The machine that goes PING

In what sounds amusingly like an updated urban legend, a teenage accident victim unplugs a fellow patient's life support in order to get some sleep:

Police in Southern Germany are quizzing a 17-year-old car crash victim who turned off a fellow hospital patient's life-support machine because it was keeping him awake.

Frederik Moelner wound up in intensive care recovering from the accident, reports Ananova, but his attempts to have a bit of recuperative kip were stymied by the noisy life support machine keeping the 76-year-old in the neighbouring bed breathing.

I guess it's hard to sleep in the same room as the machine that goes PING!