Florida teen + Gun = Squirrel tissue in buttock

[UrbScotty]

You may be relieved to hear that until now "gross contamination of an open wound with squirrel flesh [was] an unreported event," as Porter W. Maerz, MD, of the University of Florida, and colleagues write in a recent case study appearing in Case Reports in Emergency Medicine.

But no more, thanks to a Florida teenager.

When EMTs arrived on the scene of the boy's injury, they reported visible "squirrel parts" in the margin of a buckshot wound. Such wounds are not unusual, but how did the squirrel get in there?

Turns out that that the young man was attempting to dislodge a dead squirrel from an overhead branch with the butt of a loaded 12-gauge shotgun.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/EmergencyMedicine/EmergencyMedicine/45976

[Suich]

1. ok, I get how he shot himself in the butt, but

how did the "squirrel parts" get in the wound? Did it fall out of the tree when he was poking at it and happen to hit him in the butt after he shot himself?

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

2. He probably tried to use the poor dead squirrel as a bandage

or perhaps that was his way of punishing the dead thing for shooting him in the arse.

[surrealAmerican]

5. Why not?

After all, if he uses a shotgun as a stick, using a dead squirrel as a bandage just proves what an outside-the-box creative thinker he is, right?

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

6. I didn't think of it like that

[johnp3907]

7. Hunters often put the small game they've killed in their jacket pockets.

So it was a different squirrel, I guess. Though I don't know if they did any DNA tests.

http://ottawacitizen.com/technology/science/doctors-dilemma-teen-wounded-by-buckshot-and-squirrel-pieces

[Suich]

8. Thank you, johnp3907!

Not a squirrel eater myself, but that makes perfect sense!

Another mystery solved!

[johnp3907]

9. I can vividly recall the many times my dad came home with a dead rabbit or two in his jacket.

Then he'd skin it, cook it, and eat it. Yeah. I'm a vegetarian now.

[liberal N proud]

3. He almost qualified for the Darwin Awards

[Hoppy]

4. but he's still elegible for a Darwin "Honorable Mention."

[Warren DeMontague]

10. The GOP warned us of precisely this sort of animal-human hybrid, in the stem cell debates.

Did we listen? Nooooooooo.