 | | "I am, like, outta here!" |
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Police were hunting Wednesday for a man who fled a New Zealand hospital spinal unit wearing a traction apparatus and with both arms in casts. The man disappeared Wednesday from the Burwood Spinal Unit in the southern city of Christchurch wearing a traction "halo" to correct a serious neck injury and elbow-to-wrist plaster casts, police said in a statement. Removing the halo could cause potentially fatal injuries, police said. It was not immediately clear how the man sustained the injuries that put him in hospital, nor why he fled before completing his treatment. |