Man impales self while gardening

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | Tuesday, November 16, 2004 | Chuck Brittain

[Willie Green]

A North Huntingdon Township man was critically injured Monday night when he apparently fell onto a knife he was using to dig a vegetable from a garden.

Township police determined that Terry Merz, 58, of 550 Sherrick Drive, accidentally impaled himself on a 10-inch kitchen knife at about 8 p.m. while trying to dig an onion out of a family garden....

[Willie Green]

Who digs onions out of the garden with a 10" kitchen knife at 8:00 PM on a Monday night in the middle of November?

[Not A Snowbird]

I see an episode of CSI in the making...

[Willie Green]

weird and puzzling ping.

[Willie Green]

Maybe X-Files.

[green pastures]

Oh, come on. We all know what _really_ happened. I'll bet the onion's gonna claim it was self defense. ;-)

Probably wasn't a dry eye in the house.

[aft_lizard]

It has to be a DUmmie, to lazy to get the gardening shovel out of the drawer next to the knife and to stupid to go to the store and buy there own veggies.

[tall_tex]

Never ever take a knife to an onion fight.

[dk/coro]

Or....the turkey forgot that one pint of Smirnoff before dinner might be a bit much!

But, when a guy goes out to his garden in November at 8:00 PM, anything might happen. *S*

[green pastures]

LOL...

[smonk]

Where was Mrs. Merz at the time?

[BJClinton]

Probably wasn't a dry eye in the house.

Outstanding.

Seriesly though, we grow our own herbs, onions, garlic etc. because we love to have them fresh out of the garden. And due to our late work schedules we frequently don't get started cooking until 7 or later so this is not that unreasonable.