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From: johnc@shark.UUCP (John Crown)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re:  ** FAXS, and all that connected... **
Message-ID: <1495@shark.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 18:52:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: shark.1495
Posted: Fri Aug  9 18:52:22 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 02:37:53 EDT
Reply-To: johnc@shark.UUCP (John Crown)
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In article <179@proper.UUCP> walt_sak@proper.UUCP (walt_sak) writes:
(word-final letters restored for sake of readability):
>A twenty-two year old man with a hole in his forehead walked into
>the Lindon, Ohio police headquarters and requested an X-ray in
>order to locate his brain.  The unidentified man had inserted six
>inches of wire through a  hole into his skull in an attempt to
>find his brains but had failed.  He told police that he made the 
>hole with a  power drill (Columbu Dispatch)

Reminds me of a very similar story I heard several years ago:

A man attempted to commit suicide with an electric drill.  He applied the
drill to his head, and managed to penetrate his skull six times.  The man
survived, however--it seems he never hit a vital organ.

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