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Boy Scout Gets Knife Lodged In Brain
KUTV ^
| December 23, 2005
Posted on 12/23/2005 11:23:24 AM PST by jdm
(KUTV) An incredible and un-suspecting accident leaves a Utah Boy Scout just inches from death when he was stabbed right between his eyes.
Jeff Jaeger spoke to Kevin Coulter and tells 2News how this was a truly freak accident.
While raking leaves for a Boy Scout event, one of the leaders flung a knife from his hand while trying to catch another scout who had tripped.
It was dark, it was like 8:30 and there was a light and I saw it flash before it hit me, said Kevin.
The blade landed in between his frontal lobes. It was 2 millimeters away from hitting a major blood vessel in his brain.
Kevin's doctors told him it was sheer luck where the knife hit.
That's the sinuses that it went through and that I guess is where the brain lobe is right there, said Kevin pointing to an X-Ray.
It was a freak accident in every way. Few people can admit they've seen anything like it, a 1 ½ inch blade through someone's skull.
That's the best spot you know, if you're going to have a knife in your head, said Kevin.
It amazingly wasnt as painful as it looks; he says he just felt pressure.
In all, Kevin's kept a light heart about the whole situation. He got to miss out on a few weeks of school and yes, he walked away with the knife as a souvenir.
TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: boyscout; boyscouts; brain; braininjury; bsa; bsalist; hatewhenthathappens; knife; ouch; rakingleaves; unsafescouting; ut; utah
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Very fortunate it missed a major blood vessel.
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posted on
12/23/2005 11:23:26 AM PST
by
jdm
To: jdm
An incredible and un-suspecting accident Dear God, the new breed of journalists are crashingly dumb.
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posted on
12/23/2005 11:25:39 AM PST
by
JennysCool
(Non-Y2K-Compliant)
To: jdm
So he did get the knife. Finder's Keepers, I guess. It's a heck of a way to get a pocket knife, though. Shoot...most boys get 'em for their birthdays or something.
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posted on
12/23/2005 11:26:30 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: jdm
That's the best spot you know, if you're going to have a knife in your head,
I'll keep that in mind
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posted on
12/23/2005 11:26:43 AM PST
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: jdm
I know it was just reaction, but let the tripped kid fall man. Don't throw knives in random directions when there's folks around. He almost gave this kid a lobotomy.
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posted on
12/23/2005 11:26:46 AM PST
by
Sax
To: jdm
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posted on
12/23/2005 11:29:35 AM PST
by
joe fonebone
(Thin skinned people make me sick!!!)
To: nuconvert
"I'll keep that in mind"
No, keep it ALMOST in mind. :)
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posted on
12/23/2005 11:29:37 AM PST
by
Grig
To: jdm
Leader flung a knife? What? What was he doing moving around with an open knife?
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posted on
12/23/2005 11:30:30 AM PST
by
bnelson44
(Proud parent of a tanker! (Charlie Mike, son))
To: jdm
The description of this sounds to me like they were really doing the Boy Scout equivalent of 'hold muh beer' stuff, and this is the 'plausible-story-that-doesn't-get-anyone-in-major-trouble' explanation.
I mean, c'mon. Why tosses an open blade from hand to hand hard enough to penetrate someone's skull?
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posted on
12/23/2005 11:30:32 AM PST
by
Riley
("Bother" said Pooh, as he fired the Claymores.)
To: jdm
When I was about his age, my brother stuck me in the back of the head with a dart...Dad pulled it out with a pair of pliers and told me it was a good thing I had such a thick skull.
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posted on
12/23/2005 11:31:04 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
To: jdm
If that don't clear out the sinuses, nothing will.
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posted on
12/23/2005 11:31:42 AM PST
by
b4its2late
(Liberals are good examples of why some animals eat their young.)
To: jdm
"While raking leaves for a Boy Scout event, one of the leaders flung a knife from his hand while trying to catch another scout who had tripped"
The leader should have his patches torn off his uniform, his Totem Chip card should be torn and thrown at his feet and he should be drummed out of the Troop ... his name never to be mentioned again. On the positive side, some lucky Scout had a chance to use those First Aid merit badge skills!
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posted on
12/23/2005 11:33:08 AM PST
by
Airborne1986
(Well, you can do what you want to us. But we're not going to sit here while you badmouth the U.S.A.)
To: Joe 6-pack
"When I was about his age, my brother stuck me in the back of the head with a dart...Dad pulled it out with a pair of pliers and told me it was a good thing I had such a thick skull."
He certainly made his ... em ... point.
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posted on
12/23/2005 11:34:58 AM PST
by
Airborne1986
(Well, you can do what you want to us. But we're not going to sit here while you badmouth the U.S.A.)
To: RonF; Coleus
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posted on
12/23/2005 11:38:37 AM PST
by
Clint N. Suhks
(If you don't like Jesus, you can go to hell.)
To: jdm
I don't buy it. A small knife like that would have to be more than just flung to bury itself to its hilt in a skull. More likely, that knife was firmly in someone's grip and some football type roughhousing resulted in this. I'm sure it was all friendly and accidental, but it was no "fling".
To: jdm
The sister seems to be really broken up about her brother's accident. She looks like she is posing for the family Christmas picture!
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posted on
12/23/2005 11:40:46 AM PST
by
Airborne1986
(Well, you can do what you want to us. But we're not going to sit here while you badmouth the U.S.A.)
To: Airborne1986
"He certainly made his ... em ... point." Yep...I carry a pair of pliers with me everywhere I go to this day!
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posted on
12/23/2005 11:40:59 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum.)
To: Airborne1986
The leader should have his patches torn off his uniform, his Totem Chip card should be torn and thrown at his feet and he should be drummed out of the Troop ... his name never to be mentioned again. Branded!
Scorned as the one who ran.
What do you do when you're branded,
And you know you're a man?
And wherever you go
for the rest of your life
You must prove ...
You're a man!
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posted on
12/23/2005 11:41:56 AM PST
by
Riley
("Bother" said Pooh, as he fired the Claymores.)
To: Airborne1986
WOW, that boy sure does have some serious acne at 14. Seems to me he needs to be treated for that just as bad as he did for the knife wound.
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posted on
12/23/2005 12:08:56 PM PST
by
Halls
(Never forget Terri Schiavo!!!!!!!!!)
To: jdm
It seems like these things always happen in Utah... kids lost in the mountains, kids drowning in the river, kids dying in climbing accidents, kids knifing themselves in the head... What gives?
That aside, he's one lucky kid.
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posted on
12/23/2005 12:36:50 PM PST
by
RedBeaconNY
(Vous parlez trop, mais vous ne dites rien.)
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