[gorush]

I’m not sure I get the point.

[cripplecreek]

I have a friend who fell of a roof and got stuck with a metal fencepost. He was in the hospital for nearly 6 weeks and lost his spleen.

[Past Your Eyes]

Geez, two Darwin type stories in a row.

[RegulatorCountry]

As gory as this sounds, it’s likely the reason he wasn’t dead upon impact, jumping from four stories up.

[RobertClark]

Wow, a shish ka thug!

[jonascord]

How much will it cost to fix the fence? And how much will it cost to put this waste of DNA back on the street?

I know, it's not like real people will have to pay for it...

[SERKIT]

I thought this may have been a report of a black man jumping out of a large white house on Pennsylvania Avenue in a depressed mood following a televised “argument” earlier in the week.

[bubman]

It really sucks to be him!!

[SWAMPSNIPER]

[al baby]

Shiskabum?

[BigCinBigD]

Was his name...Lance?

[DainBramage]

imPalin’ for president

[SMGFan]

Can’t say, “I missed it by that much.”

[fidelis]

Look before you leap, is all I’m sayin’.

[Revolting cat!]

Here's the victim's automobile:

[pterional]

The family will probably sue the owners of the fence and win.

[Ditter]

I met a woman who climbed into her own yard over a wrought iron fence. She slipped and was impaled in the calf of her leg and was stuck there for a long time before someone came and found her. Needless to say she walked with a limp after that.

[Major Matt Mason]

Back in the early 70's, there was a guy that jumped from the window of one of the upper floors of Buffalo's City Hall. He landed on and was impaled on a flag pole that stood in front of the building. They had to cut the pole in half and lower him down that way since he pretty much landed perfectly centered and slid down the pole several feet.

This happened in the mid-afternoon, around the time of the Commander Tom show (which I just happened to be watching). They broke into the broadcast of this kid's show to show some video footage of the aftermath of the jumper's fine marksmanship. Needless to say, parents complained loudly to that station.

[Revolting cat!]

The man was singing as he was falling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzq7H30alcY

[ntnychik]

I fell from a second story deck, landed on my upper back next to shrubbery, which I thought might have softened my landing. My doc told me another patient had a similar experience, but was impaled in the shrubbery. He had to wear the shrubs to the hospital, but he lived. Doc and the nurses were doubled over laughing. At the shrub guy and at me.

My son stepped on some branches in a park, and impaled his eardrum. He had to wear the offending branch to the ER.

Aside from the obvious, you really don’t want an impalement injury because of the ridicule.