Man survives shooting himself in heart with nail gun

[Redondo]

• Man survives shooting himself in heart with nail gun

 

Hospital heart surgeon Dr. Louis Louis said that the nail actually into Rakow's heart twice, but the patient was saved by the design of the nail and a little bit of luck.

 

"The sternum acted like a 2x4 in that it caught the nail and prevented the nail from going any deeper," Louis said, adding that the nail stopped just two millimeters short of the coronary artery, the puncturing of which would have likely killed Rakow on the spot.

[arch stanton]

One would think that a professional carpenter would understand which end of the gun had nails exiting it.

[Glen]

I wonder if Doctor Louis Louis is somehow related to Doctor Rosen Rosen.

[Lhalo]

2013 Phineas Gage award?

[Brandon]

Shot to the heart and you're to blame

[RallyMo]

Shot to the heart and you're to blame

 

you give nail guns, a bad name

[jshep]

this thread is the worst.

[RallyMo]

this thread is the worst.

 

Good addition. I'll put it in the song.

[tdawg87]

Power tool of peace.

[RallyMo]

Shot through the hear

and you're to blame,

You give nail guns a bad name

This thread is the worst

and the story's real lame

You give nail guns a bad name

[RallyMo]

Power tool of peace.

 

The safety features they build into these things are amazing.

[Taylor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N_UuImPL4E

Edited May 27, 2020 by Franklin Bluth

[HaloCory22]

Ohhh, you're a loaded nail gun. yeah

Ohhh, there's no where to run.

No one can save me

The damage is done.

[mrwicked]

nailguns are fun.

 

[mrwicked]

[Blarg]

Where is the Nail Gun Control Lobby while this senseless violence is going on?

[Lhalo]

That's two thus far Shooter.

[mrwicked]

your ball struck my foot.

[HaloCory22]

and you can count... on me waiting for you in the parking lot!

[jamescollins]

Some stories are never false..

Although it is an old fact, it is not a lie.

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An entreaty for prayers on behalf of a 22-month-old boy in critical condition after accidentally shooting himself in the chest with a nail gun first hit our inbox in August 2010, spread in large part by Facebook and Twitter postings. The appeal took on new life in August 2011 when it once again spread through Facebook postings and showed up yet again in August 2016:

Posting for a friend of a friend -Janet James …her 22 month old son shot himself in the chest with a brad nailer, it went in his heart, he is in critical condition not doing good, neither is mom. please start a prayer chain. 

** Just as Nail Gun can be very useful, it can also be very dangerous. So you have to be very careful in using it. **

[Tank]

welcome to all the first-timers who have joined the boards today!

enjoy your time here, however long or short it may be, as you continue to dig up posts and threads that so very, very recent.

[Blarg]

He joins underwear guy as people who have their interests far from the main purpose of this website. 

[yk9001]

You can pry my nail gun from my cold dead hands.

[Slegnaac]

10 years later and still in critical condition?

[Tank]

1 hour ago, Slegnaac said:

10 years later and still in critical condition?

they're treating him with chloroquine, and that stuff takes forever.