From: www.pressherald.com Man treated after attempting to nail himself to cross Associated Press HARTLAND  A Hartland man was treated at a Pittsfield hospital after he nailed himself to a cross. The 23-year-old man apparently was trying to commit suicide Thursday evening in his living room, the Bangor Daily News reported. Somerset County Sheriff Barry DeLong said Monday that no charges will be filed. "There is no crime here," he said. Police said the man appeared delusional and told them he had been "seeing pictures of God on the computer." He told them he had not seen the hit movie "The Passion of the Christ," which depicts the Crucifixion of Jesus. Lt. Pierre Boucher said the man took two pieces of wood, nailed them together in the form of a cross and placed them on the floor. He attached a suicide sign to the wood and then proceeded to nail one of his hands to the makeshift cross using a 14-penny nail and a hammer. "When he realized that he was unable to nail his other hand to the board, he called 911," Boucher said. It was unclear whether the man was seeking assistance for his injury or help in nailing down his other hand. Hartland Fire Department members responded, said Boucher, and cut off the wood while it was still attached to the man's hand. The wood and the victim were taken to Sebasticook Valley Hospital, where the nail was removed. Boucher said he did not know whether the man received further treatment. http://www.pressherald.com/news/state/0 ... sguy.shtml
OMG... some people are so stupid... "delusional" if you want to be politically correct, but MAn this guy is just spastic!
Yeah, what kind of idiot would go to that sort of trouble, but would not realise that you need to find a way to nail BOTH hands to the cross? What he should have done was set up some sort of contraption which would drive the nails into his hands when he set off some sort of complex chain reaction of devices.
What I would have done is crucify myself upside down, nailing my feet to the top, and one hand to the crossbar would be enough to bleed me out... Plus I wouldnt feel it very long because I'd pass out from being upside down after 20 minutes or so.
My question is how did he call 911 if his one hand was nailed to the cross and he was holding a hammer in the other?
Being the idiot he is, he naturally pounded the phone with his hammer until he hit 9, 1 and 1 in succession.
May be he nailed the hammer to his hand before he nailed his other hand to the cross. If I was going to kill myself I think I'd do it at Niagara falls. Or I would do something like have my buddies nail me to a cross in front of the white house and have them stick a sign on top of it that said something ironic like "king of the used," yeah, that;'d be a great way to do it. You know, Jesus had it easy, there are a lot of great things about crucifiction; like martyrdom, or the fact that you get to be righteously indignant about your situation, and plus, because if you comit suicide because you want people to know you're unhappy what more visual way than crucifiction? Even a failed attempt would be awesome... Girl:How did you get those big scars in your hands?!! Me:They're not scars baby, they're stigmata. GirlooOOOOooo Me: I'll let you put your fingers in them, if I get to put my fingers in something of yours... <slap> Didn't I tell you? AWESOME!!
I still don't understand where the phone comes from. I doubt he was holding a hammer in one hand and a phone in the other. How the hell did he get a phone?
maybe he had it from the beginning... he might have wanted to call God to let Him know he was coming...
I wonder what kind of long-distance plan God has?.... bet it's not a good one... when's the last time God called you?.
One thing I can tell you, God probably doesn't use MCI. An omnicient being would have to know how much that company sucks. I wonder if my managers would be upset if they knew that I constantly advised people not to use the company that I work for?
They probably hate it as much as you. I think. Well, maybe not quite as much. Or at all. In fact, it's possible that they quite like it, or don't think there's a problem. I have no idea where you or I really stand on this issue.
