Handyman Nailed with His Own Nail Gun

[olena]

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian handyman admitted he was stupid to shoot himself in the head with a nail gun in a misguided prank that left him with a nail lodged in his brain.
Brad Shorten, a father of three from Victoria state, was enjoying a few beers with friends after working on his house when they began joking about industrial accidents.
Shorten, 33, picked up a nail gun that he thought was empty, pointed it at his head and pulled the trigger.
He later said he had turned off the gun's compressor and taken out its nail cartridge but did not realize there was still enough pressure in the gun to fire a nail.
"My mates and I were talking about construction site accidents and taking your eye out with a nail gun, and I foolishly put the gun to my head and pulled the trigger," Shorten told the Sunday Herald Sun newspaper.
"I did a very stupid thing," he said.
The bizarre mishap left him with a 1.25-inch nail counter-sunk through his skull just behind his temple.
Royal Melbourne Hospital neurosurgeons removed the nail in a delicate four-hour operation even though Shorten, who was expected to make a full recovery, had offered to take the nail out with a pair of pliers.





I smell a Darwin Honorable Mention!

 

[tiggereyore]

duh

 

[Girls Scout Leader]

One of the guys on my DH's job site accidently nailed his own knee once. In the emergency room doc was from India and could not understand that it could not jsut be pulled out because it was a screw nail. He was very addament about local anistetic and pulling it out. The language barrier was very hard.

But at least it was not his head.

 

[Serena]

I would love to hear how he explained this to his children.

 

[monkeyboy]

I guess he hit the nail on the head with that one

 

[disneysnowflake]

It's a good thing he didn't die from that. What a stupid way to die. If I was his wife I'd be more than a little mad.

 

[browneyes]

Ouch. My mom's neighbor did that with his hand (he was sober though ). He was showing a friend of his how the gun works and almost severed part of his hand.

 

[momm2four]

An Australian handyman admitted he was stupid to shoot himself in the head with a nail gun

...Ya' think???

Lori P.

 

[Obi-Wan Pinobi]

I liked this part --

Royal Melbourne Hospital neurosurgeons removed the nail in a delicate four-hour operation even though Shorten, who was expected to make a full recovery, had offered to take the nail out with a pair of pliers.

Brings to mind the Fosters "Australian for beer" commercials. I can picture this guy pulling the nail out and an Aussie voice over says "Operation".

 

[nativetxn]

Oh my gosh! Sounds like Tim Allen on "Tool time"

 

[~*Belle 2003*~]

Oops! that was a silly thing to do!