Javeleg
Look closely at that photo. Go ahead. Really get in there. Figure it out yet? No? Oh ok. Well, that’s just a fucking javelin through somebody’s leg. Not just anybody though, but Standard-Examiner newspaper photographer Ryan McGeeney. McGeeney’s leg received the straight shot while he was on-hand to cover the Utah state high school track championships. Not only did McGeeney get some shots of strapping young lads and lasses prancing on the track and in the field, but managed to somehow put aside the shock, pain, and (i’m sure) discomfort of having a large, long, pointed javelin pierced your leg (right below the knee) like a toothpick through a piece of the tenderest roast beef. My favorite part of the whole story: the student athlete responsible for sending that painful missile of track and field apparatus went on to win the championship on his next throw. “Good thing we brought another javelin,” said Richard Vance, the boy’s coach. Very good thing considering the photographer went to the hospital with part of it still wedged. Thirteen stitches later (no serious injuries whatsoever. it managed to miss everything it could have hit), and he’s a national phenomenon/dude in wrong place at wrong time (or was it all planned?? get at me, conspiracy theorists. i’m into that shit). Read the article here. Photo from the AP. Photo credit: the dude who’s leg it was in.
Add comment May 20th, 2008
