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The machine that doesn't go 'Ping!'

Hospitals are noisy places and when you've just come out of surgery it can be hard enough to get some sleep, but when someone's life support machine is making a racket it can be the last straw.

Frederik Moelner, 17 from Landshut in southern Germany, was in exactly this frame of mind after a car-crash and was trying to sleep in the recovery ward.

Unfortunately for Moelner, his neighbour in the next bed was having breathing difficulties and was being kept on a respirator. The noise of the life support machine, as it helped 76-year-old Hermann Berghof breathe, kept waking him up.

It was at this point that he popped over and unplugged the noisy device, hoping for a bit of shut-eye. Unfortunately, being a life support machine, alarms rang and the nursing staff promptly reconnected the life support machine.

Moelner is now being questioned by police, and still hasn't had any sleep.

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