Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with the results of the Sideshow JAWS maquette contest I ran a while back.
You may recall the contest called for people to send in a picture of their scars and give me a good story to go along with them. I figured what better way to figure out who should win Bruce himself than a comparing of scars and stories.
I got tons. Some as simple as a pet scratch, others as excessive as a toe or two gone. I got burns, cuts, lawnmower mishaps, rotting spider-bites, full open heart surgeries on children, broken legs, busted assholes (no joke) and knocked out teeth. It was a tough contest and a clear winner could only be found if I decided what was more important to me... a graphic picture that made me go, "Oh, sweet Jesus OW!! No!!!!" or the story that went along with the scar.
As I often do in life, I went back to the film, JAWS, for an answer. In the film, Quint's best scar isn't his most graphic or violent... but the one with the best story. An historic story, no less.
So, applying that to the contest there was one clear winner in my mind; a man by the name of Hector Lopez.
Hector was a window washer in New York. One day in September of 2001 went to work like any other day. Young Hector was the youngest window cleaner at the World Trade Center. Here are his words on what happened when he got to work September 11th:
I was in the lobby just walking through a set of revolving doors getting ready to go back to the roof, when all of a sudden there was a loud noise the ceiling started to shake and an explosion came through all the elevator doors picking me up and launching me like 15 feet through a revolving door head first , where i had a deep gash on the side of my face, hurt my neck and back pretty bad, and the nastiest wound i had noticed was on my right hand which had a metal rod from the revolving door go right thorugh my hand . and when i got up i ripped the rod right out. i wish i could go on but i undersand why the short version is needed. here i sent a pic of me on the scaffold as proof so you know i wasnt making it up.
Here are the pics he sent along:
I think you can understand why Mr. Lopez is the big winner of the Jaws Maquette. He touched history and history touched him, leaving some pretty serious marks. I thank all who entered. Once again, you folks made it a hard contest to judge.
-Quint
quint@aintitcool.com
