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Late one afternoon last summer we got a phone call from our son Ben.
"I’m in the hospital." (He was supposed to be at work!) "I got my foot with the nail gun." His words were a little slurred but he sounded happy. "They just got it out. I’m feelin’ pretty high."
It turns out he had indeed nailed his shoe to his foot with his nail gun and they’d had to remove it under anesthetic.
That is nothing, though, compared to what happened to Patrick Lawler while at work at a ski resort in Breckinridge, Colorado on January 6th.
The tool sent a nail into a piece of wood nearby, but Lawler didn't realize a second nail had shot through his mouth, said his sister, Lisa Metcalse.
Following the accident, Lawler had what he thought was a minor toothache and blurry vision. On Wednesday, after painkillers and ice didn't ease the pain, he went to a dental office where his wife, Katerina, works.
"We all are friends, so I thought the (dentists) were joking . . . then the doctor came out and said `There's really a nail,' " Katerina Lawler said. "Patrick just broke down. I mean, he had been eating ice cream to help the swelling."
Read the rest of the story here.
Just another example of real life giving the urban legend a run for its money!
2 comments:
We heard that story last night before supper. Sends shivers down my spine. Even hearing about your son and the nail gun in the foot did! We have a friend whose son got married, and about two weeks after the wedding shot himself in the shin with a nail gun. Quite an introduction to matrimony for the girl!
Shivers for sure. Those tools need respect - lots of power and they fire so fast! I just find it incredible that when the nail fired into the man's head, he didn't realize something had happened immediately.
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