A Shot in the Dark
9th March 2004, Victoria, Australia
We’re thrilled … this Woftam admits he did a stupid thing.
Whilst enjoying a few beers after work and joking about workplace accidents, an 33 year old man picked up a nail gun and shot himself in the head
He told the Sunday Herald newspaper that he and his mates had been “talking about construction site accidents and taking your eye out with a nail gun, and I foolishly put the gun to my head and pulled the trigger.” He said that he’d turned off the gun’s compressor and taken out its nail cartridge but did not realise there was still enough pressure in the gun to fire a nail. He thought the gun was empty. Apparently NOT!
A 3.2 centimetre nail was fired into his brain, leaving just a small red dot on the surface of his skull. With such a small amount of external evidence, his mates thought the nail gun had fired a blank.
The nail was removed under surgery in a four-hour operation during which a portion of the skull was removed.
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Source: http://news.sky.com
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