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Similar but much worse thing happened to one of my neighbors when I was a kid. He was out on his snowmobile riding through the fields like he had a thousand times before. He went to cross a stone row and caught an old fence wire in his throat. Killed him. Not decapitated or anything but dead none the less.



Wow, a friend of mine did the same thing but was a bit luckier. Caught an old wire fence with her helmet, not throat, but ripped her right off the snowmobile, and she spent about 4 weeks in a coma. Yep, Illinois and the Midwest are great for wide open fields to snowmobile in, but those wire fences are a killer, literally!