Photographer hit by javelin keeps working
PROVO, Utah - A persistent Utah photographer proved he
was no cry baby when he returned to work the same day
he was hit by a javelin while taking pictures at a track
meet. Ryan McGeeney, 33, an intern at the Ogden (Utah)
Standard-Examiner, returned to finish shooting a track
championship Saturday at Brigham Young University's
stadium in Provo, Utah, after a javelin pierced his
leg, the newspaper reported. "There was the kind of
tight feeling in the skin where I could say, 'oh yeah,
it went through me,' but it wasn't real painful," he
said. "It was pretty embarrassing. I just felt like a
jackass." McGeeny, who is a seven-year veteran of the
U.S. Marines, including six months service in Afghanistan,
was taken to the hospital for treatment, stitched up and
returned to the meet within hours to finish the job.
PROVO, Utah - A persistent Utah photographer proved he
was no cry baby when he returned to work the same day
he was hit by a javelin while taking pictures at a track
meet. Ryan McGeeney, 33, an intern at the Ogden (Utah)
Standard-Examiner, returned to finish shooting a track
championship Saturday at Brigham Young University's
stadium in Provo, Utah, after a javelin pierced his
leg, the newspaper reported. "There was the kind of
tight feeling in the skin where I could say, 'oh yeah,
it went through me,' but it wasn't real painful," he
said. "It was pretty embarrassing. I just felt like a
jackass." McGeeny, who is a seven-year veteran of the
U.S. Marines, including six months service in Afghanistan,
was taken to the hospital for treatment, stitched up and
returned to the meet within hours to finish the job.