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Mythbusters showed the other day that 51 dollar notes can stop a knife stab.
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Case for.. Mythbusters..sounds like kark..
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how about the one in the Times today of a women shot in the head by her husband who still gets up and makes coffee for the policeman who came to the house. the bullet went right through her head and did ittle damage and they say she will survive.
A US woman who was shot in the head not only survived, but made herself tea and offered an astonished deputy something to drink, authorities said on Friday.
Tammy Sexton, 47, remained hospitalised three days after being wounded by her husband, who killed himself after he shot his wife.
A bullet struck her squarely in the forehead, passed through her skull and exited through the back of her head, authorities said. She is expected to recover fully.
“There’s no way she should be alive other than a miracle from God,” said Sheriff Mike Byrd of Jackson County, Mississippi.
Byrd said deputies were looking for Sexton’s husband, Donald Ray Sexton, earlier in the week to give him a document ordering him to stay away from his wife. Court records show he was put on probation for six months on April 9 for domestic violence.
He showed up at their home on Tuesday and confronted his wife as a relative ran next door to call police, the sheriff said.
“She was at her bed, and he shot her right in the head,” Byrd said. “Then he went out on the back porch and shot himself.”
The woman greeted a deputy who arrived minutes later.
“When the officer got there she said, ‘What’s going on?’ She was holding a rag to her head and talking. She was conscious, but she was confused about what had happened,” Byrd said.
“She had made herself some tea and offered the officer something to drink.”
Byrd said the bullet apparently passed through the lobes of the woman’s brain without causing major damage. She was rushed to hospital by helicopter.
While such cases may be rare, a neurosurgeon who was not involved in Sexton’s case said such an outcome was possible. Medical journals also confirm people have been shot in the head with little or no lasting injury.
“There is a space in the brain where a missile could pass without doing any major damage. Is it possible? Yes. It would be rare,” said Dr Patrick Pritchard, an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
The sheriff called the case bizarre.
“You just don’t hear of something like this. Somebody gets shot in the head and they’re dead,” Byrd said. — AP
A US woman who was shot in the head not only survived, but made herself tea and offered an astonished deputy something to drink, authorities said on Friday.
Tammy Sexton, 47, remained hospitalised three days after being wounded by her husband, who killed himself after he shot his wife.
A bullet struck her squarely in the forehead, passed through her skull and exited through the back of her head, authorities said. She is expected to recover fully.
“There’s no way she should be alive other than a miracle from God,” said Sheriff Mike Byrd of Jackson County, Mississippi.
Byrd said deputies were looking for Sexton’s husband, Donald Ray Sexton, earlier in the week to give him a document ordering him to stay away from his wife. Court records show he was put on probation for six months on April 9 for domestic violence.
He showed up at their home on Tuesday and confronted his wife as a relative ran next door to call police, the sheriff said.
“She was at her bed, and he shot her right in the head,” Byrd said. “Then he went out on the back porch and shot himself.”
The woman greeted a deputy who arrived minutes later.
“When the officer got there she said, ‘What’s going on?’ She was holding a rag to her head and talking. She was conscious, but she was confused about what had happened,” Byrd said.
“She had made herself some tea and offered the officer something to drink.”
Byrd said the bullet apparently passed through the lobes of the woman’s brain without causing major damage. She was rushed to hospital by helicopter.
While such cases may be rare, a neurosurgeon who was not involved in Sexton’s case said such an outcome was possible. Medical journals also confirm people have been shot in the head with little or no lasting injury.
“There is a space in the brain where a missile could pass without doing any major damage. Is it possible? Yes. It would be rare,” said Dr Patrick Pritchard, an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
The sheriff called the case bizarre.
“You just don’t hear of something like this. Somebody gets shot in the head and they’re dead,” Byrd said. — AP
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I can't believe it. The fragments of bone exploding into her brain alone should kill her on the spot.
And the force of the impact should also cause massive brain damage.
And the force of the impact should also cause massive brain damage.
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She was very lucky indeed.