Her Crowning Gory

I saw a go-kart and a bald headed person leaning over, and it was my wife.

Timeless words from a timeless story:

It appeared to be simply a freak accident.

A family's night out at a go-kart raceway in Pierce County turned tragic after a woman was scalped by the go-kart she was driving.

But now, Faye Brown's family is learning what happened to her isn't so rare, and they're trying to prevent it from happening again.
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Faye's ponytail had gotten caught in the spinning rear axle of the go-kart – her scalp ripped from her head.

What was left is gruesome to describe.

"Her bare bone skull was exposed," says Greg. "It was gone, all the way down to the skull."

Faye, whose long black mane was her pride and joy, has spent the last four months going through skin grafts and physical therapy for whiplash.

"Her long hair was her crowning glory," says Greg. "It was her identity and to have so violently ripped off her head, she could have been killed in this thing."

I hope when he gets on the witness stand he continues stressing his wife's deep affinity with her hair and its place at the core of her being. Juries award big damages for issues like that. He might even want to add a pendent claim for loss of consortium with his wife's hair while they're at it. I'd continue to downplay the loss of the living skin and flesh under the hair and the painful and expensive grafting, because frankly, the dry medical stuff just puts people to sleep.