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Leroy Luetscher Impaled X-Ray Photo: Pruning Shears in Eye Socket
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by NowPublic Staff | August 30, 2011 at 11:57 am
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Leroy Luetscher Was Impaled By a Set of Pruning Shears in July, 2011. Here is an X-Ray Photo
We could spend all day describing the photo below, but it can be summed up in one word: ouch.
A X-ray photo of a man who impaled himself with a set of pruning shears is making its way around the web.
Just how exactly does someone get impaled by a set of pruning shears?
Ask poor Leroy Luetscher. The Arizona resident dropped a set of pruning shears while working in his garden. Then this little comedy of errors occurred:
The shears landed in the ground point downward. When Luetscher bent down to pick them up, he overbalanced and fell face-down on the handle, which punched through his eye socket and went down into his neck.
Luetscher was rushed to hospital where a CT scan was taken. The medical team at Tucson's University Medical Center managed to rebuild his eye socket and save his eye.
"“You wouldn’t believe your eyes,” said Dr. Wynne, assistant professor in the UA Department of Surgery, in a statement. “Half of the pruning shears was sticking out and the other half was in his head.”
The most impressive part of the whole Leroy Luetscher impaling is the fact that he's 86 years old. We're less than half his age and we get dizzy just looking at the X-ray photo of garden shears poking into his eye socket. This guy managed to get through the whole thing. They don't make guys like this anymore.
Here is the Leroy Luetscher Impaled X-Ray Photo
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at 18:11 on August 30th, 2011
Yeah, ouch! and a few other choice words!
at 22:53 on September 6th, 2011
Like maybe "dumbass"? I'm sure a team of skilled neurosurgeons were flown in on a moments notice and saved this old geezer's vision so he can trim his hedges next month- wonder why health care costs have hit the roof?
This brings to mind those commercials that auto insurance company was running a couple years ago, touting the great customer service inherent to sending a claims agent out with scuba gear on a saturday night to service some imbecile customer who just drove his car into a lake on the most clumsy possible accounts- silly as to how he did it, silly as to why he was there at all, even sillier for the reason the inspection couldn't wait until normal business hours.
When I saw that I double checked to ensure that wasn't MY carrier, I'd have cancelled in a heartbeat and told them why. Why should I bear the cost of stupidity? Anyway I'm not heartless and I'm glad the guy lived, just seeing another side of it.