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Handyman Nailed with His Own Nail
Gun

Mon Mar 8, 8:52 AM ET

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SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian handyman admitted he was stupid
to shoot himself in the head with a nail gun in a misguided prank that left
him with a nail lodged in his brain.

Brad Shorten, a father of three from Victoria state, was enjoying a few
beers with friends after working on his house when they began joking
about industrial accidents.

Shorten, 33, picked up a nail gun that he thought was empty, pointed it
at his head and pulled the trigger.

He later said he had turned off the gun's compressor and taken out its
nail cartridge but did not realize there was still enough pressure in the
gun to fire a nail.

"My mates and I were talking about construction site accidents and
taking your eye out with a nail gun, and I foolishly put the gun to my
head and pulled the trigger," Shorten told the Sunday Herald Sun
newspaper.

"I did a very stupid thing," he said.

The bizarre mishap left him with a 1.25-inch nail counter-sunk through
his skull just behind his temple.

Royal Melbourne Hospital neurosurgeons removed the nail in a delicate
four-hour operation even though Shorten, who was expected to make a
full recovery, had offered to take the nail out with a pair of pliers.

I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect, therefore, I am perfect.

Edited by - 30mike-mike on Mar 09 2004 06:01 AM

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What do you expect from the inventors of Australian Football, and the same people that light fireworks and hold them between thier teeth?

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My two favorites were Olympia locals, one of which was the husband of my dad's coworker, as my dad watched him exit a building cursing and swearing with a bloody rag wrapped around his hand. After my dad notified his coworker of the incident, at a later time he was informed the husband was nailing a 2 x 4 to the support frame of the building, and was having a difficult time securing it, so he just reached around, held it, and WHAM! Right through his hand.

The other was a carpenter in the ER of the hospital, who's right arm was held upright and elbow sticking out at a rediculously <i>gay</i> angle. Somehow, he had managed to fasten his shoulderblade to his ribcage with an industrial staple.

Fear and anxiety are for losers...So lets get moving and <i>KICK SOME ASS!</i>

<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote><font size=1 face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Y'all watch this", comes to mind... <hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size=2 id=quote>

More like, "Hold my beer and watch this".

Fender
"A woman drove me to drink
and I hadn't even the courtesy to thank her".
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