‘Mostly felt like a speed bump’: US man on getting vasectomy amid earthquake
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Justin Allen says he thought doctor was ‘messing’ with him and that they’d never forget where they were during quake

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‘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”.

  • @Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish
    77•8 months ago

    When I was in high school there was a barely perceptible quake that occurred the moment I whipped out my donger at a urinal.

    I’m not saying it was the cause, I’m just saying the events coincided exactly and that our northern AB town had never before and never since registered seismic activity.