SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian handyman admitted he was stupid to shoot himself in the head with a nail gun in a misguided prank that left him with a nail lodged in his brain.
Brad Shorten, a father of three from Victoria state, was enjoying a few beers with friends after working on his house when they began joking about industrial accidents.
Shorten, 33, picked up a nail gun that he thought was empty, pointed it at his head and pulled the trigger.
He later said he had turned off the gun's compressor and taken out its nail cartridge but did not realize there was still enough pressure in the gun to fire a nail.
"My mates and I were talking about construction site accidents and taking your eye out with a nail gun, and I foolishly put the gun to my head and pulled the trigger," Shorten told the Sunday Herald Sun newspaper.
"I did a very stupid thing," he said.
The bizarre mishap left him with a 1.25-inch nail counter-sunk through his skull just behind his temple.
Royal Melbourne Hospital neurosurgeons removed the nail in a delicate four-hour operation even though Shorten, who was expected to make a full recovery, had offered to take the nail out with a pair of pliers
Some time I wonder how the Australia as a nation has survived this long.
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Royal Melbourne Hospital neurosurgeons removed the nail in a delicate four-hour operation even though Shorten, who was expected to make a full recovery, had offered to take the nail out with a pair of pliers
ggs wrote:Some time I wonder how the Australia as a nation has survived this long.
Blind luck? Also not every one of our 20 million number is necessarily that stupid. Anyway thanks for the article.
We're just really resilient. My Dad's had tons of machinery fall on him, and he's fine.
Though this is Crocodile Hunter level crap.
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
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"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
- George Carlin
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
- George Carlin
It's funny, not just because he shot himself in the head, but that he's so hard headed, that despite getting a nail in the head, he still was wanting to help out in a macho way.
I bet the conversation at the ER desk was funny.
"What seems to be troubling you, sir?"
"Well, you see, I shot meself in the 'ead with my nail gun an' while I don't want ta be a burder on you fine pople, I'd like to see a doctor. I mean, I would have pulled the bugger out meself, but it's stuck in me skull."
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"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
- George Carlin
Honourable mention, he didn't remove himself from the gene pool, so....
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Hey, at least he was able to admit that he did a stupid thing instead of suing the nailgun manufacturer. There's a lot of people who would never have admitted that they were just idiots when it happened.
That being said, it's still funny.
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So, how can this be turned into a Foster's commercial?
"Scratch"?
"Poke"?
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