A man is being rushed to hospital this morning after becoming impaled on a piece of furniture inside his home at Reid.
The ACT Ambulance Service was called to the Allambie Street property just after 9 o’clock.
Intensive care paramedics arrived a short time later to find the 60 year old impaled on a an ornamental bed head through his stomach.
The paramedics worked for about half an hour with ACT Fire & Rescue firefighters and ACT Policing officers to get the man free.
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10:07 AM
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Bedhead through the stomach in Reid
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Or was it a practice run gone wrong by a Public Servant for a future compensation claim whilst having bedroom antics? Either way he was up to his guts in it
Spiral said :
Well I stubbed my toe once. Since I fronted up at 22:30 Saturday – possibly their busiest time – they had every right to put me at the bottom of the list and keep me waiting for hours. But the nurse saw me within an hour, said there wasn’t much that could be done about a stubbed toe and sent me on my way.
Frankly I’m appalled, most of the responses to this story have been stomach churning.
Some great quips but seriously, let’s hope the guy recovers.
But keep the quips coming, I like a good belly laugh 🙂
I’m betting it’s the last time this guy tries to engage in some acrobatic sex acts.
goggles13 said :
surely those scope for some jokes about beds in ED?
goggles13 said :
Not even close.
Surely we can put this thread to bed now?
This gut wrenching story left me felling nauseous.Poor bastard he must’ve felt gutted!
goggles13 said :
Please don’t invite submissions from Emergency staff!
makes me wonder if this is the most bizarre reason to be taken to the ED.
when I was in there on Friday morning, one bloke was recovering from too many drinks, apparently his busy body neighbours had called an ambulance to take him away because he was annoying them!! sounded funny in my overtired and dehydrated state!!
I’m going out on a limb here and say that it wasn’t the penetration he expected in his bedroom.
DrKoresh said :
boom tish
Poor guy! Shame on the lot of you, I’m sure he’s endured enough piercing posts for one day
Spykler said :
LOL. Just had a good old fashioned belly laugh at that one.
Spykler said :
Oof- that’d be hard to stomach.
Spykler said :
+1
He has had an absolute gutful of that bedhead..
He may have been changing a light bulb while standing on the bed and lost his balance. Heard of this happening before. Hope he’s ok.