Woman Shot by Harpoon

A woman, from Brazil, barely escape death by less than an inch after her husband accidentally shot her in the mouth this week. Her name is Elisanglea Borborema Rosa who is 28. She was in her kitchen on Monday night when her husband, who was handling a harpoon, shot her on accident. When the gun misfired the spear struck her in the mouth and jaw and got stuck in her cervical spine. She was taken to a nearby hospital and the doctors pronounced that she would make a full recovery. A doctor has said that she is moving both sides of her body but it have a difficult time moving the right side. It is not the first recorded harpoon accident in the state this year. Bruno Barcellos, 34, was cleaning his harpoon last month and pierced the corner of his left eye and his skull. The doctors were able to remove it without any bran damage. And when he was brought into the hospital he was conscious and alert after his four hour surgery.

 

I think it’s kind of strange that nowhere in the article it right out said where this incident occurred. It said that she was a Brazilian women but I don’t know that doesn’t exactly mean that the incident occurred in Brazil and its stage that they never gave an exact location of where it happened like most news reports do. I also can’t help but think of whales when I see this article. Because aren’t harpoons used to capture whales or something? I guess I’ll never really know the answer unless if I really wanted to just Google it. WC 274

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/09/world/americas/brazil-harpoon-wife/index.html?c=world