Impaled While Playing Baseball

[chris]

Damn man, look out for the fence.

[Vampiress Queen]

how could he not see the 10-foot fence right in front of him?

[brucefrommexico:)]

strange huh

[lillelalle]

how the hell did he do that?

[joe7816]

That can't be good.

[parasyte]

LEAD: A Queens teen-ager who became impaled on an iron fence spike was in stable condition yesterday after doctors removed the spike from his neck and mouth. They were aided by firefighters who used a hacksaw half an inch from the boy's chest.

A Queens teen-ager who became impaled on an iron fence spike was in stable condition yesterday after doctors removed the spike from his neck and mouth. They were aided by firefighters who used a hacksaw half an inch from the boy's chest.

The accident occurred at 5:25 P.M. Saturday as the youth, Julio Castillo, 15 years old, played ball with friends outside his apartment at 47-15 48th Street in Sunnyside. He slipped as he climbed over a wrought-iron fence to retrieve a ball. The square spike, about an inch wide, entered his neck and came out his mouth - just missing his jugular vein.

Rescuers tied the teen-ager to the fence ''to keep his weight from making the wound larger or possibly fracturing his neck,'' said a firefighter, Peter Cozeolino.

''He was letting us know he was in pain,'' Mr. Cozeolino said. ''He was moaning and screaming. But he really couldn't yell that loud because there was a one-inch spike coming out of his mouth.''

The emergency workers covered the boy with firefighters' coats to protect him from sparks as they used a torch to cut away a 150-pound, 4 1/2-by-6 1/2-foot section from the fence. The boy and the fence section were taken by ambulance to the City Hospital Center at Elmhurst.

There, Mr. Cozeolino, said firefighters scrubbed up, donned gloves and used a six-pound electric hacksaw to cut away all but about four pounds of the spike. A fire hose was placed across the boy's chest to protect him from the saw blade a half-inch away, and water was poured over the spike so it did not burn him. It took five or six blades for the 20-minute job, the firefighter said. Doctors then removed the piece that remained.

Fred Horen, an administrator at the hospital, said the youth was expected to recover.


Source: Queens Youth Is Impaled on Iron Fence Spike - New York Times

[0000Harmer]

"The boy and the fence"

[advancedcorpsetumor]

Now where can I get a fence like that? Would be the best protection

[termon]

starving to death?

[MeaningOfAbuse]

LOL. He couldn't say much cause there was a one inch spike coming out his mouth. Blunt and straight to the god damn point.