‘I really wasn’t worried’: US man was getting vasectomy as earthquake struck - Lemmy.World

cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/10087746 [https://feddit.uk/post/10087746] > ‘I really wasn’t worried’: US man was getting vasectomy as earthquake struck > > > If one has to consider one of the most chaotic places to be during an earthquake, the operating table of your own vasectomy is surely up there on the list. > > > > For Justin Allen from Horsham, Pennsylvania, this was his exact reality on Friday when the New York City metropolitan area and its outskirts were shaken by a 4.8 quake. The earthquake was centered near Lebanon, New Jersey, according to the US Geological Survey, though people reported feeling its effects across New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania. > > > > “I thought maybe a train was passing by or it was just something that happens at that office, even when the doctor was like ‘I think this is an earthquake.’ I figured he was messing with me, but he had to stop because everything was shaking,” Allen told the Guardian. > > > > Allen said the doctor operating on him “put the tools down for a moment”.