What have been the worst home handyman accidents you've had,or seen so far ?

[clare at snyder.on.ca]

At 15 he had fathered at least 3. This is an "inner city" school. Stud muffin.

[Doug Brown]

[Joe Pfeiffer]

My wedding ring is on my finger most of the time... but comes off when I pick up a screwdriver.

[John B]

G'day Ed, I'm in your camp. I call it a 6 month hair cut :) In Oz they are commonly called a Crew Cut.

regards John

[Roger]

The message from John B contains these words:

That photo made a lasting impression on me as well (back in 1962 or 63). I was thinking about making a similar post myself when I found John had beaten me to it.

[Colin Wilson]

Nice...

I've got two I can recount, but they're not strictly handyman accidents.

When I was serving my apprenticeship, we did a bit of practical and a bit of workshop - one of the lads in our year managed to lose a finger while working on a lathe. I think he made the mistake of continuing to use it while turning around to talk to someone...

The other was an office accident, and this might top them all (sadly)

This happened either just before I started orvery shortly afterwards in another local office (now closed). We had some work experience kids in with varying levels of handicap, and someone thought it would be safe to let one of these kids use the shredder. Not even the manufacturer believed you could get a whole hand in that far :-/

[Gunner]

Dead bad people for the most part.

You seem to think this is a bad thing?

Gunner

[Michael A. Terrell]

He doesn't think, he just parrots the anti Second Amendment cult.

[dennis]

Probably faked though as the tendon would only go till just after the wrist where it attaches to the muscles that work the fingers. About 6 inches I would estimate. I always took my watch off after being told what happens if you forget and reach between the battery bus bars and never have worn a ring as they are naff and dangerous everywhere not just at work.

[John B]

G'day Roger, They sure didn't believe in getting rid of a good thing in those days :) I remember it from '71 or '72.

regards John

[John B]

G'day Roger, Could have been ?? May not have been a tendon, but that's the way I remember it. It still did the trick, even if they played around with it in the 60's and 70's. I won't let the War Office see this in case she takes your point of view and makes me hunt up the ring :)

regards John

[nick hull]

When I got married it was a one-ring ceremony so i would never be tempted to wear a ring ;)

Free men own guns - www(dot)geocities(dot)com/CapitolHill/5357/

[Ed Huntress]

Maybe we're getting some insight into why kids don't want to take shop classes any more. Given how they dress and groom, it's downright dangerous.

-- Ed Huntress

[Ed Huntress]

Most of my machining books contain warnings about tucking your tie inside of your dress shirt, and covering it all up with a shop coat.

-- Ed Huntress

[Nancy Young]

"Colin Wilson" wrote

Yikes. Over this past weekend some guy was killed when his shirt became entangled with a stump grinder being operated by some tree company. No word on why the homeowner was hanging around so close to the activity that he could get his shirt caught.

nancy

[Ed Huntress]

Oh, jeez, did you have to say that? I'm not going anywhere near my lathe for a while now...

-- Ed Huntress

[Gunner]

I wonder what his response will be if we bring up doctors, motor vehicles, food and power tools, not to mention ladders....brrrrrrrrr!

Gunner

[Gunner]

I wonder if they still sent a bill to the house?

Gunner

[Dave]

Thanks for that :-)

I had heard of a # 1 etc. but never a # 0

Dave

[Dave]

I rather like that term of endearment ;-)

It just perfectly sums up their position.

Dave