Man Sneezes Out Bullet After Being Shot & Survives!

[Vikram]

Amazingly fortunate to survive with so little damage.Wish everyone,good guys and gals, are so lucky. Reason why not to shoot into the air.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20110111/twl ... d0ae9.html

An Italian man shot in the head on New Year's Eve has survived unharmed after sneezing out the bullet. Skip related content

Darco Sangermano, 28, was hit by a stray bullet in front of his shocked girlfriend as they celebrated New Year's Eve and he was immediately rushed to hospital.

While there and amazingly still conscious, labourer Darco sneezed out the .22 calibre bullet and told doctors that, apart from a strong headache, he felt no other pain.

The bullet entered the right side of his head, went through the muscle, broke the temporal bone, passed behind his eye through the socket, hit a bone in his nose and then lodged in his nostril before being sneezed out.

The incident happened in the southern city of Naples, which has a reputation for lively end-of-year celebrations involving revellers firing live ammunition.

Mr Sangermano was one of three people hit by bullets during festivities and one person was also killed after being hit by a stray round as he watched fireworks with his family in a suburb on the outskirts of the city.

After a check up, Mr Sangermano was discharged from hospital and allowed to return home to Turin with his girlfriend, where his doctor recommended surgery to check the wound.

Professor Sid Berrone carried out a "tidy up operation", at Turin's Molinette hospital, on his nose to remove the bone fragments. Mr Sangermano was then discharged.

Professor Berrone said:"He was a very lucky man, he could have been easily killed.

"The bullet went through his temple, behind his eye, entered the nasal cavity and then became lodged in his nostril before he sneezed it out. Amazing.

"He needed surgery just to clean up the wound and get rid of the bone fragments, but other than that he was fine and we expect him to make a full recovery, he won't even lose the sight of his eye"

[essdee1972]

Lucky chap! My condolences for the other chap who was killed.

Another example of the risk of celebratory gunfire. Hope somebody learns a lesson.

[The Doc]

Evidently he wasn't destined to die that day !! A "freak escape" I think , his Guardian Angel must have been hovering around him that time !

best,
Rp.

[shooter]

As a medical student one of the things they teach you is forensic medicine.
Do any of my colleagues remember KD Tripathi's book?
There is a chapter in which they deal with the paths a bullet takes after hitting the skull.

Believe it or not, it is not uncommon for a bullet to travel just on the inside of the skull bones, along the curve thus remaining superficial to the brain and thus missing the brain tissue.It ends up in one of the skull bones.
In this case it happend to end in sphenoid/ethmoid area and was sneezed out.
I am not taking anything away from the story but just wanted to point out the scientific reason behind it.

[hamiclar01]

Do any of my colleagues remember KD Tripathi's book?

The KD Tripathi we read was pharmacology

[shooter]

oops sorry about the bhai. dunno what i was thinking. who can forget slogging those hours reading tripathi. (we got that thicker silver edition, changed from the blue one; forgot the edition number).

i meant reddy.

i guess in mamc they also read modi a lot.

[The Doc]

Do any of my colleagues remember KD Tripathi's book?

The KD Tripathi we read was pharmacology

Shooter you just got stumped buddy ! We ended up reading Parikh and also Modi for certain topics.

http://www.forensicindia.com/books/forensic/index.htm


best,
Rp.

[shooter]

hamiclar01 wrote:
shooter wrote:
Do any of my colleagues remember KD Tripathi's book?

The KD Tripathi we read was pharmacology


Shooter you just got stumped buddy ! We ended up reading Parikh and also Modi for certain topics.

http://www.forensicindia.com/books/forensic/index.htm


best,
Rp.

ek galti to maaf karo bhai. slip of mind ho gaya thaa.
did you also read reddy doc?