A Waihi man was lucky not to lose "the old fella" after
stabbing himself in the groin with a bayonet while he was
trying to tidy up his hedges.
The 34-year-old man was airlifted to Waikato Hospital this
morning by the Westpac Waikato Air Ambulance. He had a deep
stab wound to his groin and was bleeding heavily when he was
picked up.
"It's just a case of a typical kiwi bloke finding the
sharpest thing he can to do something. He is lucky he didn't
lose the old fella really," pilot Dan Harcourt said.
The man had not been in a mood to talk when he had been
picked up so it was not clear exactly what happened, but he
was probably just swinging the bayonet around when things
went wrong and he caught himself, Mr Harcourt said.
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