Student impaled scaling Fanshawe fence on walk home
Fanshawe's new fence was turned into a medieval torture device for one student who was just trying to get home from school.
While walking home from his Business Marketing class last Friday, third-year student Tom O'Brien decided to climb the fence, which stretches almost the entire circumference of the campus, rather than using the designated exit provided by the college.
After crews freed O'Brien from the fence, he was rushed to hospital to have reconstructive surgery. The 22-year-old is currently in stable condition at University Hospital and expected to stay under medical supervision until next week.
“He is doing alright, but he will have a nasty scar and will have to undergo speech therapy and extensive plastic surgery,” said Staple, who has visited O'Brien in the hospital.
“This is a tragic accident, but the fence was put there for a reason, to protect our students from high-risk security threats,” said Fanshawe's Public Relations representative Emma Marconi. “There is no way the college will take down the fence just to appease students.”
The controversial fence was erected in mid-February, during a bitter cold stretch, and added 10-to-15 minutes to a once convenient five-minute walk for students living in housing on the east side of Second Street.
It has been rumoured that the construction of the multi-km fence cost the college over half-a-million dollars.
Since the demolition of part of the fence on Second Street, hundreds of students have cut their walk-time to class in half by walking through the opening, making O'Brien a cult-like hero in Fanshawe's student ghetto area.
Marconi said the fence would be reconstructed by the end of the week in order to protect students and will remain erect until someone else gets impaled on the fence.
Disclaimer: Stories printed in the Fanshawe Distorter are in fact fictious. Any resemblance to persons real or dead is intentional and entirely hilarious. Proudly distorting the truth since 2005.
While walking home from his Business Marketing class last Friday, third-year student Tom O'Brien decided to climb the fence, which stretches almost the entire circumference of the campus, rather than using the designated exit provided by the college.
“He just wanted to get home to study for a mid-term,” explained Chris Staple, who was walking with O'Brien at the time. According to Staple, O'Brien made it three-quarters of the way up the six—foot fence when he slipped, impaling his chin on one of the sharp spike-like tips, which exited out his mouth.
According to others that were with O'Brien at the time of the tragic accident, local London emergency crews were called to the scene and arrived within five minutes. It took a team of firefighters over two hours to tear down the fence in order to save O'Brien.
After crews freed O'Brien from the fence, he was rushed to hospital to have reconstructive surgery. The 22-year-old is currently in stable condition at University Hospital and expected to stay under medical supervision until next week.
“He is doing alright, but he will have a nasty scar and will have to undergo speech therapy and extensive plastic surgery,” said Staple, who has visited O'Brien in the hospital.
“This is a tragic accident, but the fence was put there for a reason, to protect our students from high-risk security threats,” said Fanshawe's Public Relations representative Emma Marconi. “There is no way the college will take down the fence just to appease students.”
The controversial fence was erected in mid-February, during a bitter cold stretch, and added 10-to-15 minutes to a once convenient five-minute walk for students living in housing on the east side of Second Street.
It has been rumoured that the construction of the multi-km fence cost the college over half-a-million dollars.
Since the demolition of part of the fence on Second Street, hundreds of students have cut their walk-time to class in half by walking through the opening, making O'Brien a cult-like hero in Fanshawe's student ghetto area.
Marconi said the fence would be reconstructed by the end of the week in order to protect students and will remain erect until someone else gets impaled on the fence.
Disclaimer: Stories printed in the Fanshawe Distorter are in fact fictious. Any resemblance to persons real or dead is intentional and entirely hilarious. Proudly distorting the truth since 2005.
