Man airlifted out of gorse bushes

[emad]

A man has been rescued by helicopter after being trapped in prickly gorse for two days.

The 32-year-old was stuck in an area of 8ft high bushes on a cliff face at Primrose Valley near Filey until he was seen waving a lighter on Tuesday.

Emergency services were unable to reach him so a helicopter was scrambled from RAF Leconfield and the man was airlifted to hospital with hypothermia.

Sgt Colin Yorke from the RAF said they had no idea how the man had got there.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/4133822.stm

[MADem]

1. What a pain in the gorse!!!

OWCH!!!!!!

[Hugin]

2. What's a gorse?

Does it rhyme with horse?

[emad]

3. Fortunately yes, 'cos if it rhymed with whores then it would be

pronounced gores.........

[miss_kitty]

4. gorse

NOUN:

Any of several spiny shrubs of the genus Ulex, especially U. europaeus, native to Europe and having fragrant yellow flowers and black pods. Also called furze , whin 1 .

ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English gorst, gors, from Old English

http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry?id=g0202700

[Hugin]

6. O.K. it's a "furze" then.

:eyes:

;)

[Akoto]

5. I almost mistook that guy for Bush. n/t