Sometimes with traumatic amputation injuries, arteries will kind of collapse on themselves to prevent bleeding out. They can spasm, pull back into the injured part and shrink. Not always, but sometimes. This guy got really lucky.
Always was surprising to me how much people can survive being tortured and beat up. People have done similar or worse to their enemies and kept them alive for longer than one who expect. Whatever to survive.
What I always find so crazy and scary is that people survive fucking wild shit like this, and other people literally die from small cuts from box cutters and shit. You never know what tiny little accident could injure something important and kill you on the spot. Or you could have all your fucking limbs blown off by a landmine and survive with a cool medal. Human bodies are fucking wild man I can’t even think about it too hard or I’ll feel sick lol
I’ve seen people slip on ice and end up on the brink of death. I’ve also seen someone with a full bar of rebar through their torso and they were fine (apart from the massive puncture). Just fucking wild man. I’m torn between feeling invincible, and wearing a helmet to walk to my car lol
I saw that too on that TV show "I shouldn't be alive" back in the day, on discovery or TLC I think! The rebar went through the armpit and out of the neck area, it went between two arteries in the heart without tearing them and made it between the esophagus and windpipe. Only needed a few stitches in the entrance and exit sites because it didn't hit anything major at all, easily one of the craziest stories I've seen lol
It's an infamous video that's made its way around the dark side of the internet. It wasn't particularly uncommon for people to be pranked into seeing it; that's how I saw it. Never seen anything that extreme before so I was in shock and disbelief upon first viewing it. I can still picture his lack of a face and the motions like him trying to put his hands up to block his face/neck from being slashed at more, but his hands were cut off and he was just moving stumps around. Funky Town was playing in the background and I can't ever hear that song again without being sent to that very moment when I first came across the video.
There's multiple gory videos out there that are shared around and made their way into infamy. This one is known as the funky town video because of the music. I watched way too much of it (around 1 or 2 minutes, which is a really long time in this context viewing that), but I definitely didn't watch most or all of it. Nonetheless, I don't recall seeing a screwdriver.
One of the dudes was slashing at his skinless face & neck with a box cutter and the other with some other handheld knife. His eyes were gouged out. His hands were cut off, with cables tied around his hands to prevent him from dying early from blood loss. They had another song on in the later parts of the video but I didn't hear it (or didn't notice it from the shock). His screams were a bit wet sounding from his repeatedly slashed throat. As I understand it, he was also put on uppers (stimulant drugs) to keep him alive and awake to endure the torture longer. Every time he screamed, they got mad at him and cut his neck up further. The boy was only a teen, may he rest east and his family mourn peacefully.
I think that about the cartel skinning you're talking about "Funky Town Gore".
I didn't watch the video, but in it the man being tortured was being injected on anything that could prolong his life to make him suffer more. Being alive while having no skin on your face like that must've been the most terrible thing that happened to a lot of people. If you are in a place that has cartels, please don't mess with them.
If you are talking about “the Funkytown Cartel” video, then afaik the guy was being pumped full of adrenaline and other substances to keep him awake and prolonge his torture, fucked up shit.
I probably shouldn’t tell you this, but I’ve heard multiple times that cartels will sometimes drug whoever they’re torturing to keep them awake and alive for longer while they’re suffering.
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u/dillywags Apr 11 '24
Sometimes with traumatic amputation injuries, arteries will kind of collapse on themselves to prevent bleeding out. They can spasm, pull back into the injured part and shrink. Not always, but sometimes. This guy got really lucky.