Hardheaded and a smashing success
Hardheaded and a smashing success
Posted: Friday, April 11, 2008 10:00 pm
Hardheaded and a smashing success
By Ted Mero
News-Sentinel Staff Writer
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Lodi's Dan Wilson first used his forehead as a human wrecking
ball some 30 years ago. A student of martial arts, Wilson had
already practiced the art of breaking boards and bricks with elbows
and fists.
Then he thought: "Why not plates over my head?"
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