Posted on 03/21/2013 11:26:13 AM PDT by libstripper
/sarc
Far more likely a freak accident. Look at the comments, like No. 20. Just remember the old Hell’s Angels saying. Sometimes it’s all too true, just like the poor guy in FL who was killed by a sink hole that suddenly opened up under his bed.
When I was in high school, several friends were throwing a rubber discus just for fun. They were throwing it in a safe area except one guy let it slip.
The discus had a blue “W” painted on it by one of the coaches I guess for identification. The misthrown discus hit a car almost right in the middle of the hood. When we retrieved it, the discus had branded a perfect “W” on the hood. It did not even look to have spun as it hit. We tried to rub it out and even wash it but nothing worked.
I have no idea what eventually happened.
Bush’s fault.
RIP.
Of course not. He thought it was deliberate. But at that distance, throwing that kind of object, there's no way that even a college level champion discus thrower could be that accurate.
Sounds like it might have caused some kind of trauma or puncture to the intestinal area.
Oddjob could not be reached for comment.
pfl
Funny story. Had this little pain in my upper thigh. And then it started to crawl down my leg. Doc said it was nothing. He said he could get me an ultrasound with the vein specialist in town (if I thought I really needed it). Tech told me what he was seeing. Tech called his “Resident” and that guy was (while I was still laying on the table), yelling, “you have to be F’in kidding me, 14 INCHES???”. ha ha. A bit later I asked my regular doc if’n I could go back to work. He said, “ABSOLUTELY! And you can join the other 386,000 people that die of this every year, or you can go home, lie down, and shoot (Heparin) (no insurance)in your belly for the next 10 days.
Yep... as I recall that was sometime during my smack year (started in 1969). Someone else had just thrown the javelin and it was sticking out of the ground about chest high. He ran right into it.
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