Man Shot a Dozen Nails Into His Head, Survived
A man who went to a hospital complaining of a headache was found to have 12 nails embedded in his skull from a suicide attempt with a nail gun, doctors say.
Surgeons in Portland removed the nails with needle-nosed pliers and a drill, and the man survived, according to a report on the medical oddity in the current issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery.
The unidentified 33-year-old man reportedly was suicidal and high on methamphetamine when he fired the nails -- up to 2 inches in length -- into his head one by one last year.
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