送交者: cornbug 于 2005-1-23, 23:13:46:
大慨好多人都不知道什么是钉子枪。我是用过的。钉子枪是用来把钉子打进水泥地或者是砖墙的。火药是装在一个小口径子弹壳里。就像枪一样，一扣板机，钉子就飞撞出去。
一个建筑工人把一个10公分长的钉子从自己的口中打进脑子3.8公分深。当时他还不知道。直到牙疼照片子才发现。差点把视觉神经干掉。他说当时只觉得被棒球棒猛击了一下。他是一个个体户，还不知道能否付$100000块的手术费。他想改行去做意大利饼。
Construction worker who shot nail into his brain wants to make pizzas
Wed Jan 19, 1:33 PM ET
LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) - A Colorado construction worker who shot himself in the head with a nail gun - an accident he didn't discover until he went to the dentist with a nagging toothache - said he'll change his line of work.
"I'll make pizzas," Patrick Lawler, 23, said Tuesday. Lawler, who may be released from the hospital as early as Wednesday, was working on a house near Breckenridge, Colo., when he accidentally fired the nail into his head. He said it felt like he had been hit with a steel baseball bat.
Lawler didn't realize the gun had fired a 10-centimetre nail through his mouth and 3.8 centimetres into his brain until six days later, when he went to a dental office complaining of a toothache that just wouldn't go away.
An X-ray revealed the nail and surgeons removed it last week.
"The nail could have been millimetres to one side and it would have severed an optic nerve, leaving him blind," said Dr. Sean Markey, who operated on Lawler.
"He's unbelievably lucky."
Lawler said he doesn't know how he'll pay medical bills estimated to reach $100,000. He's uninsured.
"I was self-employed on the job," he said.
"I would have had to carry my own health insurance. But I didn't think I'd shoot myself with a nail, you know?"