I Got Shot By a Slingshot… And It’s STILL In My Leg

In this episode of Bro Labs, I Explain how I Got Shot by a Slingshot It’s Still Stuck in My Leg For Science! Sadly YouTube doesn’t approve of this experiment but sometimes that’s the price I must pay for my hard hitting science.

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Watch this clip closely and prepare for a multiplechoice quiz. [Applause] What actually happened here? A. The slingshot ball bounced off my leg at the speed of light. B. It exploded into atoms on impact. C. The ball never existed. I consciously opened a hole in my leg. D. The ball clearly entered my leg. Like, it’s obvious. What are we even debating here? This might be one of the worst injuries we’ve ever caught on camera. So, it’s only fitting that we do an emergency data review and break it down. And stick around to the end because you get to decide what happens next. So, let’s bring this back to when we filmed the video, which is about a month ago, a little under a month, and we filmed it a few weeks before that. Honestly, when it happened, I didn’t think anything of it. In the video, I say it bounced out. And there’s a good reason for this. I’ve been shot by a lot of things. Jake, you’ve filmed me getting shot by a lot of things. Has anything ever stuck into my body? Not that I’m aware of, honestly. I’ve seen some crazy less lethal stuff that I thought would have a much higher chance of sticking into you. Right. Split my skin open. Yeah. Grenade launchers. We shot you with shotguns. We shot can cannons. The list goes on. Yeah. I think somewhere in my head I was deluded to the fact that things cannot enter and stay inside my body. You perceive yourself as invincible. I wouldn’t say that. Okay. I wouldn’t say I just for some reason it didn’t cross my mind that perhaps a steel ball could stick into my leg cuz I’ve been shot by so many things and so many things have bounced off. You even saw in the clip. I didn’t think anything of it. I would say a little bit more painful than normal. Uh hurt to bend my knee for a couple days, but I just went to the gym, did legs 3 days later. I didn’t think anything of it to be honest. Honestly, just cuz there was a hole, put a band-aid on it. one of those nice gel band-aids that I’ve always talked about and I was like, “It’s good.” And yeah, when you put a gel band-aid on like that and you’re still walking around, I ultimately assume you’re good. It’s the Cadillac of band-aids. Okay. They’re great. I’ve tried them. They are very, in fact, good band-aids. I will say every time I took that band-aid off, disgusting. Was it gross? Yeah. Just like it got all into the gel and and whatnot. Okay. But then, so after that, you went to the gym. Then we filmed our next video, which was the BurnA. Yeah, the burner CL. Okay. And what happened there then? So, that one, another projectile video. At that point, I think it was about a week, a little over a week since we did the slingshot one. I had taken the band-aid off and the hole that I had just kind of formed into a scab. I didn’t think much of it. It was a deep wound, so I just let it scab over, whatnot. Funny enough though, Mark damn near hit that scab. It was like a couple inches away. Well, in hindsight, it’s probably our fault to do a projectile right after a projectile going on. I think I filmed the 5 million subscriber thank you video and then you send me the the review of the slingshot video when I was reviewing it. I watched that clip back a couple times. I’m like, damn, I I’m sure it bounced out cuz I’m doing cardio. My legs working. 2 days, 3 days later, we post the video. I am sitting down here in my office. I think I’m playing a video game called Peak climbing game, right? And the video’s been up for like an hour or two. And then I start reading the comments and everyone’s like, that ball’s in there. People were very adamant that it was in my leg. Read another comment. Put a magnet up to your leg. And then I start thinking, I’m like, I’m not feeling so good about this. Like, okay. I go, first I go see if it’s magnetic. I go get the slingshot balls. It is in fact magnetic. Try to put it onto my leg. Can’t get the magnet to stick or anything. But I’m still kind of like in this weird mindset of like there could I think there’s something in there. I rewatch the clip another 10 times. I’m like, “Were you convinced?” They were convincing me. I had lived under the impression that for weeks there was nothing in my leg. It was in my head. They implanted it into my head now. And then I think I read another comment about getting a metal detector. And I’m like, “My dad’s got a metal detector.” You went to your dad’s and got a metal detector. Went to my dad’s. I actually called my dad. I’m like, “Hey, Dad. You still got that metal detector? I think I got something stuck in my leg. I want to find out.” Went over there. We tested the metal detector on one of the slingshot balls. Made sure it picked up and he picked it up to my leg. Me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me. And then I’m like, “Okay, well, how did your dad respond to this to this uh My parents are so dead into it now?” They’re like, “There Houston goes again. You’re getting hurt again.” He just gets off the phone. Yeah. No, Houston says he might have metal ball. I was like, I’m not even kidding. My My mom I was like telling her about going to have to go to the urgent care. I wonder how much that’s cost. He’s like, “Well, good thing you got money.” So, went to the urgent care to get an X-ray. Here’s the X-ray. It’s It’s in my leg. So, if you answered D in the multiple choice, you are correct. Shocker. Uh, it’s kind of bewildering to me that I didn’t realize, none of us realize you edited it. You know, I’m going through a workflow. I see the slow-mo clip. I put the time and energy into it. I make it look good. I don’t look at the ball traveling in and out of the leg. So, you just kind of put it together and you’re like, “Looks good.” Yeah. Looks going. It’s a great shot. Yeah. Until you stated to me that there may be a ball in my leg. I had to go back and look at it thoroughly to confirm that or not cuz I did not see it on the first pass. I think I’m normally right when I get hit or shot with something like I can verbalize my pain. I generally thought it bounced off of me. Well, you’ve been doing this for years, and when I see you in your normal conditions, normal conditions, and you seem fine, that I’m going to just believe that nothing happened. Exactly. Yeah. You know, and um I think Mark even mentioned like, “Is it in you?” And I I said, “No, no, bounce off.” And he he he took it too. You know, God, if it would have stuck into his leg as well went through his jeans and you both had It’s kind of hard to tell how deep it is with the X-ray. It’s definitely not into my bone. Some people in the comments are like, “That thing shot straight through.” Other people are like, “You’re from artery. You better watch out.” Guess what, guys? That’s on the other side of the leg. Unless it just went all the way through. Oh, yeah. At that point, I feel like you would have felt it. That’s why I get shot where I do though, cuz there’s not any arteries to really worry about there. So, there is a method to your madness. There is. There is. And we can thank Dr. Er for the artery knowledge. He kind of clued me into that one. Wow. That that that collab actually really came in clutch. Yeah, it did. It did. So the urgent care doctor believed it was close enough to the skin that he hit me with like a local anesthetic which numbed my leg and cut off the scab and fished around in there to try to snag the ball. You don’t really feel anything. You know, someone’s scraping around inside of you. Unfortunately, he could not find it. He even apologized. I’m like, “Dude, it’s not your fault. I’m sorry.” Yeah. I’m like, he’s like, “I really tried.” I’m like, “Yeah, dude. I’m the idiot here.” Okay. He didn’t try hard enough. Why didn’t he try a magnet? magnet fish. Yeah, magnet. I I was actually telling him that. I was like, magnet fishing. People were telling me to use a magnet. Might have worked. It might have worked after you opened me back up. I had even showed him the clip though. Yeah. Me and my buddies were just fooling around and I mean, you know, one thing led to another and I got shot in the leg. That could be taken the wrong way. Fooling around with our high powered Chinese slingshots. Typical day of the boys. But I showed him the clip on Instagram and cuz at some point I’m like it’s got to be obvious I did something stupid so might as well just spill the beans. He tried his best though tried to get it out and referred me to a surgeon which since it wasn’t an emergency took a very long time to get in. Feel like I’ve been teasing everyone about the results of this cuz everyone is known. Well, it wasn’t confirmed and you said yourself that the surgeon took a long time. So like you saw the surgeon then? Yes. So another week or two weeks? So what are we going on like three and a half? It was about a month. I remember this. It was a month after the shot. After the shot, I saw the surgeon. A month and a day. Obviously, you’re okay. It was the injury completely healed over. I saw the surgeon. Here’s what the surgeon told me. It appears to be close enough to the outside of my skin that there’s a chance it could slowly but surely work its way out. Kind of like the cactus spines that get stuck in me. You know, it’s like a foreign body stuck in there. Those are in there for like months, right? A long time. Yeah. So, I wonder how long this would take to naturally pass. That’s a good question. It’s a very good question. If I wanted it out, I can call in and get a surgery uh scheduled where they’ll actually have an X-ray machine. I’m not really sure what it’s called, but they can see exactly where it is in my leg so they don’t have to fish for it. Probably an ultrasound, I’m going to guess. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think that’s right. Where they can see where it is and they can just get it out. And that would be another thing where they just do like a local anesthetic. They’ll knock me out for even after the urgent care doc tried to fish it out. I went on like a bike ride that night. It was a little bit sore after that, but it really hasn’t been bugging me. The the biggest thing that’s bugged me is since I’ve realized it’s in my leg, I feel like I have like a phantom sense of it. Like a phantom pain or Yeah, cuz like I’ll lay like as soon especially for like the week or two, as soon as I realized every time I lay down to go to sleep at night, I feel it. I feel this slingshot ball in my leg. I don’t like it. No, it’s not a pleasant feeling. And it doesn’t feel like anything. I swear I’m going crazy. I just like, you know, there’s a foreign body in you. Yeah. that’s a little bit larger to be comfortable with. And I just swear my brain is like, it’s there and I’m just going to let you know that it’s it’s there. It’s probably a normal response. Honestly, I’m conscious. It’s here. It’s a tiny It’s a tiny BB though, right? It’s really small. It was a 1/4 shot, so it’s the smallest that we had. It’s big and small. Depends on how depends on how you look at it. It looks big in the X-ray. Yeah. Yeah. No, it does. It looks huge. It doesn’t look like it belongs there. So, what are you going to do? This leads us to you guys deciding which happens next. At the time of this video being posted, there is a community poll going on right now. Option A, remove the Slingshot ball, sell it on eBay. I’ll list it for 25 cents and you guys can bid on it. I’m buying. I feel like it’s a great idea. This was my original plan when I thought they were going to remove it. Since it doesn’t need to come out, we can go with option B. Let’s just leave it there and see what happens. Like kind of like a long-term experiment. Just observe and get a better understanding. Maybe one of these days we’ll shoot that spot again and it’ll just pop out. I’m more worried that it will just naturally like rise to the surface and then you’ll have me have to film you being like, “Hey, it’s here. Look, you can see it. It’s just like a big giant metal pimp. We’ll rub some Icy Hot on it as if that’s going to help. And then we’ll just slice her open.” Oh, and slicing you open. There’s a There’s a line. It’s just like lanting a big pimple. I’m sure my girlfriend will do it. then that’s a video you guys can gladly do with that going forward now that you’ve had this whole entire experience. Is there anything that we are going to do differently? Yes. Did you learn a lesson? I learned a couple things. Okay. Okay. One, I need to up the rating of that slingshot to probably lethal weapon. S+. Yeah. I know I even said it in the the outro like could maybe get stuck in your skin. You know, it can 100% get stuck in your skin. Okay, that’s confirmed. So, a little amendment there onto that data review that I did. Also, moving forward, maybe we don’t shoot me with small round high-speed objects that could potentially get stuck in my lane. It’s got to be larger if it’s moving at high speeds. And I only say this because ideally, I don’t want a collection of foreign bodies. I mean, you could be the man with the most metal. I don’t want that record. Honestly, this is why I never did a BB gun video because they’re so they’re even smaller and I’m like 100% that’s going to embed itself into me and I won’t be able to get it out. I just didn’t think that 1/4 slingshot ball could do that and I was proven wrong. So, moving forward, we’ll be a little bit more cautious about the size and speed of the size and speed of projectile because we know it can happen now. And honestly, kind of crazy. It hasn’t happened up until now. And I will say after all this stuff, we can get a little carried away sometimes. That was a pretty close shot. And we probably should have done it from at range, like a significant range. It was That’s what we do with Kentucky ballistics. We start really far and move oursel in. I think I had this false confidence from the weaker slingshots we were doing that I really didn’t think that the last slingshot was going to be that much stronger. So that’s why, you know, Mark was 10 ft away when he shot it into my leg. Well, now when you say it that way, it just sounds stupid. I hope this doesn’t get me fired. I’m going to step up in my uh safety safety precautions. Safety precautions. We’re going to take it to a whole new level. Well, we’re about to film sticks and tones. Can they break bones? So, n you’re fine. Thanks for joining us on this emergency data review, which I guess really isn’t an emergency because it happened over a month later. But thanks for joining me and Jake. Thanks for being here. This was fun. Uh I think we can all say we collectively learned a lot uh about slingshots and foreign bodies entering you. I’d love to hear your thoughts down in the comments. And if you haven’t joined the YouTube memberships or Patreon, links are in the description for that. You can see a ton of BTS stuff and the old alcohol videos. A lot of fun stuff there. And if for whatever reason you haven’t seen the video that we’ve been talking about for the past who knows how long, here it is. Click it. Watch it. Houston, I’m behind a video. How do I get out? You don’t. They’re clicking you. Click me.