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Thread ID: 78429	2007-04-15 06:05:00	Old But Fun News Story	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
541151	2007-04-15 06:05:00	Out of date and out of print, but fun to read once in a while.... Seems the fine doctors in a Portland Oregon, (USA) hospital were rather non-plussed when they examined a man who turned up on their doorstep complaining of a headache, to find he had twelve nails embedded in his skull courtesy of a failed suicide attempt with a nail gun. The as yet unnamed 33-year-old was "suicidal and high on methamphetamine" when he attempted to nail himself into am early grave last year. They didn't at first spot any outward signs of the extra metal, but subsequent X-rays revealed "six nails clustered between his right eye and ear, two below his right ear and four on the left side of his head". Although the nails..... up to two inches long..... skirted dangerously close to major blood vessels and brain stem, the patient was in "remarkably good condition when he was transferred to Oregon Health & Science University in Portland" where surgeons appropriately used needle-nosed pliers, a hammer and a power drill for the extraction. Lead neurosurgeon on the case, Dr G Alexander West, admitted in a report in the Journal of Neurosurgery that "no-one before is known to have survived after intentionally firing so many foreign objects into the head". Unsurprisingly, the post-op human nail-cushion found himself in involuntary psychiatric care. He left after a month, against doctors' orders.	SurferJoe46 (51)
541152	2007-04-15 07:19:00	They should have just hammered them in a bit more.	pctek (84)
541153	2007-04-15 07:52:00	Perhaps if they had chucked some jumper leads on - purely in the spirit of scientific inquiry - there could have been some interesting dance steps.	R2x1 (4628)
541154	2007-04-15 08:40:00	What kind of nail gun was that?:lol:	rob_on_guitar (4196)
541155	2007-04-16 17:04:00	More on nailguns. (www.webmd.com)	SurferJoe46 (51)
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