Man Killed by Rooster

Almost has to be some other reason, I too have been to a few and have known owners of ####-fighters for decades, the spikes aren't that long and especially to the calf?...Maybe it was dipped in something(poison), but by itself, this is hard to swallow...Heck, I've had cactus thorns longer than those spikes go into my calf(still have parts that broke off in me) and was only pissed, not dead...

 

If the weapon punctured the popliteal artery, which descends into the calf from midline at the rear of the knee, or the posterior tibial artery, which is its branch that runs pretty much down the calf, it would be pretty easy to bleed out a significant amount of blood into the surrounding tissues. If the wound were a laceration, with a tearing component, instead of just a clean puncture, it likely wouldn't be inclined to tamponade itself, and would allow it to keep pumping blood out.
If the victim were hiding someplace to avoid detection, it's very likely he was also bleeding into the inside of his pants without it showing. Fear, pain, and cold produce shock, exacerbated by the blood loss, and can affect one's judgment, including about seeking aid.
Also, if the would tried to heal by the normal clotting process in the deep veins of the calf, and one or more clots broke free, they could easily travel to the man's heart, causing an infarction (classic heart attack). If the clots lodged in the brain, it would be a stroke, or "cerebral vascular accident"; and a big clot in the pulmonary vessels, where blood is re-oxygenated in the lungs, is called a "pulmonary embolus". Depending upon where it is in the vascular tree of the lungs, a patient would seem to be breathing but wouldn't exchange air with his blood, and would suffocate, even with air going in & out of his lungs.
FWIW, I spent 19 years as a paramedic-firefighter, before my ten years at the State Troopers in a northwest state. In college I worked as a surgical technician at a regional hospital in metro NJ.
So, aside from the actual "mechanism of injury" for this unfortunate sports fan, it's an all too common way to die for a person who doesn't seek immediate care.
-- Handlebar --

 

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Thank-you handlebar. I found that to be very informative. My father died from a blood clot going to his brain in 1993. We don't know where it originated and suppose we never will.
I suffered a heart attack myself in 2001 due to plaque blockages. Now I take Plavix daily along with an aspirin. I often wonder how long my dad's life would have been extended with preventative medicine.

 

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