'Is there an arrow in my face?' Boy, 17, lucky to be alive after crossbow fires bolt into his face i
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Lewis Tavernier,17, lies in a hospital bed after accidentally being shot in the face with a crossbow bolt
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X-ray shows the eight-inch crossbow bolt lodged three-inches inside his face, but missed crucial nerves
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Agony: Lewis suffered a punctured muscle and a fractured cheekbone in the bizarre accident
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A teenage boy is lucky to be alive after accidentally being shot in the face with an eight-inch crossbow bolt.
Lewis Tavernier, 17, had taken his crossbow to a friend’s house in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, and put the safety catch on before carefully placing it on a nearby desk.
But as the pair chatted, the weapon suddenly and inexplicably discharged and fired into the teenager’s face from less than three feet away - leaving it buried three inches deep into his right cheek.
An X-ray of the student reveals his fractured cheekbone, but the bolt miraculously missed damaging crucial nerves and arteries by just two millimetres.
The A-level student at Marriots School, Stevenage, said: ‘I had used the crossbow lots of times before and I had put the safety catch on so I didn't think twice about putting it down on a desk.
‘But suddenly the crossbow just fired. It was the strangest thing - there was no-one around it and my friend saw it just fire into me.
‘I was only about a metre away but it was so quick and powerful I didn't really feel it go in. I just remember saying; 'mate is there an arrow in my face?'
‘He was really distressed but I guess I was in shock because it didn't hurt at all at first. My friend's dad drove me to hospital and then the pain started.
‘The doctors told me that it was 2mm away from hitting a nerve which would have killed me, and any lower and I would never have been able to talk again.
‘I wasn’t in much pain but I couldn’t believe what had happened, it was so unreal.’
The teenager was rushed to Lister Hospital to have emergency surgery.
The powerful bolt had been shot three inches deep into his face, puncturing a muscle and fracturing his cheekbone.
‘I went into hospital on the Friday night and by Saturday I was back home. I was just a whirlwind,’ Lewis said.
He continued: ‘If it was any lower I wouldn’t have been able to talk again and if it was two millimetres higher I wouldn’t be alive. I was very lucky.
‘I was terrified I was going to lose my eye and I feel so lucky not to be brain damaged.’
Lewis, who lives with his younger brother and his parents Jacqueline and Colin Tavernier, who are both teaching assistants, is recovering well.
But it will take six months to rebuild the muscle in his face, despite only being left with a small scar from the incident.
He added: ‘It aches every now and again but I don’t really notice it.
‘At first I couldn’t open my mouth that much but after that it has been the same as normal.’
The youngster, who is a keen magician, said: ‘I tend to do close-up magic, so things like cards, coins and rope tricks.
‘I’ll definitely be staying away from any medieval weaponry for my acts.’
The friends were originally planning on practising their target shooting in the garden with the loaded crossbow before the accident occurred.
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AND NOT A SINGLE FUCK WAS GIVEN THAT DAY.
I think with most serious injuries I could keep myself calm, but if I was shot in the face with a crossbow, I would evacuate my bowels IMMEDIATELY.
Is he a ginger nigger?? That is so rare
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[QUOTE=Shiftyze;30820903]Is he a ginger nigger?? That is so rare[/QUOTE]
he has brown hair
Wow, they used crossbows in midevil times and then this kid got shot in the face and hes pretty much fine.
What a badass.
[QUOTE=Shiftyze;30820903]Is he a ginger nigger?? That is so rare[/QUOTE]
What the fuck.
Seriously?
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What made you think that was a good post?
[QUOTE=Eluveitie;30820964]What the fuck.
Seriously?
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What made you think that was a good post?[/QUOTE]
bad judgement probably
Inb4 someone saying its fake because the kid isn't bleeding.
who the hell leaves a crossbow cocked and loaded.
That's one of the most bad ass pictures I've ever seen. He just has this "Yeah, I've got an arrow in my face, what of it?" look.
My best friend died from shooting himself in the head with his crossbow...
:smith:
inb4 headshot.
nevermind
headshot
Seriously, though. That had to be the worst pain he's ever felt.
[QUOTE=Eluveitie;30820964]What the fuck.
Seriously?
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What made you think that was a good post?[/QUOTE]His hair looks red on my LCD screen I couldn't help but wonder.
fuck if that thing was slightly differently placed I could be making unicorn jokes
[QUOTE=Shiftyze;30821245]His hair looks red on my LCD screen I couldn't help but wonder.[/QUOTE]
I feel like you could have said something like "Huh! An African-American with red hair? That's pretty crazy!"
missed it by that much
The kid in the first picture has the biggest "Does it look like I give a FUCK" face
He's just so smug about it lol.
Badass
[QUOTE=sHiBaN;30821718]He's just so smug about it lol.
Badass[/QUOTE]
You mean his facial expression? I'm sure he feels agonizing pain when smiling or frowning.
Also he doesn't look smug to me, he looks like "Holy fuck theres an arrow in my fucking head what the fuck is going to happen to me dow"
[QUOTE=ThatHippyMan;30821122]My best friend died from shooting himself in the head with his crossbow...
:smith:[/QUOTE]
Was it intentional? I'm not really sure why someone would use a crossbow for that :smith:
I wonder if that kid even remembers the pictures being taken, he had to have been massively doped up at that point.
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;30820795]I just remember saying; 'mate is there an arrow in my face?' [/QUOTE]
sounds like a great domination line by the sniper
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[QUOTE=Tetracycline;30821485]I feel like you could have said something like "Huh! An African-American with red hair? That's pretty crazy!"[/QUOTE]
That would be very offensive if he was not african american but a different kind of black
I guess they were trying to play Sticks and stones in real life. He lost
[QUOTE=Shiftyze;30820903]Is he a ginger nigger?? That is so rare
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Ahahahaha
what
[QUOTE=G12-A5;30821035]who the hell leaves a crossbow cocked and loaded.[/QUOTE]
He said he'd put on the safety catch, and he said he's placed it around tons of times with the safety catch with no problems so there was no reason to believe the safety would fail.
[QUOTE=The very best;30821517]The kid in the first picture has the biggest "Does it look like I give a FUCK" face[/QUOTE]
He looks more like he's completely out of it on painkillers.
Rasputin would be proud.
Considering the amount of painkillers he's getting, I'd say he really isn't giving a fuck.
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