58-year-old Eugene Rakow was building a deck for his Minnesota neighbour when he shot a three-inch nail into his heart.
He however has lived to tell the tale, reports the Huffington Post.
"I was leaning against a board with the gun," Rakow said, according to UPI.com "I had the gun at an angle, chest level, and it jumped and I still had my hand on the trigger. It impaled the nail in my chest."
Although the nail didn't hurt "that bad" at first, Rakow knew things weren't good when he could feel it "gurgle" and "crunch" a little.
Rakow was treated by Dr. Louis Louis, a heart surgeon at Abbott Northwestern hospital.
Louis said that if the nail had penetrated two millimeters further, it would have hit the coronary artery and Rakow would have died on the spot.
- OrangeNews
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