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Man impaled through eye with pruning shears (w/ pic!)

IronWing

IronWing

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We try to do stuff ourselves and look what happens!


Threads merged - the title of this post was the original thread title; now it's the post title and the reposted thread title is the thread title. Hopefully this will avoid having 5 reposts of the same topic that everyone thinks is an obscure article, but is being picked up by everyone. While clever, the original thread title also cleverly made it impossible for someone to successfully search for the topic to avoid a repost. -DrPizza
 
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One side of the handle shot through his eye socket and went down his neck, Gellerman said. The other side of the handle was sticking out through his eye socket.
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Wow, that's gonna leave a mark.
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I can't believe that is from falling at ground level onto the blunt end of them...wow.

BTW, you can click the x-ray and get a larger version.
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...-impaled-through-eye-with-pruning-shears.html

Leroy Luetscher was working in his back garden when he dropped a pair of pruning shears, which landed point-side down in the ground.

When Luetscher went to pick them up, he lost his balance and fell face-down on the handle. The handle penetrated his eye socket and went down into his neck, resting on the external carotid artery. Half the shears were left in his head, while the other half was sticking out.
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Great job. Just getting an 86 year old on and off the operating room table safely can be tricky depending on their health history. Then add how well it turned out.

Definitely had skilled people from beginning to end on that one.
 
"You wouldn't believe your eyes," Dr. Julie Wynne, assistant professor in the UA's Department of Surgery, said in the release.

Zing.
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Now if they were inserted into a hole in the opposite area of his body would we believe he just "fell" on the sheers?
 
Tell me if you can read this line without cringing.

Leroy Luetscher, 86, was working in the yard when he dropped a pair of hand pruners. The pruners landed on the ground point-side down, and when Luetscher bent down to pick them up, he lost his balance and fell face-down on the handle.
 
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