Lawn mower shoots metal fence wire into Gulfport man's head

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GULFPORT -- Bill Parker's "Sunday fun day" came dangerously close to tragedy after a lawn mower propelled a 3½-inch metal fence wire up his nose and into his head.

He didn't know what hit him.

"At first I thought a rock had flew out and hit me and struck me in the face," Parker, 34, said Wednesday. "It threw me back a little bit and it hurt real bad. I felt my face but I didn't feel any disfiguring or anything.

"I saw blood, so I knew I got a bloody nose."

After about 10 to 15 minutes of considering the injury, which he thought might be a broken cheekbone, he and his fiancée, Katie Heggins, decided it was best to go to a hospital.

"At first I thought it would be an in-out thing and they'd give me some aspirin and tell me to sleep it off," Parker said. "They started hooking things up to me, like an IV and heart monitor, and I started realizing things

were getting a little more serious."

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