PASSADUMKEAG, Maine — A Monson man who decided to go fishing on the Passadumkeag River on Sunday morning got stuck when he took a wrong step and broke his leg, Fire Chief Brent Faloon said Monday.
“This gentleman had decided to go on foot fishing and got nearly a quarter of a mile away from the road” when he broke his leg, the fire chief said. “To get him out we [sent] the boat from Old Town” fire department.
The 63-year-old Monson man, who was not identified, broke his leg just before 11 a.m. Sunday.
“He just misstepped, I guess,” Faloon said. “Passadumkeag fire EMT Nick Rossignol hiked in and splinted the guy’s leg and I went in when the boat got there.
“He was taken to Lincoln and later transferred to Bangor,” he said, referring to Penobscot Valley Hospital in Lincoln and Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. “He broke both the tibia and his fibula.”
How badly was the gentleman hurt before the EMT splintered his leg?
Hopefully, the EMT did not splinter the leg, but rather splinted it.
This is news? I cracked some ribs a few weeks ago. Didnt see a write-up about that
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Apparently, the BDN does little, if any, copy editing. Perhaps they should look into SpellCheck?
Then again, maybe Mr. Ricker was accurately quoting Brent “Gran” Faloon (see Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.)
The editor is way too busy checking our stories, then the BDN.
The story’s been up since before noon and it still says “splintered”; then some guy posted a comment they didn’t like, and it’s been removed.
Careful, or you may get banned….
sstarting to wonder if they do this on purpose just to drive traffic and sell ads who could be this bad at proof
Wonder how long he was there before they got him? Wonder how anybody knew he was in trouble, and where he was? Wonder if the blackflies, skeeters, and deer flies was bad? Lots of wonderin’ – bet they could do a follow-up and a book, maybe a movie……