A 13-year-old girl scored and impressive, if unintentional, almost literal bullseye on her schoolmate, an 11-year-old boy, in a spot of recent archery practice. Miraculously, the boy survived the arrow burying itself deep into his brain and destroying his eye.
The accident occurred in archer practice at the school gym, when the girl pointed her bow at the boy and apparently accidentally loosed an arrow into him.
The arrow flew true, and entered his skull to a depth of 10cm by way of his eye-socket, apparently lodging in the very centre of his brain.
The unfortunate human target was immediately rushed to hospital, where he underwent emergency neurosurgery. Needless to say, he suffered some brain damage.
In spite of this grievous injury, doctors pronounced the operation a miraculous success, and the boy has regained consciousness and is said to be recuperating.
The girl responsible is said to have pointed the bow at him as a joke, but her hand slipped and her arrow found its mark. She joined the boy’s parents in a vigil over the boy whilst he was comatose. The boy’s family is poor and it appears the cost of treatment will burden them greatly all the same.
For its part, the school is cancelling archery practice and stressing to children the importance of safety.
Via Heaven.
You may recall the earlier almost identical case which occurred in Japan as opposed to China; if you were wondering how a child could possibly survive such an injury, it seems to be more common than one might think…
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tssk children shouldnt even be playing with bows and arrows. wtf man...
what an unfortunate kid... and what a BIATCH =p
This is basically the same as giving a class full of children rifles and and training them to shoot - these kind of accidents are all but inevitable.
I agree. I grew up in the US and we had archery practice as 6th graders, so basically a bunch of kids around 12 years-old strong enough to give arrows lethal force but still dumb enough to not realize these things aren't toys. Talk about an ago-old tradition steeped in FAIL.
Do you really think it's something you magically learn when you reach a certain age?
Anyway, yeah... they got this backwards. They should teach them what happens if there are accidents like this first and how to use them second.
did he bully her a lot to make her mad to do this?
Is that relevant? Why are the actions morally ambiguous when the offender is female?
wtf.... poor kid. he'll never get his vengeance. the girl will grow up to marry into wealth with an elderly aged man while he sits at home with brain damage trying hard to think and breaking apart mentally. he then goes insane, raping school children to relief himself of what's to come. afterward, he might read the manual to suicide and attempt one of those.
BITCH NEEDS TO BE FUCKED THATS WHAT!
FUCK YEAH
When I was a kid in Boy Scouts we had rifle marksmanship classes. There was also close supervision. The fail is on the instructor for not teaching respect for the weapon. more instruction with weapons would take some of the romance off of them an reduce accidents.
What needs to happens is when teaching children of any age, is to teach them extensively about the safety of using these weapons, show them what can happen when safety isn't followed, even if it's gruesome, and make sure they thoroughly understand to never ever point a weapon at a friendly (I wouldn't say never point at another person because what if you got a burglar/murder trying to break in or threaten your/loved ones life? Just teach them the difference on that I suppose.)
we didnt start archery till we were in high school >.< feels like i was missing out
Yes, archery lesson suppose to be teached at high school, not junior high.
luckily for the boy that he still breath in this world (;;^^)a
No kidding.
If those had been hunting tips on the arrow, his brain would've been frappe'd. ><
Haha, owned
Is that all you can say? Too bad that wasn't you.
Idiot
tool...
Lol how stupid can they be. You have to be 16 years old to use a soft air gun, but they allow 11 years old to use a real weapon lolz.
That little bitchs family better pay up good to the boys family.
Saw this a week ago in the papers here in the UK.
Meh no different to when we were doing athletics using javelins or shotputs, started that at 11 here over in UK, and yes there have been accidents. Someone who was 16 being an idiot and pretending to throw a javelin at someone, instead the javelin left the hand and hit the guys leg. Didn't ban athletics, the guy got suspended instead.
Age isn't much the problem here, it's the attitude for the activity. I mean what idiot would point an arrow as a joke on someone. This can be used as the very same argument as Violent Video games should be banned as kids will copy it, because they're kids, might aswell ban all knives for 14 yr olds then. Arhery isn't the problem, it was the indiviual girl. I did a bit of archery at 14, you didn't see me or others ending up on papers with an arrow through the head.
People who stress the point of being over 16 to learn archery are only saying it because that's what you think is the right age due to your culture. I can guarantee you even 16+ will have idiots doing stuff like that, probably more so at that age (actually there was a 16/17 yr old who acidentally hit someone with an arrow a while back in the UK...heh it was a girl aswell, was she the victim?...can't remember). I've seen kids with BB Guns under 16 using one more safely than 16+ who goes around shooting people with one. I'm not suggesting we should allow kids under 10 learning archery though, it does require a bit of strength.
It's wrong to use age as a proxy for maturity! Now watch as I use age as a proxy for physical strength.
Unlike maturity, strength is much easier to measure and observe, and lack of it is more of a cause of accidents rather than being an idiot. You wouldn't have a 10yr old lift a 85Kg fridge now would you, but you wouldn't mind letting them use a knife to cut food to eat or even let the them play with a stick right? Sure there are some really strong 10yr olds, but on average how many average 10yr olds can retain a bow and arrow for more than 10 seconds? If it's a mechanical bow with an automatic retention...maybe, but if not I highly doubt it; especially if the bow is not custom made to fit the physique of the average 10yr old. Honestly look at biological ageing, there is a consistency with strength and age. More so than maturity, since maturity does not have a real basis for when someone reaches maturity (mentally).
Maybe age as a proxy for strength was not the best of choice I admit and could of , and 'should' have, explained better, but it's still more valid than maturity. My main point still stands however. Strength/Physique is a more adequate measurement than a number that specify how old someone is, to participate in such an activity.
"You wouldn’t have a 10yr old lift a 85Kg fridge now would you…"
Well, Richard Sandrak was supposedly benching 90kg at age 8, but that's a unique case of "2nd-grade weight training."
Wow, I should really check the dates on these articles sometimes. >_<
Owww, thats gotta hurt. Still, all kinds of people are known to do dumb things with weapons, not entirely unexpected when you have a bunch of kids with lethal bow.
all for hilariously disturbing images, but how about putting those bad boys, you know, after the break?
GOD this is cruel, but that depends on what the boy did...somehow...
So is the bows and arrows going to be banned or what?
"I'm past 16 a long time ago and I still cant get hold of an airsoftgun before..."
There's moral justification for this?
I lol'ed in fear
Huh. I guess it's true, that children are more resilient to brain damage than adults. Who knows, maybe in ten years no one will be able to tell the difference... apart from the eyepatch or fake eyeball.
Also with regard to the age issue -- countries with conscription armies let 17 year olds handle assault rifles loaded with live ammunition. Yet most accidents occur due to something like overstress or fatigue and faulty procedure in e.g. mortar operation rather than jackasses.
Still, bloody stupid to be playing around with bow and arrow like that. Archery is a martial art, and its equipment are weapons that should be treated as such. Even if it's just "wooden swords" and "bamboo sticks", they still crack skulls and crush throats if people aren't careful.
After this that kid that shot this guy will have a guilty conscience and when they grow up she'll support him and be lovers at the end like an eroge. XD
Seriously though Kids shouldn't fool around with those, real life is different from anime, we either die or be left out injured losing a part of us if we get hit by carelessness of some people.
May this be a lesson.
The boy should take it out and eat it like Xiahou Dun lol
Aww poor little boy and girl. The boy is going to have trouble growing up and the girl will probably having guilty and why are they use real bow and arrow? In my school we fake.
I guess they never taught those kids the lessons we got when we learned to use guns (or bows): never point the business end at anyone you don't want to perforate.
Case in point above.
I wonder if he will later forgive that girl.....cuz I know I'd have some trouble doing so. He's lucky to be alive. I'm also surprised he didn't yank the arrow out of his face right away, unless it knocked him out.
"The boy’s family is poor and it appears the cost of treatment will burden them greatly all the same."
Question: does Japan, like the US, fail at nationalised health-care?
No, but we are talking about China here... Actually, Japan probably does fail, as its welfare system will go bankrupt in a few decades.
The issue of payment should reside within the camp of the offender.
While on the topic of national health care epic failures why not discuss the problems with cleanliness in NH Hospitals. Oh and that unfortunate incident of elderly dying in droves a few years back during France's "heat wave" (OH NOES IT WAS LIKE 85 OUT THERE).
Well usualy you don't aim dangerous stuff at people even if you have no munition or arrow.
Well girl messed up pretty bad there :P
Never understood the allure of archery anyway, especially in this day and age.
Buuuut then again, I've never understood the allure of "outside."
It's supposed to concentrate the mind, at least in Japan based on all those manga and hmangas.
Elsewhere it seems to be treated as a sport like soccer or shot-put.
Kyuudou, perhaps?
I don't think that girl needs anymore practice (x_0;)
Bet this kid dresses up as a pirate for Halloween EVERY YEAR!
10 cm into the brain and he still survives.
Kudos to medical science, and evolution for well built bodies. We're gonna own the aliens we meet.
The girl's family should foot a majority of the bill.
Children should NEVER be seen holding a weapon of any sort in any club activity (even if it is an Archery Club) without a supervisor. Some idiot is bound to disregard safety rules and go around pointing weapons at each other (because they think it is fun). While safety rules can be stressed, it is inevitable that they will be broken because the kids 'forgot' it or they gave in to 'playful nature' or 'mischief'.
Adults don't shoot each other.. ever
Poor kid indeed. In my school we don't even have archery club or training.
I felt bad for that boy. Getting shot in the right eye and permanmently losing his eye sight.
archery classes should be takken in high school, not elemantry school, who knows what kids might shoot next other than the targets with their febble arms to Pull the stings
I'd worry more about the brain damage. Eyes have some redundancy outside of depth.