Martin ended up in the emergency room the next day with neck and back pain that she said caused "permanent damage".
He was alive when police found him but he died in hospital the next day from severe neck, head and facial injuries.
(I was particularly moved by his story about her one attempt to take a solo road trip, only to return the next day with her neck in a brace, "having been painfully rear-ended by some idiot before she had even properly embarked on the treat that was rightfully hers").
I could barely move my neck the next few days and it was completely covered in telltale marks.
He knows to keep his head up, and to move on--after all, he might get a medal around his neck the next time.
While it is claimed that Lamarck meant that it was mental effort that led to change (the giraffe stretching its neck to feed on treetop leaves so that the next generation inherited a longer neck), it is not clear that this was the only idea that he had in mind - Lamarck's language sometimes lacked the clarity that we expect in scientific writing today.
The Yankees beat the Seattle Mariners that night, 9-7, but Mr. Posada did not play in that game or the next because of a stiff neck.
"He'd throw a pitch up by your neck and the next one would be over the outside corner, and you can be effective that way".
When opposition leader Bill Shorten pledged this week Labor would stand by the party's position of pricing greenhouse gas emissions, Education Minister Christopher Pyne described the policy as "a rotten, stinking carcass" that he would hang around Shorten's neck until the next election in 2016.
And for wine drinkers: Please, try wearing a baguette and a wedge of cheese round your neck at the next big tasting; if that doesn't knock the remains of snobbery out of wine, I don't know what will.
