Don't Try This !


Don't Try This!
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A man who bumped into the tip of his car's antenna drove the metal rod up his nose and into his brain. "It's the weirdest thing you've ever heard of," said Troy Hardin, who managed to pull himself free.

Harding, 19, told doctors he was turning away from his car when about 3-1/2 inches of the antenna on his 1984 Fiero poked into his nose. The antenna, with the little metal ball at the tip, pierced his sinus, entered his brain and hit his pituitary gland. He lost about a pint of blood.

He has been in the hospital since the May 29 accident and will have to stay until he can stand, perhaps another week. For now, he said, standing gives him a headache.

"He's lucky not to have wiped anything out," said Dr. Ray Grewe, a neurosurgeon.


Here is an actual post to a Fiero group eMail list
The enquiry was serious, and had several responses.
the response that follows is a good one!
grammar, spelling & punctuation is as sent!

>>>I keep my car in a public storage building and today when I went to take out my car I notice some mice running around in my engine compartment. Of all things to deal with I surely don't need damn mice nibbling on my show car. I put out some Greenlite mice and rat bait bags and they have already started eating it, but the bag says it might take up to five days for results. I can't wait that long and need a cure right away. so nothing happens to my car. Does anyone know of a FAST way to get these mice dead? Please reply ASAP!

the reply:
<<<"Ah, get some snake load, put bread sack with crumbs in it on floor, sit in chair with pistol trained on bread sack. When mice go into sack to get crumbs, shoot. The snake load will kill mouse, but the sack will be intact enough to cleanly dispose of dead mouse. Will not harm or dirty carpet. I use a .45 automatic, and usually watch TV while waiting. May ricochet on cement or wood floor however, I've only done it in the living room".


A Fiero Crash Story from Ed Parks

A drunk (34 yrs old) flew off a cliff in his '84 Fiero while running  from the Alabama State Police. The point of impact was 38 ft measured up a
tree. The car hit the ground on its top. The top stayed up over their heads (it is part of the rollcage type of frame) but did have one of the few broken rear windows we have seen. 

Both men crawled out and the police wanted to take the driver to jail. Instead, paramedics took him to hospital and discovered an unknown aneurysm. Instead of jail, he went to the operating room. 

He did not want to sell the car, claiming it had saved his life twice, but finally did. We started the engine, which was fine, and is still running in a local customer's car. 
 

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