The Associated Press reports: A man trying to climb a 12-foot,
wrought-iron fence into a Bad Boys of Rock concert in York,
Pennsylvania featuring the bands HINDER, PAPA ROACH and
BUCKCHERRY fell onto one of the inch-thick spikes, impaling his
thigh, then held on while rescuers worked to cut part of the fence
away.
The man drifted in and out of consciousness as firefighters used
hydraulic cutters to snap three of the spikes, but he was speaking
as rescuers loaded him into an ambulance about 45 minutes later,
said John Kottmyer, assistant chief of York fire and rescue
service.
"He had to actually try to hold himself up there," Kottmyer
said.
The man underwent surgery Wednesday night and was still
hospitalized Thursday, according to David Nichols, chief of the
West Manchester Township Fire Department. His identity was not
released; no police charges were filed.
The fence's sharp-ended spikes rise about 8 inches above a
horizontal bar, and when the man fell, one spike penetrated his leg
completely. Nichols said the rescuers could not have removed the
man from the fence.
"Medical protocol is you don't ... remove an impalement because it
may have severed an artery or nicked an artery and it could be
holding back that blood," Nichols said.
The man had a concert ticket, but officials said the group may have
jumped the fence to avoid the fair's $5 entry fee. His friends
jumped the fence safely.
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