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GRAPHIC PHOTOS: Man survives horror injury after being impaled by 2.5-foot iron spike [India]
FOX News ^ | 05-15-2019 | By Dinesh Dubey

Posted on 05/15/2019 1:49:59 PM PDT by Red Badger

A driver miraculously survived despite being impaled by a 2.5-foot-long iron spike, which went right through his body. The motorist, known only as Narendra, 20, was driving when he collided with a pick up truck, leaving him impaled on an iron rod.

The metal stick went through the right side of his chest and came out of his upper back, unsurprisingly injuring his lungs.

But medics spent three hours painstakingly removing the spike, and just days later he is up and walking, and is expected to make a good recovery.

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Amazing!.........................
1 posted on 05/15/2019 1:49:59 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

There’s an ouchie!


2 posted on 05/15/2019 1:51:10 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Red Badger

You know that fricking hurt.


3 posted on 05/15/2019 1:54:06 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Red Badger

That’s gonna leave a mark.


4 posted on 05/15/2019 1:55:20 PM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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To: Red Badger

I read a story about a Union solder in the Civil War that was shot thru both lungs and he lived!!!


5 posted on 05/15/2019 1:56:02 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Red Badger

Just missed the spinal chord, but he’s probably missing a lung now. Hope he has long-term disability.


6 posted on 05/15/2019 1:56:34 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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“Hope he has long-term disability.”

In India LTD is “die”.

L


7 posted on 05/15/2019 2:02:15 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Red Badger

"I hate it when that happens."

8 posted on 05/15/2019 2:05:27 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

Although not as amazing as Phineas P. Gage.
That one’s still the wildest.


9 posted on 05/15/2019 2:05:42 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Red Badger

Ah, the black knight says it’s just a flesh wound. He’ll get over it.


10 posted on 05/15/2019 2:16:18 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Red Badger

That hurts just looking at it.


11 posted on 05/15/2019 2:18:54 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Red Badger

Lineman fell onto a t-post and they cut the post off between the lineman and ground line to take him to the hospital.


12 posted on 05/15/2019 2:20:38 PM PDT by the_daug
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Nebraska farmer amputates leg with pocket knife to escape auger
13 posted on 05/15/2019 2:26:48 PM PDT by the_daug
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To: Red Badger

How did that thing miss a major coronary artery?


14 posted on 05/15/2019 2:48:18 PM PDT by PGR88
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The grace of God.......................


15 posted on 05/15/2019 2:51:21 PM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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“The motorist, known only as Narendra, 20...”

Throw in Rajiv or Patel and that could mean almost Hindu guy in my area.


16 posted on 05/15/2019 2:52:36 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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Throw in Rajiv or Patel and that could mean almost Hindu guy in my area.



"PATEL!?!?!?!?!"
17 posted on 05/15/2019 2:53:44 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Well, he’ll always be known from now on as ‘Spike’...................


18 posted on 05/15/2019 2:54:23 PM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: MplsSteve

Isn’t Patel Indian for Doctor?


19 posted on 05/15/2019 2:56:15 PM PDT by Gamecock (In church today, we so often find we meet only the same old world, not Christ and His Kingdom. AS)
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To: Red Badger

Yep, that is graphic. Ewwww.


20 posted on 05/15/2019 3:46:24 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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