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Instead of dying instantly, George survived and was taken to the hospitals.
Surgeons performed surgery to remove the bullet from his brain. It has virtually destroyed his left frontal lobe.
As he recovered, George found that almost all his compulsions were gone. He suffered no other brain damage though, and his IQ remained the same after the accident as it had been before. He went on to college where he did well.
Let this be a warning against trying to attract females by using too much body spray. 8 Brooklyn kids were sent to the hospital after Axe was unleashed in a sixth-grade classroom.
James Bozeman Jr. Has got to be one of the luckiest people in the world. Last year, he won $10 million in the Florida Lotto Jackpot.
In a tragic turn of events, a 2-year-old-boy named Maddox died when his mother dropped him into a pit of African Wild Dogs during his trip to the zoo with his parents.
Remember when you looked down at your math homework and asked “when am I ever going to use this.” Well, here’ s your answer. In order to celebrate mathematics in the new millennium, The Clay Mathematics Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts (CMI) established 7 Prize Problems.
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