Tackle check: footballer sent off because private parts were pierced - Australia video

A footballer in Australia was sent off because he refused to remove the piercing from his penis, according to the website Anorak, which has a video of the incident.

Now a fierce debate is raging about how the referee knew about the piercing - and, indeed, if you can be sent off for refusing to remove such jewellery.

Aaron Ecclestone, who emigrated to Australia from Macclesfield in England, plays soccer for Melbourne's Old Hill Wanderers reserves.

The referee stopped the match against Swinburne reserves and marched Aaron to the dressing room to check his tackle. When they came out again, the ref showed him a red card.

Despite the ruling, Old Hill won the match 3-0.

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Australian man drinks 6 bottles of hand sanitiser liquid to get drunk in hospital

A patient being treated for alcoholism in an Australian hospital drank six bottles of alcohol-based hand sanitiser to get drunk.

His blood/alcohol level was five times higher than the Australian legal limit for driving after drinking the gel, which has an ethanol content of 66 per cent.

Dr. Michael Oldmeadow, of The Alfred hospital in Melbourne city, said that although the incident was not the first of its kind, it was the most serious case. "It's horrendous. You'd think it would taste pretty bad."

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