An accident involving the Roloff family, stars of the TLC show “Little People, Big World,” resulted in serious injuries. The family has found fame, and increased media attention, as the stars of TLC’s relatively new reality show. This last weekend, the family was using a 25 foot tall wooden trebuchet, a medieval weapon of war, to throw pumpkins. Unfortunately, the equipment malfunctioned and one of the Roloff’s sons received a severe brain injury which required immediate medial treatment. Michael Detjen, an engineer who was involved in the design of the trebuchet, was also injured and required more than 200 stitches. The Roloff’s father, Matt Roloff, said, “[Detjen], who helped us build the trebuchet, is already thinking about how to make the machine safer. This was a fluke thing that we want to make sure never happens again.”

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