I didn't notice a nail in my head.

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DENTIST in Colorado found the source of the toothache that construction worker Patrick Lawler was complaining about on the roof of his mouth: a 10cm nail the construction worker had unknowingly embedded in his skull six days earlier.

A nail gun backfired on Mr Lawler, 23, on Jan 6 as he was working in Breckenridge, a ski resort town in the central Colorado mountains.

The tool sent a nail into a piece of wood nearby, but Mr Lawler did not realise that a second nail had shot through his mouth, said his sister, Ms Lisa Metcalse.

http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/mnt/media/image/launched/2005-01-17/nail17-064307.jpg

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

'This is the second one we've seen in this hospital where the person was injured by the nail gun and didn't actually realise the nail had been imbedded in their skull,' said neurosurgeon Sean Markey.

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Ms Lisa Metcalse. (Mentalcase?)

Never put a nailgun in your mouth, put a nailgun in your mouth, put a nailgun in your mouth, put a nailgun in your mouth, put a nailgun in your mouth, put a nailgun in your mouth, put a nailgun in your mouth, put a nailgun in your mouth.. Always put a nailgun in your mouth.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

does his tongue never touch the roof of his mouth?!!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Can I just say that I'm creeped out by how quickly ridiculous information gets around in the modern age? I mean, one guy shoots a nail through his head and a week later it's on the news and I guarantee there's a thread on it on every online forum ever and people are sitting around talking about it and ... blarf. Nail, head, geez.

I saw much worse than this on Fox's terrific "101 Strangest Things Removed from the Human Body" program.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

People shoot nailguns into their heads all the time the weird thing is that the guy didn't realize it. And that the neurosurgeon has seen that happen before!

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Mrs. Lawler was later arrested for performing nailingus.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

It looks like it's in his EYE!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

That x-ray looks totally fake!

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~jfrens/pete-and-pete/pictures/plate.gif

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"I hate when that happens."

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

How drunk do you have to be?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

This guy was on The Today Show this morning. Ann Currie was WIGGING OUT; it was really cute.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 January 2005 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

It looks like it's in his EYE!

Probably between the eyes, or just behind one maybe? One would hope a nail through the eyeball would have elicited some kind of reaction from our intrepid construction worker.

How does a nailgun backfire? wouldn't he have to have been pointing it towards his own head for the nail to end up the way it appears in the picture? Isn't pointing a nailgun at your own head, regardless of circumstances, really, really dumb?

― Ash (ashbyman), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you ever been on the Today Show? Who's dumb now, curly?

― Huk-L, Monday, 17 January 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

He probably was just had it in his mouth while he was doing something else.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

ie, masturbating

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Must everything be about masturbation, Dan?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude once I saw Ann Currie have a whole nationally-televised conversation where she thought Sherlock Holmes was a real person who wrote books, and the guest couldn't figure out a workable way of correcting her. Sometimes she's awfully cute, though.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Thermo: Consider who you're speaking to here.

nabisco: OH MY GOD that is fantastic.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe she's one of those people (op. cit. recent New Yorker article) who goes around insisting that/acting like he *was* real.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

As Sherlock Holmes and Watson were quickly searching the home of the Duke, who's butler had mysteriously been murdered in the night, Holmes followed a foul stench into the lavatory. Inside the toilet he discovered that the bowl had overflowed and poopy water was leaking all over the floor. "Well, Watson" said Holmes "I seemed to have stumbled right into a who dung it!".

― ade (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a famous Nasty Brain Injury story from like 1870 on a railroad site where a barrel of gunpowder blew up, shooting a railroad spike into a dude's face, thru his brain, and out the back of his head. He survived, but it turned him into a serious asshole! true story.

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

If he was nailing something horizontal (framing up a wall to be lifted, etc.), it could have fired several times (the triggers on a compressor-driven nailgun can be twitchy, I've fired three into wood just barely touching the trigger) and if he had his head at the right angle and the gun skipped up at the right angle, it's conceivable...

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The Wit and Wisdom of Mailgun guy:

Construction worker changing jobs after nail removed from head

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 Posted: 10:12 AM EST (1512 GMT)

LITTLETON, Colorado (AP) -- A construction worker who shot himself in the head with a nail gun -- an accident he didn't discover until he went to the dentist with a nagging toothache -- said he'll change his line of work.

"I'll make pizzas," Patrick Lawler, 23, said Tuesday.

Lawler, who may be released from the hospital as early as Wednesday, was working on a house near Breckenridge when he accidentally fired the nail into his head. He said it felt like he had been hit with a steel baseball bat.

Lawler didn't realize the gun had fired a 4-inch nail through his mouth and 1 1/2 inches into his brain until six days later, when he went to a dental office complaining of a toothache that just wouldn't go away.

An X-ray revealed the nail, and surgeons removed it last week.

"The nail could have been millimeters to one side and it would have severed an optic nerve, leaving him blind," said Dr. Sean Markey, who operated on Lawler. "He's unbelievably lucky."

Lawler said he doesn't know how he'll pay medical bills estimated to reach $100,000. He's uninsured.

"I was self-employed on the job," he said. "I would have had to carry my own health insurance. But I didn't think I'd shoot myself with a nail, you know?"

― Ash (ashbyman), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Noooo! A freak accident on a construction site? Who'd a thunk it!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

How could you not feel that?? WTFF??!?!! (extra F was necessary)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

THe nail went into his brain, maybe it killed the part of the brain that controls knowing you have a nail in your brain?

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The perfect crime.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

that guy must have a screw loose

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

How long before he gets a pizza up his nose, I wonder.

― Paul Eater (eater), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I am seriously disappointed it wasn't an ILXor who did this, as promised by the thread title.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:28 (twenty-one years ago)

He's going to make pizza? How long you think before he realizes he put himself in the oven instead of the dough?

― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

3rd degree burns? I thought it was a pimple!

― Huk-L, Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

oven? I thought I was driving to work

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.epee.cz/smradosi/pizza-face-pete-F2.jpg

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"I was shocked when they told me I was dead. I mean, ya, I got run over by a run away cement truck but I thought it had only given me a hang nail."

xpost

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"This is the second one we've seen in this hospital where someone gouged out their own eye while playing golf, and used it as a ball for the rest of the round

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

Canada in desperate ploy for attention...
HEADINGLEY, Man. (CP) — A man trying to finish the flooring in the nursery of his home ended up with a five-centimetre nail embedded in his head.
David Boyda, 57, of Headingley, Man., was using a nail gun to put down the flooring when a nail ricocheted and planted itself in his right cheek, just millimetres from his eye, said his wife Sheila.
“When he came out of the room, his eye was scrunched and this nail was sticking straight out,” she said Sunday.
But Boyda’s wife was more upset than her husband, who apparently walked out of the bathroom and proclaimed, “It isn’t as bad as it looks.”
After a three-hour wait in a hospital emergency room, Boyda was pronounced well enough to go home.
“It’s nothing, just a bruise and a small puncture,” he said as he waited for a ride home from the hospital.
Under a deadline to finish the floor by Friday, he was back in the nursery Sunday evening.
“When we’re done, he’d better find something else to do, like knitting,” his wife said.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Phineas Gage died on my birthday, albeit 120 years before and has the same first name as my brother. I suspect this means nothing.

― alix (alix), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

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