Barbara Goldberg writes: "A New Jersey man who survived accidentally shooting a 4-inch (10-cm) nail into his heart while trying to clear a jammed nail gun said on Friday he feels like he won the lottery."

  • Robert

    Shot through the heart,
    And you’re to blame
    Darling, you give power tools
    A bad name.

    • jtegnell

       Curses! Oh well. I guess it was too obvious.

  • danimagoo

    Cupid has upgraded his weaponry.

  • TooGoodToCheck

    He felt like he won the lottery and, much like the more conventional lottery, I feel like I’ve won simply by not buying a ticket.

    • http://disqus.com/Kimmoth/ Kimmo

       : D

  • Daemonworks

    And to think he almost won a Darwin Award…

  • Antinous / Moderator

    “What’d you do on the weekend, dude?”
    “I got nailed.”
    “Sweeeeet!”

    Also, HIS NAME IS DENNIS HENNIS.  Clearly, nobody followed the link.

  • Phil Fot

     Must have been an home user. A professional user would have disconnected the air line before dicking around with that sort of thing. I’ll bet he would rather have been at work than at home on Friday.