12 Year Old in Britain survives Decapitation
Some twelve year old kid got his head nearly lopped off in a race, and somehow managed to survive. To directly quote the article, "The force of the crash had separated his head from his neck internally and detached his tongue at the root."
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/07122006/140/racer-recovers-severed-head.html
I always suspected that British people were immortal.
Lacadaemon
10-12-2006, 04:45
That's because we are the men of the west.
We are taller than americans too.
Fleckenstein
10-12-2006, 04:45
How was his head detached without severing the spinal cord?
Lacadaemon
10-12-2006, 04:47
How was his head detached without severing the spinal cord?
British magic.
How was his head detached without severing the spinal cord?
I was wondering that myself, actually. Perhaps his spine was partially pulled out of his back along with his head, but was still attached to his brain stem?
How was his head detached without severing the spinal cord?
re-attached his head to his spine with metal plates and bone grafts during a six-hour operation. His parents were warned he only had a 7% chance of survival.
How did he survive a spinal chord detachment?
Fleckenstein
10-12-2006, 04:49
How did he survive a spinal chord detachment?
Maybe it was intact but the bones were shattered?
Infinite Revolution
10-12-2006, 04:49
my dad's head is technically not attached to his spine because the ligaments are buggered or something. he has to be a bit careful. they heal sometimes but the slightest stress can break them again and then he's in a world of pain.
Maybe it was intact but the bones were shattered?
Had to be, but then would it really be a decapitation?
Dissonant Cognition
10-12-2006, 04:51
I'm no medical expert, mind you, but it seems to me that the severity (sensationalism?) of the reported injury decreases as me move from headline to the beginning of the article to the end. "Severed head" becomes "internal decapitation" which then leads into a description of the repair of badly broken bone/cervical fracture. Somebody find a more trustworthy report. I don't trust the media to tie its own shoes without making a "BREAKING NEWS!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: "-type event out of it.
Celtlund
10-12-2006, 04:55
Some twelve year old kid got his head nearly lopped off in a race, and somehow managed to survive. To directly quote the article, "The force of the crash had separated his head from his neck internally and detached his tongue at the root."
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/07122006/140/racer-recovers-severed-head.html
I always suspected that British people were immortal.
That is wonderful news. Do you think there could be a God who saved this boy through the skill of the doctors?
Celtlund
10-12-2006, 04:57
How did he survive a spinal chord detachment?
God and good doctors? :confused:
That is wonderful news. Do you think there could be a God who saved this boy through the skill of the doctors?
I hate to turn this into a religious thread, but please give credit where it is due:
the doctors.
I cannot imagine what kind of precision it took for them to literally rebuild this kid's neck, but just because it's hard doesn't automatically mean that humans can't do it without the help of the deity of your choice
I hate to turn this into a religious thread, but please give credit where it is due:
the doctors.
I cannot imagine what kind of precision it took for them to literally rebuild this kid's neck, but just because it's hard doesn't automatically mean that humans can't do it without the help of the deity of your choice
If his spinal chord was severed at the neck the doctors wouldn't be able to do shit.
I strongly suspect that it wasn't though, but if it was O_O the kid either had god on his side or he was a leprechaun.
Lacadaemon
10-12-2006, 05:19
God and good doctors? :confused:
Nothing to do with god. And unless his family are religious they may well take offence to that.
For the most part the english have rejected the idea of god.
Antikythera
10-12-2006, 05:21
what in the world is a 12 year old doing racing a mini in the first place:confused:
Snip.
Let me solve this one.
Sure there could be a deity that solved this, Celtlund, as long as you consider the fact that there are and were literally hundreds of religions, which would mean YOUR idea of a god has about an 1 in 2000 chance, give or take by the number of religions the world has, of being responsible for the kid's luck, and that other explanations could include the deity figures of wicca, ancient Greek mythos or even atheism.
That said, I wish the kid the best.
Lacadaemon
10-12-2006, 05:27
what in the world is a 12 year old doing racing a mini in the first place:confused:
It's not uncommon in the UK.
The Scandinvans
10-12-2006, 05:33
That's because we are the men of the west.
We are taller than americans too.I am in the U.S. and 6'5".
Lacadaemon
10-12-2006, 05:35
I am in the U.S. and 6'5".
midget.
Infinite Revolution
10-12-2006, 05:35
I am in the U.S. and 6'5".
yeh, but you're clearly scandinavian so you don't count.
Antikythera
10-12-2006, 05:35
It's not uncommon in the UK.
ah ok. in the states they would never let a 12 year old near a race track with a car, though when i was 12 i knew how to drive( yay to growing up in the middle of no where on a ranch), and i would have jumped at the chance to do that.
Infinite Revolution
10-12-2006, 05:35
what in the world is a 12 year old doing racing a mini in the first place:confused:
having fun?
Infinite Revolution
10-12-2006, 05:37
ah ok. in the states they would never let a 12 year old near a race track with a car, though when i was 12 i knew how to drive( yay to growing up in the middle of no where on a ranch), and i would have jumped at the chance to do that.
i might be wrong but it was probably in a field. my godfather's son used to race minis when he was twelve and those races were in grass fields not asphalt race courses. it doesn't really get that fast on grass.
Antikythera
10-12-2006, 05:49
i might be wrong but it was probably in a field. my godfather's son used to race minis when he was twelve and those races were in grass fields not asphalt race courses. it doesn't really get that fast on grass.
mmm,ok.
i think it would be fun, but here they wont let you behind the wheel till your 16. unless your driving on your own privet property.
what happened was probably the spine seperated from the skull. that would mean he was paralyzed but the nature of the injury allowed for repair (the spinal cord was not damaged/severed within the spine.)
either way...
Oooooooowwwwwwwwch!
Lacadaemon
10-12-2006, 06:01
mmm,ok.
i think it would be fun, but here they wont let you behind the wheel till your 16. unless your driving on your own privet property.
It's the same in the UK. (17 there). But racetracks are private property.
I've lived in the US for many a long year now, and kids do race here. Just not in production cars.
Antikythera
10-12-2006, 06:05
It's the same in the UK. (17 there). But racetracks are private property.
I've lived in the US for many a long year now, and kids do race here. Just not in production cars.
ok.
i must just be living in the wrong place:p
Andaluciae
10-12-2006, 06:17
British magic.
More appropriately, Harry Potter Satanic-Demon Sorcery!
Darknovae
10-12-2006, 06:19
More appropriately, Harry Potter Satanic-Demon Sorcery!
DAMN! Beaten to it!
New Xero Seven
10-12-2006, 06:20
Damn lucky.
Wallonochia
10-12-2006, 06:21
the kid either had god on his side or he was a leprechaun.
Perhaps both!
This article has literally made me cry with happiness.
NOT BECAUSE THE KID GOT HURT!
I cried because of the sheer skill of the doctors, because I could feel--or at least imagine reasonably--the emotions of the parents, their joy at their son's survival. The fact that medicine has truly advanced this far is astonishing. Makes me happy. :)
Seangoli
10-12-2006, 06:28
Obviously, the kid is an "Immortal" via the move "Highlander". There can be only one!
Unlucky_and_unbiddable
10-12-2006, 06:32
Damn lucky.
getting decapitated is lucky?
Darknovae
10-12-2006, 06:35
getting decapitated is lucky?
Surviving decapitation in lucky. *nods*
Lunatic Goofballs
10-12-2006, 06:36
getting decapitated is lucky?
It got him some nice publicity. He'll probably get a full scholarship to college from some corporate prick 'touched' by his story and all he'll have to deal with is the occasional metal detector. And other kids telling him he should've quit while he was a head. :p
Gehenna Sector
10-12-2006, 06:38
getting decapitated is lucky?
It is if it gets you in with the ladies. ;)
Lunatic Goofballs
10-12-2006, 06:42
It is if it gets you in with the ladies. ;)
Hey, baby! Check out my cool neck scars! *waggles eyebrows*
Surviving decapitation in lucky. *nods*
George Orwell said this to people that claimed he was lucky to survive a shot to the neck: "it would be even luckier not to be hit at all."
Same principle. :p
This article has literally made me cry with happiness.
NOT BECAUSE THE KID GOT HURT!
I quite assure you nobody here would think you were crying with happiness over the child getting hurt. o_o
Darknovae
10-12-2006, 07:20
Perhaps both!
http://www.acc.umu.se/~zqad/cats/index.html?view=1161363562249.jpg :D
Seangoli
10-12-2006, 08:00
getting decapitated is lucky?
Kind of reminds of this guys who survived two helicopter crashes.
He was riding in a helicopter in the mountains, and the helicopters crashes. He survives, which is statiscally improbable.
The rescue copter comes, picks him up, and on the way back, the rescue copter crashes, and he survives.
He is both the luckiest, and unluckiest man alive, as he survived two crashes(Highly improbable).
Barbaric Tribes
10-12-2006, 08:45
God Expects Every Englishmen To Do His Duty.
Lacadaemon
10-12-2006, 09:05
God Expects Every Englishmen To Do His Duty.
Rubbish. God was never mentioned.
link (http://www.napoleonguide.com/sailors_ukexpects.htm)
Now for full head transplants.
I had my whole left side sliced off in a Mini mishap.
Thanks to the doctors, I'm all right now.