Jon Baker

@thejonbaker.bsky.social

Dad, geek, lover of all things comedy. I draw the webcomic @AlarminglyBad

nothing better than a tourist town that resents the tourists. thank you for coming to my ten-seat microbrewery and vintage ice cream shoppe. you son of a bitch

Americans will hike 10 miles through the wilderness while impaled with a steel-tipped hiking pole before they get universal health insurance.

Screenshot of an AP news article

Headline: Montana man hikes out of the mountains to get help after he was impaled by a trekking pole

Photo: a man standing on a mountain next to a cairn with a steel-tipped hiking pole impaled into his chest area just below his left arm Screenshot of text from the body of the news article that reads

“The 44-inch (112-centimeter) steel-tipped pole passed through the flesh beneath Cifaldi's left arm, missing any vital organs, and protruded from his back. After conferring with his friends
- and considering the high cost of a helicopter rescue — Cifaldi knew who would save him: himself.
"I was like, 'We've got to get off this mountain.!' And they're both like, 'I don't know about that,' Cifaldi said of his friends' initial reaction. "I'm pretty confident this is outside my chest wall.
'Tis but a flesh wound."