The freak accident happened when Nicholas Holderman, 20 months, was playing at home with his two elder brothers.
Somehow he managed to fall on to his parents’ car keys, one of which pierced his eyelid and penetrated deep into his brain as these X-ray scans reveal.
Miraculously the American tot has since made a full recovery.
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Ah, the glories of our government education system. Try to read this article without laughing (or crying, for that matter). Bonus: They include the drawing in the article!
Fifth-grader Jordan Hood thought the bloody vampire he drew in art class was scary, but he had no idea it would elicit a horrifying response from one of his teachers.
Tuesday morning, Jordan was assigned to draw a scary Halloween mask in art class.
By the end of the day, Jordan was being told he could not return to Pooler Elementary School until he passed a psychological evaluation.
“We live in an age where there is some hypersensitivity,” Bucky Burnsed, Savannah-Chatham school system spokesman, said Thursday. “But the child is back in school where he belongs.”
During art class Tuesday, Jordan drew a scarred vampire with bloodshot eyes and with blood dripping from its nose, mouth and down its cheeks. Art teacher Lloyd Harold helped the boy shade the sketched eyes to give the drawing an even creepier look.
“The assignment was to draw a scary mask or picture - basically a Halloween activity,” Harold said.
As a final gory touch, Jordan used a red marker to write “I Kill For Blood” under his drawing.
The picture was not destined for the cover of Fangoria magazine, but it fulfilled the requirement for fifth-grade Halloween art.
However, when Jordan’s homeroom teacher, Melissa Pevey, saw the drawing, she found it disturbing. Pevey was concerned enough to contact assistant principal Valerie Johnson and Campus Police.
But it wasn’t blood and gore that bothered Pevey. She believed the blood looked a lot like gang-related teardrop tattoos, and she thought the words “I Kill For Blood” could be tied to an infamous Los Angeles street gang known as The Bloods.
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Weird news story about some unclassifiable monster found in Russia. Apparently there’s a possibly-related story out of the Hamptons from this past summer, but I missed that one.
From the linked article:
New information is surfacing that the famed “Montauk Monster,” the dangerous, weird-looking and still-unidentified creature that washed ashore in the Hamptons this summer, may be only the latest in a longer line of weird unidentified monsters washing ashore around the globe.
In 2006, a little-noticed entry was posted to EnglishRussia.com, a blog that catalogs strange and interesting photos from our neighbor that you can see from Alaska. That photo essay showed the carcass of a strange, reptilian creature that some “Russian soldiers” had found on a beach on the island of Sakhalin. But just what kind of creature is impossible to say
“According to the bones and teeth — it is not a fish,” wrote the fellow who posted the photos. “According to its skeleton — it’s not a crocodile or alligator. It has a skin with hair or fur.”
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A 7-year-old went apeshit in an Australian zoo, feeding a bunch of animals to a crocodile.
“Zookeepers were horrified when they arrived at work on Wednesday morning to see Terry, an 11-foot long saltwater crocodile, feasting on his fellow showcase reptilians at the Alice Springs Reptile Centre in the Northern Territory.
At first they thought the animals, including the zoo’s favourite, metre-long, 20-year-old goanna, had escaped from their outdoor pens and accidentally become breakfast for Terry - the local zoo’s prize attraction.
But further investigation uncovered CCTV footage of the local boy’s horrific 35-minute killing spree which began when he scaled the fence of the zoo, located in the centre of Alice Springs, a popular tourist destination town in central Australia, just before 8am on Wednesday morning.
The blank-faced boy, who had evaded security cameras because of his slight size, then began his deadly rampage, smashing rocks on the heads of the reptiles and throwing them and other live animals into the crocodile enclosure, according to the zoo’s director Rex Neindorf.”
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Teenager stabs her best friend to death with a pair of tweezers! Chicks are so crazy.
Danilova told detectives: ‘Olga remarked that I was ugly and would never ever find a boyfriend.
‘How could I stay calm on hearing something like that from someone who I had always considered my best friend?’
She continued: ‘We were at a birthday party. It was late.We had been talking about guys, when Olga said she was in great demand with the lads.
‘She said it was because she was blonde and advised me to dye mine the same colour.
‘I replied that being blonde was an incurable condition, not something to aspire to. Word by word our friendship just unravelled.’
The pair went outside to talk things through when Danilova stabbed Olga repeatedly in a frenzied attack.
She claims she had no recollection of the attack.
She said: ‘I didn’t mean to kill her, it happened accidentally.’
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