Man burns his head after mistaking iron for phone Tomasz Paczkowski from the northern Polish town of Elblag now sports bandages around his head after a request from his wife to help with the housework while he enjoyed a few days off work backfired. "My wife had gone to work and asked me to help with the housework," the 32-year old told the Polish newspaper Fakt. After breakfast I started to work. I turned on the boxing channel on the TV, opened a beer and started ironing. "I was really getting involved in the boxing and was not really thinking about what I was doing," he continued. Suddenly the phone rang and I mucked things up: instead of grabbing the receiver I picked up the iron and put it to my ear. Mr Paczkowski said a burning sensation on his ear soon made him realise his mistake. To compound his misfortune a dash to the bathroom to cool his burn with water resulted in his head hitting a door frame, causing an injury just above the left eye. As a result of his accident he said he would give up watching boxing on the television but would continue to iron.