Werner Herzog is shot during a BBC Interview
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Stumble ThisFor those unfamiliar, here's the background story:
Journalist Mark Kermode was interviewing director Herzog in 2005 on top of Lookout Mountain near Los Angeles, when suddenly he was shot in the abdomen by a random gunman armed with an air rifle of some kind. The suspect fled, but Herzog expressed no interest in pursuing him or reporting the incident and insisted on continuing the interview and that the projectile which had struck him was "not a significant bullet."
He describes the incident here in his own words around 6:10.
Journalist Mark Kermode was interviewing director Herzog in 2005 on top of Lookout Mountain near Los Angeles, when suddenly he was shot in the abdomen by a random gunman armed with an air rifle of some kind. The suspect fled, but Herzog expressed no interest in pursuing him or reporting the incident and insisted on continuing the interview and that the projectile which had struck him was "not a significant bullet."
He describes the incident here in his own words around 6:10.
Werner Herzog is my hero.
I live in LA, and I've never been shot at.
Reminds me of Teddy Roosevelt's reaction to an attempt on his life (Wikipedia):
"While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on October 14, 1912, a saloonkeeper named John Schrank failed in an assassination attempt on Roosevelt. Schrank did shoot the former President, but the bullet lodged in Roosevelt's chest only after hitting both his steel eyeglass case and a copy of his speech he was carrying in his jacket. Roosevelt declined suggestions that he go to the hospital, and delivered his scheduled speech. He spoke vigorously for ninety minutes. His opening comments to the gathered crowd were, "I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose." Afterwards, doctors determined that he was not seriously wounded and that it would be more dangerous to attempt to remove the bullet than to leave it in his chest. Roosevelt carried it with him until he died."