Woman Impaled While Trying To Hop Fence

wftv ^ | Dec 26 | Weird News In Pictures

[SLB]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City police are investigating after a woman was impaled on her neighbor's wrought iron fence the same day the neighbor's home was robbed, KMBC reported.

Mary Beth Byers, 37, was trying to climb over the fence when she was impaled on it early Thursday morning. Her husband heard her screaming and found Byers stuck in the fence. He supported her to prevent the iron spike from impaling Byers further while waiting for paramedics to arrive.

A resident who witnessed the incident said the woman had slipped 6 to 8 inches down on the fence. Gail Stark, the victim's mother, said paramedics had to remove part of the fence to free the impaled woman.

She was taken to an area hospital, where she was listed in serious condition.

Byers told authorities she went to her neighbor's house to return some garage sale items. But later in the day, the neighbor, who lives in the 1200 block of Northeast 81st Street, reported that her home had been robbed. Police are looking into the incident.

[byteback]

Do you think she will end up in the pokey?

Don't know..I'm on the fence on this one.

[Jonah Hex]

This just proves the old saying, "Good neighbors make good fences".

[coloradan]

Messy reporting: if the home was "robbed" it means there was a physical confrontation between robber and occupant, in which case the victim is also a witness. If it were merely burgled, then there would be no witness.

[al baby]

It was a million-to-one shot, Doc, a million-to-one

Reminds me of the time i deliverd some furniture to this doctor i gave him the paper work to sign and he pulled out a thermomter and said some ass hole got my pen

[Momaw Nadon]

A resident who witnessed the incident said the woman had slipped 6 to 8 inches down on the fence.

Exactly what part of this woman's body was impaled?

[ShadowDancer]

LOL. Very rarely if ever do I physically react to reading something but with this one every muscle in my body tensed up.

[socal_parrot]

Good point! Very sharp mind.

[tuckrdout]

The headline said, "weird news in pictures"...forgive me but I clicked on here to see the horrid image! My bad, shame on me...guess I deserved not to see it...

[Lazamataz]

I want to get a fence like that but Mrs. BenLurkin is afraid we might get sued by the impalee.

I want to get a fence that has a runway for Radioactive Pit Bulls with knives, that, when they bark, emit a cloud of killer bees, and that explode when they bite you.

Radioactive Pit Bulls with Knives. Sounds like a great name for a band.

[Momaw Nadon]

The Fence

[al baby]

Messy reporting: if the home was "robbed" it means there was a physical confrontation between robber and occupant, in which case the victim is also a witness. If


What if i hid in the bafroom ?

[CommandoFrank]

I understand that when they found her she was just 'hanging around.'

[socal_parrot]

What? No broccoli?

[thesummerwind]

She said she was going back to the house to return some garage sale items. Yeh, sure!

This is a littleworse than the episode of "Leave It To Beaver" when Beaver got his head stuck between the bars!

[thesummerwind]

Heck no. Everyone knows the logical way to return garage sale items is to try to hold them while scaling an 8 foot tall spired steel fence.

Too damn bad she wasn't returning a pole vault pole!

[thesummerwind]

Puts a whole new meaning to the phrase "fencing stolen goods". --- ROFL!!!

[Entropy Squared]

I wonder if that was a frozen wrought iron fence.

[tet68]

Saaaaaay, her husband's name wasn't Vlad by any chance?

[thesummerwind]

A resident who witnessed the incident said the woman had slipped 6 to 8 inches down

She didn't slip down on "the bent one."

[CTGOPPER]

I passed by this post several times before I got the nerve to open it. I kept thinking there might be a photo of the impalee while on the fence. Whew!