Polish man didn’t know he had knife blade embedded in his head.

Posted by Les on Monday, March 07, 2005 at 02:11 AM. Read 1652 times. Tags:
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Here’s a news story that only serves to reinforce why so many folks make jokes at the expense of Polish people. Mr. Leonard Woronowicz, 61, fell in his kitchen while doing some home repairs and had been having bad headaches ever since so he went to the doctor’s office where they x-rayed his head to see if perhaps he had fractured his skull in the fall, but the problem turned out to be a bit worse than that:

“I thought they might give me an aspirin. Instead they pulled a 5inch knife blade out of my head,” he said.

Mr Woronowicz said the knife must have been among tools scattered on the floor. He did not realise it was missing until he needed to cut some bread.

“Despite carefully searching the room I could only find the handle. But I forgot about it as my headaches got worse over the next few days.”

Granted the man is 61 years old, but that’s some pretty serious memory issues he’s got going on if he can fall onto a 5 inch knife and embed it in his head and then forget about it for a few days.

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Oscar United States Posted on 03/07/2005 at 08:26 AM

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On the other hand, maybe a knife in the head doesn’t do much for the ol’ memory.

Loris United States Posted on 03/07/2005 at 11:02 AM

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Just a headache?  Think of all the structures that knife had to miss going through his head like that.  Good grief he is lucky.

Metalhead United Kingdom Posted on 03/07/2005 at 05:58 PM

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Can I just ask why Americans seem to target Poles so much? lol.

It’s a question that’s been bugging me for a while now as it’s not even as though you’re neighbouring countries having a bit of a giggle (ie, with us Brits and Ireland or France).

So, why Poland?

KPatrickGlover United States Posted on 03/07/2005 at 07:24 PM

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Can I just ask why Americans seem to target Poles so much? lol.

It comes from Polish immigrants to America, not from experience with the country itself. In the early days of Polish immigration most Poles were non-english speakers and many of them were Illiterate and they had a difficult time assimilating themselves into society. They jokes began in the Irish and English communities and many Poles, feeling the need to fit in with their neighbors took to encouraging the jokes and laughing at themselves, much they same way many blonde women feel about blonde jokes.

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Adam M. United States Posted on 03/08/2005 at 09:21 AM

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When I was a kid, I once knocked my head pretty hard on the pointy part of a curb during an attempted bicycle stunt. Afterward I had no recollection of the accident, only of my friends helping me stumble back to my house.

Had a bad headache for a couple of days, and the doctor said that I probably had a mild concussion. If all that can happen from just bonking your head on a concrete curb, I imagine getting a 5-inch knife blade embedded in your skull could cause similar problems or worse.

My guess is that they guy didn’t remember the accident itself, and wrote the bleeding off as the typical gusher you get from a cut on the scalp.

Chris Canada Posted on 07/27/2005 at 11:29 PM

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The reason North Americans make fun of them so much is rather simple.

A good portion of them are arrogant.  Coming to, (in my case, Canada), without being able to speak enough English to compile a sentence.  Why would you move to a country without knowing the language?  I can understand if you’re in the middle of a war.  However, when you’re in search of a better life… Hah!

Stupid Polish Boy Russia Posted on 05/10/2006 at 02:13 AM

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