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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Corsair on April 21, 2006, 09:05:13 pm
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/04/21/nail.gun.ap/index.html
I really... don't know know what to say. Just, wow.
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc?
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Crap in a hat! 12!?!?
"Surgeons removed the nails with needle-nosed pliers and a drill" OWWW
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Heh, explains a lot about him if he can shoot 12 nails into his head and still not hit anywhere vital in his brain...
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I guess the human brain still has alot of unused space for so many nails to go in and cause little damage.
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Man shoots nails into head, gets headache
O RLY?
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so close to a darwin award, but alas
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I don't think anyone under the influence of methamphetamine should be eligible for a Darwin Award. It's like a performance-enhancing drug for stupidity.
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Wait, they were in his head for months???
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Apparently...
Man shoots nails into head, gets headache
O RLY?
YES RLY!
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Apparently...
Man shoots nails into head, gets headache
O RLY?
YA RLY!
Fixed.
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Holy flesh eating fish batman!
That's insane. =o
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How do you people find these things? :wtf:
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They actualy INCREASED his intelect!
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They actualy INCREASED his intelect!
Wonders what a good diet of iron will do...
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It's not as dramatic (or stupid and insane), but I did this to myself at work last month:
(http://scroll.hard-light.net/nailinfingers.jpg)
"I nailed my fingers together, and all I got was this lousy x-ray!" ;)
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Is it just the perspective, or do you have a freakishly small hand?
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It's a 3 1/2 inch nail. I actually have quite long fingers.
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It's a 3 1/2 inch nail. I actually have quite long fingers.
hello jon christian :)
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I am more amused by the fact that there's an advert for nail guns at the bottom of this thread...
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OUCH. You make me greatful I have yet to impale myself with anything.
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I am more amused by the fact that there's an advert for nail guns at the bottom of this thread...
I'm more amused by the fact that Sesq appears to have also nailed a glove to his fingers.
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They actualy INCREASED his intelect!
That reminds me of an episode of the Simpsons about Homer having a crayon in his head that made him a genius :D
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They actualy INCREASED his intelect!
His intelect?
Wwo!
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Amazing! Though the volume of lost brain mass wasn't that great, he was damn lucky to miss the important blood vessels.
Twelve nails... I can't even start to imagine how desperate he must have been :eek2:
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I can't imagine how doped he must have been. One through the fingers was plenty painful enough (especially when the triage nurse made me sit for two bloody hours in the waiting room without so much as an asprin!)
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I don't know why but this makes me laugh.
It's just the thought of this guy, so desperate, depressed and off his head that he decides to give it all up. He picks up Winowna, his trusty Nail gun, put's her against his sad despressed little head and closes his eyes, wishing his life an unfond farewell.
*Click*
Doh! He realises he's not dead. Sighs and tries again.
*Click*
Doh!
*Click*
Doh!
*Click*
Doh!
*Click*
Doh!
*Click*
Doh!
*Click*
Doh!
*Click*
Doh!
*Click*
Doh!
*Click*
Doh!
*Click*
Oh I give up.
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Apparently...
Man shoots nails into head, gets headache
O RLY?
YA RLY!
Fixed.
Thanks.
As for how I found it... it was the headline on CNN.com last night.
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I don't know why but this makes me laugh.
It's just the thought of this guy, so desperate, depressed and off his head that he decides to give it all up. He picks up Winowna, his trusty Nail gun, put's her against his sad despressed little head and closes his eyes, wishing his life an unfond farewell.
*Click*
Doh! He realises he's not dead. Sighs and tries again.
*Click*
Doh!
*Click*
Doh!
*Click*
Doh!
*Click*
Doh!
*Click*
Doh!
*Click*
Doh!
*Click*
Doh!
*Click*
Doh!
*Click*
Doh!
*Click*
Oh I give up.
More like
"I just want to die.....oh, a nail gun"
*click*
"Ugh..... where am I? Oh god, I want to die. A nail gun!"
*click*
"uuuhhhh.......whe am me? wanna die.....a nail gun!"
*click*
"whe me die nail gun!"
*click*
"where ami? what button do?"
*click*
"ow... head not good. Button make pain go?"
*click*
"aahhh..... button pretty"
*click*
"gah...uk. button........"
*click*
"ooh. me rperss butto..."
*click*
*looks around*
"Instant lottery tickets! How could I lose?"
*drops nailgun*
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cnn.com has a video online now about the guy, showing the x-rays and also the nails after they were extracted from his head. Just... wow. It's unbelieveable.
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I'm not sure what to think.
Either he was really lucky or the world was really unlucky.
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If he's not a cylon, we're all really screwed.
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Surely we are all screwed if he is a cylon?
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What a surprise, he comes from Oregon.....
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Wait, that's where I'm from. :nervous:
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Surely we are all screwed if he is a cylon?
Well... we might be screwed, but he's definitely nailed. :D
Which do you prefer - sure nailing or possible screwing?
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More like
"I just want to die.....oh, a nail gun"
*click*
"Ugh..... where am I? Oh god, I want to die. A nail gun!"
*click*
"uuuhhhh.......whe am me? wanna die.....a nail gun!"
*click*
"whe me die nail gun!"
*click*
"where ami? what button do?"
*click*
"ow... head not good. Button make pain go?"
*click*
"aahhh..... button pretty"
*click*
"gah...uk. button........"
*click*
"ooh. me rperss butto..."
*click*
*looks around*
"Instant lottery tickets! How could I lose?"
*drops nailgun*
I wish sigs could be much longer.
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Reminds me of how some guy in the UK a few years back commited suicide with a drill.
Took eight holes.
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Took eight holes.
Reading that literally made me cry out in horror.
It'd be great if you could find the original news article or something corroborating...
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Okay, I am working on it.
I cannot find any news article... but it is a trivia fact on quite a few websites.
It is around August, 1982, if I remember correctly.
'In 1982, Englishman William Hall committed suicide by drilling holes into his head with a power drill . . . it took 8 holes.' copied and pasted from http://home.bitworks.co.nz/trivia/body.htm
My apologies, I wished I could track better links...
Say... would anyone know of a UK based newspaper that archives that far back?
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Well it could be possible, physically, to do it. But stayin conscious to do it eight times might be the trick. Althought, the brains do not feel, so you might just feel the vibration... Well I really can't imagine what it would be like, 'cos I'm starting to feel sick :ick:
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Well it could be possible, physically, to do it. But stayin conscious to do it eight times might be the trick. Althought, the brains do not feel, so you might just feel the vibration... Well I really can't imagine what it would be like, 'cos I'm starting to feel sick :ick:
LET'S DO IT
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Took eight holes.
Reading that literally made me cry out in horror.
Ditto for this. Just...ouch.
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Moral of the story?
Use a shotgun.
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Actually it's possible to miss even with a shotgun. I remember hearing of one case where the guy blew his face off but lived.
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The head is really a wonderful thing:
Although the explanations quoted above are erroneous, these images are in fact real and undoctored, and they are indeed photographs taken of a patient whose brain surface was exposed and crawling with insects. The pictures date from October 2002, and they are photographs of a man in his 70s who was suffering from an unusual form of cancer which had eaten away at the upper portion of his skull and scalp but who had not sought any medical treatment because the condition was not causing him pain. The man was brought to the trauma center at Stanford University Hospital (where the photographs shown here were taken) by San Mateo County paramedics who had been summoned to the scene after the man was involved in a minor automobile accident and who found him in his car in the condition pictured.
I don't want to give a link because the pictures really are disgusting and I don't want you to see them. The story is in Snopes.com and should be reliable...
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Like that poor guy who was out on a boat with his friends, and had the achor go thru his skull, in the end he walked away with the only lasting damage is decreased vision in one eye, that had bad vision anyways.
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Oh, and since we are talking about head injuries... I once had a dart shot in to my skull, just below the right eyebrow. It went deep, so I had to pull really hard to get it out. It didn't bleed or anything, just left a small red mark. Just to be safe I went to see a doctor (having a metal spike pierce my skull did freak me out a little). I told him what happened, and he took a look at the place the dart impaled me. And, being highly educated person, he just said "Yes, there's a hole". And then sent me home. :rolleyes:
When you think about it, that area above the eye does have some empty space. So I guess I was lucky it hit me there (I would have preferred it to miss my head alltoghter).
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You're just lucky it didn't hit your eye. Then you would've been screwed. Although it would give you an excuse to wear an eyepatch. :arrr:
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You were just looking for a reason to use the pirate smiley weren't you?
Yarr
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Arrrrrrrrren't we all?
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Actually it's possible to miss even with a shotgun. I remember hearing of one case where the guy blew his face off but lived.
You know... I did see the image of an attempted shotgun suicide. Some very wounded guy, sitting at a police station, on rotten.com... man, I feel for that guy. Who cannot make a shotgun suicide right.
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I remember many years ago there was a kid who accidentaly recieved a headshot in his brain, the surgeons have to remove one of the brain's hemisphere entirely, and even with half of his brain left, he survived and was able to keep living a normal life (though he needed recovery sesions in order to be able to walk again).
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I remember many years ago there was a kid who accidentaly recieved a headshot in his brain, the surgeons have to remove one of the brain's hemisphere entirely, and even with half of his brain left, he survived and was able to keep living a normal life (though he needed recovery sesions in order to be able to walk again).
Ah! Is it the one with the black american kid, who was a shop assistant? The shop owner walked in, and thought he was a theif. So then, he took a magnum, and nailed him in the head, accidently. I saw photos of him with half of his skull off. Freaky.
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Yeah, he recieved a hemispherectomy. I believe it's only effective on younger individuals, as the brain is still in a developmental stage and the remaining hemisphere can pick up the slack [with time]. It's not exactly a common procedure, but it's used from time to time to treat epilepsy, such as if a child is experiencing especially violent seizures.
I've always wondered if they just leave the rest of the skull hollow without any reinforcement. I mean, does the presence of the brain support the skull at all, and can it survive perfectly without anything under it?
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Skull holds together quite well even when it is empty.
I'd be more worried about the part of the brain left inside, bouncing around. I suppose they have to support it somehow... Could be a freakish feeling, wobbling your head from side to side and feeling how your half of the brain left hits the sides of the skull... :nervous:
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I'd imagine they'd put something in there to keep your brain in place. :rolleyes:
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Might as well put something useful there, like an MP3 player.
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The man was brought to the trauma center at Stanford University Hospital (where the photographs shown here were taken) by San Mateo County paramedics who had been summoned to the scene after the man was involved in a minor automobile accident and who found him in his car in the condition pictured.
I'd love to know what the paramedics were thinking:
Told you to take the shortcut...
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Ah! Is it the one with the black american kid, who was a shop assistant? The shop owner walked in, and thought he was a theif. So then, he took a magnum, and nailed him in the head, accidently. I saw photos of him with half of his skull off. Freaky.
Yes, that kid, was it in New York?. I don't know, but the news says that he was in half of a shooting between cops and some thiefs, and in the mid of all that, he recieved a shoot...
I'd be more worried about the part of the brain left inside, bouncing around. I suppose they have to support it somehow... Could be a freakish feeling, wobbling your head from side to side and feeling how your half of the brain left hits the sides of the skull...
I asked myself the same, it's something really uncommon, so I don't have anyone who could tell me how it is supposed to be. I bet even the doctors where confused at some point...
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I asked myself the same, it's something really uncommon, so I don't have anyone who could tell me how it is supposed to be. I bet even the doctors where confused at some point...
Doctor #1: Wait, what did we just do to that kid?
Doctor #2: Trust me, you don't wanna know.
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Might as well put something useful there, like an MP3 player.
Personally I reckon a flip top lid is the best suggestion. You could store your lunch or whatever. For halloween you could install some flashing LEDs and go as Data from TNG :D
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Yeah, and everyone will freak out when they see you digging porrage from your head with a plastic spoon...
I'd prefer a small computer. Display and powercable/battery could be plugged in to the ear. And wireless mouse and keyboard goes to your pockets. What would be a problem is overheating. The ear should also be protected to prevent sweat from getting to the powercable.
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Actually it's possible to miss even with a shotgun. I remember hearing of one case where the guy blew his face off but lived.
I've actually seen a guy who blew half of his face off with a shotgun in a suicide attempt. He made the mistake of putting the shotgun muzzle under his chin and not in his mouth. Or that's what's supposed to be the "correct" way of doing it according to my army buddies.
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And if you want to waste someone, and are a good marksman, don't aim between the eyes. Most of the brain mass is actually above the eyes.
Or, don't aim at the head at all. Since the human brain seems to be a bit unreliable when it comes to dying, you should go for the heart.
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I've actually seen a guy who blew half of his face off with a shotgun in a suicide attempt. He made the mistake of putting the shotgun muzzle under his chin and not in his mouth. Or that's what's supposed to be the "correct" way of doing it according to my army buddies.
Apparently putting it in your mouth isn't sure-fire either. Shotguns are quite long see and it's all too easy to easy to jerk the barrel up or down as you struggle to reach and pull the trigger.
In which case you blow the back of your head off but miss the brain completely or accidently slip it out of your mouth and simply end up shooting yourself in the face.
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In which case you blow the back of your head off but miss the brain completely or accidently slip it out of your mouth and simply end up shooting yourself in the face.
If you blow the back of your head off, it doesn't matter whether there was any damage to your brain, because the shot most likely severed your spinal cord and cut all neural connections from the brain to the body. But you're right about the difficulty of reaching the trigger. If your head was slightly turned when you pulled the trigger, the pellets could exit somewhere under your ear or behind your jaw, but even then there would be damage to one of your jugular veins.
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Stuff the shotgun, just go off a tall building. Nice, showy way of going out, you've got a nice view for most of the way down, and if you've got good aim, you might just take a few innocent bystanders to hell with you.
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Except that in rare incidents it's possible to survive a fall from a great height too. I even once heard the story of a guy who tried to commit suicide by jumping off the 86th floor of a building only to be blown back in through a window on the 83rd floor by a freak gust of wind.
True or not it could happen :p
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I wonder if it's true what they say about jumpers. That most of them have second thoughts during the fall.
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Oh yes!
I know another amusing failed suicide by jumpers!
One guy tried to jump off a eight storey building, and he landed on the woman. Both got hospitalised.
Man survived, but the woman died.
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I wonder if it's true what they say about jumpers. That most of them have second thoughts during the fall.
Indeed, from a philosophical point of view, it is said that every single one of lifes little problems suddenly becomes solvable the second you jump. The only problem you can't solve is that you're travelling towards the pavement at nigh-on terminal velocity.
Wait... wasn't that a line from a movie or something...
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Every now and then there are incidents when someone falls (accidentally or not) from somewhere around fourth floor, and survives with a broken limb or as little as few bruises. The problem with Finland is to find a tall enought building. We prefer bridges, masts and towers.
A friend of mine got in to trouble with the police (again) and jumped without a second thought from a second floor window. I think he landed on his head because he remained unaffected by the fall and managed to escape.
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I wonder if it's true what they say about jumpers. That most of them have second thoughts during the fall.
Indeed, from a philosophical point of view, it is said that every single one of lifes little problems suddenly becomes solvable the second you jump. The only problem you can't solve is that you're travelling towards the pavement at nigh-on terminal velocity.
Wait... wasn't that a line from a movie or something...
Well, then... they had a couple of moments to stop and reflect on the decision they made.
Especially after the point of no return.
I would imagine that there would be quite a few thoughts, unless they are knocked out by the shock of watching the ground come up to them unusually fast.
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I would imagine that there would be quite a few thoughts, unless they are knocked out by the shock of watching the ground come up to them unusually fast.
"And whats this thing coming toward me very fast? So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide sounding name like 'Ow', 'Ownge', 'Round', 'Ground'! Thats it! Ground! Ha! I wonder if it'll be friends with me? Hello Ground!"
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"Oh, not again"
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Freefall is not a good place to have second thoughts, unless they are along the lines of 'Why didn't my parachute open?'
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Freefall is not a good place to have second thoughts, unless they are along the lines of 'Why didn't my parachute open?'
"Did I leave the oven on?"
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I think he landed on his head because he remained unaffected by the fall and managed to escape.
:lol: