Omaha man stabs himself in leg while driving, holding knife and eating Taco Bell

Omaha World Herald ^ | Sept. 3, 2021 | Alia Conley

[Mean Daddy]

Traffic safety officials always say you shouldn’t drive while distracted. More specifically, you shouldn’t drive while talking to your friend on the phone, eating Taco Bell and holding a knife.

Unfortunately, a 39-year-old Omaha man did that Thursday and inadvertently stabbed himself in the leg.

The man had picked up some food at the Taco Bell near 38th and Dodge Streets just before 2 a.m. Thursday and was on his way to give some to his girlfriend, according to a police report.

As he was eating and driving, he later told police, he was talking to a friend via Bluetooth speaker and looking at a knife that his friend gave him. He then drove through a large pothole or hit a bump on the road. The jolt “made him accidentally stab his right thigh with the knife,” the police report said. The man was left with a 1- to 1½-inch-deep puncture wound in the top of his right thigh.

[Mean Daddy]

I take my lawn mower blades to a guy to have sharpened and when I pick them up, I put them in the trunk. Wife asked me why and told her I didn't want a sharpened blade flying around in the car if I needed to slam on the brakes.

[Spok]

Darwin Award candidate.

[freedumb2003]

Never bring a taco to a knife fight

[Old Yeller]

That coulda been nuts!

[Sicon]

was on his way to give some to his girlfriend, according to a police report.

Give some to his girlfriend... Oh! Some TACO BELL! Got it.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

... and was on his way to give some to his girlfriend ....

Some what?

[moovova]

We really don’t have a chance, do we...

[rlmorel]

Lol.

Idiocracy.

[no-to-illegals]

Brings new meaning to “south of the border”

[Empire_of_Liberty]

Sounds more like the girlfriend gave some to him.

[dforest]

Something fishy about this story.

[MaskedMan]

“The man then headed to the nearby Nebraska Medical Center, where he waved down security officers and asked where the emergency room was.”

Fine, but was he able to give his girlfriend some?

[VTenigma]

Lucky he didn’t stab his femoral artery.

[dforest]

Yep, she probably stabbed him and he is covering for her.

[gitmo]

But was he wearing a mask?

[HighSierra5]

When I was 18 my buddy was trying to open a beer bottle with a knife. He slipped up on the leverage and stabbed the knife to the side of his eyeball. Not too deep but scary. We still talk about it to this day.

[Kriggerel]

I think the scary/funny part is that if you were to swap out “Omaha Man” in the headline with “Florida Man”, the story, no matter how outlandish, suddenly becomes twice as believable. :P

[Tennessee Nana]

WOW

what a juggler...

[nesnah]

Darwin Award candidate.

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No, just an applicant. Those types of applications are rejected if you’re still alive.

[ZOOKER]