Point / Counterpoint: Photographing Track and Field

Point: Photographers should get close to the action to capture the spirit and the emotion of the event.

Counterpoint: Fucking javelin in the leg.

Ouch.  E.T. phone an ambulance.

PROVO, Utah - A newspaper photographer got a little too close to the action at the state high school track championships — and was speared through the leg by a javelin.

Ryan McGeeney of the Standard-Examiner was spared serious injury Saturday, and even managed to snap a photo of his speared leg while others tended to him.

“If I didn’t, it would probably be my editor’s first question when I got back,” McGeeney said.

This is one of those situations where the photographer probably feels oddly fortunate.  A javelin caught with the brainpan probably wouldn’t have ended so well.

The Carpenters:

104 Comments

  1. Comment by forged rite on May 27, 2008 6:45 pm

    FFFFFFFFFFFFIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    video won’t play

  2. Comment by forged rite on May 27, 2008 6:52 pm

    While we’re waiting for Rosetta to fix the video, here’s some interesting trivia. Youtube commentors are usually the biggest dipshits on the net, but according to one of the dipshits, the kid in this video later became the singer for this band. I couldn’t find anything to confirm it other than the fact they’re both from Canada. What do you think?

  3. Comment by Rosetta on May 27, 2008 6:54 pm

    Arg! I hate when those faggots don’t let you embed their videos.

    It’s an OUTRAGE I tell you!!!

  4. Comment by MCPO Airdale on May 27, 2008 6:57 pm

    Wow, that video was really. . .What? Really? Yeah! It sucks it didn’t load!

  5. Comment by Rosetta on May 27, 2008 6:57 pm

    The Carpenters to the rescue.

  6. Comment by pajama momma on May 27, 2008 6:59 pm

    She has extremely pointy breastages

  7. Comment by forgedwingriteplover on May 27, 2008 7:01 pm

    Karen Carpenter IS dead because she didn’t LIKE BURRITOS!

  8. Comment by BrewFan on May 27, 2008 7:01 pm

    Just think, if Mama Cass had given Karen her ham sandwich they might both be here today…

  9. Comment by MCPO Airdale on May 27, 2008 7:03 pm

    Yeah, it’s all fun & games ’til somebody loses an eye on one of those things.

  10. Comment by Will on May 27, 2008 7:03 pm

    Keyboardist needs to trim his damned nails.

  11. Comment by Bart on May 27, 2008 7:59 pm

    lol at this new FAIL pic:

    http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/3491/jailfailrv2.jpg

  12. Comment by Bart on May 27, 2008 8:30 pm

    :(

  13. Comment by Rosetta on May 27, 2008 8:39 pm

    Bart’s new FAIL pic?

  14. Comment by MCPO Airdale on May 27, 2008 8:43 pm

    Bart - Not only was that weak but, I think I saw it in “Hustler” in ‘77.

  15. Comment by Rosetta on May 27, 2008 8:52 pm

    Not only was that weak but, I think I saw it in “Hustler” “Blueboy” in ‘77.

    Fixed that for you.

    MCPO Airdale with the ladies?

  16. Comment by pajama momma on May 27, 2008 8:54 pm

    Hey! I thought bart’s link was funny. It made me think of that one guy.

  17. Comment by wiserbud on May 27, 2008 8:58 pm

    Hey! I thought bart’s link was funny.

    Your desperate need to be liked by absolutely everyone is one of your least attractive features, ya know?

  18. Comment by pajama momma on May 27, 2008 9:01 pm

    You’re such a bitch wiserbud. How’s that?

  19. Comment by wiserbud on May 27, 2008 9:03 pm

    you know what I like, don’t you?

  20. Comment by forged rite on May 27, 2008 9:04 pm

    My least attractive feature is my huge hairy ass. Although, standing outside with my pants down while my dingleberries waft in the breeze is a pleasant way to pass the time.

  21. Comment by pajama momma on May 27, 2008 9:04 pm

    you know what I like, don’t you?

    You like young Thai boys?

  22. Comment by Rosetta on May 27, 2008 9:05 pm

    pajama momma, shhhhhhhhhhhh.

    Men are talking.

  23. Comment by wiserbud on May 27, 2008 9:06 pm

    Sorry, you’ve obviously got me confused with another, larger, more important blogger.

  24. Comment by pajama momma on May 27, 2008 9:07 pm

    pajama momma, shhhhhhhhhhhh.

    Men are talking.

    You be nice or I’ll hold my breath till I turn blue!

  25. Comment by wiserbud on May 27, 2008 9:09 pm

    I’ll hold my breath till I turn blue!

    With those scuba tanks your packing on your chest, I’m figuring that will be sometime around Halloween.

  26. Comment by pajama momma on May 27, 2008 9:11 pm

    Ah, I see, I”m dealing with “feistybud” tonight huh?

  27. Comment by wiserbud on May 27, 2008 9:12 pm

    you really haven’t been paying attention lately, have you?

  28. Comment by MCPO Airdale on May 27, 2008 9:13 pm

    Rosetta - I can assure you that my failings with the ladies is a disappointment. Sort of like when you couldn’t remember all of the words to “Annie” at your weekly meeting of the “He-man Women Haters Club.”

  29. Comment by pajama momma on May 27, 2008 9:14 pm

    Well, I’ve seen an awful lot of “boringbud” but your old self is back huh?

  30. Comment by mesablue on May 27, 2008 9:14 pm

    simma down na

  31. Comment by pajama momma on May 27, 2008 9:15 pm

    shhhhhhh, I wanted people to think I’d offed you. You ruined it.

  32. Comment by MCPO Airdale on May 27, 2008 9:18 pm

    mesa - You escaped! Hooray!

  33. Comment by pajama momma on May 27, 2008 9:18 pm

    I’m very upset about that MCPO

  34. Comment by mesablue on May 27, 2008 9:19 pm

    Yeah, I got home a little while ago and there is a frost warning here tonight.

    Stupid Michigan.

  35. Comment by pajama momma on May 27, 2008 9:20 pm

    Oh mesa, it’s CCNP

  36. Comment by mesablue on May 27, 2008 9:20 pm

    This is here this weekend, though –

    http://www.redbullairrace.com/

    Pretty nuts

  37. Comment by mesablue on May 27, 2008 9:22 pm

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=ntVBN0W3fpA

    Don’t know why they’d come here.

  38. Comment by forged rite on May 27, 2008 9:24 pm

    Here’s what’s coming to Texas.

  39. Comment by mesablue on May 27, 2008 9:24 pm

    Wow — http://youtube.com/watch?v=w8Fjsc90364&feature=related

  40. Comment by pajama momma on May 27, 2008 9:26 pm

    Here’s what’s coming to Texas.

    HAHAHAHAHAHA!

  41. Comment by pajama momma on May 27, 2008 9:28 pm

    Wow — http://youtube.com/watch?v=w8Fjsc90364&feature=related

    I would puke. I can’t hardly handle a park swing anymore.

  42. Comment by MCPO Airdale on May 27, 2008 9:34 pm

    Must have been a fighter pilot. It takes a lot of training to be able to take 9.6 Gs without passing out.

  43. Comment by Bart on May 27, 2008 10:10 pm

    you know whats?

    I don’t think any of “got” it.

  44. Comment by pajama momma on May 27, 2008 10:13 pm

    I sure as heck don’t get what you just said.

  45. Comment by Rosetta on May 27, 2008 10:19 pm

    Bart’s high on crack again.

  46. Comment by MCPO Airdale on May 27, 2008 10:20 pm

    Huh?

  47. Comment by Rosetta on May 27, 2008 10:27 pm

    Who’s turn is it to replace MCPO’s hearing aid battery?

    pajama momma, you’re up.

  48. Comment by pajama momma on May 27, 2008 10:27 pm

    It’s always me. NO FAIR!!!!!!!!!!

  49. Comment by Rosetta on May 27, 2008 10:30 pm

    FAIR!!!!!!

  50. Comment by pajama momma on May 27, 2008 10:31 pm

    Um, NO!!! No fair.

    Ok nevermind. I’ll turn up his hearing aids, but it’s your turn for Depends duty

  51. Comment by forged rite on May 27, 2008 10:31 pm

    NAIR!

  52. Comment by MCPO Airdale on May 27, 2008 10:35 pm

    Rosetta - Don’t forget the powder! Diaper rash would be hard to explain.

  53. Comment by wiserbud on May 27, 2008 10:36 pm

    BLAIR!

  54. Comment by nicedeb on May 27, 2008 10:37 pm

    Stop linking to youtube videos. My new laptop (my hubby bought me for my *blogiversary*) doesn’t seem to want to include the audio on videos. It’s very frustrating.

    Anyhoo, has Rosetta covered the killer nipple cream story, yet?

  55. Comment by wiserbud on May 27, 2008 10:37 pm

    methinks MC3PO is just a little too turned on by this whole concept.

  56. Comment by forged rite on May 27, 2008 10:40 pm

    BLAIR!

    bwahahahahahahhaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Mullet Man!

  57. Comment by forged rite on May 27, 2008 10:42 pm

    My new laptop (my hubby bought me for my *blogiversary*) doesn’t seem to want to include the audio on videos.

    Turn the volume on.

  58. Comment by pajama momma on May 27, 2008 10:45 pm

    Well I want to hear about the killer nipple cream even if nobody else does. Might come in handy one of these days.

    *makes sure life ins. policy is still in affect

  59. Comment by wiserbud on May 27, 2008 10:48 pm

    good thing that date with mesa was last week.

  60. Comment by MCPO Airdale on May 27, 2008 10:49 pm

    Wiser - It ain’t Friday night at the VFW but, it will do. . .

  61. Comment by pajama momma on May 27, 2008 10:49 pm

    good thing that date with mesa was last week.

    I don’t have a life ins. policy on him……………….yet

  62. Comment by Muslihoon on May 27, 2008 10:59 pm

    You be nice or I’ll hold my breath till I turn blue!

    Womanly drama reminds me of Alanis’s remake of Fergie’s Lady Lumps song:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W91sqAs-_-g

  63. Comment by Bart on May 27, 2008 11:00 pm

    the FAIL pic…

    the guy was digging a tunnel…

    into poo.

  64. Comment by pajama momma on May 27, 2008 11:05 pm

    It was cute bart. It made me think of Gary Larson. I like him

  65. Comment by MCPO Airdale on May 27, 2008 11:07 pm

    “You don’t want no drama. . .”

  66. Comment by Bart on May 27, 2008 11:08 pm

    well of course you got it, peej.

    it was potty humor, after all. i know we connect on that level.

    *points to eyes with two fingers and then points to peejay’s eyes and then taps chest and then points to peejay again*

    you feelin me?

  67. Comment by wiserbud on May 27, 2008 11:09 pm

    Yeah, we get it Bart. Really, we do.

    Maybe it just wasn’t funny?

  68. Comment by Bart on May 27, 2008 11:14 pm

    u mad?

  69. Comment by wiserbud on May 27, 2008 11:17 pm

    at you? Never.

  70. Comment by Muslihoon on May 27, 2008 11:18 pm

    Feisty’s just jealous, that’s all.

  71. Comment by pajama momma on May 27, 2008 11:18 pm

    I liked it. Curse you all

  72. Comment by pajama momma on May 27, 2008 11:19 pm

    Feisty’s just jealous, that’s all.

    that’s feistybud to you

  73. Comment by Muslihoon on May 27, 2008 11:20 pm

    Mea culpa.

    Mr. Feistybud, Esq., is just jealous, that’s all.

  74. Comment by wiserbud on May 27, 2008 11:23 pm

    Thank you, Muslihoon. This will go quite far towards reducing the astronomical level of animosity most here feel towards you.

  75. Comment by nicedeb on May 28, 2008 12:15 am

    I only feel a small amount of animosity towards Muslihoon. Not astronomical at all.

    And since you’re all begging…I *may* do th nipple cream story here. Maybe. If I feel like it.

  76. Comment by forged rite on May 28, 2008 2:00 am

    Guess i’ll do some overnight muzak while we’re waiting for the homicidal nipple jizz post. Here’s a couple of songs that i remember really liking when they came out, but i listen to them now and they just don’t seem as good as i remember. Guess they’re allright though.

  77. Comment by forged rite on May 28, 2008 2:19 am

    Ahhhh, here we go. When’s the last time you heard these songs?

  78. Comment by forged rite on May 28, 2008 2:45 am

    Bet you haven’t heard this in a while either.

  79. Comment by forged rite on May 28, 2008 2:57 am

    Woohoo! Needs more gopher though.

  80. Comment by forged rite on May 28, 2008 3:05 am

    Another band you don’t hear anymore. And i’ll bet you’ve never heard this song.

  81. Comment by forged rite on May 28, 2008 3:08 am

    This one has better sound.

  82. Comment by forged rite on May 28, 2008 3:15 am

    Oh yeah, i still think this chick is hot.

  83. Comment by forged rite on May 28, 2008 3:20 am

    There should be a law mandating that all women must dress like the chick in this video.

  84. Comment by forged rite on May 28, 2008 3:23 am

    80’s metal, now with 90% more boobies!

  85. Comment by forged rite on May 28, 2008 3:26 am

    My domination of recent comments is now complete and i’m youtubed out.

  86. Comment by forged rite on May 28, 2008 4:00 am

    Woohoo!

    Heh

  87. Comment by forged rite on May 28, 2008 4:03 am

    Awww, wordpress finally put me in the spam bucket. Won’t stop me though.

    Woohoo!

    heh

  88. Comment by forged rite on May 28, 2008 4:05 am

    It’s fun to look at the mugshot while listening to the song.

  89. Comment by Bart on May 28, 2008 5:13 am

    Give me an R

    R!

    O, O!

    C, C!

    K, K!

    Whatcha gonna do?

    ROCK YOU!!!!!!!

  90. Comment by mesablue on May 28, 2008 10:35 am

    What a disgusting collection of horrible hair band, faux metal.

    Ugh.

    That Whale band was kind of funny, though. Hobo humping slobo babe — that has kind of a ring to it.

  91. Comment by mesablue on May 28, 2008 10:38 am

    Much better — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aatjerFCRP8

  92. Comment by mesablue on May 28, 2008 10:42 am

    Heh — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TehFZ38kt6o

  93. Comment by mesablue on May 28, 2008 10:47 am

    For all the Barts out there — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZnqQtE-bj0&feature=related

  94. Comment by pajama momma on May 28, 2008 10:47 am

    Heh — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TehFZ38kt6o

    They ruined my song.

  95. Comment by mesablue on May 28, 2008 10:48 am

    3

    4

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsZOVJ40Q6w

  96. Comment by mesablue on May 28, 2008 10:55 am

    Only Ian Hunter could get Bowie to sing backup — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRIWI8kTbjM&feature=related

  97. Comment by mesablue on May 28, 2008 11:00 am

    Bowie was a freak — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueUOTImKp0k&feature=related

  98. Comment by mesablue on May 28, 2008 11:07 am

    Best 30 minute song ever — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjjJnTASSfU

  99. Comment by pajama momma on May 28, 2008 11:13 am

    This is who’s doing my tummy tuck next Thursday.

    I’m scared.

  100. Comment by MCPO Airdale on May 28, 2008 11:17 am

    Mesa - Life On Mars. Excellent but under-rated tune IMHO.

  101. Comment by mesablue on May 28, 2008 11:31 am

    Here you go MC — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxCj2MO02AE&feature=related

  102. Comment by MCPO Airdale on May 28, 2008 11:34 am

    Hey - I saw a bass and a mandolin in there too! Great get, Mesa!

  103. Comment by mesablue on May 28, 2008 11:35 am

    Wow, anyone remember this?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC-QFAOiHzI

    Great use of a Warr guitar, as well.

  104. Comment by Robert on May 28, 2008 1:43 pm

    Rosetta umm..hehe..you got mentioned :) I couldnt resist :)

    http://azresident.mee.nu/for_tasha

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