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Ball Kabob

2007 Reader Submission
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Darwin says, "Thanks for the submission, Mick. Painful reading, though! Ultimately, sword fighting with skewers just doesn't sound terminally stupid to me. This particular skewering was an accident, rather than a foreseeable risk."
Rustic,Colo.March 28th - When you mix four campers playing sword fighting with cooking skewers and three cases of beer bad thing are bound to happen.

While camping in the Colorado Rockies near Rocky Mountain National Park four drunken friends’ horse play escalated into a trip to the Fort Collins hospital to have Thomas Mackey’s testicle removed.

“We had been drinking most of the day”, said Pat White of Livermore Colorado.” The four of us had just gotten a little to bored and I slapped the hot dog wiener off of Tom’s cooking skewer with mine. We jumped up and started sword fighting like we were kids.”

Obviously things got a little carried away from there. Thomas lunged towards Pat as he was stabbing at him. This great mistiming lead to a skewer being driven through Mr. Mackey’s testicle.

As soon as the cursing and threats had subsided the four men made the thirty mile trip into Fort Collins where the testicle was removed.

Submitted on 04/13/2007

Submitted by: Mick Howard
Reference: 3/28/07 http://www.starcamping.com/drunk-camper-stabs-testicle-with-wiener-skewer

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Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
Thanks for the story, Mick. The image of drunk campers sword fighting with skewers (probably only 10 inches long or so) sure is a funny one. But since only one testicle was removed I think there's a chance this rocket scientist could still reproduce, so he only qualifies for an HM. They'll have to try harder for a full Darwin!

James said:
Definitely Keep: Honorable Mention
Nope, no bystanders here, just the Four Musketeers swashbuckling away with skewers! I can definitely visualize this! Thanks, Mick!

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