Buddy Valastro Of “Cake Boss” Got His Hand Impaled In A Bowling Alley Accident In His Home
In What-In-The-Final Destination?!-news, Buddy Valastro, of Cake Boss got into a pretty serious accident at his home when a pin got stuck in his bowling alley and the machine stabbed him as he tried to get it out. Yes, Buddy Valastro has an in-home bowling alley. Yes, he chose to unjam the machine himself. As a child of the 90s who watched the Final Destination movies, reaching into a machine that can take off your hand is like the kiss of death to me.
TMZ says that on Sunday, Buddy was in his house with this family playing in their bowling alley, as rich folk do. But what happened next was hardly family-friendly. A rep says there’s a common malfunction with their bowling pinsetter, which leads me to believe that maybe Cake Boss should have used some of his cake money to fix the damn thing for this reason exactly. So Buddy reached into it to release the stuck pin and the image of decorating a cake with a hook probably flashed before him, because his hand got repeatedly impaled:
We’re told Buddy tried to release a bowling pin from the cage mechanism, but his right hand got lodged and compressed inside the unit. His rep described what happened next this way — “Unable to remove his hand, [Buddy] can see a 1 1/2″ metal rod slowly and repeatedly impale his hand three times between his ring finger and middle finger.”
After more than 5 minutes, Buddy still couldn’t get his hand free from the metal rod jammed through it. His rep says his sons, Buddy Jr. and Marco, “rushed to the garage for a reciprocating saw to cut through the metal rod” and finally got Buddy’s hand free.
Well hey, nothing bonds a family like your sixteen and thirteen-year-old sons cutting your hand free as you bleed all over the place. Buddy was rushed to the hospital to stabilize the injury and had a second surgery later on by “renowned orthopedic surgeon” Dr. Michelle Carlson.
Buddy’s rep says he has an “uphill battle” before him since the hand that got fucked up is his dominant hand and the injury will require therapy. Buddy posted about it jokingly so he seems in good spirits about it:
See guys, having some rich expensive fancy shit in your house can go sideways. Look at Papa John’s founder John Schnatter‘s statue of eagles fucking. Sure it’s a timeless piece of art that also operates as a clock, but there’s always the risk one of those eagles is slightly out of position during mating and that whole thing falls over on you! Luxuries aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.
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