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[–] kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I have no recollection of the journey to the hospital. My clearest memory is being face down in a hospital bed, surrounded by doctors and nurses. I remember going into an MRI scan and giggling as they removed my nipple piercings. Looking back, it was clear I was in shock. It turns out the blade had gone 7.8cm deep in my back. It had partially severed a nerve in my spinal cord and missed my aorta by about a centimetre.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 42 points 5 hours ago

He didn't sue, which was stupid. This was an easily preventable issue, with only the most basic sense of responsibility. The director of that show should have been fired, prosecuted, and sued. So should the school.

He has numbness in his leg to this day. He has a permanent injury due to incompetence and neglect by a wealthy University. THIS is exactly what lawsuits are for.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 32 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Dude, I refuse to accept that these are real people. Wanna know why? Every fake knife I've ever used on stage, I've tried to stab myself with. It's fun to push the knife into the handle, or bend the rubber blade.

I'd be looking for a murder charge, personally.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Uh, but there wasn't supposed to be prop knives on set at all?

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Wait wait wait.

I just read past the first few paragraphs, admittedly I skimmed.

These people used real knives because they wanted it to feel more real?

Sorry, murder charges are off the table — that's a fucking Darwin Award.

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 1 points 35 minutes ago

What the fuck.

[–] Whirlygirl9@kbin.melroy.org 30 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I have a lot of goddamned questions this article doesn't answer

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 17 points 5 hours ago
[–] tuff_wizard@aussie.zone 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

This is peak drama kid. Why would it have to be sharp?

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Doesn't necessarily need to be sharp. Try hard enough and you can stab someone to death with a butter knife....or a spork

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

If you're making/sharpening a spear, you actually only want to get it sharp as a butterknife. Any sharper and it has a good chance of cutting into bone and getting stuck.

And before you ask, I'm in medieval reenactment. Discussions like this pop up a lot

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 hours ago

And before you ask, I'm in medieval reenactment.

😉👉👉 That's what I'll tell anyone who asks

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Did the other actor really not realise they actually stabbed the person? I can assume actually stabbing someone would feel a little different than fake stabbing someone

[–] Qwel@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

He surely did. He also knew that the knife was real and agreed to play with it. Likely the same kind of moron as the main protagonist :shrug:

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

Freaking attempted murder inn that case, fully aware of what they were doing.