But scrum-half Simpson reacted sharpest to deny the Welsh star, smothering him and rolling him onto his back with the sort of two-step rarely seen on any dance floor.
His weapon: a rolling, 3-foot-tall machine (think R2-D2 from Star Wars) called the Xenex that bathes hospital rooms with intense, millisecond pulses of ultraviolet light from a high-wattage strobe light.
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