Darwin Award Nominee.....

ITIMAN · Post by **ITIMAN** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 11:29 pm

OK how do you not notice this....

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/16/nailgu ... index.html

Not sure how to get the link to work right, just highligt and past into browser....

ITIMAN

*edited by Gambit to fix link. (ITI, you just need to put the address in, with http://, and the board translates it into a link for you.*

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Sun Jan 16, 2005 11:50 pm

I noticed that earlier. Yikes!

MegaDeath70 · Post by **MegaDeath70** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 12:03 am

a four-inch (10-centimeter) nail the construction worker had unknowingly embedded in his skull six days earlier.

Yea right, hard to beleive this one !

Sharpster · Post by **Sharpster** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:47 am

he was lucky

BlackRider · Post by **BlackRider** » Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:14 am

I wouldn't call having a nail embedded 1.5" into your brain lucky. Just the fact that the only side effects were a minor toothache and some blurred vision can be considered lucky.

A new light on "right between the eyes"?

Spinning Hat · Post by **Spinning Hat** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:07 am

That's a real story, some guys at work saw it on MSNBC and FoxNews. Not exactly Dariwn Award nomination worthy, (he didn't die) but still an amazing story.

MegaDeath70 · Post by **MegaDeath70** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 3:08 am

Just really really hard to beleive that a nail flys and imbeds itself in your face and you didnt realize it? C'mon now, if that shit happened to me i would know it happened. How wouldnt ya?

*laugh

Unless the guy was taking trip and didnt realize it. Thats the only way i can see a person not realizing this happened. Even then, the next day you would be checking this out, im sure.

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:47 am

True story.

When I was in jr. high, I was goofing off with some friends, sitting on top of a ten-foot-high brick wall. Something happened, don't remember what, and I fell off the wall. I ended up in a horizontal position on the ground, was fine, didn't even have the breath knocked out of me. Well, my legs had landed in a bush, and when I tried to move my right leg, it wouldn't. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that my leg had been impaled, completely, through the calf muscle, by a thumb-thick stub of the bush! I yanked it off (carefully) and went off to find my parents, but the point is I never felt the sudden injury. At all.

So, if I were in this guy's shoes, I can believe not feeling the initial injury, but I'm pretty sure I'd have checked out the "soreness" in the roof of my mouth later in the day!

BlackRider · Post by **BlackRider** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:22 pm

I'm just having a hard time imagining how the nail got in the position it did. Either he had his mouth WIDE open or it went through his lower jaw...

/me imagines a guy with his mouth wide open tring to figure out if his nail gun works...

Maybe he had a loose tooth.

Gambit, I remember that story... days later a green leaf fell out, right? Didn't you post that in some thread about shoving ice cubes into glass bottles or something?

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 2:53 pm

I believe I did post it there, too.

Gryphon · Post by **Gryphon** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 6:16 pm

Here is another http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/18/balcon ... index.html

Spinning Hat · Post by **Spinning Hat** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 1:08 am

Now THAT's a darwin Award nominee!