Current Events > Man gets shot in the heart with nail gun. Calmly drives to a hospital and lives.

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The 52-year-old man from Peshtigo, Wisconsin was building a fireplace frame for a house back in June when his nail gun accidentally fired, sending a three and a half inch nail ricocheting off the building materials and into his chest.

Bergeson said he only felt a slight sting, and nothing worse. Since he couldn’t see anything on his chest, he took his shirt off and only saw an inch of the nail sticking out of his skin

According to the Associated Press, Bergeson was “annoyed” that he could not get more work done, but he knew that he had to go to the hospital because the nail was twitching along with his heartbeats. He also knew that he should not pull the nail out.

He then cleaned himself up, hopped in his truck, and drove himself to the Bay Area Medical Center 12 miles away. He had parked his truck and walked into the ER when he started to feel pain in his chest. Bergeson then asked a security guard if they could find someone to help while he sat down and rested.

By the time doctors took X-rays of his chest, they found that the nail was indeed embedded in his heart. Not only that, but the nail had landed 1/16th of an inch away from a major artery.

Doctors then rushed Bergeson off to the Aurora Bay Medical Center by ambulance for treatment.

“I offered to drive myself, but they wouldn’t let me,” Bergeson told AP, chuckling.

Bergeson was only in the hospital for two days before being sent home to recover, but he says that the whole experience is something that will stay with him for a long time to come.

Full Article: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/man-takes-nail-heart-calmly-drives-hospital-lives/

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I guess we found one of Clark Kent's relatives
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I mean, the heart is literally a big wad of muscle. It's not like one tiny hole is instant death.

...Depending on where the hole is, of course.

UnfairRepresent posted...

He then cleaned himself up, hopped in his truck, and drove himself to the Bay Area Medical Center 12 miles away. He had parked his truck and walked into the ER when he started to feel pain in his chest. Bergeson then asked a security guard if they could find someone to help while he sat down and rested.

"Excuse me sir, there's approximately two inches of nail driven into my chest, could I trouble you to find me a doctor?"
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Savage
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnsiZOJjfUg
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I worked with a framing crew during my summers in college and remember when a guy put a 10 penny nail through 2 of his fingers with the nail gun. The nails come in big coils like bullets that Rambo would have and they are connected by little welded barbs about an inch apart so they stay together. He had to pull the nail out which took pulling one of the barbs back through the hole the nail created. No health insurance so he didn't want to go to the hospital. He did it right there on site. Pounded a Gatorade, drove home and was back at work the next day.

It's not a nail to the heart but it was still pretty bad ass.
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Do they charge him rent to live at the hospital?
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Some Teddy levels of not giving an F.
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That's pretty fascinating. Not as fascinating as that guy that got a metal rod impaled through his head and was perfectly fine except a little more angry (lol) and violent.

^ lol wtf
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@Xelltrix posted...

^ lol wtf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
I learned about him from my psychology class.

whitelytning posted...

It's not a nail to the heart but it was still pretty bad ass.

No, it's idiotic.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

According to the Associated Press, Bergeson was “annoyed” that he could not get more work done, but he knew that he had to go to the hospital because the nail was twitching along with his heartbeats. He also knew that he should not pull the nail out.

Damn, what a boss
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My grandmother was stabbed in the back with a butcher knife. She calmly talked to the attacker and told her that she would just get the kids and leave peacefully(the attacker was trying to kill her own children when my grandma shielded them). The attacker agreed, and my grandma drove both kids to nearest gas station and asked the cashier to call the ambulance. The wou,d was like 3 or 4 inches deep and it killed her one kidney(which did eventually lead to her death years later).

Once in high school, I was taking a horticulture class and we were pruning some bushes. I heard a Yelp and one guy took off while shouting, and a female class mate was apologizing. Turns out she had mistaken his finger for part a branch and snipped the end of it off with the shears. I never got to see how much was actually missing, but they described it as the "end of the finger" and it wasn't terribly bandaged up and didn't keep him out of school, so I think it was likely just the very tip maybe.
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ThePrinceFish posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

He then cleaned himself up, hopped in his truck, and drove himself to the Bay Area Medical Center 12 miles away. He had parked his truck and walked into the ER when he started to feel pain in his chest. Bergeson then asked a security guard if they could find someone to help while he sat down and rested.

"Excuse me sir, there's approximately two inches of nail driven into my chest, could I trouble you to find me a doctor?"

NeonOctopus posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

According to the Associated Press, Bergeson was “annoyed” that he could not get more work done, but he knew that he had to go to the hospital because the nail was twitching along with his heartbeats. He also knew that he should not pull the nail out.

Damn, what a boss

f***ing this. true man right here. i'd expect nothing less from a dude named Doug f***ing Bergeson.
his stare alone could kill a medium sized animal

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