Random 'What The' from the Sky News website:

Police are hunting a man who escaped from a hospital spinal unit wearing full traction apparatus and with both arms in casts.

The man managed to waddle his way out of the Burwood Spinal Unit in Christchurch, New Zealand.

At the time he was wearing a traction "halo" to correct a serious neck injury as well the plaster casts on his arms.

Doctors have warned that removing the halo could cause him potentially fatal injuries.

It is not known how the man sustained the injuries that put him in hospital.

And it is a mystery why he fled the unit before completing his treatment.