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LOS ANGELES -- Six nails embedded in the skull of construction worker
Isidro Mejia, 39, after an industrial incident caused a nail gun to
shoot nails into his head and brain on April 19, 2004, are seen in
this X-ray image. Five of the six nails were removed in surgery that
day and the sixth was removed from his face on April 23, after the
swelling went down. (05/05/04 AP photo)

No 220-pound thug can threaten the well-being or dignity of a 110-pound
woman who has two pounds of iron to even things out. Is that evil?
Is that wrong? People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence,
they're begging for the rule of brute force, when the biggest, strongest
animals among men were always automatically "right". Guns end that,
and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make
it work.
- L. Neil Smith

Gunner wrote:

LOS ANGELES -- Six nails embedded in the skull of construction
worker Isidro Mejia, 39, after an industrial incident caused a
nail gun to shoot nails into his head and brain on April 19,
2004, are seen in this X-ray image.

Just a few nails? Hell, that's nothing....

http://www.theunion.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030828/NEWS/108280065&SearchID=73182184769984
The X-ray pic is especially "eye catching".

Jon

On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 23:34:46 -0700, Jon Anderson
wrote:

Gunner wrote:

LOS ANGELES -- Six nails embedded in the skull of construction
worker Isidro Mejia, 39, after an industrial incident caused a
nail gun to shoot nails into his head and brain on April 19,
2004, are seen in this X-ray image.

Just a few nails? Hell, that's nothing....

http://www.theunion.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030828/NEWS/108280065&SearchID=73182184769984
The X-ray pic is especially "eye catching".

Jon
When I was a kid there was a story in the paper about a man who was at
a party and shots were heard. Sometime later he had a terrible
headache. Took himself to the hospital and it was discovered that he
had been shot several times with a .22 in the head. All the buttets
traced a path inside his skull right next to the bone. None penetrated
to his brain. I wonder if it was an "Urban Legend". I thought it was
but after looking at the above x-ray I'm not so sure.
ERS

Eric R Snow wrote:
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 23:34:46 -0700, Jon Anderson
wrote:


Gunner wrote:


LOS ANGELES -- Six nails embedded in the skull of construction
worker Isidro Mejia, 39, after an industrial incident caused a
nail gun to shoot nails into his head and brain on April 19,
2004, are seen in this X-ray image.

Just a few nails? Hell, that's nothing....

http://www.theunion.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030828/NEWS/108280065&SearchID=73182184769984
The X-ray pic is especially "eye catching".

Jon

When I was a kid there was a story in the paper about a man who was at
a party and shots were heard. Sometime later he had a terrible
headache. Took himself to the hospital and it was discovered that he
had been shot several times with a .22 in the head. All the buttets
traced a path inside his skull right next to the bone. None penetrated
to his brain. I wonder if it was an "Urban Legend". I thought it was
but after looking at the above x-ray I'm not so sure.
ERS

Sort of the inverse of that is the lady that thought
she had been shot in the head. She was in her
car and heard a loud bang, felt something against
her head and reached back and found "grey matter"
in her hair. Turned out a cylinder of those "pop n'
bake" dinner rolls had exploded in the back seat.

"Jim Stewart" wrote in message
...
Eric R Snow wrote:
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 23:34:46 -0700, Jon Anderson
wrote:


Gunner wrote:


LOS ANGELES -- Six nails embedded in the skull of construction
worker Isidro Mejia, 39, after an industrial incident caused a
nail gun to shoot nails into his head and brain on April 19,
2004, are seen in this X-ray image.

Just a few nails? Hell, that's nothing....


http://www.theunion.com/apps/pbcs.dl.../NEWS/10828006
5&SearchID=73182184769984
The X-ray pic is especially "eye catching".

Jon

When I was a kid there was a story in the paper about a man who was at
a party and shots were heard. Sometime later he had a terrible
headache. Took himself to the hospital and it was discovered that he
had been shot several times with a .22 in the head. All the buttets
traced a path inside his skull right next to the bone. None penetrated
to his brain. I wonder if it was an "Urban Legend". I thought it was
but after looking at the above x-ray I'm not so sure.
ERS

Sort of the inverse of that is the lady that thought
she had been shot in the head. She was in her
car and heard a loud bang, felt something against
her head and reached back and found "grey matter"
in her hair. Turned out a cylinder of those "pop n'
bake" dinner rolls had exploded in the back seat.

MythBusters. It could happen, but they had heat lamps pointing at the car
for a ridiculous amount of time and were 'racked' such that they had a
chance to fly forward. I don't know too many people that continue to drive
home with their windows rolled up when it's 113F outside, let alone set the
bags on the back seat and make sure the dough is on the top with the bag
facing the driver's seat.

Joel. phx

Jon
When I was a kid there was a story in the paper about a man who was at
a party and shots were heard. Sometime later he had a terrible
headache. Took himself to the hospital and it was discovered that he
had been shot several times with a .22 in the head. All the buttets
traced a path inside his skull right next to the bone. None penetrated
to his brain. I wonder if it was an "Urban Legend". I thought it was
but after looking at the above x-ray I'm not so sure.
ERS

When I was in school, one of our teachers went off campus one day to
grab lunch.

While there, the place was robbed and a few shots were fired... it was
thought no one was hit at the time... police reports were filed and all
that.

Back in his classroom that afternoon, he noticed something felt damp on
his lower back. He reached around and felt up under his coat, and pulled
his hand out with some blood on it. One of his students took a quick
look, and found an entry wound close to his spine.

He said he hadn't a clue he'd been hit... ended up in the hospital a few
days, and it was another couple before he was back at school.

Erik

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:21:20 -0700, "Joel Corwith" wrote:
"Jim Stewart" wrote in message
...
Sort of the inverse of that is the lady that thought
she had been shot in the head. She was in her
car and heard a loud bang, felt something against
her head and reached back and found "grey matter"
in her hair. Turned out a cylinder of those "pop n'
bake" dinner rolls had exploded in the back seat.

MythBusters. It could happen, but they had heat lamps pointing at the car
for a ridiculous amount of time and were 'racked' such that they had a
chance to fly forward. I don't know too many people that continue to drive
home with their windows rolled up when it's 113F outside, let alone set the
bags on the back seat and make sure the dough is on the top with the bag
facing the driver's seat.

Doesn't take that much to set one of those things off. I've had one of them
go off just by settiing it down on the kitchen counter. OTOH, I've had to resort
to a saw on ocasion to open one. Different glues I guess.

Gary

I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show Gary Coffman
wrote back on Sun, 29 Aug 2004 23:48:48 -0400 in
rec.crafts.metalworking :
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 15:21:20 -0700, "Joel Corwith" wrote:
"Jim Stewart" wrote in message
...
Sort of the inverse of that is the lady that thought
she had been shot in the head. She was in her
car and heard a loud bang, felt something against
her head and reached back and found "grey matter"
in her hair. Turned out a cylinder of those "pop n'
bake" dinner rolls had exploded in the back seat.

MythBusters. It could happen, but they had heat lamps pointing at the car
for a ridiculous amount of time and were 'racked' such that they had a
chance to fly forward. I don't know too many people that continue to drive
home with their windows rolled up when it's 113F outside, let alone set the
bags on the back seat and make sure the dough is on the top with the bag
facing the driver's seat.

Doesn't take that much to set one of those things off. I've had one of them
go off just by settiing it down on the kitchen counter. OTOH, I've had to resort
to a saw on ocasion to open one. Different glues I guess.

More of a function of the age of the dough, the dough temp, the
resulting internal pressure. And the quality of the cardboard tube does
factor in there.

--
pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."

I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show Erik
wrote back on Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:42:04 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :

Jon
When I was a kid there was a story in the paper about a man who was at
a party and shots were heard. Sometime later he had a terrible
headache. Took himself to the hospital and it was discovered that he
had been shot several times with a .22 in the head. All the buttets
traced a path inside his skull right next to the bone. None penetrated
to his brain. I wonder if it was an "Urban Legend". I thought it was
but after looking at the above x-ray I'm not so sure.
ERS

When I was in school, one of our teachers went off campus one day to
grab lunch.

While there, the place was robbed and a few shots were fired... it was
thought no one was hit at the time... police reports were filed and all
that.

Back in his classroom that afternoon, he noticed something felt damp on
his lower back. He reached around and felt up under his coat, and pulled
his hand out with some blood on it. One of his students took a quick
look, and found an entry wound close to his spine.

He said he hadn't a clue he'd been hit... ended up in the hospital a few
days, and it was another couple before he was back at school.

My Dad's sargent took a tiny bit of shrapnel in his throat. My dad was
going to pluck it out with his fingers, and his sargent said "Don't touch
that! That's my ticket off the line!" At least a chance to get away from
the war for the rest of the day.
==
Sometimes fate hits you with the Clown Hammer of Circumstance
and there's nothing to do but sit there and watch the little
birds fly around your head." - Tara Calishain, ResearchBuzz

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 21:45:54 GMT, pyotr filipivich wrote:

||I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show Erik
||wrote back on Sun, 29 Aug 2004 22:42:04 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :
||
|| Jon
|| When I was a kid there was a story in the paper about a man who was at
|| a party and shots were heard. Sometime later he had a terrible
|| headache. Took himself to the hospital and it was discovered that he
|| had been shot several times with a .22 in the head. All the buttets
|| traced a path inside his skull right next to the bone. None penetrated
|| to his brain. I wonder if it was an "Urban Legend". I thought it was
|| but after looking at the above x-ray I'm not so sure.
|| ERS
||
||When I was in school, one of our teachers went off campus one day to
||grab lunch.
||
||While there, the place was robbed and a few shots were fired... it was
||thought no one was hit at the time... police reports were filed and all
||that.
||
||Back in his classroom that afternoon, he noticed something felt damp on
||his lower back. He reached around and felt up under his coat, and pulled
||his hand out with some blood on it. One of his students took a quick
||look, and found an entry wound close to his spine.
||
||He said he hadn't a clue he'd been hit... ended up in the hospital a few
||days, and it was another couple before he was back at school.
||
|| My Dad's sargent took a tiny bit of shrapnel in his throat. My dad was
||going to pluck it out with his fingers, and his sargent said "Don't touch
||that! That's my ticket off the line!" At least a chance to get away from
||the war for the rest of the day.
||==

And a purple heart, and a shot at the presidency!



Texas Parts Guy

I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show (Rex B) wrote
back on Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:18:35 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :

|| My Dad's sargent took a tiny bit of shrapnel in his throat. My dad was
||going to pluck it out with his fingers, and his sargent said "Don't touch
||that! That's my ticket off the line!" At least a chance to get away from
||the war for the rest of the day.
||==

And a purple heart, and a shot at the presidency!

maybe the former, but I doubt the later, not in '43. "W'addaya want, a
medal or a chest to pin it on?"

Then there was the Bill Mauldin cartoon from the same war. Willie to
corpsman behind card table "Naw, I already got a Purple Heart, gimme a
couple aspirin."

tschus
pyotr


--
pyotr filipivich.
as an explaination for the decline in the US's tech edge, James
Niccol wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at
producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with."

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 04:11:06 GMT, the renowned pyotr filipivich
wrote:

I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show (Rex B) wrote
back on Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:18:35 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :

|| My Dad's sargent took a tiny bit of shrapnel in his throat. My dad was
||going to pluck it out with his fingers, and his sargent said "Don't touch
||that! That's my ticket off the line!" At least a chance to get away from
||the war for the rest of the day.
||==

And a purple heart, and a shot at the presidency!

maybe the former, but I doubt the later, not in '43. "W'addaya want, a
medal or a chest to pin it on?"

Then there was the Bill Mauldin cartoon from the same war. Willie to
corpsman behind card table "Naw, I already got a Purple Heart, gimme a
couple aspirin."

tschus
pyotr

Or the old cartoon with two women, the first one saying, "Suzy,
there's a soldier at the door with a Purple Heart on". "Oooh, send him
in".

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
--
"it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward"
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In article , Spehro Pefhany says...

Or the old cartoon with two women, the first one saying, "Suzy,
there's a soldier at the door with a Purple Heart on". "Oooh, send him
in".

LMAO! Never heard that one.

Jim


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"Spehro Pefhany" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 04:11:06 GMT, the renowned pyotr filipivich
wrote:

I missed the staff meeting but the minutes show (Rex B)
wrote
back on Tue, 31 Aug 2004 22:18:35 GMT in rec.crafts.metalworking :

|| My Dad's sargent took a tiny bit of shrapnel in his throat. My dad
was
||going to pluck it out with his fingers, and his sargent said "Don't
touch
||that! That's my ticket off the line!" At least a chance to get away
from
||the war for the rest of the day.
||==

And a purple heart, and a shot at the presidency!

maybe the former, but I doubt the later, not in '43. "W'addaya want, a
medal or a chest to pin it on?"

Then there was the Bill Mauldin cartoon from the same war. Willie to
corpsman behind card table "Naw, I already got a Purple Heart, gimme a
couple aspirin."

tschus
pyotr

Or the old cartoon with two women, the first one saying, "Suzy,
there's a soldier at the door with a Purple Heart on". "Oooh, send him
in".

The difference between pink and purple?
The grip.