Riding in Southern Mississippi once with a buddy and I came around a corner and he was slumped over his bike with a sharpened pine sapling trunk stuck about two feet out the back of his helmet. It was about one inch in diameter where it came out the back of his helmet between the helmet and his neck. It was still rooted on the other end. I didn't want to see what had happened. He ask for help so I knew he was still alive. Upon going around in front of him, I saw that it had entered the helmet just beside his left eye and scraped along the side of his head and then came out the back. Now he was trapped and could not get off his bike or even fall down. I removed his helmet to find only a scraped ear! Lucky rider!
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