Doctors
at Portland University Hospital said an Oregon man shot through the skull by a
hunting arrow is lucky to be alive and will be released soon from the hospital.
Tony
Roberts, 25, lost his right eye last weekend during an initiation into a men's
rafting club, Mountain Men Anonymous (probably known now as Stupid Mountain Men
Anonymous) in Grant's Pass, Oregon. A friend tried to shoot a beer can off his
head, but the arrow entered Robert's right eye. Doctors said that had the arrow
gone 1 millimeter to the left, a major blood vessel would have been cut and
Roberts would have died instantly.
Neurosurgeon
Doctor Johnny Delashaw at the University Hospital in Portland said the arrow
went through 8 to 10 inches of brain with the tip protruding at the rear of his
skull, yet somehow managed to miss all major blood vessels. Delashaw also said
that had Roberts tried to pull the arrow out on his own he surely would have
killed himself.
Roberts
admitted afterwards that he and his friends had been drinking that afternoon