From the Holy Crap desk of the Matcom News Service.

[Maddy McCall]

Coroner: Pa. man dies in freak accident

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ADRIAN, Pa. -- A hunter fell out of his loft bed and died after being impaled by an ornate metal chair, authorities said. James Frank Schuey Jr., 42, of Worthington, died early Saturday at a camp in Washington Township from a massive loss of blood, according to Coroner Robert T. Bower.

Late Friday, Schuey climbed a makeshift ladder to the small loft above the kitchen, while his 17-year-old son and three of his son's friends slept on the camp's wooden beds, Bower said.

At about 12:30 a.m., Saturday, the teens heard a loud thud and found Schuey lying on the floor, bleeding from his chest. He had fallen eight feet onto a kitchen chair.

The camp, about 45 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, had no utilities and no cell phone coverage, so one of the teens went to another location to call 911. Schuey was flown to Armstrong County Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Bower said.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Hunter_Impaled.html

[Bunny]

1. These things always seem to happen in my neck of the woods.

And yes, that is damn freaky.

We've had some weird incidents here. This one, plus the one last year where a woman tried to cut the fetus out of a pregnant woman. Then there was the one a couple of years back where a mother and stepdad starved their daughter to death and then stored her body in a cooler on the back porch. Must be something in the water...:scared:

[matcom]

2. woah

well THAT was unlucky

[WilliamPitt]

3. "I use antlers in all of my decorating..."

[VelmaD]

4. Heeeeee...

now I've got that song stuck in my head. :P

[Little Wing]

5. Had to be first to breakfast, eh?

[merh]

6. I'd bet he had prostrate problems

he had to get up to pee and forgot where he was. :shrug:

What a sad, freaky accident.