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[waterspyder]

Stayed a little longer at the satellite office than intended.
Didn't monitor beer intake very well.
My head remains wobbly.
I went to work anyway

My boss came out to me today under awful circumstances
It came up when he dropped by to tell me he would't be in to work for a bit. He told me he and his partner were in a car accident and his partner's face has been shattered from the airbag deployment. He's undergoing facial reconstruction surgery as I write. He's asked to look like Brad Pitt when they're done.

Sounds like his partner is a smartass too.

Comments

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Gah... from the airbag?! By "shattered," you mean more than just a broken nose and some scrapes, I'm guessing... something went way out of tolerance there!

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

No nose, all cartilage is shattered, broken forehead, cheeks and eye orbits.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Yikes... broken forehead is pretty incredible... that's a tough bone! From the sounds of it, fortunately no brain damage?

Your boss was uninjured in the same vehicle? Sounds like his partner wasn't wearing a seatbelt, or there was a serious design or production flaw in the airbag.

I do hope that they can put him back together okay!

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

Well, apparently he ahs short legs, so he sits a lot closer to the wheel than most people would, and the impact of the collision would also explain how it happened.

His partner was driving and decided to try and pass a slow-moving tractor. He was halfway past the tractor when he saw an oncoming vehicle and decided to brake and drop back behind the tractor. This would have worked fine, except the tractor braked too, so he couldn't drop back far enough, and the driver's side took almost all the damage from the head-on collision.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Ah. So we'll go with "serious design flaw." In hindsight, it seems obvious that the airbag should be tested for a seat occupant in all reasonable positions, i.e. all those allowed by the adjustment range of the seat.

Seeing as how I'm not too tall myself, this isn't exactly reassuring for me.

[corradus.livejournal.com]

I hope the reconstruction works out okay, smartass or not...nobody deserves mush for a face...

[thesheryl.livejournal.com]

When my face got smashed when I put it through that car windsield in '91 I asked to look like Brad Pitt too. They did a shitty job.

What I'm trying to say is that facial reconstruction can be very successful and it's not exactly major surgery. Good luck to him!

[waterspyder.livejournal.com]

It's mostly that he's scared and that the broken eye orbit is screwing with the ocular nerve. They both have positive expectations for this.

And hell, with his face broken, he's barely noticing he other sprains, bumps, scrapes and bruises.