Tuesday, 07 August, 2007

1. By wally the duck. Comment posted 07-Aug-2007 @09:09am:

   When you come to a fork in the nose, take it.
   
   (apologies to Yogi)
2. By . Comment posted 07-Aug-2007 @09:12am:

   No, John, it's clearly a fork, not a fake.
3. By . Comment posted 07-Aug-2007 @09:42am:

   Kids Do The Dumbest ####™
4. By Nick Hodge. Comment posted 07-Aug-2007 @09:51am:

   And after all, here's another kid,(who's now grown up) with something similar.
   
   http://www.nickhodge.co.uk/blog/?p=585
5. By Sheldon. Comment posted 07-Aug-2007 @10:25am:

   Oh please no. uh. I gotta go lay down. whoosie...
6. By Randy. Comment posted 07-Aug-2007 @12:03pm:

   I have been saving this for just this post. Years I have puzzled if you could sell a fork today if they were not already invented. Same with aspirin. The warning labels on forks and the liability would make it impossible to sell. "You mean to tell me, that you let a toddler, thrust a 4 pronged, sharp, metal stick at his face? And hope he gets the food in his mouth? Thats just crazy." I am surprised this doesn't happen more often.
7. By Randy. Comment posted 07-Aug-2007 @12:04pm:

   So, the answer is yes. He is done.
8. By king. Comment posted 07-Aug-2007 @12:12pm:

   Wally the Duck - I hail you as KING OF THE INTERNET!! That was excellent
9. By Miss Cellania. Comment posted 07-Aug-2007 @01:50pm:

   I doubt it's fake; this sort of thing happens all the time. Kids are walking time bombs. Actually running time bombs!
10. By . Comment posted 07-Aug-2007 @02:00pm:

    That's just forked up. (pardon my Swedish.)
11. By jaf. Comment posted 07-Aug-2007 @03:20pm:

    It's either a bloodless child, or a fake.
    
    That would be very bloody, and I don't think they changed his shirt with a fork in his nose.
12. By Curtis. Comment posted 07-Aug-2007 @03:49pm:

    I note that in the "mostly healed up" photo you can see the exit wounds but no evidence (in his little turned-up pug nose) of what would have to be some horrible entry wounds.
13. By Bisbonian. Comment posted 07-Aug-2007 @04:16pm:

    When I was in the third grade, I accidentally jammed a pencil right through the hand of the little girl sitting at the desk next to me...right between the bones. I don't remember much, if any, blood. I also don't remeber her ever talking to me again ;)
14. By Minderbinder. Comment posted 07-Aug-2007 @05:38pm:

    Our first daughter got her head stuck in a wrought iron railing when she was about 18 mos. The first thing I did was run for the camera. I remember a 20-year-old girl who stepped in front of a dart board and caught one cleanly through her nose and we took her to emergency just like that - it didn't bleed much at all. We should have put one of those Steve Martin "arrow through the head" things on her too.
15. By Imagineer. Comment posted 07-Aug-2007 @06:35pm:

    "I say it's fake."
    
    I think it's Uri Geller, age three, just before he switched to bending spoons.
16. By . Comment posted 07-Aug-2007 @08:07pm:

    Piercing the hard way
17. By Cruela. Comment posted 08-Aug-2007 @04:26am:

    Just another object to add to the list of "Don't run with..."
18. By . Comment posted 08-Aug-2007 @06:13am:

    30+ years ago, our upstairs neighbor's kid put a fork through the roof of his mouth. He was walking around, eating something and tripped - or so he said but my mom always suspected it was two or more of the kids horsing around. Because the parents weren't home, the kid (who was around 6-8 yrs old) was brought down to our house by one of his older siblings.
    It was gross but there wasn't a whole lot of blood. My mom had to keep the kid's siblings from removing the fork and kept telling them to wait for the ambulance but she had visions of the fork being wrenched out and blood spewing everywhere in *her house*.
19. By Anne. Comment posted 08-Aug-2007 @12:58pm:

    It's real! An injury like that won't bleed much due to the lack of blood vessels right there. Also - puncture wounds of this nature will heal in a matter of days - the second picture is around 24 hours later!
    
    He was a trooper - cried a little and wasn't scared in the ER. Oh! he fell of his chair at a resturant.
20. By Curtis. Comment posted 08-Aug-2007 @09:19pm:

    Anne -- are you his mom? Glad your boy is okay.
21. By Kaila. Comment posted 09-Aug-2007 @05:38am:

    Snopes now claims the story to be true. Check it out!
    
    http://www.snopes.com/photos/medical/forknose.asp
22. By . Comment posted 13-Aug-2007 @02:19pm:

    I know this kid, he's my clients' son... It's not a fake, I saw him this morning with the scar to prove it.

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