"Stupid" doesn't begin to describe it

Aussie Aussie Aussie!!

Oy Oy Oy!:

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.

Posted by flow Frazao on March 8, 2004 at 01:19 PM | Permalink