Last Thanksgiving, Andrew Linn of Cedar City, Utah crashed his car into a chain link fence. A two-inch diameter fence pole impaled him, going through his mouth and exiting his neck. He lived. Apparently, he also remained alert enough to attempt to text message someone while on the gurney.
"Ex-Marine who survived impalement: ‘Just a lucky guy’" (MSNBC)
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I’m simply amazed and happily pleased that not once was the word ‘miracle’ uttered or ‘God’ thanked. It may have just been how it was edited, but that was a breath of fresh air.
When getting impaled in the head and living is considered “Lucky”, I think we either need a new term, or our existence is truly a sad state of affairs indeed!
“Lucky” would have been getting *almost* impaled, and walking away unscathed…
Actually, you’re still off. “Lucky” is not going for a drive, crashing, and escaping without injury. It is not even making it home without incident, because that’s pretty much what we expect to happen. “Lucky” would be making five green lights in a row, or
having a winning lottery ticket fly in through the window. I don’t know what this guy is, but he sure as hell isn’t lucky.
Like they said, “the luckiest unlucky man alive.”
My brother’s friend, Chris, was with some kids messing around in a neighbor’s barn loft. Well somehow this kid fell out of the barn and landed on a steel rod sticking up from the ground. It entered his torso under his right arm and came out above his left collar bone. Luckily, it missed all vital organs and muscles and he survived.
He was back on the basketball court within a month and still plays on my brother’s AAU team. The x-ray looks insane, people around here consider it a miracle.
Bizarre side-notes:
The owner of the barn was John Grogan, author of ‘Marley & Me’. He didn’t know the kids were up there but handled all of the hospital bills anyway.
Plus, the kid who got impaled is the nephew of former NFL linebacker John Mobley and also former NBA player Cuttino Mobley.
Weird, right?
“I cannot get over the size of that pipe!” Teeheehee…
Oh come on, the guy who wrote a story about bodily mutilation, is named “Scott Stump”? It is like a dentist who’s name is “Paine”.
Some soldiers get hit by the bullet that has their name on it. Some get it in the form of a fence post.
i wonder what his attempted text was…
“might be late. impaled & in amblnc”
One one hand, he survived. One the other, he’s got probably hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical debt and no teeth. I think I’d prefer to have died.
Yeah, I’m a cup-half-empty kind of person.
From the article: “Linn has been left with only half a mouth of teeth, with no bone on the other side that could be used for an implant. He will need an artificial plate and implants.”
Rumor has it that doctors are planning on fashioning dentures attached to a metal plate that’s been decoratively chromed, due to Mr. Linn’s love of eggs Benedict.
Because there’s no plates like chrome for the hollandaise.
But was he wearing his uber hip retrorefective sweatshirt?
It is “former Marine” not Ex. The Ex implies disgrace.
Seems like someone should make the obligatory comparison to Phineas Gage.
I’m with the consensus; he’s only lucky compared to the set of people who’ve also had fence poles in their faces.
Wow. WOW!
I just wish I’d been the radiologist who said, “There’s yer problem.”
Bob Saget wrote this joke years ago.
Chain link fences are evil. They should never be next to a roadway imho.
Did he start swearing at everyone he met?
I’m simply amazed and happily pleased that not once was the word ‘miracle’ uttered or ‘God’ thanked. It may have just been how it was edited, but that was a breath of fresh air.
When getting impaled in the head and living is considered “Lucky”, I think we either need a new term, or our existence is truly a sad state of affairs indeed!
“Lucky” would have been getting *almost* impaled, and walking away unscathed…
Actually, you’re still off. “Lucky” is not going for a drive, crashing, and escaping without injury. It is not even making it home without incident, because that’s pretty much what we expect to happen. “Lucky” would be making five green lights in a row, or
having a winning lottery ticket fly in through the window. I don’t know what this guy is, but he sure as hell isn’t lucky.
Like they said, “the luckiest unlucky man alive.”
My brother’s friend, Chris, was with some kids messing around in a neighbor’s barn loft. Well somehow this kid fell out of the barn and landed on a steel rod sticking up from the ground. It entered his torso under his right arm and came out above his left collar bone. Luckily, it missed all vital organs and muscles and he survived.
He was back on the basketball court within a month and still plays on my brother’s AAU team. The x-ray looks insane, people around here consider it a miracle.
Bizarre side-notes:
The owner of the barn was John Grogan, author of ‘Marley & Me’. He didn’t know the kids were up there but handled all of the hospital bills anyway.
Plus, the kid who got impaled is the nephew of former NFL linebacker John Mobley and also former NBA player Cuttino Mobley.
Weird, right?
“I cannot get over the size of that pipe!” Teeheehee…
Oh come on, the guy who wrote a story about bodily mutilation, is named “Scott Stump”? It is like a dentist who’s name is “Paine”.
Some soldiers get hit by the bullet that has their name on it. Some get it in the form of a fence post.
i wonder what his attempted text was…
“might be late. impaled & in amblnc”
One one hand, he survived. One the other, he’s got probably hundreds of thousands of dollars in medical debt and no teeth. I think I’d prefer to have died.
Yeah, I’m a cup-half-empty kind of person.
From the article: “Linn has been left with only half a mouth of teeth, with no bone on the other side that could be used for an implant. He will need an artificial plate and implants.”
Rumor has it that doctors are planning on fashioning dentures attached to a metal plate that’s been decoratively chromed, due to Mr. Linn’s love of eggs Benedict.
Because there’s no plates like chrome for the hollandaise.
But was he wearing his uber hip retrorefective sweatshirt?
It is “former Marine” not Ex. The Ex implies disgrace.
Seems like someone should make the obligatory comparison to Phineas Gage.
I’m with the consensus; he’s only lucky compared to the set of people who’ve also had fence poles in their faces.
Wow. WOW!
I just wish I’d been the radiologist who said, “There’s yer problem.”