Injured shoregatherer Dave Hubert, right, with Mark Dravers of Guernsey Sea Farms, owner of the oyster bed. (Picture by Tom Tardif, 0911180)
A MAN was impaled on an oyster bed spike while ormering.
Dave Hubert, 55, punctured his stomach when he tripped and fell north of Houmet Paradis.
‘I feel sick when I think of what I did. If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone,’ he said.
‘It makes my blood run cold to think kids could have been running around and fallen on something like that,’ he said yesterday.
Mr Hubert, a self-employed solar heating engineer who lives in Rue du Bordeaux, fell on the Guernsey Sea Farms equipment at about 1.30pm on Monday.
‘When I was lying there I didn’t realise just how far the spike had gone in,’ said Mr Hubert.
‘It didn’t bleed much so I got up and carried on ormering, which wasn’t the best thing to do.’
When Mr Hubert got home he decided he might need a tetanus jab so called his doctor’s surgery to make an appointment with a nurse, who told him a doctor would need to see the wound.
‘He told me I’d punctured my stomach and needed to go to accident and emergency,’ he said.
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Article posted on 3rd February, 2010 - 2.30pm
20 Article Comments
Oh No!!
They are fighting back!
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“It didn’t bleed much so I got up and carried on ormering, which wasn’t the best thing to do.”
Classic.
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I predict a caption competition :)
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All pearls eh?
More pertinent question to ask was did he get any ormers?
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Ok, I’ll go first.
“Oyster rustler gets caught red handed and covers up with lame ormering excuse”
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‘Spike wielding oyster denies attack”
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“Oyster spike victim fails to identify assailant”
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“Ormer walks free after prosecution case fails because of inconclusive fingerprints”
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“Orm-ageddon”
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“She’s buried there, admits defendant”
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“Ormer makes human kebab”
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“Them beds are a-balone-y disgrace, clams eco engineer”
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‘donkey-kebab – back to drawing board’
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Orma golly gosh
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Dotcomma- thats a win for me. vg!
x
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“Mad Mollusc in spear attack horror”
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Classic compo. you should have bought his solar panels Mark!
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Hats off to the donkeys.. carrying on ormering with hospitalisable perotinitis? .. methinks he’s exaggerating about that as well. ps you don’t get them on sand or high up on the beach where the oyster tables are.
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Should have gone to Specsavers !
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I cannot tell a lie, It was im!.
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