Spectator injured by falling mirror at Nebraska’s stadium during Rutgers game
A spectator suffered a gash to his head after a mirror fell from a level above at Nebraska’s Memorial Stadium on Saturday during the Huskers’ 42-24 win over Rutgers.
The 4-by-6-inch mirror hit Carlton Clark as he turned around to talk to friends behind him and opened up a 1.5-inch wound on his head.
“It sounded like a gunshot when it hit,” Clark told the Lincoln Journal-Star.
Where did the mirror come from? No one knows for sure. The paper said the “best guess” is that it came from ESPN’s broadcast booth. However, Clark’s seats aren’t directly underneath the booth.
“I have no idea how it could have happened,” Clark told the Journal-Star. “But the odds were 1 in 92,000, and I was the one.”
The mirror fell during halftime, and after he was tended to by medics, Clark was able to stand up and walk to the stadium’s first-aid station. But much to his chagrin, the cut kept bleeding through the fourth quarter and his son drove him to an emergency room and Clark missed the entire second half.
He has eight staples in his head, but he said the injury won’t prevent him from seeing Saturday’s game at home against Purdue. He says he’s fine and will be back in his same seat.
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