Thread: Man vs Lion

Originally Posted by Paul

I'm guessing the break you experienced wasn't very severe at all if you would go to such lengths for the sake of playing a football game. Professional football players certainly do not screw around like that when they get hurt, and they get paid millions of dollars for it.

Now the friend you're referring to who was a trained soldier,and walking would only have been a possibility if the bone hadn't broken very badly, or maybe not at all. Ten gunshot wounds is impressive sounding, but a bullet can easily miss bone or graze a person, and cause nothing more than a flesh wound. It may sound a little out there, but if ten gunshot wounds did not kill a person, you've got to accept that they really didn't hit anything important, else he would not be alive. Anyway, even if some of the bullets hit the bone, you can fight pain, but you can't fight physics. A bone broken badly enough will misalign, throw you off balance to the point where the pain WILL cause you to submit, and you'll resort to crawling.

Okay, so you saw a TV special on a part of anatomy. Documentaries such as that typically tend to show you the limits of the human body. They tell you the most impressive stuff to emphasize a point. The average person who breaks their bones will definitely submit to pain. If you've ever actually seen someone get hurt in a fight, you'll notice that they don't exactly turn into a hate tank of death, fighting for their lives as you're making everyone out to be. Instinctually, a fist fight is pretty similar to any other fight - including fighting a lion. You're still in the frame of mind that this is dangerous, and you're going to get hurt or even killed. Two people can get into a fist fight, and one good punch in the gut can end one of them, no bone-breaking required. In the same situation, another individual may take blow after blow and never stop until they've won. It's a matter of the individual, but most people are too weak to fulfill the potential you're describing.

Chuck Norris brushes his teeth with hair from a lions mane, while it's still alive.