[jdm]

Very fortunate it missed a major blood vessel.

[JennysCool]

An incredible and un-suspecting accident

Dear God, the new breed of journalists are crashingly dumb.

[MineralMan]

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.

[nuconvert]

“That's the best spot you know, if you're going to have a knife in your head,”

I'll keep that in mind

[Sax]

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.

[joe fonebone]

bump for later

[bnelson44]

Leader flung a knife? What? What was he doing moving around with an open knife?

[Riley]

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?

[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.

[b4its2late]

If that don't clear out the sinuses, nothing will.

[Airborne1986]

"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!

[Clint N. Suhks]

What a Nightmare.

[Born to Conserve]

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".

[Airborne1986]

The sister seems to be really broken up about her brother's accident. She looks like she is posing for the family Christmas picture!

[RedBeaconNY]

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.

[solitas]

When mumbly-peg goes horribly wrong.

[andyk]

Did you look at all of the pictures? Why did they have to cut open the top of his head?

[SandRat]

There's going to be a whole lot of Adult and Youth training going on on the Rules of Safe Scouting and I would suspect that all Adult and youth Toten Chits just got canceled and will have to be reearned.

[LibWhacker]

“That's the best spot you know, if you're going to have a knife in your head,” said Kevin.

I'm putting that at the very top of my most-useless-facts file.

Glad the kid's going to be okay!

[newzjunkey]

Another fine story of the glory that is Scouting.

At least he survived to live another day. Too many this year were *not* so lucky.

Maybe we should do a "2005 the year in Scouting" review.

[MarMema]

Wow. Glad the Scout will be ok.