I think it is entirely likely. If you are a rhinocerous.
What would win in a head-butting contest between a rhino and a water buffalo?
Preposterous.
No, rhinocerous.
He probably muttered something about “My mouth tastes funny, like ____” and the doctors were on the ball enough to realize that this was Really Bad ™ on top of the skull fractures. Shudder.
It was actually a head trauma doctor in the ER who told him; he had been called in by one of the team physicians as the ambulance was en route.
We covered this before:
Not necessarily the only way. If their head connects with the ground after having been knocked unconscious that can have severe consequences.
Their were two incidents in the space of a year in my home city (Brisbane), where someone was punched and died from injuries sustained as their heads hit the (concrete) ground.
A couple of months ago some drunk fratboys picked a fight with me and my brother in Las Vegas. One of the guys approached and without warning headbutted my brother pretty badly and sent him off into the ground. After it was all over he had pretty good bump at the bridge of his nose but didn’t fracture anything. I think he would have had to be running full speed and do a football type of lunge to do any type of severe damage.
Sure, but that isn’t a unique consequence of being the recipient of a headbutt. Any impulse that causes to someone to fall backwards or sideways in an uncontrolled manner can cause this type of injury.
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The poster was Glitch. Not as grandiose a thread as I remembered; maybe I just remember Glitch’s posts being a worthy read or I was conflating it with Crafter_Man’s link. But there it is.
Whatever happened to Glitch? Anyone else remember him?
I was under the impression that almost all deaths resulting from punching/kicking/headbutting (anything with just your body rather than a weapon of some kind) an upright, conscious individual were caused by them falling over and hitting the ground (or another hard object) with their head, not from the hit itself.
Well, that settles it, I’m off. Wish me luck!
Well if that doesn’t work just go around behind them and give their head a quick twist. It will immediately break their neck.
And if you have a gun with you hit them in the back of the head with it. You’d think they’d be like “Ow, goddamn it, that hurt” but in actuality it knocks them right out. When they eventually come to they’ll be just fine with no after effects. Just like waking up from a short nap.