Man finds screwdriver impaled in head after looking in car mirror [w/video]

Metro [UK] ^ | 9 Mar 2013 | Jimmy Nsubuga

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A man from Poland found a screwdriver impaled through his forehead – but only after catching his reflection in his car’s rear-view mirror.

The 25-year-old was doing some work in his garden when he lost his balance and landed on the Phillips tool.

However, he only noticed something was sticking out of his head when he looked in the mirror after the fall.

Rather than screaming in horror, though, the unnamed man calmly lit a cigarette before asking a neighbour to help him get to hospital.

‘I don’t remember what happened that day, at some point when I was working in my garden I slipped and fell down,’ said the man, who didn’t want to be identified.

‘Next thing I remember it was my hand hurting and some weird thing near my eyes.’

The impact was so hard the screwdriver managed to penetrate five centimetres into the front of his head.

Luckily for him, the tool missed his brain and became lodged in the frontal lobe of his cranium.

Surgeons at University Hospital in Bialystok managed to get the screwdriver out after operating for three hours. Amazingly, the man is expected to make a full recovery.

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Be sure to watch the video - either the doctor or the translator is an excellent deadpan comic.

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At least he remembered where his car keys were.

[doc1019]

Man finds screwdriver impaled in head after looking in car mirror

I hate when that happens.

[mountn man]

So...

Whats the "point" of this thread?

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Whats the "point" of this thread?

Smoking is bad for you.

[tumblindice]

He just lit up a smoke.

“Suave! Damn he’s one suave guy!” Frank Booth

[Amberdawn]

Hey, you can’t live between Germany and Russia for centuries without being hard headed folks....

[KittyKares]

I’d like to know what brand of cigarettes can calm you down with a screwdriver in your head!

[Lady Jag]

Mama said there'd be days like this.

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Heroin 100’s(TM).

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[Alaska Wolf]

I’d like to know what brand of cigarettes can calm you down with a screwdriver in your head!

Lucky Strike

[bunkerhill7]

I knew a guy who had a couple of screws loose but he didn`t have a garden.

[Lady Jag]

[bramps]

Many years back the same thing happened to a guy named ‘Phillips’, hence the name...

[KittyKares]

LOL!

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Cue “Chariots of Fire” theme...

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I don’t want to think about what happened to Allen.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

This is screwed up! Time for an attitude adjustment.

[Pelham]

....and that is why you don’t run with scissors.

[bramps]

I’m guessing this guy was ‘hammered’.

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And he didn’t even get “nailed.”

[Chance Hart]

Proving once again that Some Men are just born Tougher than Others! Like Tex for instance

[bramps]

At first he ignored it because of the sticker on the mirror that read, ‘objects stuck in your head in the mirror may be closer than they appear’.

[TigersEye]

The moral of this story is ‘don’t look in the rear view mirror!’

[Slyfox]

STRAIGHT IN THE HEAD!!

[Mark17]

I hate when that happens.

LOL, well it only took 3 posts for you to say that, but I knew someone would.

[tumblindice]

“Luckily for him, the tool missed his brain and became lodged in his frontal lobe”

Whut?
This story reminds me of Keith Richards (Rolling Stone) falling out of a coconut tree a while back.
Lucky for him he landed on his head.

[Cvengr]

Report doesn’t mention which side of the cranium the screwdriver came from. Better take an MRI to see if they missed something.

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Journalism majors don’t take too many anatomy classes.

[moose07]

The Screwdriver wasn't sterile so it wasn't ready to be put in direct contact with the brain

So ,what procedure do Polish Hospitals have that requires a Screwdriver to be in direct contact with the Brain?
I thought 'Screw loose' was just a metaphor!
Ahhh!

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So ,what procedure do Polish Hospitals have that requires a Screwdriver to be in direct contact with the Brain?

Dunno, but I'll bet it's mandatory under 0bamaCare.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Phillip needs to be more careful with his tool.

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Not the first time a man’s tool almost got him killed.

[Right Wing Assault]

Man finds screwdriver impaled in head after looking in car mirror

Yep, I'm always losing tools, too.

Next time I misplace something, such as my sawzall, I'm going to look in my car mirror in case it's stuck in my head.

[Conspiracy Guy]

So true. When the weather is bad we like to watch the Investigation Discovery channel. Tools get fellers killed on there all the time.

[donmeaker]

The old story of Phineas Gage (who had a crowbar blown through his head) shows that massive head damage doesn’t even necessarily result in loss of consciousness.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Talk about being screwed. I’d still rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. If he’d kept going, he would have gotten the full Rose Marie Kennedy.

[BuffaloJack]

About 25 years ago I actually had something similar happen to me, but on a smaller scale.
I was cleaning rust off of a metal part with a wire wheel on a bench grinder. I felt something hit me in the forehead and I stopped momentarily to look in a mirror, but I couldn’t see anything. A week later I developed a a pimple-like bump that started to itch. Another 2 weeks went by before it started looking worse. That’s when I went to a doctor. At first he though it was a small boil and tried to lance it, That’s when we discovered something hard and metallic in the center. He gave up trying to use tweezers and grabbed onto the end of the metal with a pair of needlenose pliers. What came out was a 2 inch long wire that had come loose from the wire wheel.

[Uncle Chip]

The impact was so hard the screwdriver managed to penetrate five centimetres into the front of his head. Luckily for him, the tool missed his brain and became lodged in the frontal lobe of his cranium.

So then the frontal lobe is not part of the "brain" there in Poland???

You can dig 5 centimeters in and not find any brain matter???

[Georgia Girl 2]

The point of this thread is that if you drink too much Vodka you will not feel a screwdriver going through your forehead. Don’t be that guy.

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See post #30.

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Ouch.

[Uncle Chip]

Journalism majors don’t take too many anatomy classes.

LOL

Nor do Polish drinkers,

It's the other end where the screwing is supposed to take place.

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Important safety tip, that.

[Lady Jag]

The song for that movie was the worst earworm ever!

[Lady Jag]

Most kids know better, but not all of them.

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But it's a great backing track for a shrimp on a treadmill.

[Lady Jag]

That budget probably allowed it.

It also would have been appropriate for Run, Forrest, run!.

[SamAdams76]