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.

[EEGator]

Try the inside of your arm in between the bicep and tricep...

[bigfootbob]

Spot on assessment, if you only knew…

[Chode]

BS

[Allegra]

Who doesn’t do that ... drive, hold a knife, and eat a taco? Sounds reasonable to me.

Right? Only with me, it’s usually an enchilada or a fajita.

[Rebelbase]

Ouch.

[Dr. Sivana]

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

If you live but are no longer able to procreate, who can also win. In this case if he cut a different part than his leg, he might have earned a Darwin Award without dying.

[depressed in 06]

I can see a new set of commercials, Taco Bell better than getting stuck with a knife...

[VTenigma]

Maybe his tacos were well-done.

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Not from Taco Bell they weren’t, nothing there is “done well”.

[Rappini]

I remember another knife incident where a guy was cooking a steak on the stove and had a knife in his hand, he burned his hand with the knife in it and stabed himself in the heart. Yeah he died.

[bk1000]

“Only with me, it’s usually an enchilada or a fajita.”

I recommend a scimitar with the former, and a katana with the latter.
One simply must accessorize with the proper cutlery.

[JimRed]

He was fortunate to have missed the femoral artery; that can bleed you out in a hurry!

[lee martell]

People gave Mitt Romney a hard time back in 2012. During his presidential campaign, Mitt stopped by a pizzeria.
He was photographed using a knife and fork to eat his pepperoni pizza.

[Feckless]

My name is FRONK-un-stene!

[blueunicorn6]

I want to see the man who can eat a whole Taco Bell.

[catnipman]

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

dumbarse should have been eating something safer than taco bell ...

[DannyTN]

who needs a knife while eating tacos?

[Norski]

When first reading this headline, it appeared to say “Obama man”.

Suppose could be dyslexic..

[perfect stranger]

What’s the chances that the pothole is the same depth as the wound?

[Moltke]

The man was left with a 1- to 1½-inch-deep puncture wound

So his friend gave him a properly sharp knife. That counts for a lot.

[nesnah]

Point taken.