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Dad Delivers Baby Using Wiki

sonamchauhan writes "A Londoner helped his wife deliver their baby by Googling 'how to deliver a baby' on his mobile phone. From the article: 'Today proud Mr Smith said: "The midwife had checked Emma earlier in the day but contractions started up again at about 8pm so we called the midwife to come back. But then everything happened so quickly I realized Emma was going to give birth. I wasn't sure what I was going to do so I just looked up the instructions on the internet using my BlackBerry."'"

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  1. I recently needed to learn how to set a live trap by Vandil+X · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...to catch a critter that got into my basement.

    God bless mobile Internet.

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  2. The Yahoo answers version by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    how is babby delivered?

    1. Re:The Yahoo answers version by bmecoli · · Score: 5, Funny

      how girl get labor?

  3. Re:I recently needed to learn how to set a live tr by maxume · · Score: 5, Funny

    Was it a boy or a girl?

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  4. Re:I recently needed to learn how to set a live tr by jameskojiro · · Score: 4, Funny

    I learned how to clean up forensic evidence from my basement....

    Thank you Wikipedia!

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  5. I want his mobile data service by dave562 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The AT&T EDGE service on my Blackberry would have delivered the information by the baby's 1st birthday if I was lucky. That is making the assumption that the built in browser could actually load the webpage.

  6. A geeks geek... by FrankSchwab · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anyone faced with a woman about to deliver, and their first thought is "I know, I'll go search around on google" is my hero.

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  7. Re:I recently needed to learn how to set a live tr by Brandee07 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The internet can be used to answer all sorts of questions! I recently left my laptop unattended in the living room, and when I came back "How to get a threesome in Dragon Age" was in the search box.

    The only question now is which one of my roommates needed to resort to a FAQ to figure that one out...

  8. Re:Blackberry? by potscott · · Score: 4, Funny

    There was, but Apple pulled it after complaints. It was called Shaken Baby or something similar...

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  9. Re:I recently needed to learn how to set a live tr by skine · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think your sig actually paraphrases what the article said.

  10. Re:I recently needed to learn how to set a live tr by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now, I think it's a little early to start imposing roles on it, don't you?

  11. Re:Cool by NotBornYesterday · · Score: 4, Funny

    The baby didn't cry at first. Then it realized that its own father had just used a user-editable, non-authoritative guide to performing a life-and-death medical procedure, and it hasn't stopped crying since.

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  12. Re:I recently needed to learn how to set a live tr by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait, if you were home, why would you need mobile internet? Or were there other circumstances keeping you from accessing your home net connection?

    Because he did not want to have to Goggle "how to clean afterbirth off of a laptop"...

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  13. Re:I'm inclined to suspect... by jamesh · · Score: 5, Funny

    the real headline ought to be: "Mother ejects baby in uncomplicated delivery"

    What on earth has the mother got to do with it???

  14. Re:I'm inclined to suspect... by pwfffff · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah I'd like to hear the stork's side of all this.

  15. Re:I recently needed to learn how to set a live tr by Sethumme · · Score: 3, Funny

    Follow these easy instructions.
    LMGTFY

  16. Childbirth? by PhasmatisApparatus · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's an app for that.

  17. Re:I recently needed to learn how to set a live tr by Jason+Earl · · Score: 3, Funny

    [citation needed]

  18. Re:I recently needed to learn how to set a live tr by rockNme2349 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The reliability of Wikipedia articles is considered by most to be uncertain, as sources find that many errors are produced by editors who clean-up articles. Most errors go undetected for long periods of time. [1]

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