I’ve been struggling finding something worth writing about—besides bitching about the NY Times or Republican impotence or any other of my well worn usual topics. I have a couple of political screeds
After doing a little extra web surfing, I found that my old friends over at Orlando’s Local6 Website could provide us with some comic relief this morning.
Two unrelated news stories caught my attention, and it turns out that they have a common theme—construction workers.
First, there is this story about a guy who makes “plumbers crack” look like an insignificant problem:
OAKLAND, CA—A carpenter who keeps his clothes clean by working in the nude was arrested after a client returned home early and found him building bookcases in the buff.
Percy Honniball, 50, was charged with misdemeanor indecent exposure this week for the October incident.
He told officers he stripped before crawling under the client's house to do electrical work because he didn't want to soil his clothes, police said.
Funny thing, but I usually want to put on EXTRA clothes when I am forced to crawl around under a house…spiders and snakes and all that being a bit off putting, in my experience.
Next we have this guy that gives an entirely new meaning to the phrase “needing to have your head examined”:
PORTLAND, OREGON—An Oregon man who went to a hospital complaining of a headache was found to have 12 nails embedded in his skull from a suicide attempt with a nail gun, doctors say.
Surgeons removed the nails with needle-nosed pliers and a drill, and the man survived with no serious lasting effects, according to a report on the medical oddity in the current issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery.
The unidentified 33-year-old man was suicidal and high on methamphetamine last year when he fired the nails -- up to 2 inches in length -- into his head one by one.
Here's a copy of one of the X-rays for those of you too lazy to follow the link...
I'm sure his Mama would be quite proud of his efforts...
1 comment:
You see these cases every so often. It's amazing that they can survive with just a headache. The brain is such a sensitive organ that one would think that one nail and brain damage in that area would a given.
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