A Man is Recovering After Shooting Himself in the Brain With a Nail Gun . . . and Not Realizing It
Last Tuesday, 32-year-old Dante Autullo of Oak Lawn, Illinois was building a shed. As he was firing nails into some boards above his head with a nail gun, he felt a sharp pain on the side of his head.
--Dante thought he'd just grazed the side of his head with a nail. He hadn't . . . he'd actually FIRED A NAIL INTO HIS BRAIN. But, believe it or not, he didn't realize it.
--He went to sleep that night and felt fine. He woke up the next day and felt fine. Finally, that afternoon, he took a nap . . . and when he woke up, he realized something was wrong so he went to the hospital.
--When his doctor took the X-ray, he was SHOCKED to find a three-and-a-quarter-inch nail embedded in Dante's brain. Dante couldn't believe it either.
--In a sign of the times, as he was being rushed to another hospital for emergency brain surgery, Dante posted a picture of the X-ray on Facebook.
--He had surgery to remove the nail, and he's still recovering. Somehow the nail didn't hit any crucial part of his brain, and it shouldn't affect Dante in the future.
--As for how he could hit himself in the head with a nail and not feel it . . . there aren't any nerves in the brain that are pain-sensitive. Which is why he felt a little bit of pain on his skull . . . but couldn't feel anything beyond that.
(Time)
A Couple Attempted To Blow Up a Car . . . With Flaming Tampons
Patricia and Quentin Deshong of Metal Township, Pennsylvania were arrested for vandalizing a car outside a bar two weekends ago.
--Police aren't sure WHY the couple got upset with 25-year-old Falon Clark, but they took out their anger on her car.
--By the time police arrived, it was covered with dents, and the Deshongs had cracked and broken the windshield and windows.
--But that was child's play. The Deshongs hadn't been satisfied with just vandalizing the woman's car, they also tried to BLOW IT UP. In a pretty original way, actually. Stupid, but original. Here's what they did . . .
--The Deshongs opened the car's gas cap . . . and stuffed it with TAMPONS. They also went under the hood and opened the oil-fill cap. They stuck tampons in there too . . . then LIT them all on FIRE.
--Police found ashes and half burned tampons, figured out what happened, and charged the Deshongs with attempted arson.
--They were also charged with criminal mischief, public drunkenness, and theft . . . because Patricia took the car's license plate with her.
--No one would say what started the feud, but it may not be over. On her Facebook page, Falon said that she was, quote, "lookin' for some revenge" a few hours after her car was trashed.
(Smoking Gun)
A Drunk Driver Caused Massive Delays During Rush Hour in San Francisco by Driving Into a Train Tunnel
I didn't know it was possible to be THIS DRUNK at six in the morning on a Thursday. Unreal.
--Yesterday morning, around 6:00 A.M., 40-year-old Scott Mitchell of Sebastopol, California was extraordinarily drunk. And because he's an idiot, he was driving.
--Mitchell was driving through San Francisco and was so drunk he didn't realize he'd driven his SUV into a TRAIN TUNNEL. After about a half-a-mile of driving on some tracks, he got stuck.
--And that stopped the entire San Francisco metro system for TWO HOURS.
--Eventually, people who needed to ride trains were transported around the blocked tracks by shuttles . . . but this ONE drunk driver caused COUNTLESS people to be late.
--Mitchell has been charged with DUI, driving on train tracks, and failure to obey a traffic sign. He has zero previous driving offenses on his record.
(San Francisco Chronicle)
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