"I think my face might be broken."
May 3, 2011 8:28 AM Subscribe
In 9/2010, Carmen Gentile was hit in the face by an RPG while reporting in eastern Afghanistan. He's a (fb) friend of mine from my home town. This is a pretty remarkable bit of footage. Carmen's website is here. A story about the incident is here.
This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm glad Carmen's okay and it must have been a heck of an experience, but linking to your friends' stuff is pretty firmly against the rules here and needs to not happen. -- cortex
Pushing the web site of a friend seems borderline against the rules, don't it?
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 8:35 AM on May 3, 2011 [1 favorite]
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 8:35 AM on May 3, 2011 [1 favorite]
Pushing the web site of a friend seems borderline against the rules, don't it?
When the friend gets shot in the face by a rpg and lives maybe we make an exception?
posted by greasy_skillet at 8:39 AM on May 3, 2011 [1 favorite]
When the friend gets shot in the face by a rpg and lives maybe we make an exception?
posted by greasy_skillet at 8:39 AM on May 3, 2011 [1 favorite]
Maybe discussion about the the "friend" issue should go to Meta, eh?
posted by tomswift at 8:41 AM on May 3, 2011
posted by tomswift at 8:41 AM on May 3, 2011
I'm FaceBook friends with a capybara. The threshold to be FaceBook friends is set pretty low.
posted by Daddy-O at 8:44 AM on May 3, 2011 [7 favorites]
posted by Daddy-O at 8:44 AM on May 3, 2011 [7 favorites]
Ouch! That sucks.
Hopefully we can pull all our soldiers out of that country and bring them home. The war should be over.
posted by kuatto at 8:46 AM on May 3, 2011
Hopefully we can pull all our soldiers out of that country and bring them home. The war should be over.
posted by kuatto at 8:46 AM on May 3, 2011
Aw geez, that sounds very scary indeed. It's good to be reminded that journalists also risk much when documenting conflict.
posted by kinnakeet at 8:49 AM on May 3, 2011
posted by kinnakeet at 8:49 AM on May 3, 2011
That video was unreal. The parts where the helmet cam was still rolling, and you could tell he was being dragged off, the fade in/fade out to black... Is it bad that my first reaction was Wow, this is just like that part in Half-Life: Opposing Force.
posted by xedrik at 8:52 AM on May 3, 2011
posted by xedrik at 8:52 AM on May 3, 2011
I was going to perform the public service of providing a time-based link to skip the tedious beginning 2 or 3 minutes, and skip directly to the part where the action is. But there IS no part where the action is. The attack itself is blank video, a black screen. Then the camera sits on the ground for ages. All you see is the ground and then shaky video of the seats of a Stryker vehicle when they toss him in.
There is nothing in this video. The guy got grazed by a round and received minor injuries. What makes this important, out of all the other casualties in Afghanistan, other than that he's your "fb" friend? I hope that means Facebook, and not the other meaning. This incident wouldn't even have come to public attention, except that the guy's a reporter, and is using this as self-promotion.
I remind you that there were 52 soldiers killed in Afghanistan during April 2011. Why are we hearing about this guy, instead of them?
posted by charlie don't surf at 8:58 AM on May 3, 2011 [1 favorite]
There is nothing in this video. The guy got grazed by a round and received minor injuries. What makes this important, out of all the other casualties in Afghanistan, other than that he's your "fb" friend? I hope that means Facebook, and not the other meaning. This incident wouldn't even have come to public attention, except that the guy's a reporter, and is using this as self-promotion.
I remind you that there were 52 soldiers killed in Afghanistan during April 2011. Why are we hearing about this guy, instead of them?
posted by charlie don't surf at 8:58 AM on May 3, 2011 [1 favorite]
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