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Help, I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up

Abdel-Sattar Abdel-Salam Badawi was in the hospital in Menoufia, Egypt, and woke up to find himself in the hospital’s morgue refrigerator. “I moved my hands and pushed [open] the coffin’s lid to find myself among the dead,” Badawi said. He shouted for help, but no one heard him through the sealed door. Twelve hours after he “died”, three attendants found him when they went to the morgue to retrieve his body. “One of the employees fell dead” from the shock of finding him alive, Badawi said. (AP) ...What a loyal employee! He was clearly just ensuring the hospital’s morgue count remained correct.


Publication Date: 10 August 1997

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