For those of us fascinated by car crashes (and, let’s face it, who isn’t?), here is a mesmerizing compilation of mayhem and tragedy (some authentic, some cinematic). Warning: Sensitive souls may find themselves unable to ride in an automobile (or walk anywhere even remotely adjacent to a roadway) again.
Fascinating photograph, isn’t it? Kinda looks a bit like Abe Lincoln… but if only he had suffered such a minor wound! This is John Parkhurst, who suffered a gunshot wound of the temporal bone during the Civil War. It would have been simply ghastly to be injured back in those days, don’t you think? Even worse to have been injured in ancient times. Looks like John got off lucky though… he seems to have survived.
I can hardly believe this guy could even be living with this much of his brain missing… but he certainly looks happy. More proof that the happiest people are the ones with half a brain.
Half-Headed Man Takes World’s Most Bizarre Mugshot
Thanks to Xtine for the link.
I can’t help but root for the lion. You?
American Tourists View Shocking Lion Attack At Circus
Thanks to Pamazon for the link.
Another gruesome old image from the Otis Historical Archives of the National Museum of Health and Medicine. This one depicts a Civil War gunshot wound to the back. I actually would have guessed that the Skinner from Dexter got ahold of this guy.
Thanks to Twisted Princess for the link.
Here’s another ghastly image from the National Institute of Health Otis Archives on Flickr.
Thanks to Twisted Princess for the link.
Gangrenous Elbow. (Another band name perhaps?) From the magnificent Otis Historical Archives National Museum of Health and Medicine Flickr page.
Shauna sent me an interesting (and somewhat ghastly) link to the review of an infanticide case in Australia
This is an interestingly gory murder of a newborn, complete with post mortem pics of the baby as well as the female parts the father removed.
Why did the father remove the female parts? Why ask why?
Ain’t that peculiar? Peculiar as can be? Turns out this 12-year-old suffers from something called “Cleidocranial Dysplasia with Encephalomalacia”. That’s easy for ME to say!
Read all about his case at Pediatric OnCall.
Thanks to Elizabeth for the link.
