Axehole

Jimmy Winter was having a great time. He’d just come home from a Thor concert, and he and his best friend were rocking out with a little Red Octane Guitar Hero action.

He was having a great time ripping through tunes and was about to rock his way to Guitar Hero-dom when he twisted to the right, threw his guitar into the air, and knocked an inch and a half chunk of bone off of his femur.

But that’s only half of it.

“Half the people in the room were concerned,” according to Winter. “The other half called me a pussy. I was writhing in pain!”

From the photos, we’d say that it would be a little harsh to call Winter a pussy.

But you might call him an opportunist. He’s written an open letter to Red Octane Games, telling his story and asking for an endorsement deal:

I have terrible news. While I am in love with your game, it has caused me great harm. Guitar Hero broke my knee. Its true, while playing your game on July 3rd and shredding a massive lick I pivoted into a great thrashing stance and my knee gave way. After several doctor visits and x-rays it later turned out my rocking had knocked an inch and a half piece of bone off of my knee and it was now floating about the inside of my leg.

I ended up going under the knife to reattach the smaller piece of bone back to my leg and now, more than a month later, I am still unable to walk. I am however gearing up from a triumphant comeback in early September to show others on my block I can still rock twice as hard as them.

This is a story that must be told. Imagine being able to tell your customers that a young man in Omaha, NE rocked Guitar Hero so hard his own bones crumbled. Boys would cheer and mothers would cringe.

Winter may not want to hold his breath on the endorsement deal, but he’s done gamers a great service by alerting them to the potential dangers of rocking too hard with Guitar Hero.

If you take excessive glee in other people’s suffering, check out the rest of Winter’s photos. And if you’re a babe in the Omaha area, consider giving Winter some time - he’s counting on using his injury to seduce the ladies.