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happyheathen
10-25-2001, 10:11 PM
http://www.sfgate.com/news/pictures/2001/10/25/bulletph1.jpg
Matthew Hunter
10-25-2001, 10:41 PM
Ouch. Actually, I've seen something like that before, only it was some guy who was working with a nail gun on a construction crew and got one in the head. The article said he didn't feel it at all (the brain itself doesn't sense pain) and just walked into the hospital with a large nail out of his head. It was in such a position that if it were removed he would die, so they cut off the end of it and he lived, he just had a gap or two in his long-term memories. The bullet doesn't look good though...did he survive?
-Matthew
happyheathen
10-25-2001, 10:57 PM
Originally posted by Matthew Hunter
Ouch. Actually, I've seen something like that before, only it was some guy who was working with a nail gun on a construction crew and got one in the head. The article said he didn't feel it at all (the brain itself doesn't sense pain) and just walked into the hospital with a large nail out of his head. It was in such a position that if it were removed he would die, so they cut off the end of it and he lived, he just had a gap or two in his long-term memories. The bullet doesn't look good though...did he survive?
-Matthew

still alive, but the rest of the story is rather depressing.


any munition experts care to explain why the bullet is intact?
dendawg
10-26-2001, 09:23 AM
That looks like a big friggin' bullet. How that poor guy is still alive is beyond me. Maybe it's a hoax.
DR. BELCH
10-26-2001, 10:56 AM
And I thought I awoke this morning with a bugger of a headache....
As to how the man lived with a projectile that size in his brain...two words...Phineas Gage....
happyheathen
10-26-2001, 06:15 PM
Originally posted by dendawg
That looks like a big friggin' bullet. How that poor guy is still alive is beyond me. Maybe it's a hoax.

no hoax. bullet is normal. skull is small.
BourgeoisBuffoon
10-26-2001, 06:46 PM
Owie! At least the guy lived...I wonder if his personality was affected pernamently; I've heard people usually become nasty after cases like this-the part of the brain whacked can become screwed up in giving you your character, thus making you a Grinch (like one guy who was hit with a STEEL BEAM!-he became very mean afterwards with part of his mind damaged).

...And I KNOW that having a bullet in your brain would still make you grumpy, altered personality or not. :p

...um, why the bullet is intact....perhaps it was made with material strong enough to withstand the impact with the skull? And once through that, the bullet was in soft territory.
DR. BELCH
10-27-2001, 03:12 PM
happyheathen:
no hoax. bullet is normal. skull is small.
Is it a child/baby skull? Surely that isn't a full-grown man I'm looking at an X-ray of.
Not to be morbid, but that'd make a novel avatar, if the resizing doesn't ruin the detail....
happyheathen
10-27-2001, 05:53 PM
Originally posted by DR. BELCH

Is it a child/baby skull? Surely that isn't a full-grown man I'm looking at an X-ray of.
Not to be morbid, but that'd make a novel avatar, if the resizing doesn't ruin the detail....

morbid doesn't BEGIN to describe its use as an avatar.

yes, it is an 8-yr old afgan child (male)

edit: add:

and, yes, it is inoperable