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
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.
damn….happy easter!
#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
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.
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.
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!
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
Deziner (24): I was thinking the same thing! Is that wrong?
*****
illegal_immigrant (43): First laugh of the day… thanks!
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!!!
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..
Number 9. How did it happened? It must be in the list: “10 unsolved mysteries”
Egads! That was disturbing…. shiverzzz I have the xray of the plate and screws in my hand… it’s cool.
are you kidding me?
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!
Everyone is getting something lodged in their brain. That makes me feel all sick. x_x
I never wanna be a doctor.
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?
Oh.
My.
Gosh.
I realize there’s many from which to choose, but that poor baby!!!
I saw the picture of the baby after, and he’s fine. He looks normal.
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.
The best part about number 7: he survived.
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 *****.
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.
the nailgun one reminded me of FINAL DESTINATION 3
i just wished that every ph0to has more details…
Didn’t someone throw a knife at the butter knife kid? I remember seeing it in the news…
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.
heard about the scissors one. the guy used em as a TOOTHPICK!!! he was laughing (i think) and swallowed them! ouch. he survived though.
nort: Sorry i stole your comment.
#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.
saw the baby with the carkeys in the news. he is fine.
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….
***** is shopped
92. bigdaddy: ***** is shopped
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urine is purchased on eBay.
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.
Here, I’ll put it on a spoon for you:
man’s head impaled by drill bit
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?
96. Leah: How many of the posts above did you actually read? I’m betting it was just *92. bigdaddy who posted ” ***** 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.
Nah, I’ll just sit here and continue to be *****y. 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 ***** 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.
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.
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.
6tb, don’t you just have to love the self-righteous-oh-ye-of-little-information?
Hey! That sounds like a great name for a church. Forget Scientology, come to the Church of The Self-Righteous of Little Information.
*****’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.
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!
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..
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.
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.
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.
X-rays can lead to very exciting discussions.
are you being sarcastic?
is who being sarcastic?
in chronological order, comment 110 is directed at 109.
#110~~~ Comments # 96,97,98,100,101,107 was an exciting discussion to me. Not being sarcastic. Am I wrong ?
BTW// cool list.
Thanks. I’m just bored and making conversation. No, I agree with you. Good discussion.
You got 50% of the list up in the last 4 days. You shouldn`t be bored you should be proud !
I dont care if it was on CNN. The thieves were so gonna kill him if he didnt erm, somehow, *****ually pleasure the,.
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
leah-
i’m sorry you had such a ***** 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….
p.s. i forgot to close an italic at the end of all that -after “CNN.”
sorry.
see, we all ***** up, here, there, and everywhere!
i still stand by the words, but the last 2 paragraphs should’ve been normal text.
Actually i think the italic has a very nice effect…..