94-Year-Old Pa. Man Gets First Tattoo

[LincolnMcGrath]

DuBOIS, Pa. Dec 15, 2004 — Ralph Bonebreak was born to be wild in 1910. The 94-year-old man recently got his first ink at the Tainted Flesh tattoo parlor in his hometown. Bonebreak emerged from under the needle with a locomotive on his right arm and an eagle on his left.

"Tattooing an older person is a bit more difficult because their skin is different and sometimes it comes away from the muscle a little," said Bob MacCready, a tattoo artist at Tainted Flesh.

Before Saturday, the oldest person MacCready had ever worked on was an 81-year-old patron.

A lot of men who went into the military got tattoos, but Bonebreak's 38-year career with the railroad kept him out of the service, said his friend, Eve Camuso.

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