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Journal nizo's Journal: WANTED: Stick in the eye poster child 21

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I have hinted around about this elsewhere, but now I will come out and ask the three people who read my journal: has anyone every heard of or known anyone who got his/her eye poked out by a stick? Preferably a child playing with a stick, but I am open to other stories too. I know parents always tell their kids not to play with sticks or they will poke their eyes out, but does anyone know of an actual case of this happening? Enquiring minds want to know!

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  • Because his brother stabbed it with a screwdriver. But as far as sticks go, no. And I'm actually not aware of anyone I know who was blinded while playing with anything. My brother damaged one of his eyes by pouring ACID on his face (Yeah, he was three, and a house guest left their wart treatment in a not so safe place. Hey, it was in Kabul, Afghanistan. You can treat warts at home with hydrochloric acid there). He can see fine, just shortsighted in one eye, and farsighted in the other.

    But, short answer, "N

  • I lost one of my eyes as a baby due to a birth defect, so I have a glass eye.

    I used to tell kids growing up that I lost it in a crazy fishing accident with my brother because "birth defect" was boring.

    • I did something like that when I used to tell kids about the operation scar on my neck, I used to tell them my cousin tried to hack of my head with a sword.

      Operation is boring too.
    • I have a birth defect, pectus excavatum [ucla.edu], (thankfully, much more mild than what shows in those pictures). Not noticable unless I go shirtless, which means swimming. So little kids see it and ask, and I tell them it was a shark bite.

      Man, their eyes grow big! ;-)

  • I was always a curious kid, even as a baby. So I unscrewed part of the high chair. Unfortunately, I was sitting in it at the time, and I still have a small scar where the screwdriver went to the bone right beside my right eye - the screwdriver hit the bone around the socket instead of going into the eyeball, so I'm not half-blind, or dead.

    Apparently there was LOTS of blood.

    Now, if you want to hear how I learned how to WALK ...

  • i just wanted to check in to let you know i don't know of the saught-after poster child's existence.

    i do know of a person who lost an eye in a knife fight. but that was an adult. don't think it is the same thing anyway.
    • Yeah if someone starts stabbing at someone else with a knife I kinda expect something bad to happen. I am wondering if warning kids not to play with sticks or they will poke eyes out is just being paranoid, or do people actually get their eyes poked out that way? There don't seem to be any stats on this anywhere....
  • I was 10, he was 4. I was walking by the dinning room table holding a pencil with the tip facing forward. He was running around like a typical, dumbass 4-year-old and ran straight into me. The lead tip of the pencil broke off in his chest. The lead left a permanent blue dot that he still has today.

    He really wasn't hurt badly. But, to this day he says I lunged for him. If I was mad it was only because I had to go sharpen my pencil again.
  • I knew a girl in elementary school who was horsing around during recess and something happened to where one of the lenses in her glasses broke and the glass went in her eye.

    She didn't lose the eye though, and I'm not sure how it affected her vision. Long time ago...

    • I am guessing the eye is actually fairly sturdy, not that I want to start poking it with a stick to find out just how sturdy. I just hate to think of all the time I could have been poking my brother with a stick as a kid but didn't because my mom told us not to play with sticks.
  • But my dad got poked in the eye with one of those old school peepholes, that ones that stuck out for whatever reason. Had to wear an eyepatch to school (I believe he was in high school when it happened) and apparantly he got quite into wearing an eyepatch thing. Almost sad when his eye healed.
  • When he was little (4 to 7) he was playing at skiiiiiiing in the garden with two broken bamboo canes he put one of the broken ends into his right eye with some force.
    They managed to save the eye, but his cornea was damaged so he can't focus anymore and his iris is no longer round, but a slightly larger jagged hole.
  • One of the kids I went to school with, lost an eye playing with a stick. Although it was a bamboo stick, and they (he and his friends) had the bright idea of extending the barrel of a pistol , with the bamboo.

    The parents and children alike were dumbasses.

    Obviously, the parents were dumbasses for leaving the kids alone, where they found the pistol. The kids weren't too bright either, for trying the stunt. (Although they were kids and I suppose they had never seen an actual pistol fired, to have an idea of

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