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7 Comments on “Drummer in concert accidentally pop his eye out by drumstick”

1. Kumprinx
   June 27th, 2007 at 4:50 pm

   sheesh..
   that was the craziest thing i’ve seen this week.

2. Ryno
   July 25th, 2007 at 3:59 pm

   The title is incorrect. The xylophone player’s mallet broke, flipped up, and stuck in his cheek.

   No loss of eyeball.

   The thing hanging from his face is the broken mallet.

3. djstelios
   July 25th, 2007 at 7:47 pm

   @Ryno: Are you sure about this? The kid is still holding the mallet with his left hand, after the incident.
   On the other hand, if the mallet was simple broke and stuck in his cheek, why he didn’t just pull it out, instead of holding it?
   These questions was on my mind when I first saw this video.

4. Bonnie
   July 27th, 2007 at 12:18 am

   Definitely wasn’t the mallet, it was wiggling - but I’m not so sure it was an eye either.

5. djstelios
   July 28th, 2007 at 4:04 am

   @Bonnie: The basic reason I conclude it was the eye, is because the thing is hanging from the eye hole, till the eye? looks like an optical nerve and not a mallet. It’s thinner at the top. Also, it looks elastic and not solid as a mallet.

6. j
   August 10th, 2007 at 2:16 pm

   definitely was the mallet. The mallets used for those large drums are wooden with a large cloth covered end. When they break they split along the axis of the stick, leaving a tapered shard (thinner at the top) that can stick into anything… i’ve thrown many of these into ceiling tile.
   Watch the right hand… half the stick clearly remains in his hand, but it is missing the mallet end.

7. Hydro
   August 10th, 2007 at 10:33 pm

   It wasn’t his eyeball, You can clearly see that the drum part of the mallet was missing. Watch it and you will see. But it sure does look like his eye and it got me the first few times I watched it

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