Sleepwalker stabbed
A sleepwalking and/or drunk man in Kansas City was taking a leak in his closet when his girlfriend accidentally stabbed him. From the Kansas City Star:
She tried to wake him up (when she woke to find him urinating in the closet), but she said he pushed her out of his way. Scared he might hit her, she said, she grabbed a knife and held it up as he approached, cutting him. His injuries are believed to be non-life threatening."Man stabbed while sleepwalking"
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Maybe she can claim she was sleep stabbing.
It's more likely that he's just a lush, rather than a sleepwalker. This is classic blackout behavior - my freshman dorm roommate used to do this on occasion. He'd stumble home, pass out, then get up and piss in the corner in front of the door and there wasn't anything you could do to wake him up.
Still, what a fucking dumbass that girlfriend was. A knife has two weaponish (weaponic?) uses: to cut/stab someone, and to threaten someone. If the guy's asleep, the knife obviously has no threat potential. That makes it useless unless she intended to hurt him.
If this were someone who I know can, say, tie her own shoes, I'd accuse her of stabbing him in a DV quarrel, and lying about it afterwards. But she's probably just that stupid.
From the summary, it sounds like the whole thing could have been avoided if she'd just left him the hell alone.
You're afraid someone's going to hit you. Do you:
A) Grab a knife?
B) Leave?
A obviously didn't work out too well.
I bet he is taking Ambien. It often causes weird sleepwalking behaviors, when my doctor prescribed it she warned me to keep an eye out for evidence that I was doing more than laying in my bed after it knocked me out because there have been hundreds of cases of people do weird weird shit. Usually it's stuff like raiding the fridge, but sometimes it's more destructive stuff like sending mean emails to everyone you know or trying to have sex with strangers. I think there was at least one person who regularly got in their car and would wake up in random locations.
I've had some minor weird experiences on it but they have been very positive. My girlfriend sometimes will masturbate in bed after I've fallen asleep and if she can't get off quickly wakes me up demanding anal sex since she finishes really quickly from it. When I'm asleep normally I usually just stick it in and snuggle up to her while she finishes and then drift back asleep. When I've taken Ambien apparently I'm some kind of anal sex fiend and things get really wild.
I don't actually remember it the next day though! I'd been taking Ambien a few times a week for maybe two months when I told her how I had had a dream that she woke me up with some very graphic and forceful demands and then we had extra wild anal sex. She was very surprised to find out that I didn't know it was real and that I did not remember the several other times she had done this. The first time had been a few weeks prior, I guess in my sleep I woke up and asked her if she wanted any help and she politely asked me for the usual and instead I refused and teased her until she was begging for it and then gave in and she had an awesome time. So of course she kept wanting repeat performances.
Now it's kind of a joke between us, she sees me take the pill and says "maybe you'll dream where I ask you to fuck me in the ass tonight". It's strange, cute, and a little disturbing all at the same time.
Scared he might hit her, she said, she grabbed a knife and held it up as he approached
Can we just give the woman the benefit of the doubt that he "approached" in a "scary" way. She's entitled to defend her god-damned self, regardless of dude's circumstance of impairment, self-induced or otherwise.
Thank you Anonymous.
Meanwhile, this story reminded me of an old joke about a drunk who brags to his friends that he's discovered a bar that's so fancy they have gold-plated urinals. I'll let you either look up the punchline or create your own.
@#5 Anonymous: Wow, that turned into a Penthouse Forum letter somewhere in the middle. Not complaining, just saying. Actually, I think every post on BB could benefit from an on-topic comment in the form of a sexy anecdote.
Dear BB: you may find this hard to believe but...
Is it just me or is there suddenly a 70s-era bass line going on in here?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNcskHlvc2c
Is there any appropriate way to wake a sleepwalker? Surely someone has researched this.
Apparently, they're hard to wake up but the usual means apply even an attempt to put them through a make over. Still, the safest way to wake up a sleepwalker seems to be to knock them out. Otherwise they quite often react violently to being woken up, that's only the danger.
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Since you saw most of the joke already, the punch line is something like, "The bartender puts the phone down and calls across the room, 'Louie, I think I found out who pissed in your saxophone.' "
@5 goddamn. that sounds like a pretty awesome relationship.
@ANONYMOUS, JUNE 26, 2009 5:27 PM:
A well aimed video camera seems to be the solution. Please, let us know how it works out for you. Or even show us.
@Takuan: Heh.
One day in the early 80's I awoke after a night of drunken revelry to find my girlfriend missing, and my beautiful Juno 60 synthesizer upside down on a spread of old newspaper pages.
"What happened" I asked my brother.
"You got up and pissed into your keyboard, Coralie tried to strangle you and I had to restrain her. She walked out, she's disgusted with you."
Man is born to drink.
Personaly, I think it is very hard to wake a sleep walker. If you call his or her name and they are sleep walking, that can cause brain damage. If you try to wake them, the person may get scared and run or freak out or they may get violent and try to hurt you. The only way to bring them back to bed and not wake then is by taking them gentely by the elbow and lead the slowly to there bed and make sure that they are safe and sound asleep in there bed again. I hope this helped if you had any problems or questions.