Man has a nail removed from his brain

He didn't even notice the difference? Obviously a Republican.

Possibly, but definitely a distracted carpenter with a power saw...bad combination.

Hmm, the pic in the main page shows a snake subjected to surgeory? LOL Poor man, but its strange that it wasnt noticed

Not noticed,I guess he is what you would call a "numbskull",but the article doesnt say that it was removed,as long as he doesnt turn rusty eh !..

Ow. Why do I keep hearing about this? lol some people are thick-headed.

Talk about lucky. I'm surprised the man is still alive.

Befits a rereading the famous case of Phineas Gage, the railroad worker who had a tamping rod blasted completely though his brain. As I recall, he recovered with some vision loss and lived a fairly normal life for another dozen or so years.

He hit the nail on the head.

omg.. scary

Yeah, Gage was the center of many studies for the personality change that he underwent. If I recall correctly, the frontal lobe of his brain was taken out with the tamping rod he was using to tamp down explosives into a hole in the ground( a ~6 foot long steel rod...or a 2 meter rod if you swing that way) and the explosive went off and shot the rod up through his jaw, eye and front of his brain. His personality changed immediately after the event and the doctors of the time figured out that part of the brain controlled the personality...voila, the frontal lobotamy was born...