"Ken" wrote in message
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What have been the worst (serious or humorous) handyman or handywoman
accidents that you've experienced so far (or someone you know, or saw
it happen to, got to experience) and please elaborate on what
unfortunately went wrong.


You don't need all sorts of high tech camping accessories to start a fire if
you run out of matches.

Brought home a new plunge router and decided to play with it on some scrap
wood in the garage. In the manual, I got as far as a page where it described
which direction the router should be moved for certain types of work.
Figured these were just fine points to be concerned with later.

Turns out a router in the hands of an amateur will toss burning bits of wood
for quite a distance. Some of those chips will be smart enough to land in
the kindling box, or on plastic web chairs. :-) Fortunately, the fire
extinguisher was just a few feet away.