York Impalee In Stable Condition; Papa Roach’s Career Critical

Let’s take a moment to look back in on our friend from the Papa Roach concert in York. As you may remember, 19-year-old Aaron Fry was attempting to jump over a fence to get to the concert; unfortunately, he missed and impaled himself on said fence.

This sounds rather not serious, but firefighters had to cut him off fence with four feet of fence still attached to his leg in order to get him to surgery. (He’s currently in stable condition.) And apparently his unfortunate incident was the talk of the fairgrounds the following day, meaning that accidental impalings are more interesting than pig races or the world’s largest kumquat.

Neither the cops nor the fair owners want to press charges against the kid, who despite attempting to sneak into the fair had a ticket to it. He and his friends just wanted to take a shortcut to save themselves from walking one block to the nearest entrance. Apparently the firefighters did an excellent job, especially since they had never really encountered a dude with a giant fence in his leg before.

“We’ve all been young and done foolish things,” [York Fair VP Gene] Schenck said Thursday. “The irony is there are easier fences around the fairgrounds to jump.” That’s not ironic, it’s just coincidental. (Or stupid.) I think.

No need for man to jump [York Daily Record]
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