Dispensary Corner 22 Feb 12
February 22, 2012
DEFYING the odds.
A blind Zimbabwean, Dean du
Plessis, has beat all the odds and
naysayers, to become a
professional cricket commentator.
“I was born with tumours on
both my retinas, so I was only
meant to be alive for three to
maximum five months - but I’m
35, not out now, so still playing a
good innings,” he said.
To commentate games, Plessis
uses stump microphones and his
acute hearing to identify each
players unique characteristics
and what is going on in the game.
“If I turn my microphones
down, I really will be blind,” he said.
“Obviously having followed the
game for just over 20 years and
having commentated for 10 going
on 11 years, you get to
understand, and you get to know
which player does what and
that’s pretty much how I know
what’s going on out there.”
SURE way to raise blood pressure.
Sometimes it pays just to sit in traffic even if it does raise your blood pressure and give you a headache, as one Porsche owner in the US discovered recently. The driver, sick of waiting in thick traffic, decided to take matters into his own hands, and spotting an empty lane with workmen in it, drove straight into it. The man, however did not give thought as to the reason why the lane was empty, or why there were workers in it. He soon found out the answers to the unasked questions when his Porsche 311 began to sink into the newly laid wet tarmac. It took workmen an hour to shovel the tarmac away from the car’s wheels, whilst those that the impatient driver thought to overtake and cut in on, simply drove on by.
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