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| Teen Running From Cops Impaled On Fence (You Figure Out Where) |
| 2005-06-10 |
| A handcuffed teenager under arrest for assault attempted to flee police as he was about to be transported in a patrol car. He became impaled on an iron fence that he tried to jump over. Officers were attempting to place Cody Charles Carllson, 18, in the back of a patrol car when the he bolted and tried to vault an iron fence at the police station. Carllson's hands were cuffed behind his back at the time. Carllson did not clear the fence and became impaled on it. Forest Grove Fire Department teams responded and had to cut away a section of the fence so that Carllson could be freed. Carllson and a small section of the fence were transported to a Portland hospital. No details of Carllson's condition were immediately available, but he is expected to survive his injuries. Carrlson was arrested on assault early Thursday morning on charges for an incident in May of 2005. Police say he stabbed another person in the back with some gardening shears. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #8 Just as good as the guy who fled from the cops, jumped a fence, and landed in a parking lot. Twenty foot drop. At an L.A. Sherrif's substation. During roll-call... |
| Posted by: Pappy 2005-06-10 22:29 |
| #7 I am sure he will get impaled in jail and wail, no sale. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2005-06-10 18:19 |
| #6 Should be tried as a dumbass I think. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2005-06-10 17:18 |
| #5 i gues they classify him as a teen because he is still a teenager. They didn't say what he would be tried as |
| Posted by: Thraing Hupoluper1864 2005-06-10 16:03 |
| #4 Just as an aside, there is a famous medical case of a mining engineer whose charges didn't go off, and was so annoyed that he decided to just put new charges on top of the old ones. So first he had to tamp the old ones down with a tamping rod. Shortly after the explosion and alarm bells, the engineer exited the mine, covered in dust and now incredibly mad over his own stupidity. Along with the tamping rod, which had entered under his chin and protruded from the top of his skull. After considerable fainting from the other miners, they whisked him to hospital, where the rod was removed, and he survived. After his recovery with only small disability, mostly a mangled tongue, he was pursued for some 20 years by agents of the Smithsonian Institution, hopeful that he would, pretty please, donate his skull to them with his demise? He finally relented, and on his death of old age, his skull, with new tamping rod stuck through as demonstration, was given an honorable exhibition in the medical section of the Smithsonian, where it remains to this day. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-06-10 12:20 |
| #3 Thanks for the infor Angie. Why do they call this guy a teen though, he's 18. I thought you became classified as a adult at 18? Though jumping a fence handcuffed seems to indicate his mental capacity is in the early teens. |
| Posted by: Charles 2005-06-10 11:54 |
| #2 And the Albuquerque Journal is there! (Sorry, this is an in-joke. Back in '90 or '91, a kid in New York tried to scale a cast-iron fence, slipped, and managed to impale himself in the head. The spike entered the fleshy part underneath his jaw, and came out his mouth. The Albuquerque Journal ran a huge-ass picture of the kid hanging from the fence with the spike sticking up out of his mouth. From that time on, we always think of the Journal whenever there are gross pictures in the newspaper, especially fence impalements. The Journal doesn't seem to have a picture of this one, though.) |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2005-06-10 11:41 |
| #1 Portland Oregon. Well that was hard. Kind of reminds me of the guy in Philly(?) who managed to impale himself on a fence and tear his head off |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2005-06-10 11:36 |