Now where did I leave those pruning shears......!!

Morrisseeee · 30-08-2011 10:55am #1

Aghhhhhhh..............yikes..............ouch.............eeeeeek :eek:
Man impails himself on pruning shears:

A man is lucky to be alive, doctors said, after he accidentally impaled himself on pruning shears.

University Medical Centre said today that Leroy Luetscher, 86, of Green Valley, Arizona, was working in his garden on July 30 when he dropped a pair of pruning shears, which landed point-side down in the ground.

When Luetscher went to pick them up, he lost his balance and fell face down on the handle. The handle penetrated his eye socket and went down into his neck, resting on the external carotid artery.

Half the shears were left in his head, while the other half was sticking out.

Luetscher was taken to the hospital, where surgeons removed the shears and rebuilt his orbital floor with metal mesh, saving his eye.

Doctors say Luetscher still has slight swelling in his eyelids and minor double vision but has otherwise recovered

Jesus Wept · 30-08-2011 10:56am

Shear madness.

kylith · 30-08-2011 10:57am

O_o

NothingMan · 30-08-2011 10:59am

Let's not beat around the bush, he just couldn't handle a simple task like gardening.

Chips Ahoy · 30-08-2011 11:01am

Woah he was 86, he did well to recover from such a injury at that age

chin_grin · 30-08-2011 11:10am

Breakfast now upped and all over my keyboard. Thanks.

ejmaztec · 30-08-2011 11:13am

I hate prunes.

MagicMarker · 30-08-2011 11:16am

Shearly you can't be serious?

Chips Ahoy · 30-08-2011 11:21am

MagicMarker wrote: »

Shearly you can't be serious?

I am serious and don't call me shearly.

later12 · 30-08-2011 11:23am

The handle penetrated his eye socket and went down into his neck, resting on the external carotid artery.

He was awfully lucky it just rested... the external carotid is one of those huge arteries supplying the head, it's one of the vessels cut in halal butchery. He's incredibly lucky to be alive, although you could say he's doubly lucky to be alive by the fact that he's 86.