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Police release photo showing teen impaled on fence
KATU ^ | June 14, 2005 | KATU Web Staff

Posted on 06/16/2005 10:05:02 PM PDT by kingattax

FOREST GROVE, Ore. - A photo released by police shows the predicament an 18-year-old got himself into when he tried to make a run for it and ended up impaled on a wrought iron fence.

The incident happened last Thursday when a teenager under arrest for assault tried to flee police as he was about to be transported in a patrol car.

The teenager, who has since been identified as Cody Carlson, bolted from the car and tried to vault the fence with his hands cuffed behind his back.

Firefighters ended up having to cut out a section of the fence in order to free him, sending both Carlson and the fence to the hospital.

Doctors were able to remove the fence from Carlson's body, who survived the incident and was later booked on charges of assault, violating a restraining order and escape.



TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: ballesswonder; fondue; fork; futuredarwinaward; impaled; inverted; shishkabob; vlad
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To: Fam4Bush

how do you think he was transported.....on a flatbed ?


21 posted on 06/16/2005 10:20:24 PM PDT by kingattax
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To: kingattax
"Don't Fence Me In (the leg)"

Leni

22 posted on 06/16/2005 10:21:03 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Remember, Half the People You Know are Below Average)
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To: GSlob
One would expect an impalement to be slightly more bloody than in that photo, right?

From what I understand, the object that enters the body (such as a fence post or a knife) serves as a stopper for any major bleeding. When the object is removed, it's like removing the stopper and thus the danger of a lot of blood loss in a short time. That's why you'll see people brought into emergency rooms with knives still stuck in them, or in this case with fence posts still stuck in them. At least the offending object can be removed in a setting more suitable for handling a bleeding emergency.

23 posted on 06/16/2005 10:22:26 PM PDT by dbwz (2A Sister)
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To: kingattax
Whose got the pic of that Indian dude upside down with his head in the ground?

Leni

24 posted on 06/16/2005 10:24:12 PM PDT by MinuteGal (Remember, Half the People You Know are Below Average)
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To: dbwz

I would presume that after being impaled and before that photo was taken he would try to wiggle a little, attempting to unimpale himself - and that would provide the movement around the wound.


25 posted on 06/16/2005 10:27:24 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: kingattax

ouch!


26 posted on 06/16/2005 10:29:08 PM PDT by cvq3842
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To: kingattax

There is a rather nasty pict of a drug suspect on snopes.com that did the same thing but his head was cleanly ripped from his body. Head stuck perfectly on the fence like it was set there. NOT FOR THE QUEEZY.


27 posted on 06/16/2005 10:29:38 PM PDT by Walkingfeather
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To: kingattax

lol

I dunno. I'd just use a hayrack.


28 posted on 06/16/2005 10:30:52 PM PDT by Fam4Bush (Sorry. .. My tagline's on a much needed vacation.)
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To: Walkingfeather
I saw that photo, corn rows and all!

He jumped off a freeway embankment and was impaled thru the neck.

Perfect head on a pike photo!

29 posted on 06/16/2005 10:32:47 PM PDT by RIGHT IN LAS VEGAS
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To: kingattax
Could say he is well h....

Oh never mind.

30 posted on 06/16/2005 10:35:01 PM PDT by kstewskis (no, I'm not really looking at your moon! LOL)
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To: GSlob
I dunno - he looks like he's hung up on a section of 3 posts there, so IMHO he wasn't going to be moving around enough to cause himself any great harm - plus if the cops were chasing him it means they were right there after this happened, and they may have told him to stay as still as possible.

All in all, Mr. Carlson is one pretty lucky SOB. Lots of things had to work out just right for him to not die.

31 posted on 06/16/2005 10:43:27 PM PDT by dbwz (2A Sister)
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To: RIGHT IN LAS VEGAS

Yeah that sad part or not so sad .... is that their would be no doubt enough blood and oxygen in his brain for him to have seen his body lying on the ground.


32 posted on 06/16/2005 10:44:18 PM PDT by Walkingfeather
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To: Walkingfeather

The whole thing is "iron"-ic....


33 posted on 06/16/2005 10:46:30 PM PDT by paulat
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To: Fam4Bush

A doctor I know told me about a guy who was transported to the hospital emergency room attached to a door (knob). The firefighters who "rescued" him just took the door off and brought it with him. I called him a liar but his nurses swore he was telling the truth.


34 posted on 06/16/2005 10:50:52 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kingattax

Hey, do you think they cuffed him?


35 posted on 06/16/2005 10:57:07 PM PDT by Fam4Bush (Sorry. .. My tagline's on a much needed vacation.)
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To: Fam4Bush

lol


36 posted on 06/16/2005 10:58:11 PM PDT by kingattax
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To: kingattax
Carrllson was arrested on assault early Thursday morning on charges for an incident in May of 2005. Police say he stabbed another person in the back with some gardening shears.
37 posted on 06/16/2005 10:58:46 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: I'm ALL Right!

38 posted on 06/16/2005 10:59:52 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kingattax

by now their are probably a bus load of slim bag lawyers making up a case against the fence company.


39 posted on 06/16/2005 11:06:41 PM PDT by bikerman
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To: kingattax

That's ugly. What was he running from?


40 posted on 06/16/2005 11:07:06 PM PDT by onyx (Pope John Paul II - May 18, 1920 - April 2, 2005 = SANTO SUBITO!)
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