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NYC Man Survives Fall With Spike Impaled In Head
WCBSTV.COM ^ | 30 MAY 2010 | WCBSTV.COM

Posted on 05/30/2010 8:40:39 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist

NEW YORK (CBS) ―

A 21-year-old musician is lucky to be alive after his head was impaled on a spiked metal fence during a fall from a balcony.

The incident happened at around 4 a.m. Saturday at a party in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood. Police said Nicholas Blossom was intoxicated when he fell from a third-floor balcony onto the second-floor balcony of an adjoining building, landing head-first on the fence.

Rescuers used an electric saw to detach Blossom from the fence.

He was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was in stable condition.

Blossom plays drums in a rock band called Alaska Alaska. The group is currently unsigned.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: spike
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1 posted on 05/30/2010 8:40:39 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Nothing good ever happens at 4am.


2 posted on 05/30/2010 8:42:38 AM PDT by DManA
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
The group is currently unsigned.

I can't imagine why.

3 posted on 05/30/2010 8:42:49 AM PDT by rickmichaels
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
I never did like those FreeCreditReports.com slackers.
4 posted on 05/30/2010 8:42:56 AM PDT by Ukiapah Heep (Shoes for Industry!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

This thread is useless without pics!!!


5 posted on 05/30/2010 8:42:59 AM PDT by misterrob (Thug Life....now showing at a White House near you....)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

another alcohol related incident, I assume........


6 posted on 05/30/2010 8:43:59 AM PDT by Kimmers (Waterboarding saves lives)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

another alcohol related incident, I assume........


7 posted on 05/30/2010 8:43:59 AM PDT by Kimmers (Waterboarding saves lives)
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Mr. Blossom is so fortunate that someone invented the electric saw.


8 posted on 05/30/2010 8:46:02 AM PDT by donhunt (I used to have a US senator who lived in a compound. He's dead now.)
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To: DManA

that’s going to leave a mark...


9 posted on 05/30/2010 8:47:04 AM PDT by fabian
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Wow, he needed this about as much as he needed another hole in the head.


10 posted on 05/30/2010 8:47:11 AM PDT by TheZMan (Just secede and get it over with. No love lost on either side. Cya.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I could (but won’t) post a pic of a guy that was not so lucky. He jumped off a bridge to escape the police and landed right on top of an old style wrought iron fence. His head is still on the fence, and the rest of his body is on the sidewalk. Search the net and you can find it, if you dare.


11 posted on 05/30/2010 8:47:53 AM PDT by Lockbar (March toward the sound of the guns.)
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To: misterrob
This thread is useless without pics!!!


12 posted on 05/30/2010 8:48:55 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom sarc ;))
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Mr. Blossom is due for some personality changes, I'd wager.

Mr. Blossom, meet Phineas Gage...

13 posted on 05/30/2010 8:49:05 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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I'm amazed this didn't happens here in the keys....usually its a fish hook....
14 posted on 05/30/2010 8:50:06 AM PDT by rodguy911 ( Sarah 2012!!! Home of the free because of the brave.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Typical drummer.


15 posted on 05/30/2010 8:50:12 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist; NewRomeTacitus; cripplecreek; creeping death; JeffreyH; ...

Wait a minute! A drummer was involved in risky behavior at 4 AM while intoxicated? I’m having trouble believing this story!

HEAVY METAL PING!

...I don’t know if “Alaska Alaska” is Heavy Metal; but this sounds like a “Spinal Tap” drummer moment!


16 posted on 05/30/2010 8:54:56 AM PDT by Grizzled Bear (Does not play well with others.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

He’s got a new nickname now- “Spike”


17 posted on 05/30/2010 8:55:43 AM PDT by silverleaf (Every time history repeats itself the price goes up)
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To: 9YearLurker; cardinal4

If I were Blossom, I would’ve had the ambulance stop at a 7-11 so I could run in and buy a lottery ticket. The rest of his life is pure velvet.


18 posted on 05/30/2010 8:57:06 AM PDT by Ax
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Watch for Bloomie to outlaw spikes on fences.


19 posted on 05/30/2010 9:03:19 AM PDT by manic4organic (Obama shot hoops, America lost troops.)
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To: headsonpikes

Heads-on-spikes Ping.


20 posted on 05/30/2010 9:03:20 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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