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
shocking pics, did these guys survive all this
gory but interesting
great list
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.
Something tells me that an x-ray wasn't completely necessary in that case…
#8 “Forcibly inserted by thieves”
I wonder if the ER had heard that one before…
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!
I feel sad for the baby and the nailgun guy…
Very very unfortunate. Do they still do the foot binding thing these days in China?
I would hope not, and to my (albeit limited) knowledge, it no longer exists, but foot binding persisted up until the last century, so there are women alive today who still have feet that look like #10 as a result of foot-binding from their youth.
Granted, you never know if some women still bind their feet in some hidden village in China though. But for the most part, they no longer do foot binding.
*shudders*
and how did that butter knife get into the toddlers head? stabbing?!
I’m just about to have dinner. I did ignore the warning!
OMG quite disturbing.
I have read that the baby with the car keys was left with only minor injuries.
I think #2 is the worst. O_o
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.
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.
The keys are definitely the worst – and the enormous drill a close second
“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…
lo: thanks for pointing that out – I have now added the link
Oh – and Happy Easter everyone!
lol! and a dog i in top 1! but anyway, another amazing list, keep it up!
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!
Really? “Dog swallows fork” beats “really effin’ huge drill bit goes through man’s head?”
yikes… gory…but i also hoped the baby with the car keys survived…a pity…
Si did they all survive or not?
So, not si
My second thought on list item #5 Geez, that is one buff seargeant.
First thought is probably obvious.
The first thought on all x-rays was F**k, that’s gotta suck., tied with “Did they live?”
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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
WTF?? these poor people bloody hell
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.
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.
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.
AHAHHA
very scary list
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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…
ohh.. I have a serious fear of impaling myself onto something… thanks for reminding me. Happy Easter.
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.
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.
Here’s another unfortunate one:
http://elmierdero.com/wp-content/uploads/chikillacochina.jpg
Concerning #7 on the list, I can only imagine what was going through the guy’s head (other than the nails).
Oops!
(PAP!)
Ow, ***** dude!
(PAP!)
*****! 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?
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
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.
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”.
The Army Sergeant in #5 lived! Here is the story!
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/10/airforce_powers_071022/
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
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.
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.
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!”
it’s funny how a lot of these are fake… but i feel sorry for that dog tho
Oh my. To shop or not to shop. That is the question.
the key is the worst one I think that sucks for kid
Best list I have seen on here for a while!
for #3 he was using them as a toothpick
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
)
Albert Fish x-rays are the most shocking x-rays, period, ever! Shame they were omitted.
disturbing..very…brr..
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.