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Diving Accident Guys Head Split in Half on Ledge

This is one of the hot viral videos going around. It actually appeared on the Net around the third week of July 2009, but it only started going viral in a huge way around the second week of September 2009. In general, it never has a name. It first appeared on Arabic and Turkish sites and finally found its way around the Net.

It's referred to by some description of the event like Horrible Diving Accident, Bridge Fail, Worst Diving Accident, Horrific Diving Accident, Awesome Diving Accident, Disgusting Diving Accident, Jump Accident, Cellphone Horrific Diving Accident and Diving Accident. I named it Diving Accident Guys Head Split in Half on Ledge since I could not think of anything better.

A teenager, a 16 year old boy, dives off the seaside promenade in Beirut, Lebanon and slips before the dive. The slip causes him to miss the ocean and instead hit the concrete slab below where fishermen fish. He hits the concrete face first, then goes into the ocean. In a short while, the ocean for yards around has turned red with blood. There are people and boats in the water trying to help the guy, and girls are screaming all over the place.

HERE IS THE LINK TO THE VIDEO: http://soimgone.blogspot.com/2010/05/guys-head-split-in-half-on-ledge-jump.html

The scene then shifts to a hospital where the poor guy is being overseen by a team of doctors and nurses. His face has been split clear in two down the middle vertically! He is still alive, conscious and breathing, and his tongue is moving around. He appears terrified. The doctor takes the sides of his face and pushes them together a couple of times to make a whole face again. The doctor says, "Where do I begin?" a few times in Arabic.

People are wondering how he could survive such an injury, and the front part of his brain may indeed have been injured, but others are saying that it appears to be intact. At any rate, basic things like breathing are done by the brain stem. The brain stem does not appear to be injured. People are also wondering about pain. The brain has no pain receptors. On the other hand, the damage to his face must be very painful.

HERE IS THE LINK TO THE VIDEO: http://soimgone.blogspot.com/2010/05/guys-head-split-in-half-on-ledge-jump.html

This event occurred in Beirut in the second week of June 2009. The teenager and his brother were showing off their diving skills by diving off the Manara Promenade (photo), which is right across from the American University on the shore of Beirut's harbor. This part of the Promenade is called Al-Rawsha, and it's long been popular with divers, although officials have always frowned on it. Like the Golden Gate Bridge in San Fransisco, California, it's also long been popular with suicides and attempted suicides.

It's a long way off the Manara Promenade to the ocean, over 40 feet. The first part of the video shows his brother making a successful dive. The victim and his brother had made several jumps before, and everything had gone fine, but this time the victim slips and disaster unfolds. Possibly the frightening thing about this video's amateurishness is that it makes it seem so real (i.e. — it's not just a Hollywood movie!)

I was traumatized for several days after watching this thing, and I've watched a lot of nasty stuff.

Bad reactions to the video, including nausea, vomiting, dry heaves, paleness, goosebumps, shivering, shaking, spinal chills, sweating, headache, rapid heartbeat, anxiety, nightmares, sadness, crying, inability to stop thinking of the video and pain in the face, have been reported. Adverse reactions, some debilitating, have lasted up to two weeks. Please exercise caution in viewing the video.

HERE IS THE LINK TO THE VIDEO: http://soimgone.blogspot.com/2010/05/guys-head-split-in-half-on-ledge-jump.html

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Half of my face is numb after i went to the dentist and it's the second day. What do I do?

I went to a horrible dentist with shaky hands and he injected an anesthetic about 6 or more times before he drilled. However I still felt severe pain when he drilled my tooth. He slapped some silver filling mound but told me that he couldn't cover up the cavity completely. Then he sent me home like this and half of my face is still numb and it's the second day. What should i do? I'm panicking, please help.

You need to see another dentist to look the situation over and correct anything that isn't right. It even sounds like there has been some nerve damage from the injection. Good luck.

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