Sigh

A fitness instructor severed a nerve and an artery when she plunged a knife into her hand as she tried to pry the stone out of an avocado.

Melissa Norgart, 46, was horrified when the four inch blade slipped and tore into her flesh as she prepared a salad at home in Sanford, Florida in July last year.

‘It went halfway through my palm. It made a sound like when the killer stabs someone in a horror movie,’ said Norgart.

The phenomenon of ‘avocado hand’ has become so common the British Association of Plastic Surgeons recently called for safety labels to be placed on the fruit.

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