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X-Ray photography has had an enormous impact on the quality of health-care that we receive in modern days. There is no doubt that it makes surgeries for the removal of foreign objects much easier (in the old days Doctors would have to cut and hope for the best). This list includes 10 of the most unfortunate accidents caught on X-Ray film. Warning: some images are very disturbing.
This is a Chinese woman with bound feet. You can read more about bound feet on this list.
Is that a gun in your vagina or are you just happy to see me? Actually, that’s a gun-shaped lighter and a glass crack pipe.
60 year old man with a bottle up his butt; it was forcibly inserted by thieves.
A rather unfortunate nailgun accident.
This is an eleven year old boy with a butter knife lodged in his head.
United States Army Sgt.stabbed in the head by an insurgent on the streets of East Baghdad.
This is a 17 month old baby that fell on a set of carkeys.
A pair of scissors caught in a man’s throat. I don’t even want to begin to imagine how they ended up there.
An 18-inch drill bit pierces a man’s eye…
A dog in North Carolina that swallowed a fork
April 12th, 2009 at 1:35 am
shocking pics, did these guys survive all this
April 12th, 2009 at 1:35 am
gory but interesting
great list
April 12th, 2009 at 1:36 am
I read about number 2 a while ago. The man fell from a ladder on to the drill but instead of piercing any major organs like the eye or brain, it pushed them out of the way.
April 12th, 2009 at 1:36 am
#8 “Forcibly inserted by thieves”
I wonder if the ER had heard that one before…
April 12th, 2009 at 1:37 am
I think out of all of those the feet grossed me out the most, followed by the baby with the car keys in it’s head, ew!
April 12th, 2009 at 1:41 am
I feel sad for the baby and the nailgun guy…
April 12th, 2009 at 1:42 am
Very very unfortunate. Do they still do the foot binding thing these days in China?
April 12th, 2009 at 1:53 am
*shudders*
and how did that butter knife get into the toddlers head? stabbing?!
April 12th, 2009 at 1:55 am
I’m just about to have dinner. I did ignore the warning!
April 12th, 2009 at 1:56 am
OMG quite disturbing.
April 12th, 2009 at 1:59 am
I have read that the baby with the car keys was left with only minor injuries.
April 12th, 2009 at 2:00 am
I think #2 is the worst. O_o
April 12th, 2009 at 2:00 am
I saw the baby vs. keys x-ray the other day somewhere online (don’t remember where, but it was probably some medical oddities article). Anyway, I recall that the keys went through the baby’s eye socket, but with no permanent or significant damage. What a story that kid will have to tell his own children someday… it’ll put to shame the oh-so-ordinary “don’t run with scissors” lectures.
April 12th, 2009 at 2:03 am
rushfan-
very interesting. do you have further details on any of them? did any of these people live? what year? what country? etc.
creepy pics, but i feel a little cheated! also i think you must have had a link to the foot binding list, but it’s not showing up.
April 12th, 2009 at 2:03 am
The keys are definitely the worst – and the enormous drill a close second
April 12th, 2009 at 2:03 am
“unfortunate accidents”.
I doubt No.5 was an accident
Did he survive?
And that 11 year old boy, how on earth would that happen? Ok that he could have slipped while running to the table with a knife, falling on the knife in such manner that it cut into one of his eyes like butter.
But, if that was the case wouldn’t part of the knife remain on the outside?
In this case the knife has continued about 5cm into the head instead and it also has gone into the skull bone on the other side!
Freak accident?
As for the foot binding it is outlawed so I doubt anyone still does it.
Here’s another picture of how it looks like.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/A_HIGH_CASTE_LADYS_DAINTY_LILY_FEET.jpg
Those feet reminds me of something, I just can’t remember what…
April 12th, 2009 at 2:07 am
lo: thanks for pointing that out – I have now added the link
Oh – and Happy Easter everyone!
April 12th, 2009 at 2:25 am
lol! and a dog i in top 1! but anyway, another amazing list, keep it up!
April 12th, 2009 at 2:35 am
I hope the poor baby with the car keys survived OK!
JF, have you seen the X-rays of serial killer Albert Fish’s pelvis? The guy had over 25 needles in him, that he’d put there!
April 12th, 2009 at 2:40 am
Really? “Dog swallows fork” beats “really effin’ huge drill bit goes through man’s head?”
April 12th, 2009 at 2:40 am
yikes… gory…but i also hoped the baby with the car keys survived…a pity…
April 12th, 2009 at 2:50 am
Si did they all survive or not?
April 12th, 2009 at 2:51 am
So, not si
April 12th, 2009 at 3:23 am
My second thought on list item #5 Geez, that is one buff seargeant.
First thought is probably obvious.
April 12th, 2009 at 3:26 am
The first thought on all x-rays was F**k, that’s gotta suck., tied with “Did they live?”
April 12th, 2009 at 3:56 am
you can find the info on some (not all) of these shots, and see at least 17 more at the new york daily news:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/galleries/the_x_factor_amazing_xrays/the_x_factor_amazing_xrays.html#ph0
drill man is ron hunt in 2003, and he lived! with no significant brain damage! it’s even on snopes. key-eyed toddler was fine too, as was said by someone above.
April 12th, 2009 at 4:05 am
seriously, why was no research on this list?
i found info on about half of these images by pure accident, while reading an article about people who buy real “easter bunnies” only to abandon them later. i’m sure a bit of googling on rushfan’s part would have at least found out survival outcome for most of these. if it’s just a string of pictures (which i did enjoy in a horrified way) leaving us begging for details, where is the list “writing” part?
google image search could “write” a list of x-rays too.
April 12th, 2009 at 4:09 am
when my sis was very young (2 or 3) she had poor eyesight and we werent aware of it yet.because of this she used to hold things very close to her eyes to look at them.and one day she managed to stick a car key into herself just like above.it went in through the eyelid but fortunately just above the eyeball itself so she didnt lose the eye.
April 12th, 2009 at 4:15 am
and here’s butter-knife boy:
http://tinyurl.com/ctn36s
it’s self evident-how easy it was to find too. ok, i’m done proving the point. i guess everyone else just will have to do their own googling if they want to know what happened to these 10 people.
but the list is in “science,” this info should be on the list already….
science is my favorite category here.
happy holiday to all who celebrate it
April 12th, 2009 at 4:23 am
The nailgun and the butterknife are the greatest – However; I draw the reader’s attention to the description of #7. “An unfortunate nailgun accident”. ACCIDENT????? The man has SIX Frickin four-inch nails embedded in his skull! what was he using – an AK-47 Nailgun???
On second thought: the huge auger bit is pretty bloody impressive, too. We once transported a 17-year-old apprentice with a 3-foot length of stell embedded in his skull from temple-to-temple: front on he resembled a human with bicycle handlebars! He was conscious and pain-free until they went to move it in surgery: 1mm twist and BAM! Lights out!
April 12th, 2009 at 4:39 am
O.o I saw the baby one, and the first thing i did was go make sure my nephew (16 mo old
) was still sleeping safely in my bed
April 12th, 2009 at 4:53 am
WTF?? these poor people bloody hell
April 12th, 2009 at 4:58 am
The bound feet and the baby with the keys are the worst. My feet ache just looking at it. I’m having trouble mustering any sympathy for the crack pipe in the vagina. Something tells me that didn’t get there by accident.
April 12th, 2009 at 5:05 am
I can’t believe most of these to be real. How in the world did that happened ?!
Especially the bottle one. It seems rather large, and why is it tilted ?
And yeah, No.2 is the worst; it gave me the shivers.
April 12th, 2009 at 5:08 am
I read about number 3 the other day. Supposedly the man was picking his teeth with the scissors and someone or something bumped him causing him to swallow the scissors.
April 12th, 2009 at 5:23 am
AHAHHA
very scary list
April 12th, 2009 at 5:41 am
shop
April 12th, 2009 at 5:52 am
Wow…all i got to say is i hope these people keep the xrays and frame them….except for the guy with the bottle up his ass; try explaining that one to the grandkids…
April 12th, 2009 at 6:19 am
ohh.. I have a serious fear of impaling myself onto something… thanks for reminding me. Happy Easter.
April 12th, 2009 at 6:38 am
Aaaagh… I’m glad, very glad I have a high resistance to “grossness”, otherwise I would have barfed my Easter lunch. Still, I wish I could post here the X-rays my medical emergencies professor showed during a lesson on F.B.s a couple of years ago… The best one showed the familiar shape of a perfume bottle (in the shape of a roman column, no less) lodged in a woman’s rectum. It definitely brought the lolz.
April 12th, 2009 at 6:46 am
Very cool list. My sister works in the medical field and has shown me a few pictures like these. Some were… very interesting.
One story that was on the discovery channel was about a man who fell 2 stories onto a tree. A 2 inch wide 3 foot branch impaled him through the rectum. It tore through the colon and went straight up into his chest. The most amazing part of this was no major organ was damaged in any way. The tree branch missed everything and simple pushed the organs out of the way. The x-ray of this was very scary to look at. Oh…he survived but had to have several surgeries to remove all of the splinters within his body.
btw…For those who celebrate it…Happy Easter!
ummmm….candy.
April 12th, 2009 at 6:56 am
Here’s another unfortunate one:
http://elmierdero.com/wp-content/uploads/chikillacochina.jpg
April 12th, 2009 at 6:56 am
Concerning #7 on the list, I can only imagine what was going through the guy’s head (other than the nails).
Oops!
(PAP!)
Ow, shit dude!
(PAP!)
Fuck! Again?
(PAP!)
Really?
(PAP!)
SERIOUSLY?
(PAP!)
THIS IS JUST GETTING RIDICULOUS!!!…Is that it? Are we done yet? Uhh…guys? Could someone drive me to the hospital?
April 12th, 2009 at 7:22 am
I think number 8 may have been the cause for war. I’m not to sure though.
“Đorđe Martinović (also spelled Djordje Martinović; Serbian: Ђорђе Мартиновић) (1929 – 6 September 2000) was a Serbian farmer from Kosovo who was at the centre of a notorious incident in May 1985, when he was treated for injuries caused by the forceful insertion of a glass bottle into his anus. The Martinović affair, as it became known, turned into a cause célèbre in Serbian politics. Although the facts of the incident remained in dispute for years afterwards, it played a significant role in worsening ethnic tensions between Kosovo’s Serbian and Albanian populations.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90or%C4%91e_Martinovi%C4%87
April 12th, 2009 at 7:35 am
rush, another one where my sense of the macabre has beaten you to the punch. I knew each and every one of these pix, or at least ones so similar as to be the same!
Love them every time.
April 12th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Is the nail gun one the guy who tried to kill himself and failed?
I wish I had access to the film at the hospital I work at of the light bulb inserted rectally. It seems x-rays passing through a magnesium filament makes the bulb appear to be “on”.
April 12th, 2009 at 7:50 am
The Army Sergeant in #5 lived! Here is the story!
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/10/airforce_powers_071022/
April 12th, 2009 at 7:51 am
Wow, dude… like really, WOW.
And this is what I’m greeted with after 40 days of not logging onto this site once (yes, Jamie, I love Listverse so much I gave it up for Lent.)
Good to see you haven’t changed much
April 12th, 2009 at 9:34 am
How can you “fall” onto keys and receive that kinda injury?..They’d need to be pointing upwards and firmly held by something. Looks more like an assault in my opinion.
Find it hard to believe some of the others too as, i’m sad to say, photoshop has made me suspicious of all remarkable images.
Nice list, though.
April 12th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
I wish there was more description on them.
I have an X Ray of my son’s tummy. He swallowed a little cell battery when he was 18 months. They let us take the X Ray so we could give it to his doctor the next day. The doctor gave the Xray back to us.
April 12th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
46. jake ryder – “I wish I had access to the film at the hospital I work at of the light bulb inserted rectally. It seems x-rays passing through a magnesium filament makes the bulb appear to be “on”.”
There was a TV episode of Scrubs about that!
“Either there’s a light bulb up his butt or his colon’s got a great idea!”
April 12th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
it’s funny how a lot of these are fake… but i feel sorry for that dog tho
April 12th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
Oh my. To shop or not to shop. That is the question.
April 12th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
the key is the worst one I think that sucks for kid
April 12th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Best list I have seen on here for a while!
April 12th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
for #3 he was using them as a toothpick
April 12th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
I’m a vet tech student, and this year we saw got a kitten from our shelter partner, and she walked funny, so we radiographed her. It turns out she had broken her femur, and it had healed incorrectly, so it was “M” shaped; straight, turn 90 degrees, straight, turn another 90 degrees…. You get it. That has to be the most unfortunate rad I’ve even seen.
(And since this has been hammered into my head by my teachers, this list is actually about “radiographs”. X-rays are invisible
)
April 12th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Albert Fish x-rays are the most shocking x-rays, period, ever! Shame they were omitted.
April 12th, 2009 at 9:31 pm
disturbing..very…brr..
April 12th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Many, many years ago I worked in the top professional still film lab in Hollywood, but on rare occasions there would come the odd non-pro, or the pro in a world extremely foreign to ours.
One of these was a man who became known as “the green grocer”…the light bulb reminded me of him. About 4 or 5 times a year he would come in with rolls and rolls of E6 to be developed and mounted.
Whoever got the job would get the finished results and call out to the employees, “Green grocers up! Green grocer on light table one.”)
For the next hour you could find any one of us laughing our heads off perusing this poor mans foibles (and other parts, to be left unnamed).
I kept wondering what would happen if something got stuck up there…I guess the light bulb tells us.
Good times.
April 12th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
I am disappointed. I liked the pics, but wished there was more in the description. Not a full link, but a paragraphs’ worth of info. As an example, #7, the Coke bottle in the butt, the man alleges burglars shoved it in when they robbed him, alleges. I think he was horny and *clears thraot* bit off more than he can chew.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:47 am
damn….happy easter!
April 13th, 2009 at 1:10 am
#38 – The Other Darren: I am told the Sergeant in #5 supposedly survived but I seriously doubt that 2, 6 & 7 survived to put the picture on the wall – and the baby in 4 would be somewhat suspect, depending on whether the keys penetrated the cerbral fissure or a lobe.
As for the “Bottle in the arse” guy – you’d be amazed at the amount, variety and wierdness of the items which can be (and have been) inserted into both rectal and vaginal orifices
April 13th, 2009 at 5:04 am
There was a story on Aussie TV a month or so back showing how a young boy had been out on a fishing trip and had opened his mouth at just the wrong time, resulting in him getting the nastiest bit of fishing tackle you have ever seen (picture about 20 barbed hooks on the one lure) lodged in his windpipe.
The X-Ray was horrific, but the docs did a great job and he got to keep his vocal chords.
April 13th, 2009 at 6:16 am
Very Interesting and as forementioned- quite disturbing to say the least! I feel sympathy for most of these victims but also can you imagine what the Drs. and X-Ray techs have to see day to day? Some of these cases would be hard to leave with my thoughts at the office if I were in the shoes of the medical professionals. Its a job somebody has to do I guess.
April 13th, 2009 at 6:21 am
I agree with 49. How does a baby fall ONTO keys? My keys don’t stick straight up in the air when I toss them on the table. That’s so terrible if those were forcibly inserted (terrible anyway, but you know what I mean)
good job rush!
April 13th, 2009 at 6:48 am
66. callie_ – “I agree with 49. How does a baby fall ONTO keys?”
Not assault but rather playing around that went wrong very quickly. Here’s the article about it:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1089309/Pictured-The-American-toddler-got-set-car-keys-lodged-brain—recovered-unscathed.html
April 13th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Deziner (24): I was thinking the same thing! Is that wrong?
*****
illegal_immigrant (43): First laugh of the day… thanks!
April 13th, 2009 at 9:24 am
As a Mom, I shudder at the picture of the 17 month old. From now on, when my kids (who are under 3) pick up my keys, I’m taking them away ASAP!
I never realized how dangerous they could be!!!
April 13th, 2009 at 10:53 am
In defense of rushfan, the title is “unfortunate x-rays not “unfortunate x-rays and the story behind them. Way too many times I see a least with irrelevant facts/details.
And to be brutally honest, all of the people in these x-rays have one thing in common – I don’t know any of them. If I cared what happened to them I would have researched it myself. Modern technology allows us to be lazy but not so lazy someone has to spoon feed every bit of information we want to know.
Rushfan, nice list and thanks for not boring me with detail I don’t want nor need to know..
April 13th, 2009 at 10:56 am
Number 9. How did it happened? It must be in the list: “10 unsolved mysteries”
April 13th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Egads! That was disturbing…. shiverzzz I have the xray of the plate and screws in my hand… it’s cool.
April 13th, 2009 at 11:11 am
are you kidding me?
April 13th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Anything is possible. I’ve seen kids jamm popsickle sticks, lollipos, even toothbrushes into the backpart of theor throats. Quite a nasty site indeed. Usually happens when they are running with the object in their mouths.
Quite unfortunate!
April 13th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Everyone is getting something lodged in their brain. That makes me feel all sick. x_x
I never wanna be a doctor.
April 13th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
nice list but I presume this list isn’t in order from least to worst?
Otherwise why the hell is a dog swallowing a fork at number 1 above every other entry?
April 13th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
Oh.
My.
Gosh.
I realize there’s many from which to choose, but that poor baby!!!
April 13th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
I saw the picture of the baby after, and he’s fine. He looks normal.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Cybogen #65 – You’d be surprised at how LITTLE such things actually affect the dostors and radiographers who deal with them -except in the case of children, they’re usually seen in a very “blackly-humourous” light. As an ex-paramed I can say with authority that one develops such a ‘black humour” very quickly – it’s a survival mechanism. One either has to laugh, throw it off as “another f*****g idiot” or slit your wrists!
And Amy #69 – I think you’re pretty safe: It’s the only case I’ve ever heard of where an accident with car keys was so serious: It seems to me that the key hit at JUST the right place at JUST the right angle and it was JUST the right key, sharp enough to penetrate. I think your children are pretty safe – this would be a one-in-a-billion incident. Though I must applaud you’re widhing to be wary enough to want to protect your children.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
The best part about number 7: he survived.
April 13th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
70. jascott ~ Wow, thanks! When I made this list, I thought the x-rays WERE the list. It hadn’t occured to me that people would complain because of not enough details. Thanks for understanding my intent, I appreciate it!
Also, it’s in no particular order and all are real-no Photoshop. Who would even think that, these are all practically famous and available on the internet with documentation. My personal fave is the chic with the gun lighter and crack pipe. She was in jail when they found that shit.
April 13th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
hi Rush,
Hope you don’t think my comment (49) about photoshop was directed at you. God forbid!
I’ve just learned to be sceptical about remarkable images and stories on the internet, and in our newspapers; some things start as a joke and end-up as gospel truth.
April 14th, 2009 at 3:28 am
the nailgun one reminded me of FINAL DESTINATION 3
April 14th, 2009 at 3:30 am
i just wished that every ph0to has more details…
April 14th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Didn’t someone throw a knife at the butter knife kid? I remember seeing it in the news…
April 14th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
That’s so disturbing. I’m glad that I’ve never seen anything like that gruesome in my radiology career. But one time I did x-ray a little girl who swallowed a key, it was still in her stomach.
April 14th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
heard about the scissors one. the guy used em as a TOOTHPICK!!! he was laughing (i think) and swallowed them! ouch. he survived though.
April 14th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
nort: Sorry i stole your comment.
April 14th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
#8. Assuming this is true, wtf is up with those thieves? How bored do you have to be to shove a buttle in someones bum? If, that is however, not true, this man must be very lonely and masturbates to an extremity.
April 15th, 2009 at 8:56 am
saw the baby with the carkeys in the news. he is fine.
April 15th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Great list, although the lack of info behind the pics is a bummer. Not sure I believe all of em, perhaps more info would have convinced me….
April 15th, 2009 at 10:54 am
shit is shopped
April 15th, 2009 at 11:49 am
92. bigdaddy: shit is shopped
****
urine is purchased on eBay.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:53 am
the drillbit is not real. the bit would crunch/splinter bone as it exited. someone laid the bit on top of his head and took the xray. we used to do this all the time in the hospital to freak out docs and nurses. also the dog fork is fake, its not even in the stomach.
April 15th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Here, I’ll put it on a spoon for you:
man’s head impaled by drill bit
April 15th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
You people are ignorant morons who lack the sense of imagination to see what truly happened here. Yes, I’m saying it. How old are you people again? 40? 50? I’m 18, and I can tell you this.
the guy with the bottle in his ass? Was on CNN a couple of years ago. The guy with the drill bit through his head that #94 so justifiably said was fake? Was also on CNN, as I did it for a current event when I was in 7th grade. Come on people, seriously?
The baby with the keys, did in fact, fall on keys. The guy with the nails in his head? That was an on site accident where a gentleman dropped a nail gun, it malfunctioned and continue to spray nails.
The bound feet? Well you need to kill yourself if you DON”T know that it does INDEED happen.
The only two i’m not 100% sure about is the “smoking gun” and the dog with a fork in his stomach. But seriously, idiots who claim “shopped” have no life whatsoever, because if they have gotten so skilled at saying whether something is “shopped” or not, why not go work in a photoshopping place? Companies will PAY people as talented and skilled as you to help them make their photoshopping better!
God.. when an 18 year old loses faith in her elders intelligence, what is the world coming to?
April 15th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
96. Leah: How many of the posts above did you actually read? I’m betting it was just *92. bigdaddy who posted ” shit is shopped” * and *94. umm.mickey who posted ” the drillbit is not real. the bit would crunch/splinter bone as it exited. someone laid the bit on top of his head and took the xray. we used to do this all the time in the hospital to freak out docs and nurses. also the dog fork is fake, its not even in the stomach.” *
The bound feet was not on this list, but on the first list, from many months ago, and most of the “ignorant morons who lack the sense of imagination to see what truly happened here” aren’t even posting to LV any longer. We don’t have much luck with keeping “ignorant morons who lack the sense of imagination to see what truly happened here” around very long, they get intimidated by people with actual intelligence and education and leave when they find it’s no fun to bait us.
Now, as I see it, you have a couple of options.
1 – You can take that enormous chip off your shoulder and read all of the posts, noting which are actually written by morons and which are written by people of intelligence who are reacting as anyone would to a disaster with an unknown outcome, and an obviously bizarre set of circumstances which led to the injury in the first place. Then you can post an apology and everyone can go about their business as if this had never happened.
2 – You can fade into the woodwork.
April 15th, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Nah, I’ll just sit here and continue to be pissy. Oh, and for your information, I read “most” of the comments before I was tired of what people were saying: “assuming this is real” or “I doubt thats true” blah blah blah. Plus the people screaming about details. Google it your lazy twat and find out your own details.
Oh, and since “The bound feet was not on this list, but on the first list” I guess # 10 is non-existant? at the very beginning of the page…. see it? Good job.
And as for the apology? Really? No one posts “apologies” on the internet, nor shall I. Just too irritating.
April 15th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
The bottle up the ass?? I’ve seen that kind of thing several times in Harlow, and its all voluntary! Doing the Xray of that guy’s head with the drill was perhaps pointless.. he should have gone straight for a CT.
April 15th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
leah – if you dont like the comments and commenters then the answer is simple. i’m sure an intelligent 18 year old like you can guess what it is.
April 15th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
6tb, don’t you just have to love the self-righteous-oh-ye-of-little-information?
April 15th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Hey! That sounds like a great name for a church. Forget Scientology, come to the Church of The Self-Righteous of Little Information.
April 15th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Shit’s scary. I know atleast the nailgun guy survived though. In fact, probably all of them did. They wouldn’t take xrays of a dead person, let alone parade their demise on this list.
April 15th, 2009 at 5:17 pm
6twistedbiscuits and segue….ha! Love the commentary. Leah has got a large chip on his/her shoulder and at 18 too! I like the name of the church btw. I might actually join…but wait! I have to follow the biscuit doctrine. So…sorry can’t join!
April 15th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
are we sure this is an original list?
i recall reading a VERY similar one on a site .. perhaps it was just the same idea, i’m not sure..
April 15th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Akrid ~ “They wouldn’t take xrays of a dead person, let alone parade their demise on this list.” You obviously don’t know me very well.
Seriously, tho, they all survived their injuries.
sara r ~ I found similar lists when I was researching this list, but I assure you, this one’s mine.
April 15th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Yes, I’m the one with the “little information” yet, I’m the one that posted almost all the information about ALL the posts. Funny how that is…
and sarah_r, there are multiple posts like this out there, most feature the similar : nail gun, infant with keys, drill bit, some kind of animal with some kind of foreign object, and the bound feet, so it’s easy to see how you’d see the similarity.
And for segue and all those. I’ve had a really, really rough day. I get online to read interesting/knowledgeable things (like this one, I find them quite odd). It helps alleviate stress. However, after getting 2 hours of sleep, finding out my only friend (ah, love the military and our numerous moves) had a miscarriage last night, and scrolling through multiple sites with “omg thats, lyk, fotoshoped, nuthin lyk that can be true” I lost my faith a bit, and was a bit grouchy and rude…
So even when you are a stubborn teenager who’s had a really, really bad day, you can tell when you’re in the wrong. SO for those of you who aren’t morons who don’t have two brain cells to rub together (example above
), I apologize for my rude behavior. I had a tantrum LOL.
April 15th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
107. Leah….That was very big of you. Not many come back to say that. Good of you! Too bad that others out there cannot take a leaf from your book, but they will forever remain as trolls.
April 15th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
X-rays can lead to very exciting discussions.
April 15th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
are you being sarcastic?
April 15th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
is who being sarcastic?
April 15th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
in chronological order, comment 110 is directed at 109.
April 15th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
#110~~~ Comments # 96,97,98,100,101,107 was an exciting discussion to me. Not being sarcastic. Am I wrong ?
BTW// cool list.
April 15th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Thanks. I’m just bored and making conversation. No, I agree with you. Good discussion.
April 15th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
You got 50% of the list up in the last 4 days. You shouldn`t be bored you should be proud !
April 15th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
I dont care if it was on CNN. The thieves were so gonna kill him if he didnt erm, somehow, sexually pleasure the,.
April 15th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Oh my….#2…ROFL. I know its a serious picture, but good day! That is just one of those serious things that I can’t take serious, because it is so outrageous. Overall, I would have to say a strange list….where do yall come up with this stuff? Unfortunate circumstances for the peeps in the x-rays though
April 16th, 2009 at 12:08 am
leah-
i’m sorry you had such a shit day, and i’m glad you had the balls to apologize, but just before all that you said:
“Yes, I’m the one with the “little information” yet, I’m the one that posted almost all the information about ALL the posts. Funny how that is…”
uhhm, i possibly pointed out the lack of follow-up-info on this list to rushfan harder than anyone else (but i hope it was was done civilly, rush). so don’t try to steal my thunder!!!
*i mentioned it (the lack of follow-up info) @ comment #10.
*gave a source link for some (NOT all -meaning this is an original list) of these images which included more info on each, and at least 17 other crazy images, @#26.
*expressed my deep desire for more info, and not that kindly, @#27 (sorry rushfan!).
*gave a final shout-out to “butter-knife-boy” and his actually-knife-outside-the-skull wound -with link to the story & pics @#29.
and then i figured i’d been enough of a thorn-in-rushfan’s-baby-toe/googeler-in-residence-for-LV-readers-at-large and left it alone.
so, i must insist that i provided info on the x-rays, their “realness,” and actual links to stories behind many of them way, WAY, before you jumped in at #96.
and providing a link to an actual news-story with pics is a bit more (or A LOT more) fun than just saying “i saw it on TV! I SAW IT ON TV! IT WAS CNN!!”
so, leah, you may be the one “with the ‘little information’,” but that doesn’t make you the greatest, most informed person on the lists ever.
all that said, give the site a chance. we commenters are often times very snarky (when given juicy bait), but no one is obligated to read the comments, or contribute to them. and you are always free to comment your thoughts (including the way you did above). just remember everyone else is free to comment a response back to you….
April 16th, 2009 at 12:12 am
p.s. i forgot to close an italic at the end of all that -after “CNN.”
sorry.
see, we all fuck up, here, there, and everywhere!
i still stand by the words, but the last 2 paragraphs should’ve been normal text.
April 16th, 2009 at 1:26 am
Actually i think the italic has a very nice effect…..
April 16th, 2009 at 6:39 am
How come some of you idiots cannot see that most of these are shopped. Not denying that their is truth to them but the pics are shopped. Numbers 8, 6, 5, 2 and 1 are photoshopped. Again, their is some truth behind them but these images have been around for ages. If anyone cares to dare to deny, I have an actual image of the butter knife kid and that is not it. Sarges photo is total BS. hmmm, gimme a big syringe during war and let me stab the infidel? In the head?!?! Come on.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:31 am
[url=http://www.investorsiraq.com/showthread.php?t=57898]story of soldier’s ordeal[/url]
Oh, ye of little faith.
April 16th, 2009 at 7:32 am
Why didn’t that work? Oh, well, here’s the link:
http://www.investorsiraq.com/showthread.php?t=57898
April 16th, 2009 at 9:16 am
121. bchzd: How come some of you idiots cannot see that most of these are shopped.
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As a professional photographer, I have noticed something odd over time; The people crying “shopped!” never, ever give any reasons for their accusation. My conclusion as to why they give no reasons, no “inside information” as to what was the give-away to the photo being “shopped”, is that the accuser is not a photographer, knows nothing about PhotoShop or Aperture, and probably can only take a photo with his telephone.
April 16th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
China is arguably more civilized than even the USA. Footbinding is forbidden.
April 16th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
^^ you are aptly named
April 17th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Reminds me of Phineas Gage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
Other survivors of severe brain traumas are Michael Hill who survived an 8 inch knife in in his brain and Ahad Israfil who lost one half of his brain after a gunshot accident. Israfil had this accident when he was 14 and he’s 35 now.
April 17th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
127. albedo: From all of the reading I’ve done on Mr. Gage, he suffered a rather unfortunate personality change due to his accident, as well as a much shortened life.
April 17th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
that poor baby. i wonder if accidents like this ever cause mental disorders
April 17th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
129. Zoombafoo: that poor baby. i wonder if accidents like this ever cause mental disorders
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I sort of doubt it, if the family just goes on treating the child normally with love and no undue restrictions on activities.
My youngest child was always a rambunctious one. She could get into trouble in an empty square room.
Still, she managed (despite numerous breaks and concussions) to grow into a normal, happy adult.
April 18th, 2009 at 12:26 am
Thank you for doing only one rectal feature.
April 19th, 2009 at 8:04 am
I just love freak accidents.
There is nothing like witnessing one.
call me a freak i don’t care.
PS. ^^ notice above the I’s. Means “i” am a very selfish
dude
April 19th, 2009 at 11:12 am
fdfsdffssvs
April 19th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
I negligently left my consonant only dictionary in my other dimension, could someone translate the above post for me please?
April 19th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
dude what was the need to shove a bottle up his ass it just seems like something unnecessary its just more messing around until the cops get there
funny list
April 20th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
hey stupid people all these picks are fake lmao you can so tell that there just photoshopped i mean i could do that with microsoft image composer ahaha u people thought it was real
April 21st, 2009 at 12:43 am
lol check number 7 you can see his fillings!
April 21st, 2009 at 4:55 am
william (136)
methinks you’re a bit of a prick
Some of the images may be
But as has been proven in the other comments, most of these are perfectly real.
April 21st, 2009 at 4:57 am
Tippy (137): Hahah I didn’t even notice that until you pointed it out… and I’ve seen that picture so many times… How blind I have been.
April 21st, 2009 at 5:11 pm
You can see the tooth fillings in #5 and #2 as well.
April 25th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
I think the person with the nailgun and the baby survived. I don’t know about the rest.
April 27th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Here is a link to a really nasty nailgun x-ray that was only recently released. This man was murdered in Australia last year.
Warning: this image is very disturbing.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090425/twl-man-shot-34-times-with-nail-gun-41f21e0.html
April 27th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Feeling very bad… how could this happen want to know lot about it..Do you have further details on any of them? did any of these people live? what year? what country? etc.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Wow. The things people stab people with these days. . .
May 3rd, 2009 at 5:21 am
I have read about # 2. this is what happened:On 15 August 2003,construction worker Ron Hunt fell off a ladder and landed face first on a revolving 46 cm long drill bit.(ouch.) It passed through his right eye and exited through his scull above his right ear.Surgeons at Washoe Medical Center in Nevada,USA,found that it had pushed his brain tissue aside rather than penetrating it, therefore saving his life.
June 5th, 2009 at 11:00 am
The picture of the nail gun guy was released by australian police. They found his body in a Sydney river so they think it’s murder. Ouch!
June 7th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
shopped.
June 28th, 2009 at 1:06 am
Here’s another! A girl tripped and her leg fell on a pitchfork.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/PainManagement/popup?id=2033649&contentIndex=1&page=3&start=false
Item three on this list was also mentioned in that link… Only thing unfortunate is how stupid the fellow is. Apparently he was picking his teeth with the scissors when his friend told a joke that was funny enough to make him inhale the scissors. Sheesh.
There’s also an interesting xray of a 92 year old woman with couldn’t afford the surgery to remove her baby when it had died in the womb so she pretty much carried it for the past 60 years until she complained of abdominal pain.
July 18th, 2009 at 12:28 am
Are they all dead?
July 19th, 2009 at 8:36 am
I have an xray of my puppy, Bruno, taken last Wednesday. It is truly shocking, but he did survive and is fine now. Is there a way for me to send it in?
July 20th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
The dog shouldn’t be on the top spot. Haha. Most dogs swallow almost everything.
July 30th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
The baby and the keys is horrifying. In fact, they all are. Not for the faint of heart…like me.
September 26th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Kinda surprised I didn’t see http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Fish9.jpg up there.
That one was taken of Albert Fish, and American serial killer, and sadomasochist child molester/murderer/cannibal. He had 29 needles inserted into his pelvic region when this x-ray was taken
November 2nd, 2009 at 10:11 pm
And these are some of the reasons I love my job, it keeps things interesting. And yes, i do feel sorry for some of them, but I have seen worse. The one that bother’s me the most, is the army sgt.-
November 22nd, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Gun shaped lighter and crack pipe in vagina….hmmm…sounds like she tried to hide them upon being admitted to the ward.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
wow i swollowed one of the thong thingys on a fork this weekend….. creappy
December 1st, 2009 at 3:49 am
Aww the poor baby. Did anyone survive??
December 6th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
oh my oh me, how,d she get that pistol up her gee?
January 1st, 2010 at 3:27 pm
4 is just too horrible
January 16th, 2010 at 3:57 am
I don’t mean to criticise you but the title makes the list sound slightly humorous…not fucking gross and sad. The 11 year old boy with the butter knife lodged in his head would probably be better of dead then alive after that incident, which I think is barely “unfortunate”.
January 29th, 2010 at 6:02 pm
Looks fake