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2003-05-09 Britain

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Posted by Steve 2003-05-09 12:23 pm|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 She said complications from a risky medical procedure meant to save him contributed to his death.

What did they do, try to glue his head back on?
Damn socialized medicine!

Posted by tu3031 2003-05-09 12:45:08|| 2003-05-09 12:45:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Yes, he was definitely mucking about. A darwin award candidate if I ever saw one.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-05-09 12:47:15|| 2003-05-09 12:47:15|| Front Page Top

#3 I'll be the 1st to make him a Darwin Award nominee

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2003-05-09 12:47:27|| 2003-05-09 12:47:27|| Front Page Top

#4 [C]omplications from a risky medical procedure meant to save him contributed to his death.

Oh, for crying out loud, does this mean they're gonna sue the hospital for trying to save him? This totally reeks of the same stench that article about British citizens being responsible for injuries to attackers/burglars left on here the other day.

Wonder what was the last thing that went through his mind--beside his teeth.

Posted by Dar 2003-05-09 12:49:06|| 2003-05-09 12:49:06|| Front Page Top

#5 The really frightening part is that there was actually a girl dumb enough to find this idiot attractive enough to date. She should be the real Darwin Award nominee. Let's just pray she's not pregnant with a Jr. Mind Blower.

Posted by Scooter McGruder 2003-05-09 12:59:08|| 2003-05-09 12:59:08|| Front Page Top

#6 I took an EMT course a few years ago, and one of the training vids featured a guy who'd tried to dispose of himself by the old shotgun under the chin trick. (Chuck's probably seen this one, too.) Unfortunately for him, rather than pointing the gun back, he had it pointed slightly forward, and he blew off his face - eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks, the whole shebang. The paramedics intubated him and kept him alive long enough to get him to the local shock-trauma center, where they actually saved his life, though I understand he had to be fed through a tube and life, while painful, wasn't very interesting for him. Since the event was a local thing, I was still riding ambos when I heard about his second subsequent attempt to off himself, which was also unsuccessful.

Just as well Mr. "Hey, y'all! Look what happens when I do this" succeeded the first time, even though he may not have intended to...

Posted by Fred 2003-05-09 13:23:48|| 2003-05-09 13:23:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Definitely a Darwin Awards Hall-of-famer...

Posted by mojo 2003-05-09 13:34:53|| 2003-05-09 13:34:53|| Front Page Top

#8 One of the dangers from this type of injury involves securing the airway. The intubation tube can, due to the damage, go through the throat into the brain. That would be my first guess as to the medical procedure involved.

As Fred found out, you can live with a whole lot of your face blown off. Look at Helen Thomas.

In this case, having a short temper and having a short fuse are one and the same, apparently.

Posted by Chuck 2003-05-09 14:36:13|| [blog.simmins.org] 2003-05-09 14:36:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Fred - I read a newspaper story years ago about a guy who screwed up killing himself & blew his face off with a shotgun - twice. Both times they repaired him & gave him psychiatric help. The third time he succeeded in offing himself. It's got to be the same guy - there couldn't possibly be two of them (could there?).

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2003-05-09 15:17:39|| 2003-05-09 15:17:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Probably the same guy. I can't imagine many people doing it precisely that way, especially multiple times. The guy was from Severna Park, between Baltimore and Annapolis, if I remember correctly.

Posted by Fred 2003-05-09 19:11:48|| 2003-05-09 19:11:48|| Front Page Top

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