In article 7f4fefab-cb76-42c4-8318-769459c17257@
3g2000yqn.googlegroups.com, says...

I guess there are breaks and then there are breaks. I have had my
left collar bone broken twice in different locations. Once in an auto
accident and once in football. This is how I became aware of the
defensive utility of this injury from the female doctor who cared for
me on one of my incidents. I can also attest to the uselessness of the
arm. I could lift it but I surely couldn't do any useful work with it
until several days if not weeks later.

On Feb 2, 10:50*pm, Peter Huebner wrote:
In article ,
says...

Subject: collar bone
From: Larry Jaques
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Newsgroups: rec.woodworking

On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:37:00 -0800 (PST), the infamous
"SonomaProducts.com" scrawled the following:

It takes only 7 lbs of pressure to break the average collar bone.
Actually a great defensive move for women, using a quick karate chop
with a fist. Once it is broken the assailant will essentially loose
the use of that arm. Break them both, them slap him and walk away.

Bwahahahahahaha! *I love it. g

Is this yet another silly urban myth? *My first wife broke her
collarbone when she totalled my car, didn't even register for quite some
time. It certainly didn't slow her down or stop her from using the arm
until she was ordered to wear it in a sling.

-P.


Yeh, I see what you're saying. Alas, I was mostly replying to the 'break
both his collar bones, slap him and walk away scenario.

Picture this: It is commonly thought that kicking a guy in the balls
will totally and utterly incapacitate him, right?

Friend of mine was working in a home for very tough adolescent girls.
One of them kicked him in the balls. It didn't stop him from lashing
out, and giving her a knuckle sandwich that knocked all her front teeth
out.
(b.t.w. he never got any heat over that)(same girl tried to brain me
with a 1 pound brass replica pistol lighter; narrowly missing my head
from 10 feet away, I was working in the same place for 3 months).

So what I'm saying, a guy on an adrenalin high, stalking a woman with
no-good on his mind, won't even notice that broken collar bone until
several hours after he's beaten the crap out of her ...

anyway .... best, -P.