There are precious few virtuous actions in this world which truly prove that someone is – in the parlance of the youth – a chill dude. One of these things is being incredibly mellow and considering it no big deal when a stick is impaling your goddamn head.
Meet Natty Hagood, a Wyoming ski instructor with a name which sounds like a new and particularly dank strain of hydroponically grown cannabis, who had a goddamn thick twig shoved through his bonce after he took a tumble into a tree while skiing. The full account is in the Idaho State Journal:
“I thought maybe my chinstrap got pushed up into my face, so I tried to brush it off and that’s when I felt the stick,” he said. “So, I shook left to right and saw the stick moving in my peripherals. I reached out and grabbed it and wiggled it before realizing it was pretty far in there.”That was when Hagood had his first aha-moment. He said, “Holy crap, I just got impaled. And then I yelled over to Pete, ‘Hey look I got a new piercing.’”Apparently, the incident occurred so quickly that Hagood experienced zero pain from the impalement, which left an 18-inch long timber branch gouged through one side of his lip and sticking out the other.
This pic illustrates the extent of the damage, with Hagood himself looking like some kind of mellow and chill Jesus figure with a twig poking out of his gob. Sad!
Despite his overall chillness about the lip/stick situation, Hagood was decidedly unchill about one particularly bothersome aspect of his unfortunate situation: the hospital bill. He set up a GoFundMe to help pay for the damage – as his deductible was $1250 to get the stick pulled out and the wound stitched up, because America completely sucks.
Well, he got it. Look at our hero:
Is all well? Not quite. “When I laugh, I have to hold the left side of my face down at this weird angle that makes me look like this crotchety old man,” he told the State Journal. “And I drool more than I used to.”
Very chill, though.
Source: Deadspin.
Photo: GoFundMe.
