Bamboo Stick Impales 13-Year-Old Playing Ninja

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Dez Heal, 13, of Lynchburg, Va., was rushed to the hospital with a bamboo stick impaled his neck.

Dez had been playing a Ninja game with friends and "decided to put the bamboo stick in the back of my shirt," he told ABC affiliate WSET-TV.

"I guess when he jumped, the stick must have went forward," Nicholas Blencowe, Dez's friend and Ninja partner, told the station. "And when he hit the ground, the stick went in his neck."

Squeemishly NSFW photo in link. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/bamboo-...ry?id=14116225