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O/T It's not always guns............

Goose

Goose

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Some close friends of ours have two grandsons, brothers aged 7 and 6.

Friday afternoon, the 7 year old was shooting arrows, and his brother ran in front of him just as he let one fly. The arrow hit the 6 year old in the side of his head above the ear and penetrated the skull. After a panic trip to the ER, a neurosurgeon removed the arrow and installed a titanium plate over the hole.

Kids are remarkably resilient. This kid was on his feet yesterday, walking around, talking, and eating normally with no apparent lasting damage. Haven't heard an update yet today.

One thing no one else may have thought of in the confusion. A next door neighbor is an EMT and at her insistance they sent an identical arrow along to the ER so the doctors knew exactly what they were dealing with.

Pointing fingers usually isn't productive, but I could question why an unsupervised 7 year old was shooting full sized hunting arrows.
 
Good thing the kid shooting wasn"t a little older and able to put a little more pull on that bow! Maybe they"ll learn something from this.
 
Hi Goose: Happy Easter to you & All. Whew, that was real close. Just a little lower and it couldd've been a direct hit into his ear. That would have likely been major damage to his hearing and almost more important... his balance tubes, which are incorporated with the hearing. Damage to one side causes unbalance forever which is like bad news forever. Hard to walk, run or whatever without balance. Kids will be kids. A friend of mine, same age, got hit right in the middle of one eye with a BB gun close range. Kids just playing. 60+ years ago. Give Thanks for all blessings, even though it might seem bad.. ag
 
Good to hear the boys are doing well and the 6 year old is making a recovery.

Looks/Sounds like there will be more legislation on archery equipment now. Of course the government is going to want to be more proactive in protecting us from ourselves.
 
I agree with Chris when my brother and I was scooping ear corn off a wagon into the corncrib my brother scooped a shovel full of corn into my left ear and cutoff top of my ear. He said my timing was off that was 50 years ago still not convinced that was the case.
 
Why do kids do all the things that they do now days . I agree, where were the parents ? I would think that the bow and arrow set , wheather real or a toy , would have an age limit on it and the words " Use only under close adult supervision " wrote on it. Maybe it because parents now days ( some anyways ) don't care or their to busy to watch their kids mre closely. Either that or the parents are just too stupid.

Whizkid
 
I have found that showing kids at an early age that Guns/arrows/car wrecks/falls can be real painful and deadly if bad enough, it helps, but kids will be kids.
 
When we were kids, my older brother kept shooting me with a BB gun, I got tired of it and shot a target arrow toward his belly.. Lucky that he had his left hand in pocket of his windbreaker, because that is where the arrow hit.. A lot of blood and a trip to the doctor, but no permanent damage.. He respected me after that..
 
When they were kids dads cousin lost an eye shooting an arrow up into the sky and looking to see where it was. oops. His neighbor kids used to take shotguns out into the fields and at longer ranges shoot at each other. and this was in the 40 or 50's. I would say kids are no dumber or smarter nowadays just probablybeing kids like we all were
 
I'm glad the kid is ok. Things do happen. Sometimes we don't realize how colse we come to death. We were out hunting in my friends dads car. he was loading his shot gun leaning against the front seat pointing to the back. For some raeason it went off. I was in the back seat. The shot missed everything but the car roof.Ever been in a car and have a shot gun off? That's probaboly why I have bad hearing now. Stan
 
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