That’s why we keep the Bronze Fonz in Milwaukee.
(I know, it’s unsettling)
it is indeed…
Damn. I will be in Milwaukee in a couple days, only a few blocks from there, but I do not think I will get a chance to go see him, because, reasons.
It would also take a hell of a provocation to make that a reasonable response.
Admittedly, the story doesn’t give enough info to tell whether there may have been two (or more) SMFers involved. But I wouldn’t automatically conclude that the victim was one.
“In a previous life, you were someone named….Phineas Gage? Ooo, unfortunate.”
Back in the 90’s, my brother, who was probably 10 years old at the time, was walking (in a ‘good’ neighborhood) to his piano teacher’s house. Someone (high school aged) that he’d never met asked him what school he went to, my brother told him, and the kid pepper sprayed him.
Seriously, though, that sounds like a really similar injury.
From Phineas Gage wiki:
Rocketed from the hole, the tamping iron—1+1⁄4 inches (3.2 cm) in diameter, three feet seven inches (1.1 m) long, and weighing 13+1⁄4 pounds (6.0 kg)—entered the left side of Gage’s face in an upward direction, just forward of the angle of the lower jaw. Continuing upward outside the upper jaw and possibly fracturing the cheekbone, it passed behind the left eye, through the left side of the brain, then completely out the top of the skull through the [frontal bone]
Compare with this poor guy:
“The pole entered the victim’s head beneath his jaw and exited the other side of his head near his right temple area,” police said.
I hope he doesn’t suffer like Gage did. I once did a deep dive on that story and while the idea of total personality change is in dispute, he did go into a sharp decline and eventually died due to his injury.
I’ve seen his skull.
The description i’ve heard of his injury and the “medical care” he received was nauseating. The term “pus volcano” was used at one point.
And my friend Bud insists that he heard Spidey’s got radioactive blood. Where’d that come from, if not the spider?
Some great places to eat near that Fonz statue (you can walk on the opposite shore of the Riverwalk to avoid it, like I always do).
Oh, and do stop by International Exports Ltd.
I did, with a friend (I had to “drop something off on the way to dinner”. He was totally fooled, then charmed, then proclaimed we’d stay for a drink. Another drink. And appetizers. Then dinner.
I know I’d think twice about moving there, if frequent sightings of that were likely.
I’ve actually never seen it. I know vaguely where it is (on the riverwalk), but other than restaurants that have seating out there, I haven’t spent all that much time in the riverwalk area.
I guess maybe the un-settling gag was a bit of a reach…
Yeah… He was leaking brain matter for a while there. It sounds like his personality changed considerably in the immediate aftermath of the injury but after he recovered he seemed to do well… Until he didn’t.
I’ve read that the doctor taking care of him probably did save his life. He didn’t have the knowledge of modern medicine but he was skilled for his time.
That IS an insidiously ear-wormy song. It’s hard to argue with. Although the comics never claimed that Spiderman’s blood was radioactive.
In Amazing Spider-Man #31, Peter gives Aunt May a blood transfusion, and in the next issue he learns that she got sick from radiation.
Amazing! That was back in the sixties, wasn’t it?
There’s another series in the comics where he unknowingly gives Mary Jane cancer through radioactive lovemaking . Not the most inspired storyline IMHO.
‘Hey! Even with the cancer and the radiation poisoning I’m still a safer lay than Superman!’
~ Pete