He didn't sue, which was stupid. This was an easily preventable issue, with only the most basic sense of responsibility. The director of that show should have been fired, prosecuted, and sued. So should the school.

He has numbness in his leg to this day. He has a permanent injury due to incompetence and neglect by a wealthy University. THIS is exactly what lawsuits are for.

[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You just don’t understand theatre.

Also...

I probably thought it would be uncool.

[–] kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 95 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I have no recollection of the journey to the hospital. My clearest memory is being face down in a hospital bed, surrounded by doctors and nurses. I remember going into an MRI scan and giggling as they removed my nipple piercings. Looking back, it was clear I was in shock. It turns out the blade had gone 7.8cm deep in my back. It had partially severed a nerve in my spinal cord and missed my aorta by about a centimetre.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think you made wrong part of the text bold.

[–] kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I have no recollection of the journey to the hospital. My clearest memory is being face down in a hospital bed, surrounded by doctors and nurses. I remember going into an MRI scan and giggling as they removed my nipple piercings. Looking back, it was clear I was in shock. It turns out the blade had gone 7.8cm deep in my back. It had partially severed a nerve in my spinal cord and missed my aorta by about a centimetre.

Like this ?

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 61 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Dude, I refuse to accept that these are real people. Wanna know why? Every fake knife I've ever used on stage, I've tried to stab myself with. It's fun to push the knife into the handle, or bend the rubber blade.

I'd be looking for a murder charge, personally.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Uh, but there wasn't supposed to be prop knives on set at all?

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 42 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait wait wait.

I just read past the first few paragraphs, admittedly I skimmed.

These people used real knives because they wanted it to feel more real?

Sorry, murder charges are off the table — that's a fucking Darwin Award.

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

What the fuck.

[–] Whirlygirl9@kbin.melroy.org 47 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I have a lot of goddamned questions this article doesn't answer

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 29 points 3 months ago

Et tu?

[–] tuff_wizard@aussie.zone 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is peak drama kid. Why would it have to be sharp?

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Doesn't necessarily need to be sharp. Try hard enough and you can stab someone to death with a butter knife....or a spork

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If you're making/sharpening a spear, you actually only want to get it sharp as a butterknife. Any sharper and it has a good chance of cutting into bone and getting stuck.

And before you ask, I'm in medieval reenactment. Discussions like this pop up a lot

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago

And before you ask, I'm in medieval reenactment.

😉👉👉 That's what I'll tell anyone who asks

[–] Hagdos@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Really? How does it cut through leather, or even woolen clothing then?

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Spears don't cut by slicing, they come to a point and are used to thrust/pierce. You can do a lot of damage without being "sharp" when you push with hundreds of pounds of force into a tiny area on the scale of a single square millimeter.

[–] beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

George Carling said he could do it with just having really big hands.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean...if you can stab and kill a person with your hands and nothing else? Bravo

[–] beemikeoak@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 months ago

Oh I thought we could go off script and just do with what you have around.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

that would be quite impressive.

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did the other actor really not realise they actually stabbed the person? I can assume actually stabbing someone would feel a little different than fake stabbing someone

[–] Qwel@sopuli.xyz 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He surely did. He also knew that the knife was real and agreed to play with it. Likely the same kind of moron as the main protagonist :shrug:

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Freaking attempted murder in that case, fully aware of what they were doing.

[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is it still if they both knew what they were doing and consented?

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Yes of course it is. If someone tells you: murder me! And you do it. Is that murder? It is to me.