Man Shot Twice...Eats Sandwich...Goes To Hospital

Most of us haven't been shot, so we really can't know exactly how we'd react if we were. Would we keep calm and rational? Would we scream hysterically? New Haven resident Miguel Soto III faced just that situation after he was shot twice, near the groin and in the left leg. And he chose to eat a sandwich. Soto, 25, was shot leaving a New Haven deli on Tuesday. He went home, ate his sandwich, then asked his father to take him to the hospital. Many, many questions come to mind, but only one will keep us from sleeping tonight: what kind of glorious sandwich was it??

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By Ben Yakas in News on November 11, 2010 4:33 PM

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Andrew

He's obviously eaten hospital food before.

l3iodeez

If I don't finish my sandwich, the terrorists win.

pissflaps

he was hungry

Cannibal

I think this may have been a case of the marijuana poisoning...

jaycjay

Of course you read occasionally about people not realizing they've been shot... and the second paragraph of the article is this:

"Police did not say whether Soto realized immediately that he had been shot, or if he decided the injuries were not serious enough to require an immediate hospital trip."

Matthew

If that's the case, it reminds me of a story I heard several years back. It involved a convenience store surveillance video where an old lady walked in and bought groceries, all with a knife stuck in her back. Nobody behind her in line at the store said anything and only when someone on the street said, 'hey lady, you have a knife in your back' did she go to the hospital. The lady told the interviewer that to this day, she has no clue how the knife ended up in her back and can't understand why nobody said anything to her earlier.