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.
how do you think he was transported.....on a flatbed ?
Leni
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.
Leni
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.
ouch!
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.
lol
I dunno. I'd just use a hayrack.
He jumped off a freeway embankment and was impaled thru the neck.
Perfect head on a pike photo!
Oh never mind.
All in all, Mr. Carlson is one pretty lucky SOB. Lots of things had to work out just right for him to not die.
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.
The whole thing is "iron"-ic....
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.
Hey, do you think they cuffed him?
lol
by now their are probably a bus load of slim bag lawyers making up a case against the fence company.
That's ugly. What was he running from?
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