# There is such a thing as being TOO "open-minded"! With X-rays! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 21, 2005, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-such-a-thing-as-being-too-open-minded-with-x-rays/295569 "2005-03-21T15:39:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-such-a-thing-as-being-too-open-minded-with-x-rays/295569/1 "2005-03-21T15:39:35Z")
All I can do is post this, & say that I’m stunned. > **[Host Security Module](https://ananova.com/news/story/sm_1306055?menu=)** > > Today protection from attacks and threats in using web services is a must. Every person is using web services either for official usage or personal use. There is no doubt that web service is quite … After years of teaching rowdy kids, no wonder he considered it a minor problem. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-such-a-thing-as-being-too-open-minded-with-x-rays/295569/2 "2005-03-21T15:59:26Z")
I’ve heard that if one is too open-minded ones brains might fall out, but I never expected to see it enacted. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-such-a-thing-as-being-too-open-minded-with-x-rays/295569/3 "2005-03-21T16:08:34Z")
That… is… just… _stares_ ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-such-a-thing-as-being-too-open-minded-with-x-rays/295569/4 "2005-03-21T16:14:17Z")
Ye gods. I suppose that story puts migraines in perspective - it can _always_ be worse. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-such-a-thing-as-being-too-open-minded-with-x-rays/295569/5 "2005-03-21T16:18:38Z")
Talk about a stabbing pain. ---
**Author:** ![LorieSmurf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a587f6/32.png) [@LorieSmurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LorieSmurf)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-such-a-thing-as-being-too-open-minded-with-x-rays/295569/6 "2005-03-22T08:44:36Z")
Ho. Lee. Shit! ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-such-a-thing-as-being-too-open-minded-with-x-rays/295569/7 "2005-03-22T12:47:29Z")
I need to see that X-ray again, like I need a hole in the head. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-such-a-thing-as-being-too-open-minded-with-x-rays/295569/8 "2005-03-22T14:17:18Z")
The link isn’t working…could you give more details so we can google? ---
**Author:** ![xbuckeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9e8a1a/32.png) [@xbuckeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xbuckeye)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-such-a-thing-as-being-too-open-minded-with-x-rays/295569/9 "2005-03-22T14:21:19Z")
> [@](#): > > The discovery was made after doctors X-rayed Leonard Woronowicz to see if he had cracked his skull in a fall while climbing over a stool in his kitchen four days earlier. > > Instead they found a blade that had penetrated the 61-year-old’s head just below his right ear. It had snapped off at the handle without touching any major blood vessels or nerves - or causing any lasting damage Umm…yeah. That’s…just not…right ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-such-a-thing-as-being-too-open-minded-with-x-rays/295569/10 "2005-03-22T15:54:17Z")
> [@kittenblue](#): > > The link isn’t working…could you give more details so we can google? link works fine by me. However… > [@](#): > > Ananova: > > Five inch knife found in man’s head > > Hospital staff treating a retired school teacher for a headache found a five inch knife blade wedged in his head. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-such-a-thing-as-being-too-open-minded-with-x-rays/295569/11 "2005-03-22T20:57:48Z")
For some reason, it seems like a fake. Maybe it’s just the cynic in me. ---
**Author:** ![LionelHutz405](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lionelhutz405/32/536_2.png) [@LionelHutz405](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LionelHutz405)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-such-a-thing-as-being-too-open-minded-with-x-rays/295569/12 "2005-03-22T21:26:22Z")
> [@ZebraShaSha](#): > > For some reason, it seems like a fake. Maybe it’s just the cynic in me. Call me a cynic too then. That’s what I thought. Maybe it’s the glasses. Why would they not remove the guy’s glasses to take a head xray? They were looking for a crack in his skull and the glasses might hide that. ---
**Author:** ![xbuckeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9e8a1a/32.png) [@xbuckeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xbuckeye)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-such-a-thing-as-being-too-open-minded-with-x-rays/295569/13 "2005-03-22T21:41:15Z")
IANAD, but I think you are seeing the edges of the eye openings and the base of the back of the skull, glasses would look exactly like glasses. (if I were a doctor, I would use long latin names for eye-holes and skull bottoms) ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-such-a-thing-as-being-too-open-minded-with-x-rays/295569/14 "2005-03-22T21:44:16Z")
I want to be a cynic too: I am quuite sure I have seen an extremely similar item not very long ago. Sadly, no link though. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-such-a-thing-as-being-too-open-minded-with-x-rays/295569/15 "2005-03-22T21:56:33Z")
He should hook up with that guy who shot the nail into his head and didn’t realize it. They could, like, start a club or something. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-such-a-thing-as-being-too-open-minded-with-x-rays/295569/16 "2005-03-22T22:41:46Z")
**Zyada** ’s mother gets her X-rays and scans done at a place called “Texas Medical Imaging” or for short, just “TMI”. I think the pic linked here came from a branch of the same company. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-such-a-thing-as-being-too-open-minded-with-x-rays/295569/17 "2005-03-22T23:01:03Z")
> [@ZebraShaSha](#): > > For some reason, it seems like a fake. Maybe it’s just the cynic in me. I think it’s the “I fell on it” excuse, which is most often seen when people try to explain rectal foreign bodies. “Oh, it’s a bottle of shampoo? Yeah, I remember slipping in the shower the other day…I guess I fell on it.” ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-such-a-thing-as-being-too-open-minded-with-x-rays/295569/18 "2005-03-23T01:39:15Z")
Whoa. I’d love to believe this, but I dunno, man. He didn’t feel the cold metal of the knife slip between his spine and trachea/esophagus as it sliced through living tissue? It didn’t sever a single nerve that would cause immediate, blinding pain? He didn’t feel a 5-inch blade in there every time he swallowed or turned his head. Uh, I won’t say it’s utter bullshit, but I doubt this story is entirely true. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/there-is-such-a-thing-as-being-too-open-minded-with-x-rays/295569/19 "2005-03-23T01:47:21Z")
Reminds me of that old lady caught on a security camera video doing some shopping with a knife stuck in her back where a guy had stabbed her earlier. She was oblivious to knife. I guess that the whole stabbing affair could go unoticed if it happens at the same time of a head trauma.