dirtybenny wrote: ↑Fri Sep 10, 2021 6:00 pm
ENTITY WAS GORED BY A STAG IN SCOTLAND.
Dr Stone, from Cambridge, was on a short break with friends when the stag ran towards her and gored her while she was standing outside a private residence in Lochailort.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/k ... an-3017799
The animals know.....
It is interesting that so many of these "
influencers" seem to have at least one unrelated news article some time in their past. Below, one of the two pictures from the above Mirror article which are credited to
SWNS. Looking the company up, they do say they have real journalists, but they also are a
Syndication Service for big British and American media names. And this story does appear to have been syndicated at the time.
Original
archived version of article captured on 13 Jan 2014, before any updates are recorded.
This picture seems to imply the Australian Outback. The arm and neck looks young, but the face looks more 40+, and besides, according to Kate's declared history, Australia was before university, so before transition.
From the
Dr. Kate Stone: Sensory Experiences video.
So I spectacularly failed high school, and my parents bought me what turned out to be a one way ticket to Australia. So I'm not really sure if it was punishment for the trick with the radio or even if they ever knew about that, but off to Australia I went, and for three years, I worked on various farms and factories, and for two of those years, I worked on and off on a 120,000 acre farm with 22,000 sheep in far western New South Wales.
I got the job by lying that I could ride a motorbike, and of course, I never had. And working on that farm, it taught me a lot about resourcefulness and resilience, and also that preparedness calms and panic kills. And there were times when a simple decision could have cost me my life whilst working in the desert on my own in the extreme heat. You had to make do and mend and think on your feet and keep your wits about you, and I learned to ride that motorbike by falling off it every single day that I rode it. Though to be fair, we were mostly off road, up and down some really steep ravines, jumping over the occasional creek and avoiding unmarked mine shafts. There really was one paddock that had unmarked mine shafts in it.
And my job every day, we would be moving sheep, and I learned that sheep don't do what you want them to do if you just try and make them. You have to really know the lay of the land, where the water is, the fences, and the noise that you make, and in this way, you can let the sheep do what you want them to do, allowing without commanding.
So after a year of traveling home through Asia, I managed to weasel my way in to a university, and I worked hard with a determination to earn a first class honours degree in electronics. And when I did, it opened up a whole new world to me. And I was then offered a funded PhD in physics at Cambridge. My PhD was to move electrons one by one, and I quickly realised that those electrons were very similar to sheep, and to move the electrons, I patterned silicon wires just a few nanometers across, and at a temperature of a few hundred degrees Celsius below freezing applied a voltage across the nanowires. The electrons would jump along the wire, one by one, and using a sensitive circuit, I could watch them go by. And again, this was allowing without commanding.
I could have highlighted more, but really it's just notable numbers, the usual persistence through adversity narrative, then hard work, topping off with a funded place at Cambridge.
Back to the Mirror stag article, which does open up some questions that I will have to address in a subsequent post:
A woman who was put into an induced coma after being gored by a stag is slowly regaining consciousness, and has communicated with doctors and her family.
Dr Kate Stone, 44, was subjected to the horrific animal attack in the early hours of December 30 while on holiday with friends near Fort William in the Scottish Highlands.
She was placed in an induced coma on New Year's Eve following an operation at Glasgow's Southern General Hospital to repair damage to her windpipe.
But doctors decided to take her off sedation on Tuesday following a successful second operation, and she has now been moved out of intensive care.
Interestingly, I found
this BBC video report, and from the
SWNS website:
Our customers range from newspapers such as The Sun and Daily Telegraph to websites such as Mail Online, Huffington Post and LadBible. We also supply publishers such as Bauer, Hearst and TI Media with real-life content and we licence content to broadcasters such as the BBC, ITN and CNN.
Kate
talking to the BBC:
Kate has to eat and drink through her neck (caption from original):
Why am I digging at this story?
The BBC report is dated 27 February 2014, so around two months after the alleged incident with the stag, Kate is interviewed with the BBC, seems to be able to talk ok, and has no visible injuries, just something stuck to her throat which we are expected to assume is actually going into the neck, yet there is no real indication of that being factually true at all.
In contrast to
the original Mirror report published on the 31 December 2013, a day after the incident:
Kate Stone, 30, was standing outside a guesthouse in the Scottish Highlands when the beast charged at her in the dark.
Its antlers punctured her neck and her spinal column and she was left on the ground bleeding heavily in front of horrified friends.
They raised the alarm and an ambulance made the 15-mile journey from the nearest base to the scene at Lochailort, nr Fort William, Inverness-shire.
It took her to Belford Hospital in Fort William but Kate was then flown by air ambulance to the Southern General hospital in Glasgow for specialist care.
There are fears that Kate, who has a PhD in Physics from Cambridge, may be paralysed if she survives.
The incident happened in the early hours of Monday morning outside the Mo Dhachaidh guest house where Falklands veteran Gary Burton and his wife Kasia, 35, were hosting Kate and her multi-national group of friends.
It is somewhat a curious case, the switch from 30 years old in the original report to 44 in the update, that is some inaccuracy, yet in that report, it is stated the stag "
may have chosen to attack 6ft Kate because she was tall and stood out from the crowd". Given the stated injuries, it continues:
"We were on our way back from the pub, it was pitch black and we were using torches to navigate our way back. "The deer was obviously scared by our presence, ran out through the gate and unfortunately ran into Kate.
"We immediately ran into the house called the paramedics and they arrived in 20 minutes, which is incredible considering the distance they had to come.
"I have no idea how she is, once she was taken to hospital I never heard anything more, I didn't know her or her friends.
"It was a completely freakish accident, I've never seen the like of it before.
"It just happened to be Kate. There was about seven of us in total, so it could have been any one of us."
A spokesman for the Scottish Ambulance Service said Kate is likely to have suffered serious injuries.
He said: "The woman involved - who we think was in her thirties - suffered a neck, chest and an arm injury.
"I do not know the severity of her injuries, but they will be serious if they could not be treated at the local hospital."
Taking the subsequent BBC interview into account, the discrepancy between "
30" and "
44", the fact that in every part of this story so far we have seen nothing but "
she" and "
woman", I think there is something fishy when we see what comes later in the narrative.
So the questions I'm wondering:
- Is the stag story completely made up?
- Did the Kate interviewed by the BBC actually sustain the stated neck, chest and arm injuries and they all healed up within the two months to such an extent it looks like there are no injuries in the interview?
- Instead, did an actual 30 year old woman called Kate suffer a freak goring through the throat by a stag in the Scottish Highlands as reported on 31 Dec 2013?
- If the story was real, maybe the injuries as feared were fatal?