DOC: All right.
I'm running out here to--
WOMAN (ON PHONE): --county.
Get a public assist.
DOC: --my co-worker to see what's going on.
She called me over here personally.
What's up, guys.
I have no idea what we're about to run into.
WOMAN: Will you help him?
What's up?
He got a hook in his leg.
I don't have any tool there.
Let's go check this out.
WOMAN (ON PHONE): Doc, what's up?
Look at this.
All right.
Let me take a look first.
First question.
You ever heard that before?
No.
Next question.
How much pain you in.
- None. - No pain?
Nuh-uh.
You don't feel anything in your Achilles?
Uh-uh. MAN: And he just--
WOMAN: When I was just--
MAN: He got-- He got--
OK.
Well, I'm not going to use these because my hands are giant
and those don't fit.
So--
Do you want to wipe that [INAUDIBLE]
Well, the barb is still in there.
Mm-hmm.
Do you know what we've got to do?
What?
We've got to poke it all the way through,
then cut it, then pull it back up.
You OK with that?
All right.
OK.
So due to department policy, I'm not allowed
to pull the hook out myself.
But I have my tool here to cut the barb off with.
And I'm going to coach him through doing it himself, if he
wants to.
So I'm going to clean it real good
and allow him that option to do that.
Come on.
All right. Hold up.
It's still tight.
You're almost there.
I'm almost there.
Yup.
Push it right on through.
Can you see it?
Yes.
OK.
First of all, how did it happen?
I was swimming.
Swimming and got hooked.
MAN: You weren't even fishing.
No.
I was just-- I was out there.
And I thought it was a seaweed and it felt like stinging.
And I said, now what's up, man?
I thought it was jellyfish.
But--
Wait, did you guys get the whole line and everything out
of the-- - Yeah.
I took the line off of it.
OK.
We just sawed through this.
MAN: OK.
WOMAN: Dude, this is real.
I can't believe how tough you are.
Like that-- that's a sharp hook and it's not
willing to go through there.
You got like pelican skin or something.
[LAUGHING]
This is a pelican skin.
Hey, you heard that?
All right.
Damn.
DOC: You almost got it. WOMAN: Yeah.
DOC: Heck, yeah.
Hold that right there.
I think you just passed the barb, ain't ya?
You passed it.
All right. Here we go.
You ready?
I don't think it's through there, yeah?
DOC: There's the barb right there.
MAN: Yeah, this just went over it.
Is it another one?
DOC: No, it shouldn't be another one.
I think it is.
MAN: Sure, [INAUDIBLE],, I think it is.
I think it's another one.
DOC: Nope. - No
DOC: Ain't nothing. - It's no way.
DOC: All right.
Now watch your eyes.
Here we go.
MAN: What the hell--
Let me get this up your way and get this just
like that right there. All right.
Go ahead. DOC: All right.
Here, let me see them. Let me see them.
DOC: You want to get it?
Just get right behind that barb right there.
Now where we come from, I'll put my hand
so it won't hit your nose.
OK?
WOMAN (ON PHONE): Bailey.
DOC: There you go.
There it is right there.
MAN (ON PHONE): I'll be off already--
DOC: OK?
Just yank it out.
WOMAN (ON PHONE): Copy.
There you go.
Good job, man.
You tough.
MAN: Let me see.
Hey, you want some alcohol on that?
- Yes, sir. - OK.
That's the barb.
That's the thing that curved the area.
I'll get something to pour on there.
OK.
So I want you to really monitor that hole.
OK.
That's a puncture wound, right?
Yeah.
So take a salt bath, whatever you got to do.
But keep that as clean as possible.
And monitor for any kind of swelling,
infection, or anything like that that
might have been on this hook. - OK.
And you're pretty tough and healthy.
So you don't have too much to worry about.
Aha.
But just keep a close eye on it, OK?
All right.
Let me get some alcohol and I'll douse it for you.
Thank you, ma'am.
Yeah, OK.
I'll be right back.
MAN: Nice.
You want your souvenir?
Yeah, please.
MAN: Here you go.
WOMAN: [LAUGHING]
It's--
MAN: Oh, let me see my cutters.
Oh.
The hook was in there, but it wasn't
past the hump of the barb.
So we just had to manhandle the hook
and get it all the way through so we could cut it and back it
out.
That's very old school but that's the only way
we could do it without slicing him open
and making the wound bigger.
So we did it the safest and cleanest way possible.
And probably saved him several hundred dollars
going to the hospital.