A Nose For Trouble

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A scientist in Australia has been attempting to invent a necklace-type device to prevent people from touching their faces during the current COVID-19 crisis. The principle seemed simple enough. By clever use of magnets the necklace would buzz if your hands got too close. Unfortunately the device had the opposite effect and wouldn't stop buzzing until the magnets were placed close to it. Rather than going back to the drawing board he did what any good scientist would do. He gave up and started messing around with the magnets. After shoving one up each nostril he found that they had clamped together and were proving very difficult to remove. He then tried using more magnets to remove them and they also got stuck. Further attempts to remove them with some pliers were doomed to failure as the pliers just kept getting stuck on the magnets. He eventually gave up and went to his local hospital where doctors eventually managed to remove the magnets. Sadly, for the inquisitive amongst us, the report doesn't give any details as to how but I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that the accompanying photograph shows that he still has a full complement of facial features! I can neither confirm nor deny that his next attempt involved the somewhat simpler method of chopping his hands off and this also failed as, once he had chopped off one hand, he had nothing to hold the axe with to chop off the other!! And they say educational standards aren't falling!!