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Tis But a Flesh Wound

May 20, 2008 by Jack Steiner

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The Rebbitzen’s Husband tipped me off to this one:

“PROVO, Utah (AP) — A newspaper photographer got a little too close to the action at the state high school track championships — and was speared through the leg by a javelin.

Ryan McGeeney of the Standard-Examiner was spared serious injury Saturday, and even managed to snap a photo of his speared leg while others tended to him.

“If I didn’t, it would probably be my editor’s first question when I got back,” McGeeney said.

The 33-year-old McGeeney, an ex-Marine who spent six months in Afghanistan, was taking pictures of the discus event and apparently wandered into off-limits area set aside for the javelin.

Striking just below the knee, the javelin tip went through the skin and emerged on the other side of his leg.

“It wasn’t real painful. … I was very lucky in that it didn’t hit any blood vessels, nerves, ligaments or tendons,” McGeeney said.”

Best of line of the article goes to the coach who said:

“One of the first things that came to my mind was, ‘Good thing we brought a second javelin,”‘ Miles’ coach, Richard Vance, said Monday.

Can you feel the love.

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