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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
Insufficient. I want to hear from a cat who got shot in the head. Thats gotta smart like hell.
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Not sure that's true. There are (perversely) no nerve endings inside your brain, or very few of them, for pain experience. I don't think the head itself is particularly sensitive --- I've occasionally had tell someone they were bleeding from the head.
No shooting story to back this up, but how's about another head trauma? A woman (in her, say, 60s) always took the same train home that I did. One day, she wasn't there. Word got around that she'd been attacked. She was sitting on a bench waiting for the train when a deranged guy came up and started talking gibberish to her. She spoke kindly to him but somehow responded incorrectly (whatever; did you catch the part about him being deranged?), and he smacked her hard behind the right ear with his closed left fist and ran away. She staggered to a nearby business for help, and seemed confused, but her train came and she took off to catch it despite the business owner's offer to call the cops and/or ambulance, claiming she was "fine." She caught on the train and sat waiting for the conductor to punch her ticket. Conductor came up to her, started to ask for her ticket, and then found himself in the awkward once-in-a-lifetime situation of having to ask her, "Um, ma'am, do you realize you've got a pen sticking out of your skull?" Turns out, the guy's fist wasn't empty; a ballpoint Bic was lodged two inches into the base of her skull. No pain, and not much blood. The conductor called ahead to the next station for a trauma ambulence, and she had the pen removed with supposedly no permanent ill effects. When the rest of that train station crowd saw the posters with the guy's composite sketch, and heard the victim, in addition to being a 60-something woman, also happened to be a nun, we entertained a lot of fantasies about kicking his teeth in, mental illness or no. Never caught him, to my knowledge.
Not saying I'd volunteer for a head wound, but it probably isn't as painful as it is potentially deadly and/or debilitating.
