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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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Metropolitan Police generic handout of people being smuggled in a truck, Tuesday October 11, 2005. Five men, including former asylum seekers alleged to have been among the vast criminal network's highest ranking operators, were arrested in raids at 12 houses in the the capital and one in Boston, Lincolnshire. This morning's raids were the culmination of a huge two-year Scotland Yard investigation, codenamed Bluesky, which has involved 200 officers and co-operation from law enforcement agencies in five other European countries. See PA story POLICE Smuggling. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Photo credit should read: Metropolitan Police/PA



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