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X-ray Stuns Doctors After Carpenter Shoots Himself TWICE With Nail Gun

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  1. Riham

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    A carpenter's apprentice who shot himself in the knee twice with a nail gun miraculously missed all of his bones in a two-in-a-million chance.

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    The young man was on just his second day of the job when he managed to puncture his knee with two 16 gauge wood framing nails.

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    But somehow, he missed both his knee cap and other bones as the nails sat comfortably in the fleshy part behind his cap.

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    The man, who hasn't been named, said he was working on a building site in Chicago when he stepped on a gas hose connected to the gun.

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    It jerked forward and the nails shot up into his knee.

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    Doctors later told him that if the nails had hit 'a little to the left' it would have severed the main femoral artery.

    After the accident, his coworkers cut his jeans open and rushed him by car to the nearest hospital.

    He explained how he was brought down from the roof on a cherry picker and driven there to avoid "outrageous" ambulance fees.

    They waited 11 hours in A&E to be seen before a doctor numbed his knee and tried to yank them out.

    But he was taken to surgery after medics couldn't budge the nails, and had part of his bone shaved down to set them free.

    According to the patient, six different doctors came to gawp at the 'medical miracle' to tell him how lucky he was that he had "such superb aim".

    He added that it cost more than £25,000 in medical bills - though luckily his insurance covered that.

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    Thanks God he got saved! although see how the needles hit him just parallel to the patella and femur?
     

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