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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You just don’t understand theatre.

Also...

I probably thought it would be uncool.

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

I think you made wrong part of the text bold.

[–] kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

What the fuck.

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

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

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 29 points 1 month ago

Et tu?

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

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

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

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

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

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

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month 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 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

that would be quite impressive.

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 11 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

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