Quote Originally Posted by Hogleg View Post
Arterial Spray is a real thing. Here is a nice youtube video of a hockey player getting hit in the neck with a skate. [WARNING]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGK5mj0K9s0

He manages to make it to the sideboard spraying blood that arced from his neck like a rooster's tail.
Which I am aware of, but they weren't cut at the carotid artery they were cut across the front of the throat. Furthermore a cut that long and shallow doesn't spray for 3 seconds in a fan and then cut out. It's Hollywood going for effect instead of realism. The guy in that hockey video was bleeding longer and farther.