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One of the luckiest guys ever
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:03 pm
by Nitrofox125
How can you not feel this?
LITTLETON, Colorado (AP) -- A dentist found the source of the toothache Patrick Lawler was complaining about on the roof of his mouth -- a four-inch (10-centimeter) nail the construction worker had unknowingly embedded in his skull six days earlier.
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:24 pm
by Top Gun
Jebus!
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:26 pm
by Zoop!
Never again do I play with anything involving nails (not that I ever did, but I do have a history of doing stupid things).
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 8:38 pm
by Iceman
Yowza!
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:29 pm
by snoopy
wow.
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:31 pm
by ccb056
he should buy a lotto ticket
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:35 pm
by Defender
I just don't understand how you can't know that a nail just pierced your skin and skull...
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:37 pm
by woodchip
Having used nail guns for the better part of 25 years, how could this cement head not realize he shot himself in the head? To fire a nail gun you have to firmly press the nail shooting part of the gun firmly against what you want to nail for the gun even to go off. I guess the guy had such a small amount of grey matter that the nail never made it through his thick skull.
Did I mention the guy was a moron?
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 9:44 pm
by Defender
In the article, it states that he'd fired it into a piece of wood, but he didn't notice that a second nail came out at the same time and was lodged into his skull/brain.
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:03 pm
by Eagle132
Aw dude, that would hurt like hell.
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 10:43 pm
by JMEaT
Holy...
Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 11:29 pm
by Battlebot
JMEaT wrote:Holy...
...★■◆●
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 12:03 am
by Krom
It amazes me what people don't notice.
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 1:20 am
by BigSlideHimself
It reminds me of this episode of Real TV, or some equally lame real camera show, where this woman had a knife stuck in the back of her neck and didn't feel it. She said later she felt someone bump into her. They had footage of her shopping around in a supermarket with the handle of a knife sticking out of her ★■◆●ing neck! She didn't realize it until she got home and her daughter said: "is that a knife coming out of your ★■◆●ing neck?"
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:52 am
by WarAdvocat
BigSlideHimself wrote:It reminds me of this episode of Real TV, or some equally lame real camera show, where this woman had a knife stuck in the back of her neck and didn't feel it. She said later she felt someone bump into her. They had footage of her shopping around in a supermarket with the handle of a knife sticking out of her ****ing neck! She didn't realize it until she got home and her daughter said: "is that a knife coming out of your ****ing neck?"
^^ every time I read that I laugh all the way through..
Thanks!
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:57 am
by Tyranny
You'd be surprised what the human body will do to cope with extreme trauma sometimes. You hear stories of people breaking limbs and not feeling the pain until much later after the break all the time.
I'd imagine it is quite similar when foreign objects get stuck into people with no selfawareness
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:03 am
by Darkside Heartless
Brother busted his kneecap in a biking accident and only realized it after a couple days.
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:17 am
by snoopy
The article said that the gun misfired, shooting one nail into a peice of wood, and a second into him... Read the article Wood.
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:07 am
by Lobber
Dentist - "Well Patrick, I think I have the source of your toothache nailed down..."
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:08 am
by Stryker
Saw this on the news the other night--but the guy was complaining about blurry vision only, not a toothache. Funny how stuff gets so screwed in the media...
Must admit though, that is one lucky guy. That's something to tell your kids when they grow up...
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:38 am
by Foil
Stryker wrote:That's something to tell your kids when they grow up...
And in this case, if the kids don't believe him, he'll have X-rays, newspaper clippings, etc. to back him up!
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:44 am
by Tyranny
Lets hope he hasn't spawned yet
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 12:46 pm
by Top Wop
How can you not know that there is a nail lodged in your head through the outside? Would'nt the taste of blood be a freaking clue? I mean it had to go through his jaw. There would have to be a hole in the underside of his jaw or something.
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:25 pm
by Sage
his lack of medical insurance and hospital bills between $80,000 and $100,000
lolz
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:30 pm
by Beowulf
Man...it was in his f'in skull for SIX DAYS. I can't go six days w/o droppin a deuce. Can you imagine a NAIL in your skull for six days?!?
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 8:47 pm
by ccb056
moreover, could you imagine dropping a turd with a nail in it
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 9:38 pm
by MD-2389
Stryker wrote:Saw this on the news the other night--but the guy was complaining about blurry vision only, not a toothache. Funny how stuff gets so screwed in the media...
Actually, he did complain of a toothache, and kept eating ice cream to combat the "infection".
Posted: Tue Jan 18, 2005 10:35 pm
by DCrazy
Because we all know that bacteria absolutely hate milk...
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:07 am
by Stryker
What I was saying was that on the news the other night, they didn't mention ANYTHING about his tooth aching, or that it was lodged through his mouth.
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 6:20 pm
by Boo
ccb056 wrote:he should buy a lotto ticket
x2
Might want to get his nerves examined too, the fact that he didn't feel that is amazing
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 7:52 pm
by Phaser
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:02 pm
by Top Gun
Yeah...I think Phaser's one beats it
Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:44 pm
by Lobber
A little bit too much iron in his blood.