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POINTLESS THREAD III: ESCAPE FROM RAPTOR MOUNTAIN AGAIN
Dliessmgg:
Stryc9Fuego:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 18 Oct 2011, 06:08 ---Hit him in a glasses case wrapped in the manuscript of the speech in his coat pocket. The bullet was slowed so much it left him with nothing more than a gently bleeding scratch.
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It was a bit worse than a scratch:
"...the bullet lodged in his chest only after penetrating his steel eyeglass case and passing through a thick (50 pages) single-folded copy of the speech he was carrying in his jacket. Roosevelt, as an experienced hunter and anatomist, correctly concluded that since he was not coughing blood, the bullet had not completely penetrated the chest wall to his lung, and so declined suggestions he go to the hospital immediately."
"Afterwards, probes and x-ray showed that the bullet had traversed three inches (76 mm) of tissue and lodged in Roosevelt's chest muscle but did not penetrate the pleura, and it would be more dangerous to attempt to remove the bullet than to leave it in place. Roosevelt carried it with him for the rest of his life."
So yeah, the bullet was slowed by his glasses case and speech, but it was close enough to his lungs that it was too dangerous to remove it.
Carl-E:
The fact that he had three inches of chest muscle is actually pretty impressive for a "sickly, asthmatic youth". His favorite hobby became mountain climbing...
which he was doing when McKinley got shot (on the grounds of my high school in Buffalo), making TR president.
Josefbugman:
http://www.rooshv.com/you-did-this-to-me#comment-47737
Follow this link for a good long look at a manchild collapsing and blaming everyone for it.
Sorflakne:
--- Quote ---It was a bit worse than a scratch:
"...the bullet lodged in his chest only after penetrating his steel eyeglass case and passing through a thick (50 pages) single-folded copy of the speech he was carrying in his jacket. Roosevelt, as an experienced hunter and anatomist, correctly concluded that since he was not coughing blood, the bullet had not completely penetrated the chest wall to his lung, and so declined suggestions he go to the hospital immediately."
"Afterwards, probes and x-ray showed that the bullet had traversed three inches (76 mm) of tissue and lodged in Roosevelt's chest muscle but did not penetrate the pleura, and it would be more dangerous to attempt to remove the bullet than to leave it in place. Roosevelt carried it with him for the rest of his life."
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You ripped that straight from the Cracked article about the Five Most Badass Presidents Ever, didn't you?
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