A Few Beers, A Nail Gun, . . . .

(Sydney, Australia) Consider how this story plays out.

He was skylarking with mates over a few beers and took what he thought was an empty nail gun and pointed it at his head.

If you asked Brad Shorten, 33, to read that statement 1000 times, he'd probably comment unequivocally that he could never be that stupid. Well, he was and he lived and, in true manly Aussie style,

"At the hospital the pain got worse, and I was getting frustrated so I asked for a pair of pliers to pull it out myself," he said.

Tough guy. However, he was convinced otherwise by a team of specialists who then took four hours removing a part of his skull to retrieve the counter-sunk 1.25-inch nail. A full recovery is expected.

Hat tip: Wizbang