I Was Impaled

3.4 IMDb 6.8 (11) Sep 2012

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Overview

From fence posts and refrigerator magnets to surf boards and garden shears, `I Was Impaled' tells incredible true tales of people from around the world who have accidentally ended up with foreign objects in their bodies. Each story is brought to life by first-person testimony and CGI reconstruction, starting from the discovery of the injury to the groundbreaking medical treatment. It describes in detail how the dangerous, bizarre object entered the body, how it affected organs and influenced behaviour, and why the matter was often inches away from causing death.

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Don’t Pull It Out!

A woman is impaled on an iron spike; a man spears his friend on a fishing trip; an elderly gardener's shears are lodged in his eye.

Sep 7, 2012 42m

Danger Outside

A man is impaled on a fence post; a farmer has an object lodged in his brain; a woman is skewered on a hooked pole when she feeds the birds.

Sep 14, 2012 42m

Unwanted Guests

A woman gets a Christmas tree imbedded in her neck; a boy out fishing almost chokes on a barb; a man is filled with enough air to fill 1000 balloons; learn how they survived.

Sep 14, 2012 42m

Lethal Pursuits

A look at sporting heroes and heroines whose encounters with body invaders have led to near-fatal experiences.

Sep 28, 2012 42m

The Enemy Within

A man gets a wire embedded in his heart; three year old swallows magnets; woman has pencil in her brain; man has a five centimeter splinter removed from eye.

Oct 5, 2012 42m

Great and Small

A car accident leaves a pole penetrating a man's mouth and neck, a man accidentally eats a sewing needle, a 75-year-old man finds out he has had a nail in his face.

Oct 12, 2012 42m

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