http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/gifs/breaking/0902drill.jpg

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0902drill02-ON.html

WTF? that looks fake....The skull isn't fractured around the back hole...

I got a friends who lives in Truckee. (right near Reno). He claims it's true. But who knows.

I've heard other Reno locals say it was all over the local media.

"Doctors essentially unscrewed the bit to remove it."

ouch!

Damn, That would suck!

I saw it on the Today show, they interviewed the guy. When they first said it, I was picturing a 5-6 inch drill bit. Then they showed the x-ray and I was like holy sh*t that's not a drill bit that's an auger. :eek:

Unbelievable too that the guy only lost an eye, no brain damage.

Originally posted by Black Magic
Damn, That would suck!

Yeah, I think so too, Matt. :D I don't know what's worse, the drill bit going in or the doctor unscrewing it out.

I was listening to the local radio show yesterday morning on the way to work and from what they said, the drill bit went throught the eye and pushed the brain to the side. Talk about luck.

he's really lucky to be alive. it sucks that he lost vision from his right eye, but at least he can live to tell about it

...yeah yeah, we called it trepanning in the old days.
*yawn* Good times... heh :eek:

Have you heard the saying,

"Don't try this at home"

WOW!!:eek:

sounds like bs tto me.Did you read some of the other articles in this paper? sounds like the enquirer

Katie Couric and Matt Lauer do not lie!

don't beleive everything you hear...Question everything.

I not only heard it, but I saw it. They interviewed the guy with a damn eyepatch on. You're rather insensitive.

how does that make me insensitive...it's not like the guy is telling the story himself and I am calling bs on him.I said sounds like bs not it is bs.Then I said to question everything...that is how why we are intelligent beings,we posess the ability to ask questions and are entitled to our own opinions.Ididnt say it wasn't true...more like it sounds fishy.

I just read this and was goign to post something about it, dayum that looks like its painful, very hard to believe that someone can survive something like that...next to impossible, he sure has luck on his side, but i think it still kinda sucks that he's going to lose an eye.

Originally posted by bipolarbob
how does that make me insensitive...it's not like the guy is telling the story himself and I am calling bs on him.I said sounds like bs not it is bs.Then I said to question everything...that is how why we are intelligent beings,we posess the ability to ask questions and are entitled to our own opinions.Ididnt say it wasn't true...more like it sounds fishy.

Yeah makes total sense. :rolleyes:

OMG!:eek: That is horrible. The things you can survive.............

yeah they had an interview iwth this guy on fox news. holy crap is all I gotta say, hes one damn lucky guy. He even had the bit still.

He even had the bit still. Well, wouldn't you? I think he earned a souvenier

Okay, do you subscrible to the theory that this is one lucky S.O.B., and you want to sit next to him at a blackjack table? Or do you feel he is unlucky to have an accident like that and would move to another table???? Oh yeah, I would keep the bit/auger also!

don't you all remember Phineus Guauge?(sp?) he got a steel rod blasted clean through his head and survived but was never mentally the same?He had very little pain they say it went inbetween the two halves of his brain.It severed all the connections between and taught us a lot about the anatomy of the human brain.This was in the 1800's.If you all saw this guy on tv it is probably true.I didn't say it wasn't true...

on't you all remember Phineus Guauge?(sp?) he got a steel rod blasted clean through his head and survived but was never mentally the same? He effectively gave himself a lobotamy.

how do you spell his name and when was that?

Nevermind...


PHINEAS P. GAGE: Foreman of a railway construction crew preparing the railbed for the Rutland and Burlington Railroad just outside of Cavendish, Vermont. He was the company's most capable and efficient foreman, with a well-balanced mind and a shrewd business sense.

TAMPING IRON: a crowbar-like tool used to compact an explosive charge into the bottom of a bore hole. 3 feet 7 inches in length; 1-1/4 inches in diameter at one end tapering over a distance of about 1 foot to a diameter of 1/4 inch at the other end; and weighing 13-1/2 pounds.

SEPTEMBER 13, 1848: the accidental explosion of a charge Gage had just set blew his tamping iron out of the borehole and through the left side of his skull: it entered point first under this left cheek bone, exited through the top of his head and landed some 25 to 30 yards away. Gage was knocked over but may not have lost consciousness, according to some accounts. Most of the left frontal lobe was destroyed, but Gage was treated with such skill by Cavendish physician Dr. John Harlow that he returned to his home in Lebanon, New Hampshire ten weeks later.

Seven months later, Gage was strong enough to resume work, but despite exemplary work prior to the accident, his employer would not return him to his former position. He had become fitful, irreverent, and grossly profane, showing little deference for other workers. Impatient and obstinate yet capricious and vacillating, he was unable to settle on any of the plans he devised for future action. According to his friends, he was "No longer Gage".

Gage never again worked at the level of foreman, instead performing a variety of odd jobs. He appeared at Barnum's Museum in New York; worked in the stable of the Dartmouth Inn in Hanover, New Hampshire; and drove coaches and cared for horses in Chile. Sometime in 1859, as his health began to fail, he went to live with his mother in San Francisco. Seizures commenced in February, 1860 and he died on May 21.

No post mortem studies were made. In 1867, Gage's body was exhumed from San Francisco's Lone Mountain Cemetery. The skull and the famous tamping iron were delivered by his brother-in-law to Dr. Harlow (then living in Woburn, Massachusetts). Harlow reported his findings, including his estimate of the brain damage, in 1868. The skull and tamping iron were donated to the Warren Museum at Harvard University's School of Medicine, where they remain on display.

The case created a good deal of interest in both medical and lay circles at the time and which continues to this day. Gage had survived a horrendous injury; his case began to have an influence on the science of localization of brain function. For nearly twenty years knowledge of the profound personality change was not widely disseminated. It was true that he was physically unchanged except for obvious scars, and that his mental capacity was unchanged.

But, without knowledge of the personality difference, most people thought he had survived totally unchanged. His case was therefore used as evidence against the doctrine that any functions were localized in the brain, especially against the phrenological version of it. Later it was also used as negative evidence in the medical debates regarding aphasia and frontal lobe function. The real story was published after 1868 by David Ferrier, the notable English doctor and physiological research worker. Even today, the case continues to generate controversy.

Originally posted by bipolarbob
don't you all remember Phineus Guauge?(sp?) he got a steel rod blasted clean through his head and survived but was never mentally the same?He had very little pain they say it went inbetween the two halves of his brain.It severed all the connections between and taught us a lot about the anatomy of the human brain.This was in the 1800's.If you all saw this guy on tv it is probably true.I didn't say it wasn't true...

Lol, thats the same man that I was thinking of when I started reading this thread. He was in one of our science books back in highschool, and I even think it was in my psychology book in college.

This could go in a manual entitled "Things not to do with drill bits" ;)

Seriously though, that guy is damned lucky

The story was ALL over the news in Boston... I saw the interview and all that... I don't really even know what to say other than *DAMN* is he lucky...