French train attack hero Spencer Stone 'repeatedly stabbed'

[GennGreymane]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...y-stabbed.html

A US airman who foiled a terrorist attack on a train in Belgium in August has been stabbed while protecting a friend.
Spencer Stone, 25, was in a stable condition in hospital after the incident which happened in Sacramento, California at 12.45am.
Officials said he was stabbed at a bar near Travis Air Force Base where he is stationed.

Stone was reportedly stabbed four times in the chest. According to one report he was stabbed in the heart and lung.
A police spokesman in Sacramento said: "It is believed that the victim was out with a group of friends when a physical altercation led to the victim being stabbed multiple times in his upper body.

In a statement the the US Air Force said: "He is alive and in stable condition at this time. We do not have any information as to the events preceding the incident."

An Air Force spokesman added: "He has been transported to a local hospital and is currently being treated for injury. The incident is currently under investigation by local law enforcement."
According to a local television station the victim suffered "multiple stab wounds to the torso".
Update: The assault incident is not related to a terrorist act. Assault occurred near a bar, alcohol is believed to be a factor.

Police initially did not think he would survive and began treating the incident as a murder investigation, but his condition improved in hospital.
No-one has been arrested in connection with the stabbing.

Stone and two friends, Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler, were hailed as heroes after they they tackled and disarmed a gunman on board a train from Amsterdam to Paris.

They reacted after Ayoub El-Khazzani, 26, burst into a train carriage firing a Kalashnikov.
Mr Stone charged El-Khazzani and was injured in the struggle, later having to undergo surgery to reattach part of his hand.
Alek Skarlatos, said on Twitter: "Everybody send prayers out to the Stone family today."

[zenkai]

I hope they catch the POS who did this, you just can't go around stabbing people because you can't control your juvenile temper tantrum.

[Kujako]

Bummer... but one has to wonder how many times you can find yourself in these situations before starting to think if you insulted a gypsy or something.

[Breccia]

Well, wasn't he a racist anyways? He attacked a middle eastern guy..

Are you talking about Stone, who attacked a middle eastern guy using a machine gun to shoot people on a train? As was quoted in the OP?

If that's your take-away from this, you can fuck right off.

[Azadina]

How does someone survive getting stabbed in the heart? (glad he did)

[Deleted]

wow this guy stops an attack on a train, then a month or so after he steps in to protect his friend. Glad hes in a stable condition, guy sounds pretty cool

[GennGreymane]

How does someone survive getting stabbed in the heart? (glad he did)

It will still function, but if you can get help in time you can survive, also depends on where and severity.

[Slant]

wow this guy stops an attack on a train, then a month or so after he steps in to protect his friend. Glad hes in a stable condition, guy sounds pretty cool

So Cpt. America does exist...

[Lava Bucket]

How does someone survive getting stabbed in the heart? (glad he did)

Depending on what part of the heart is damaged, it may still be able to work well enough to keep you alive for a while. If you get good first aid to prevent you from dying from shock and blood loss and the paramedics can keep you alive until you get to the hospital, then a good cardiac surgeon can step in and probably get the old ticker working again. Modern medicine ftw!

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Are you talking about Stone, who attacked a middle eastern guy using a machine gun to shoot people on a train? As was quoted in the OP?

If that's your take-away from this, you can fuck right off.

Don't respond, for Pete's sake! This is how you get trolls. Great, now we'll have to call an exterminator.

[DocHibb]

Very unfortunate that this happened. The guy sounds like a BAMF though, acting in dangerous situations the way we all think/hope we would (heroically)

[Deleted]

Really no terrorist attack? o.O

[judgementofantonidas]

How does someone survive getting stabbed in the heart? (glad he did)

by having the hole shut in a timely manner.
your heart will not just stop pumping because it loses a bit of pressure.

[Yvaelle]

by having the hole shut in a timely manner.
your heart will not just stop pumping because it loses a bit of pressure.

^ The heart is a shockingly resilient muscle - we think of it as a weak spot in our anatomy - but really it's incredibly fit (it's been doing cardio non-stop since before you were born, without rest). Even if a chamber is punctured it will continue operating - the real issue with most heart injuries is either that blood pressure stops passing through (too much blood leaking out). That isn't a problem for your heart - but causes other problems in your body (loss of consciousness, stroke, etc), or one of the ganglia - a bundle of nerves that controls the pulsing - gets damaged.

If the nerves take a hit, then your heart will stop pumping properly - that's our weakspot. The musculature of the heart though is like a Terminator or something, it just refuses to die regardless of the damage you inflict.