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X-Ray Photo Of Man Impaled On Shears While Gardening

by | 30th, August 2011

X-RAY of the day features the head of Leroy Luetscher, a man of 86 years who while gardening in Arizona became impaled on a pair of pruning shears, or secateurs, as the best people call them.

He dropped them. They landed points up. He bent down to pick them up. He tumbled over. And…the handles went into his eye. The blades went through his eye socket and into his neck.

Says doctor Julie Wynne, and trainee punmeister:

“You wouldn’t believe your eyes.”

You have to laugh or else you’d cry – you sap…

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