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08 August 2007

"Technology did not exist to remove the pencil until now." This story deserves more than four paragraphs.

post by: me3dia at: 11:08 | 13 comments

whoa!

posted by small_ruminant 08 August | 11:11

More than four paragraphs, and piccies. She tripped over the pencil when she was 4. Yikes.

posted by iconomy 08 August | 11:15

Simpsons did it!

posted by Atom Eyes 08 August | 11:16

There was a Simpson's episode identical to this, except it was a crayon and Homer was an adult when he did it. Oh, and it made him a genius.

posted by essexjan 08 August | 11:17

Yeah, I was going to post this as: "Life Imitates art"

posted by burhanistan 08 August | 11:17

Thanks iconomy! I figured there'd be a longer article somewhere.

I wonder if her personality will change now that it's gone.

posted by me3dia 08 August | 11:19

*shakes fist at Atom Eyes*

posted by essexjan 08 August | 11:19

Okay Atom Eyes, you're being a Negative Nancy. Stop it. Okay unless you wan't everyone to call you Negative Nancy from now on.

posted by seanyboy 08 August | 11:35

The only thing they didn't specify is that it went up her nose. It did, right? She just said it pierced through her skin, but they mentioned her nose and optic nerve...

And that Sun Times article is ridiculously short!

posted by Specklet 08 August | 13:08

This article includes a computer tomography picture showing the pencil inside her head.

posted by spock 08 August | 15:09

Ouch!

posted by dg 08 August | 15:58

So does iconomy's first link, spock. But I found what I was looking for in your article:

Margaret Wegner was just four when she fell while carrying the eight-centimetre pencil, which went through her cheek and into her brain.

posted by Specklet 08 August | 17:04

And what the hell kind of parents wouldn't notice a pencil-sized hole in their child's cheek?!?

posted by Specklet 08 August | 17:05

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