Belly-button stud shot through girl in car crash 'like a bullet'

"A teeenager has given a warning of the dangers of body piercing after she was skewered by her belly button stud in a car crash Jessica Collins, 19, was left fighting for her life when the silver stud in her belly button pushed through her body - ending up just millimetres...

Heathrow worker sacked over stud

"A Heathrow Airport worker has been dismissed for wearing a nose stud. Amrit Lalji, 40, of Stanmore, north-west London, who worked for caterers Eurest, said she wore the tiny piercing as a mark of her Hindu faith. She had worn the stud at work for more than a year until a...

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Piercings Begone!

"Yesterday I looked up at my friend Sarah, and told her that she had "a bat in the cave." I thought I was doing her a solid, being a good pal, alerting her to the booger waving at me from within her nostril. When she finally understood what I was talking about, she laughed it...

Why we need regulations

"Here is another example of why people like government, and need government to regulate the market. It's the nature of the state under capitalism. The State is the regulator, since self regulation leads to this; Death sparks calls for piercing guidelines "