"Pieyed Piper" g
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On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:01:29 -0400, "Bill Garber"
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"Jim Thompson"
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On Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:57:35 -0500, John Fields
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On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:37:45 -0700, Pieyed Piper
pieyedPiper@thebongshopattheendoftheuniverse. org wrote:

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:19:42 -0500, John Fields
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My brother was using a 1/4" 8" bit, and he had his left hand on the 2x4
or whatever he was drilling. The bit snapped, and the gnarly, broken,
fluted shank went right through his left hand.
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OWOWOWOWOW!!!
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I am glad that my worst injury was stepping on a nail as a kid as far
as punctures go.
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One of the ones that stands out in my mind was back when they had keys
to peel off a strip of metal sealing cans of food.

I was opening a can of deviled ham or something like that, when the key
snapped off taking part of the strip with it and leaving the can still
basically closed.

There was only a little way to go to get it open, so I figured I'd just
pry the top off with my fingers...

It almost worked, but just when I had it open enough to think the rest
was going to be easy, my fingers slipped and I sliced open the base of
my thumb on the razor-sharp edge of the top of the can; not a pretty
sight.

Then there was the time I tried to use a bandsaw to cut the plastic case
away from a Timex watch by holding it axially and rotating its
circumference against the blade...

Turned out to be a bad idea.

JF

I thought only I did dumb stunts like that. In my old age I've
learned the benefits of a big-ass vise to hold things :-)

...Jim Thompson

My last big dumb stunt was holding the hacksaw between my knees
and sliding the prototype PCB over the edge of the blade to get
a cut started. I'm sure I don't need to describe any further. 8^)

Bill


A near brush with a variation of Bobbitization....

Pretty much, yes..................