So a quadriplegic gets catapulted into a mosh pit...

[IronBrig4]

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26786259-3102,00.html

Wow, it sounds like the beginning of a terrible joke. Seriously though, how does anybody survive getting stabbed through the eye with a spear?

 

[sixpackshaker]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Francis_Burton

He took a real one through the Jaw and out the other side of his face. Walked out of the desert, removed the spear himself, and preformed the surgery to close the wound himself.

 

[Rob King]

This thread is now about badasses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Grenfell

Sir Wilfred Grenfel was a medical missionary to Northern Newfoundland at the beginning of the 20th century. One day, while dog sledding across a frozen bay to reach a small community, he found himself on an ice pan that had broken off of and was drifting out to sea.

Out at sea on the ice, he kept warm by butchering three of his sled dogs to make a cloak out of their fur, and then using some of the left over skin and pieces of wood from the sleigh to build a flag which he used to hail help from a passing boat.

 

[sixpackshaker]

OK the abridged Burton.

Studied at Oxford, kicked out.
Joined the British Army in India, went native.
Began exploring.
Was one of the greatest Linguists in history.
Was one of the greatest Swordsman in history. Both meanings.
Translated the Thousand and a Night. - the "pornographic" version of Arabian Nights.
Translated the Kama Sutra
Became a priest in a Hindu Sect
Was the first Englishman to travel to Mecca (in disguise, death sentence for explorers.) Became an Imam
Suffered the wound mentioned earlier.
Explored Africa, looking for the Source of the Nile. Damn near found it. Credit was given to the Lieutenant of the expedition.
Member of the Royal Geographic Society.
Explored America, hung out with the Mormons in Utah.
Became a Ambassador.

Wife burned over half of his writings after his death. :/

 

[Ravenpoe]

OK the abridged Burton.

Studied at Oxford, kicked out.
Joined the British Army in India, went native.
Began exploring.
Was one of the greatest Linguists in history.
Was one of the greatest Swordsman in history. Both meanings.
Translated the Thousand and a Night. - the "pornographic" version of Arabian Nights.
Translated the Kama Sutra
Became a priest in a Hindu Sect
Was the first Englishman to travel to Mecca (in disguise, death sentence for explorers.) Became an Imam
Suffered the wound mentioned earlier.
Explored Africa, looking for the Source of the Nile. Damn near found it. Credit was given to the Lieutenant of the expedition.
Member of the Royal Geographic Society.
Explored America, hung out with the Mormons in Utah.
Became a Ambassador.

Wife burned over half of his writings after his death. :/

Don't forget had sex with half the women of the known world.
And probably some of the men, too.

 

[sixpackshaker]

Was one of the greatest Swordsman in history. Both meanings.

Like I said...

 

[Roxxoredizorz]

Win.

 

[Dave]

This guy in a mosh pit could kick your ass.

 

[@Li3n]

Translated the Thousand and a Night. - the "pornographic" version of Arabian Nights.

What are you talking about?! The only version are the original and the censored one... and it's called "One Thousand and One Nights"!

 

[sixpackshaker]

I weren't typing well last night. I basically meant that his version was not the "censored" one. It was a major scandal (pornography) that he would even write about sex. Never the less a ten volume set on the subject.

 

[Enresshou]

Approves.

On a more serious note, though...holy shit that sucks. I hope he'll be okay after the eye's taken care of.