• @over_clox
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    114 months ago

    Damn, this ranks up there with Phineas Gage level badass survivor!

  • Toes♀
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    94 months ago

    The human body is impressive, he must have had a powerful immune system to survive the healing process for that.

    • @pageflight
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      114 months ago

      Wikipedia says

      Scalping was not in itself fatal, though it was most commonly inflicted on the gravely wounded or the dead.

      Still, one of many reasons I am glad to live in the time period and country I do. Though also a reminder of how close in our history America is to genocide:

      on August 8, 1722, Massachusetts put a bounty on native families, paying 100 pounds sterling for the scalps of male Indians aged 12 and over, and 50 pounds sterling for women and children.