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Saturday, 18 August 2012
quote [ A builder is recovering after an operation to remove a 1.8m-long iron bar from his head.
The bar fell from the fifth floor of a building under construction, went through Eduardo Leite's hard hat, pierced the back of his skull and exited between his eyes. Amazingly the 24-year-old survived and when he arrived at hospital he was conscious and able to tell doctors what had happened. ] 0_0
[by pleaides@9:50amGMT] [+10 WTF] |
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Ankylosaur
said @ 10:04am GMT on 18th Aug
[Score:5 Underrated]
Phineas Gage |
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Ankylosaur
said @ 10:09am GMT on 18th Aug
[Score:1 Underrated]
Somehow the internet failed to notify me of the kick-ass daguerreotypes of him with his tamping iron discovered in 2008 and 2010. I am disappoint. |
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b
said @ 5:48pm GMT on 18th Aug
They were posted to SE a while back. |
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Mad March Harris
said @ 6:49pm GMT on 18th Aug
The 2009 one looks like the cover of some sort of steam-punk action movie. |
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madpride
said @ 8:25pm GMT on 18th Aug
[Score:4 Funny]
Tamping...... Hot! |
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willrogers
said @ 9:00pm GMT on 18th Aug
I was thinking of the same thing. I actually feel really bad when these kinds of head wounds happen, because I always have this conflict between caring about the person and an intense interest in how it affected their neurological systems, thoughts, behaviors, etc. It's something I'm still conflicted about and probably will be for a long time. It's actually not that unusual in medical professions because everyone goes into healthcare because they both care about helping people and have intense interests in science and medicine, so interesting case studies are generally big draws. |
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atter_cob
said @ 9:40pm GMT on 18th Aug
Yep, this is what I thought of when I read the story. |
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underdog
said @ 10:08am GMT on 18th Aug
[Score:1 Insightful]
Holy Snapping Duckshit!!! |
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pleaides
said @ 10:13am GMT on 18th Aug
There's a thoroughly horrific image available of the guy on a gurney with the thing in his head that I couldn't even look at. I could only bear posting it once I found a story with this pic. |
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underdog
said @ 10:19am GMT on 18th Aug
[Score:2]
Will give it a miss mate. Was just forced to eat pizza hut and am perilously close to chundering already. |
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pleaides
said @ 10:23am GMT on 18th Aug
A very sensible decision. If I was in the computer parts business I'd post the hell out of it and wait beside my phone in anticipation of having to replace thousands of vomit-coated monitors and keyboards. |
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soulecho
said @ 10:48am GMT on 18th Aug
Is there a link to the page w/ that picture? I've got an iron stomach. |
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pleaides
said @ 11:00am GMT on 18th Aug
[Score:3 Interesting]
Here you go; http://news.sky.com/story/973896/man-survives-steel-rod-through-his-head I had to cover half the monitor with my hand to do that :/ |
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eIfish
said @ 4:15pm GMT on 18th Aug
Clicky. Are you guys exaggerating, or did they change the image to something more palatable? |
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ckfahrenheit
said @ 4:53pm GMT on 18th Aug
rebar rebar rebar rebar rebar rebar seaweed seaweed |
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ckfahrenheit
said @ 5:01pm GMT on 18th Aug
I used to browse ogrish.com whilst eating dinner |
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Naruki
said @ 8:21pm GMT on 18th Aug
If you did it for recipe ideas, THEN your stomach is awesome. |
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snowfox
said @ 5:18pm GMT on 18th Aug
I was wondering the same thing. The descriptions for Gage's injury in wiki were a lot worse than this image of the new guy. I wonder if people exaggerated the level of gore with Gage, or if his injury was drastically worse than the construction worker's. |
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Omegaphobic
said @ 10:51pm GMT on 18th Aug
[Score:1 Informative]
Gage had an open channel a few inches in diameter blown through his head from beside his eye out the top of his skull. The brain is fed by some pretty substantial blood vessels - I have no doubt that blood would have been pissing out of an injury of this nature. The pictured construction worker, on the other hand, has a thinner rod that has passed through the front of his skull in a straight line and which is still blocking the wound, and additionally has obviously had his head cleaned and shaved in preparation for surgery. I'm not surprised there's a dramatic difference. |
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Omegaphobic
said @ 10:47pm GMT on 18th Aug
I fear I have become jaded by long-term exposure to the internet. I looked at the photo of the guy with the rod through his head and went, "Oh, that looks painful. Poor man." No flinch and no revulsion whatsoever. Then again I watched the birth of my child with fascination and amazement at the quantities of spurting fluids rather than any sort of dismay so maybe it's just a constitutional thing. |
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ckfahrenheit
said @ 4:29am GMT on 19th Aug
me jaded too, but it's odd that although I thought it was a relatively mild image, I would probably flinch if it was a cat or puppy involved. |
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Nihil
said @ 11:42pm GMT on 18th Aug
I think it must have been empathy that made you flinch, not revulsion. That's just about the cleanest metal-object-through-the-head accident I've ever seen. |
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pleaides
said @ 4:43am GMT on 19th Aug
You're probably right, but I've never been good with images of that sort. Some of the stuff on ER could make me tremendously uncomfortable. Indeed, I showed the pic to my wife (back from underdog's place ;) and she was entranced. |
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underdog
said @ 4:52am GMT on 19th Aug
[Score:1 Funny]
Tell her "the soup was too hot". She'll know what I mean ;) |
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rangerx
said @ 9:23pm GMT on 18th Aug
Peril Hut. Make It (to the bathroom) Great. |
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sanepride
said @ 1:55am GMT on 19th Aug
Forced to? Like at gunpoint? |
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arrowhen
said @ 2:17am GMT on 19th Aug
[Score:1 Informative]
Weed, it's a hell of a drug. |
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underdog
said @ 2:48am GMT on 19th Aug
Friends kid's party |
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sanepride
said @ 5:10am GMT on 19th Aug
I hope they at least had the decency to serve something to deaden the pain. |
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tickaz
said @ 12:04pm GMT on 19th Aug
If you aren't given the option to get Eagle Boys instead then that's just bloody inhumane. |
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EPT
said @ 11:06am GMT on 18th Aug
For some reason this reminds me of Angry Anderson's character in Mad Max... |
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pleaides
said @ 11:11am GMT on 18th Aug
I don't remember reading that the builder is four feet tall. |
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EPT
said @ 11:28am GMT on 18th Aug
Wrong character. Anderson played 'Ironbar' |
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pleaides
said @ 11:35am GMT on 18th Aug
I was merely alluding to the fact that Gary Anderson wouldn't come up to your knees. |
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underdog
said @ 11:40am GMT on 18th Aug
Really, Gary? I had him pegged more as a Bruce or Richard. Gary doesn't quite strike me as very angry at all. |
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pleaides
said @ 11:43am GMT on 18th Aug
[Score:2]
He's a delightful man in person, fucking tiny and intensely friendly. Angry is the last thing he is. Used to be a regular at the pizza joint I used to work at, as well as the dry cleaners where I also worked. |
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underdog
said @ 11:44am GMT on 18th Aug
[Score:1 Funny]
BTW, if you ever find yourself needing to google Gary Oldman, be very careful not to leave out the 'r' in Gary. My eyes, they burned! |
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Navier-Strokes
said @ 12:19am GMT on 19th Aug
When the Internet hands you lemons, make a lemon party. |
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EPT
said @ 4:04pm GMT on 18th Aug
Ah, I never really thought of him as short. Maybe that's why he was so angry? |
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Galley
said @ 11:33am GMT on 18th Aug
[Score:1 Interesting]
With that rod through his frontal lobe, he's not going to be the most gracious host at dinner parties from now on... Since we're on the subject of fucked up medical stories, I had this patient awhile back who was visiting his cousin in Philly after finishing his tour in Iraq. Late night at a bar in north philly, and somebody shoots him in the face. The bullet essentially traveled through the outside corner of his eye, through the outmost layer of his brain, and exited through that soft spot you can feel behind your jaw and earlobe. After he 'came to' 2 days later, his biggest obvious deficits were his left eye swelling, some wooziness from medication and being intubated, et al, and memory loss of the actual shooting. There's been discussions at work regarding the types of calibers used on the street and which is the most damaging. Obviously .22 cals are pretty popular as they're dirt cheep, but people have brought up the point that weaker calibers have a much better chance to ricochet, making bones, cover and body armor more likely to 'catch' the bullet and allow it to bounce around inside of you. |
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pleaides
said @ 11:41am GMT on 18th Aug
I raise you; http://www.sensibleerection.com/entry.php/83206 http://www.sensibleerection.com/entry.php/75718 |
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chold_numa
said @ 3:48pm GMT on 18th Aug
[Score:1 WTF]
To really mess yourself up, you need farm machinery |
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snowfox
said @ 5:21pm GMT on 18th Aug
The surgeons said they are confident most of the face was successfully reattached. I like the use of the word "mostly". |
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Archy
said @ 4:46pm GMT on 18th Aug
There's a guy I know through extended family who was shot with a .22 pistol (accidentally) in the head. The .22 bullet literally hit him in the forehead, traveled under the skin in an arc around his skull, and exited out the back a few inches above his hairline. All he did was bleed a lot. Strong enough to break skin, not enough to shatter the skull. At least in his case. |
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daboo
said @ 1:12pm GMT on 18th Aug
0\0 FTFY |
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Rapscallion
said @ 2:28pm GMT on 18th Aug
[Score:2 Funny]
Yet more support for the libertarians...hardhats are clearly useless based on this one example! Goddamn govmint! *mumble* *mumble* Red tape! *munble* Bureaucrats! |
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scojam
said @ 2:34pm GMT on 18th Aug
Whoopie shit. Now if the steel rod had also been hit by lightning maybe that'd be a story. The Shishkabob Head. |
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backSLIDER
said @ 8:48pm GMT on 18th Aug
I was told a story about my grandfather falling onsome rebar and it going through his chest and out the back of his rib cage. They said it's lucky it wasn't sharper because it pushed his heart out of the way. |
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bygshoe
said @ 12:47am GMT on 19th Aug
+1 for the title alone |
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half
said @ 1:31am GMT on 19th Aug
it's zombie walk today. this guy really should come downtown. |
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graham
said @ 7:24am GMT on 19th Aug
[Score:1 Interesting]
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CapnSilver
said @ 2:17pm GMT on 19th Aug
[Score:1 Insightful]
SONY is doing some amazing stuff in gaming and it makes me sad that I hate them so much. This game makes me wish I had a psp. And the time in which to play a portable console |
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kichijoii
said @ 2:24am GMT on 20th Aug
It's cheaper to entertain yourself by trolling people into thinking their older model PSPs can already do that stuff. |
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