From: fielden@spot.Colorado.EDU (j.a. fielden)
Subject: Re: Man Shot In Head Survives!
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:41:07 GMT

In article <1992Jul29.154554.4675@engage.pko.dec.com> soley@trooa.enet.dec.com (Norman Soley) writes:
>
>In article <bs5iyw.447@wang.com>, dbushong@wang.com (Dave Bushong) writes...
>>cbarker@dxcern.cern.ch (Carl Barker) writes:
>> 
>>>Hello.
>> 
>>>This is a story you've probably all heard before, but I would be interested to 
>>>know the reactions.  The story is this:
>>
>> [Improbable story deleted]
>> 
>>I heard several people last month (who didn't know each other) say
>>that some guy got shot in the head with a crossbow and lived
>>through it - even to the point of taking the thing away from his
>>assailant who was about to fire a second one.  It was supposedly
>>his roommate (probably his ex-roommate, by now).
>> 
>>He could see the point of the arrow pushing on the skin of the
>>inside of his forehead, supposedly.
>> 
>>It sounds too bizarre to be true, but if it was in the paper, several
>>people saw it and believed it.
>
>A few years ago a constuction worker in Toronto fell off a ladder while 
>drilling and somehow managed to wind up with the dril bit embedded in his 
>skull up to the chuck, he reversed the drill, backed the bit out and 
>managed to get himself to the hospital somehow. No apparent permanent 
>damage was reported. 
>--
>    Norman Soley, Specialist, Professional Software Services, ITC District
>    Digital Equipment of Canada                   soley@trooa.enet.dec.com
>    Opinions expressed are mine alone  and do not reflect those of Digital 
>    Equipment Corporation or my cat Marge.

 And here it is---


From csn!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsd!usc!srhqla!demott!kdq Thu Feb 21 09:58:54 MST 1991


TORONTO (UPI) Donald Wright said Wednesday that restarting a power drill
to pull three inches of steel out of his skull had nothing to do with
courage - he just wanted to stay alive. 

    Wright, a 54-year-old Toronto contractor, was working on a ladder
last Wednesday when he toppled onto a 3/8-inch drill bil that was
pointing upwards. 

    He passed out but regained consciousness and realized the drill bit
was stuck in his skull. 

    Instead of phoning for an ambulance, Wright decided he would attempt
to remove the bit himself and get out of the locked apartment so someone
could find him in case he passed out again. 

    "I passed out; then when I came to, I felt like I was having
seizures, I was feeling icy cold all over and I just couldn't move
myself," Wright said from his hospital bed. 

    "When I was trying to move, it was like my head was nailed to the
floor and it was because the drill was holding me down."

    He got up after six attempts and, holding the five-pound drill level
with the angle that the drill entered the right side of his skull around
the hairline, he went to the bathroom with the extension cord dragging
behind him. 

    "I was worried about my brain because I had this drill sticking in
my head," Wright said.  "There was no pain, but my body was numb and I
was frightened my bodily senses had been killed. 

    "I tried to pull it out but it wouldn't come out.  So I knew the only
way to get it out was by restarting it. 

    "I looked into the mirror and I restarted the drill and pulled it
out of my head," he said.  Blood spurted from the wound.  "I thought my
brains were pouring out with the blood.  But I felt no pain."

    Wright was in the apartment, four floors below his own in downtown
Toronto, to install s sliding door.  Fearing he might pass out again, he
left the apartment, locked the door behind him and took the elevator to
his own apartment. 

    He was leaving for the hospital when his wife returned home, called
an ambulance and rushed him to nearby Wellesley Hospital. 

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