The metal straw is preserved and remains a famous medical specimen at the Anatomy and Pathology Museum at UC San Francisco.
Pretty sure someone hallucinated this or there is another Phineas Gage I can’t find because this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage had a 3 foot iron tamping rod put through their skull by a powder charge.
I assumed it was a joke playing off of the actual gage?
Yes and no. The rod was actually a metal straw and the powder charge was actually a car traveling down I-80. Pretty common mistake.
The only reason this is documented so inaccurately is because everyone was too busy looking at the Kim Kardashian pic that broke the Internet and couldn’t open their camera app quickly enough to get it for the vine.
And there seems to be no “anatomy and pathology museum” in UCSF
meanwhile in uruguay :
They have to put up signs begging people to not bring mate on the bus, or to vaccinations, or paperwork at government buildings.
then NEXT TIME save my customisations properly.
TIL mate is to Uruguay what durian is to Thailand.
kinda? It’s more for your safety and to avoid having people with masks off in a congregation place during covid, or to avoid documents getting stuff spilt on them.
Imagine you’re sucking on a metal straw in a bus and it hits a bump, and you slip …
Yeah this didn’t happen.
But people do chip their teeth on metal straws, so it’s still a bad idea to use them in cars without those silicone bumpers.
ha, this post is a trap
Didn’t Mythbusters has an episode about if this was possible?
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