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During our daily routines there are alot of these "hate when that happens" moments.
One of the guys was drilling an aluminum box we made and was having a litttle trouble by himself so I lent a hand, he leaned into it the bit broke the drill slid off the busted sharp end of the bit hit me in the hand, and now I have a hole that won't stop bleeding, damn...
And to top it off he cut the shit outa his hand.....
Time to start drinkin' it Friday it's late....
cowboykjohnson
02-26-2010, 16:02
That kind of stuff sure is fun! I was helping my dad install exhaust on his pickup and I had the whole weight if the entire exhaust system held up with a pry bar.... well it slipped.... I smashed him in the face with the pry bar then punched the ground with the hand holding it![Tooth]
Backinblackrifles
02-26-2010, 16:04
Ya I hate jamming bits through digits and appendages it is not so much fun as driving them into other peoples. And what kind of aluminum was it that it was that freaking hard?
bellavite1
02-26-2010, 16:11
I had that happen to me as well.
In the wrist!
My hand was tingling for two weeks.
I thought I hit a nerve...
Ya I hate jamming bits through digits and appendages it is not so much fun as driving them into other peoples. And what kind of aluminum was it that it was that freaking hard?
wasn't hard just flexed cause he put to much into it... I didn't smack him,,,,,,,,,
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yet...
I once gave a guy third degree burns when he got in the way of me taking a pizza out of the oven at Beau Jo's in Idaho Springs.
I guess this is turning into a "my unfortunate story thread". I haven't had anything really major happen to me yet.
But my dumb ass brother in law opened the radiator cap after his car stopped running. Long story short he ended up in the ER in pretty bad shape.
Yeah he's not the sharpest brick in the spoon drawer.
[ROFL1]
cowboykjohnson
02-26-2010, 16:37
I once gave a guy third degree burns when he got in the way of me taking a pizza out of the oven at Beau Jo's in Idaho Springs.
honestly, you really didn't like him, so you you slapped him with the pizza taking it out of the oven right?
Nah, I was working the oven and taking pizzas out with a pair of pliers at a high rate of speed. He reached between me and the cut table when I was turning to set it down. Put the pan right into his forearm. I felt pretty bad. There was a guy named Cowboy when I worked up there, but he was gone long before I burned that guy's arm.
Backinblackrifles
02-26-2010, 16:43
wasn't hard just flexed cause he put to much into it... I didn't smack him,,,,,,,,,
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yet...
I would have............... With the block![Weight]
cowboykjohnson
02-26-2010, 16:45
Nah, I was working the oven and taking pizzas out with a pair of pliers at a high rate of speed. He reached between me and the cut table when I was turning to set it down. Put the pan right into his forearm. I felt pretty bad. There was a guy named Cowboy when I worked up there, but he was gone long before I burned that guy's arm.
[Tooth]
yeah that is definitely no fun when that kind of thing happens! I always had issues when i was a kid getting cut on accident. I loved to build models and would always get nailed by the exacto. no drill bits in the hand though!
Ryan_Th3_K1d
02-26-2010, 21:07
I cut myself shaving last week...does that count?
ryanek9freak
02-26-2010, 21:27
I put a #2 Phillips screwdriver through the webbing between your thumb and forefinger, about 10 years ago. Learned the hard way, not to hold things in your hand while applying hard downward pressure with the other...
Oh it's just all about what happens daily, you know, computer crash, AR malfunction, getting injured,, ya know I hate when that happens.
GreenScoutII
02-26-2010, 22:09
My least favorite job related hate it when that happens? PVC primer in the eye. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING else hurts that fookin' bad. Really, I'd almost rather get kicked in the cubes.
Sawz-all bites, solder burns, ladder dumps, they all suck, but primer in the eye is the worst.
It sucks more than pepper spray. Yes, I've experienced both. Primer is worse.
scratchy
02-26-2010, 22:19
Christmas Eve, 2009. Shoveling snow. Helping my wife clear the back deck, I turn just as she is winding up with a shovel full. You got it, full contact square hit with a snow shovel in good condition (sharp). 5 stitches and a nearly shattered cheek bone.
Lesson: never approach wife when she has tools.
so peeps spray you with pepper spray and you wipe pvc primer in your eyes... Duh...
sabot_round
02-26-2010, 22:21
Christmas Eve, 2009. Shoveling snow. Helping my wife clear the back deck, I turn just as she is winding up with a shovel full. You got it, full contact square hit with a snow shovel in good condition (sharp). 5 stitches and a nearly shattered cheek bone.
Lesson: never approach wife when she has tools.
She did it on purpose!![Beer]
Christmas Eve, 2009. Shoveling snow. Helping my wife clear the back deck, I turn just as she is winding up with a shovel full. You got it, full contact square hit with a snow shovel in good condition (sharp). 5 stitches and a nearly shattered cheek bone.
Lesson: never approach wife when she has tools.
Never give a Woman Tools...
sabot_round
02-26-2010, 22:22
Never give a Woman Tools...
^^^this sums it up^^^
GreenScoutII
02-26-2010, 22:35
so peeps spray you with pepper spray and you wipe pvc primer in your eyes... Duh...
Well, no one ever accused me of being much sharper than a bowling ball...[ROFL1]
Troublco
02-28-2010, 17:46
Never give a Woman Tools...
Ditto!
Hun I need a screwdriver that has one of those stary looking things on the end.
HUH?
Backinblackrifles
02-28-2010, 18:18
Never give a Woman Tools...
Agreed![Rant2]
robsterclaw
03-01-2010, 00:09
Never give a Woman Tools...
Or kids! 8 years ago when my oldest was 14 and the next kid was 13, I bought them both nice Boker knives for Christmas, just like mine except not spring loaded. I didn't nuy the 10 year old one for obvious reasons. I shouldn't have bought them at all.
It was their first present to open since I knew they'd love them. 13 year old uses present number 1 to open present number 2. Present number 2 had to wait while we went to the ER for stitches to the leg.
GreenScoutII
03-01-2010, 01:06
I used to believe that about women and tools. I tell you what though, I have a 3 1/2 year old little girl who can disassemble anything. She can usually get it put back together too. No kidding, the kid is some kind of toolbox savant.
She watched me replace a piece of fireglass on the door of the pellet stove one day. Well, she got into my set of nut drivers, trying each one for size, and proceded to remove three of the four hex head screws that hold the glass in. I was so proud, I couldn't even get mad at her.
That little girl can use my tools any time she wants when she grows up.
Or kids! 8 years ago when my oldest was 14 and the next kid was 13, I bought them both nice Boker knives for Christmas, just like mine except not spring loaded. I didn't nuy the 10 year old one for obvious reasons. I shouldn't have bought them at all.
It was their first present to open since I knew they'd love them. 13 year old uses present number 1 to open present number 2. Present number 2 had to wait while we went to the ER for stitches to the leg.
I learned how to handle a knife in Boy Scouts, I think it should be mandatory.
Back in high school I had a '68 Chevelle SS396. I jacked it up one saturday to pull the starter out, and used a couple of cinderblocks stood on end under the frame for jackstands. Rolled under the car on a creeper, the cinderblocks shattered, and the crossmember under the engine smashed into my right eye. Smashed the lens of my glasses and ground the glass into my face, I have a scar all around the outside edge of my right eye.
Haven't been the same since.
That the coolest sounding scar ever!
Remember those big homemade backyard BBQ's people had back in the 60's, the ones made out of bricks with the tall chimneys? There was a couple of brothers in my neighborhood that made a molotov cocktail, climbed on top of the BBQ, dropped the bottle down the chimney and both looked down the chimney to watch. Yeah, BAD idea! The older one got burned pretty bad.
Troublco
03-01-2010, 11:59
Hun I need a screwdriver that has one of those stary looking things on the end.
HUH?
I tried to keep the wife out of my tools by getting her a small, basic set of her own. She puts it away in her hobby room. Next time she needs something, I find one of my screwdrivers laying on the kitchen counter. When I inquire as to why it's there, she says (with a straight face) "Mine are all the way upstairs. Yours are right out in the garage."
Oh, I have a few that might scare the hell out of some of you....[Abused]
cowboykjohnson
03-01-2010, 15:25
Or kids! 8 years ago when my oldest was 14 and the next kid was 13, I bought them both nice Boker knives for Christmas, just like mine except not spring loaded. I didn't nuy the 10 year old one for obvious reasons. I shouldn't have bought them at all.
It was their first present to open since I knew they'd love them. 13 year old uses present number 1 to open present number 2. Present number 2 had to wait while we went to the ER for stitches to the leg.
I found one of my dads knives when I was 10. I took it outside and was cutting on a stick... slipped of and hacked my finger down to the bone,walked inside and started washing it and got caught, pops thought that was punishment enough, but I learned my lesson thats for sure. I've been safe with weapons and tools ever since. He gave me a knife 1 year later!
I found one of my dads knives when I was 10. I took it outside and was cutting on a stick... slipped of and hacked my finger down to the bone,walked inside and started washing it and got caught, pops thought that was punishment enough, but I learned my lesson thats for sure. I've been safe with weapons and tools ever since. He gave me a knife 1 year later!
I got my first knife in third grade. I have carried one pretty much every day since. I can point out a good half-dozen scars from the years of accidents. Only one ever should have had stitches. I stuck the tip into my forearm deep enough that you could see the muscle moving as I moved. It didn't hardly bleed a drop. My father put a butterfly bandaid on it and away I went.
theGinsue
03-02-2010, 22:18
During our daily routines there are alot of these "hate when that happens" moments.
One of the guys was drilling an aluminum box we made and was having a litttle trouble by himself so I lent a hand, he leaned into it the bit broke the drill slid off the busted sharp end of the bit hit me in the hand, and now I have a hole that won't stop bleeding, damn...
And to top it off he cut the shit outa his hand.....
Time to start drinkin' it Friday it's late....
I was told by my room-mate in college that "Real men use power tools and have a finger missing". A hole in the hand is close enough to havig a finger missing to qualify. You are officially a "real man"!
Troublco
03-02-2010, 23:13
I've never drilled myself, but I cut the inside of a finger with a pair of pruning shears pretty badly once. Took half an hour to stop the bleeding. The best (worst) one though was when I was a young Airman and took a header off the wingtip of an F-106. Tore, didn't cut, a 2 1/2" rip in my scalp through my hat and loosened my scalp enough that I could move it forward and back (after I woke up on the flightline). The worst part was when the nurse had to shave around it. The 8 stitches weren't bad at all. Bled like hell, though.
I've never gotten bit by an F-16, though. (Knock on wood!)
I was helping a bud build a house and the wind was raging. So we dicided to pack up. I didn't even see it a full sheet of 1/2 osb came flying thru the air and knocked me out. Woke up and the guys had a t shirt on my head and I was bleeding bad.
So my bud and me head for Swedish, on the way I tell him to stop and get us some beer. So we finally get there and wait, and wait. Then a nurse see's me covered in blood and hails us in. She says you need to come in the Trauma door.
So she procedds to scrub the gash with what felt like a wire brush. Huh?
Then off to xray, back to er room, german plastic surgeon comes in, whips out his suture, OOOWwww,,, he says You can feel that ... Duh yeah no numbing stuff yet.
So numbs me up stiches away and 16 minutes later and 2800.00 I got 28 stiches on the forehead and 7 on the skull.
The best part was, You have a slight concussion so no Beer... WHOOPS
I have you all beat...
One car vehicle rollover OFF A BRIDGE. I was ejected (no seatbelt). One minute the day is great, long day of satisfying work, blue skies, etc... next minute waking up in a hospital several weeks later.
Broke every bone in my body. Literally, except my left femur. Several weeks in coma, over a year in rehab.
Now for scars... my whole right arm is grafted. On my right shoulder there is about a three inch scar through the arm and into my right chest. This was where teh frame of the window (rebar piece in the frame) went through my arm, into my chest, puncturing my right lung and pinning my arm to the side... apparantely while the vehicle was ROLLING over me as I was found ejected and over 100 feet from the truck. Still have HALO scars (holes) in my head. And my back has some good scars. Right knee can pop in and out of socket (and hurts like hell when it does).
Thank you, next.
hehe. This is a true story.
[Beer] For BB..
as for bones I broke almost all including neck and pelvis.. those two suck to break and heal.
I have you all beat...
One car vehicle rollover OFF A BRIDGE. I was ejected (no seatbelt). One minute the day is great, long day of satisfying work, blue skies, etc... next minute waking up in a hospital several weeks later.
Broke every bone in my body. Literally, except my left femur. Several weeks in coma, over a year in rehab.
Now for scars... my whole right arm is grafted. On my right shoulder there is about a three inch scar through the arm and into my right chest. This was where teh frame of the window (rebar piece in the frame) went through my arm, into my chest, puncturing my right lung and pinning my arm to the side... apparantely while the vehicle was ROLLING over me as I was found ejected and over 100 feet from the truck. Still have HALO scars (holes) in my head. And my back has some good scars. Right knee can pop in and out of socket (and hurts like hell when it does).
Thank you, next.
hehe. This is a true story.
WINNER! [Bow]
How the hell did you do that?
Driver was a friend of mine. We had a summer job mowing lawns, painting houses, etc. He apparently had an unknown medical condition. Blacked out on a bridge, threw the wheel, and off we went.
Just one of those things. Always wear your seatbelt.
cowboykjohnson
03-04-2010, 16:32
Sounds terrible. I've been in a few car wrecks I probably shouldn't have walked away from. They were bad enough that I have PTSD in cars... when other people are driving. The GF hates it, I have to drive everywhere or I'm the worlds loudest and meanest backseat driver.
funkfool
03-04-2010, 16:57
[Beer]
Another - for BB.
I hate when this happens.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587980,00.html?test=latestnews
ChunkyMonkey
03-04-2010, 17:07
A decade or so ago, I was installing a new catalytic converter. So after the front end was welded, I noticed the back end piece of the exhaust had some chunks of the older cat catacomb in it. Being a dumbass, I blew them off with the unlit cutting torch (pressurized acetylene) real quick.
Few minutes later, as I got the welder going again, the spark hit a pocket of the acetylene gas, and KABOOOMMMM....[Bang]
A decade or so ago, I was installing a new catalytic converter. So after the front end was welded, I noticed the back end piece of the exhaust had some chunks of the older cat catacomb in it. Being a dumbass, I blew them off with the unlit cutting torch (pressurized acetylene) real quick.
Few minutes later, as I got the welder going again, the spark hit a pocket of the acetylene gas, and KABOOOMMMM....[Bang]
NOW that's FUN right there.
ChunkyMonkey
03-04-2010, 17:28
NOW that's FUN right there.
WHAT? I CANNOT HEAR YOU! [ROFL1]
Troublco
03-04-2010, 17:32
Wow, BigBear! You must have a purpose in life to have made it through that. Here's one more to you!
[Beer]
Great-Kazoo
03-04-2010, 17:32
WINNER! [Bow]
How the hell did you do that?
i'll match you.
7:30pm on the shoulder of the road just finished crossing. 74 mercury wagon hits me 80mph (as per accident investigators) bounced, skidded 300 marked off feet. 1 boot ends up in the median 60' away, the other at the gate of a cemetery. ribs, hips, pelvis, both legs/ankle broken, contusions and delusions. i come to as a priest? is praying over me....... they say i died in the ER, i missed all the excitement.
here's the kicker
my SO worked in the office next to his wife. My brother goes to work day after the accident, and his boss says "you will not believe the accident my kids witnessed last night!"
yep they were behind the guy that hit me.
a few friends who were working with me that night, go to the apt and tell the spouse she needed to come with them right away, as i wasn't expected to make it. She thinks they are BSing her and shut the door on them. OR she had a good ins policy on me i didnt know about:)
Yup Jim.... I think we can share the title. lol. Coming to as a preist is over you? Man, I think that would've scarred me. Course I came to in a dark room (night time) and couldn't move (body cast and HALO vest) so I was a little freaked out too! Took me a few minutes of bewilderment to figure out where I was. HAHA.
theGinsue
03-06-2010, 18:39
1 boot ends up in the median 60' away, the other at the gate of a cemetery.
so, you had one foot in the grave; eh?
[ROFL3][ROFL1]
Sorry, I couldnt help myself.
Driver was a friend of mine. ..... He apparently had an unknown medical condition. Blacked out on a bridge, threw the wheel, and off we went.
What happened to the driver?
What happened to the driver?
Dead... fireball from impact. They said it was a quick death so he didn't suffer. It's ok. No need to apologize. People always say "Sorry" when they find that out...
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