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Originally posted by pope04@Mar 24 2005, 11:25 PM
According to my wife, a registered nurse with seventeen years experience, the video is real. I was once playing touch football in the street, and I fell onto a parked car, snapping off the antenna. The broken antenna tore a furrow in my arm like you wouldn't believe. It took 10-15 seconds for the blood to pour.
In the video, I think the fact that the scissors remained impaled in the guy's arm helped to staunch the flow of blood, too.
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I believe it. I actually once cut myself with a fish filleting knike. It was so deep that you could look in and see the muscle tissue, yet there was no blood right away - and that was a cut. When I took first aid, they told our class that sometimes capillaries constrict blood flow at the site of a wound.
I also remember in grade 9 how a kid in shop class cut his findger off an went into shock. He put up his hand and waited patiently to tell the teacher his problem. When shock sets in, it's odd how people don't look like they are in pain.