"ouch!!!"

[cabinetman]

Talk about having a bad day...



"I'M NEVER WRONG - BUT I'M NOT ALWAYS RIGHT"

[gmack5]

Now you know!

That's why I don't attend Track and Field events!
Too big a target!

[MilDoc]

I feel her pain!

[mater]

Wow! That had to hurt.

[atgcpaul]

Ouch is right. A friend in high school on the javelin team had something
similar happen. His best friend at the time--also on the team--came off the
field and without looking (he claims) plunged the javelin through his foot into
the ground. My friend made a complete recovery but the incident was forever
immortalized in our HS yearbook.

[pushrod]

They didn't mention they scored the guy's throw as...

You ready?

ONE FOOT!

HAR!

[scorrpio]

Looks like a fairly clean pierce - likely not much damage to surrounding tissue, and most bones are likely intact as well.

Let's just say she's lucky she weren't judging a discus throwing competition. Those things can crush a foot into pulp.

[germdoc]

Not to contradict you too much Scorrpio, but in my experience a wound like that inflicted by a penetrating object that has been heavily contaminated with soil will almost certainly produce a nasty polymicrobial infection. If any bone was damaged, the chance of having to remove the fractured bone is high. This will require several surgeries and weeks of IV antibiotics at a minimum.

Need I say, if that had happened in the US you'd be looking at a bill in the tens of thousands of dollars.

All in all I bet that spectator wished she had stayed home to watch samba dancing on one of the satellite stations.

[MilDoc]

Germdoc is correct, but she's lucky it didn't hit her chest. Remember the Crocodile man?