[dangus]

Well, the "black and blue" is, of course, simply blood which has seeped out of damaged blood vessels. You don't merely blood shot, which is when the blood vessels expand, but you actually mean that the sclera turns red with blood, right?

I'm supposing that all that was injured is along the bridge of the nose, where the glasses meet the bridge, and the blood has run down and collected where one gets "bags" under their eyes. I wouldn't exect that unless the blow was to the eye that the eye would collect the blood, since the vascularization of the eye is from the rear, unlike a true black eye, in which the eye itself is exposed to the same forces which bruise the area around the eye socket.

[GarySpFc]

I presume by the sclera you mean the white of the eyes. Yes. I've seen hundreds of black eyes, but never one like the two in this picture. They are phony.

[norton]

"...all that was injured is along the bridge of the nose..."

I can attest to a couple such events - both times the visible damage was WAY more than this photo shows. The not visible damage took weeks (front teeth) and years (air passages) to show up but I'm betting this guy will never experience either.

[Mamzelle]

Yes, the first thought I had when I saw the pictures is that he's had a single blow to the nose, perhaps his upper lip just under the nose-- Notice the bruising over the eyes. These bruises are symmetrical. All you need is a forensics guy, a little testimony from a pathologist...

(I don't think it could be makeup. The cops would be all over that.)

These bruises would be consistent with bumping your upper lip on a steering wheel--it wouldn't even have to be very hard. That bruise on the arm looks older.