X-Ray Photo Of Man Impaled On Shears While Gardening
X-RAY of the day features the head of Leroy Luetscher, a man of 86 years who while gardening in Arizona became impaled on a pair of pruning shears, or secateurs, as the best people call them.
He dropped them. They landed points up. He bent down to pick them up. He tumbled over. And…the handles went into his eye. The blades went through his eye socket and into his neck.
Says doctor Julie Wynne, and trainee punmeister:
“You wouldn’t believe your eyes.”
You have to laugh or else you’d cry – you sap…
Ammo head
THIS is a picture of a two-inch long live round of ammunition lodged in the head of living Afghan soldier. The US Air Force image stems from work by Radiologist Lt Col Anthony Terreri. He explained the patient and discovered that the shrapnel was in fact a 14.5mm unexploded round. Says he: “I saw that it was not solid metal on the inside. I then looked at the scout image and could see there was an air gap on one end and what looked almost like the tip of a tube of lipstick at the end and decided this didn’t look quite right.” Wearing body
Posted: 30th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Strange But True Comment (1) | TrackBack | Permalink
