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2003 Reader Submission
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This isn't really a Darwin contender as the jerk survived..but I thought I'd pass it on.
This story concerns a guy I worked with in a Postal Sorting Office back in the 80's. For the life of me I cannot remember his name, sorry. We were discussing scars and he showed off a beauty that ran three quarters of the way around his right thigh. When I asked how he got it he told me the story.
He had a pair of old denims, that he wanted to cut down to shorts(you're way ahead of me here, aren't you!) but didn't want to cut them so short that they would ride up too high when he sat down or cut the legs different lengths. So he put them on (and he was a chubby guy so they were a snug fit), sat down, judged the optimum length he wanted the shorts and ran a 'STANLEY' knife around the first leg. Now, he admitted that he realised that 'STANLEY' knives are ridiculously sharp so he "..only put enough pressure on to cut through the denim".
He was three quarters of the way round when the blood started seeping through the denim. He undid the jeans and pulled them down to his knees and realised he had sliced deeply into the flesh of his leg.
At this point his wife walked in, saw his blood covered leg and him standing there with a STANLEY knife in his hand and immdiately 'phoned for an ambulance without even asking what he had been thinking. Another 2 inches and he would have severed his femoral artery and bled to death in a matter of a few minutes.
Submitted on 05/15/2002
Submitted by:
Klif Fuller
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