Man climbing fence at Pa. fair impaled, hospitalized
YORK, Pa. (AP) -- A man trying to enter a rock concert at a fair impaled his thigh on a wrought-iron fence and underwent surgery to have a two-foot section of fence removed from his leg. Aaron C. Fry, 19, of Washington Borough, Lancaster County, used both hands to steady himself atop the fence, 12 feet in the air, for 45 minutes Wednesday evening, until crews working on ladder trucks and a fork lift could cut the fence and lower him to the ground. "He had to actually try to hold himself up there," said John Kottmyer, assistant chief of York's city fire and rescue service. Rescuers could not remove Fry from the fence because doing so could have risked serious blood loss or death, said David Nichols, chief of the West Manchester Township Fire Department. "Medical protocol is you don't ... remove an impalement because it may have severed an artery or nicked an artery and it could be holding that back that blood," Nichols said. Nichols said the man underwent surgery Wednesday night at York Hospital and was reported in stable condition on Thursday. No police charges were filed. Blood spattered the sidewalk below the fence. Fry drifted in and out of consciousness as firefighters used hydraulic cutters to snap three one-inch-thick iron rods, but was speaking as rescuers loaded him into an ambulance, Kottmyer said. York Fair vice president Gene Schenck said the man and several friends were headed to the Bad Boys of Rock concert featuring the bands Hinder, Papa Roach and Buckcherry. The man had a ticket to the concert, but he may have been jumping the fence to avoid paying the $5 fair entry fee or walking to a gate farther down the block, officials said. Fry's friends went first, making it safely over, but he fell as he was jumping the fence and impaled his left thigh on a piece of metal Nichols said could have been as long as eight inches. An off-duty firefighter working at the fair as a security officer saw the man's friends and several others trying to lift him off the fence and stopped them, Kottmyer said. "That's human nature, but that would have been the wrong thing to do," Kottmyer said.
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