I felt sorry for him until...

The guy that works in the office next to me cut off his index finger and severely damaged the next three fingers while cutting some siding at home this past weekend. I had a great deal of sympathy for him until I found out how he did it. He was cutting some siding on his house and couldn’t get to part of it with a circular saw so he decided to attach the blade from the circular saw on a hand grinder. Can you imagine! Picture standing on a ladder holding an electric motor with a shaft and a 7-1/4 inch unguarded spinning blade in one hand! He is “lucky” he only lost one finger, that thing could have killed him.

Why do people take chances like this?

Do you?

Do I?

It reminds me for some reason of another time when I saw a guy with a gas motor strapped to his back with a shaft and a propeller sticking out of it just above his head. Luckily his buddy couldn’t get it started, or that guy would have been dead, and probably a few others around him. Why do people take chances like this?

Scott

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vmtw
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..see darwinawards.com

Larry

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Lawrence L'Hote

In article , snipped-for-privacy@vmtw.com (vmtw) wrote: [snip]

Because they're stupid.

-- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek-at-milmac-dot-com)

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Doug Miller

Yep, a Darwin award candidate on some future date.

Ordinary tools are dangerous enough without going looking for trouble. Those lancelot carving wheels some folks use on right angle grinders look extremely dangerous, and they have guards!

A Dremel tool with a little abrasive cutoff wheel would've worked and been safer.

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Lazarus Long

On 17 Sep 2003, Doug Miller spake unto rec.woodworking:

... and they either don't have, or choose to ignore, that little voice in their heads that screams "DANGER! DANGER! DANGER!" when preparing to do something that puts them at the head of the line for the natural selection process.

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Scott Cramer

Considering that is a story that should be submitted. How else could people know to avoid him?

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Young Carpenter

I think Jeff Foxworthy has a whole spiel on people who need to wear signs saying "I'm stupid"

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Young Carpenter

I know how to fix that. I had a job applicant yesterday. Under special skills part of the application he wrote that he did Genetorial work. Ed

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Edwin Pawlowski

He must have gone to a Texas public school. A while back while attending a parent-teacher meeting I observed many equivalent examples in history papers posted on a classroom bulletin board. I asked the history teacher about it and his response was "...this ain't an English class."

Of course when not "teaching" history he coached football, but we all know that in Texas football is the reason high schools exist.

Phil

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Phil

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Shallow end of the gene pool. Darwin normally culls them before they reproduce but some get through now and then. On the other hand, I'm sure the Wright brothers were looked on with concern.

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charlie b

: > Scott : : Shallow end of the gene pool. Darwin normally : culls them before they reproduce but some get : through now and then. On the other hand, I'm : sure the Wright brothers were looked on with : concern.

Watch what you say about my great uncles.

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C Wood

Roy Smith presents:

And he probably had trouble telling them apart.

LMAO!

Charlie Self

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." Samuel Johnson

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Charlie Self

: "Violin playing and Woodworking are similar, it takes plenty of money, : plenty of practice, and you usually make way more noise than intended"

Heh, I play the violin while the glue is drying.. :-)

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C Wood

Nope. Darwin Award recipients are required to have removed their genes from the pool permanently during their 'adventure'.

Not dead only gets you Honorable Mention, and you really gotta screw yourself up to get that. Taking off a finger or three won't cut it.

[can't believe I said that . . . ] Cheers, Fred McClellan the dash plumber at mindspring dot com
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Fred McClellan

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stock numbers 14133 through 14138.

Work great, cut _fast_.

Balsa, bass, birch ply, fingers, . . .

BTDT. Cheers, Fred McClellan the dash plumber at mindspring dot com

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Fred McClellan

Agreed, but there is one more condition. You must remove yourself from the gene pool before you have children, otherwise the stupid genes just keep on replicating.

Mekon

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Mekon

You know, I don't buy that theory, not all the time. Now the guy that lost all his fingers trying to trim his hedges by picking up his running lawnmower was definitely in that category but sometimes anxious beats out stupid. So does frustration, lack of money, anger, boredom, and fatigue. We've all gotten away with, and been bitten by stupid things like this.

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Bruce

I'd agree with him. I've been on Ph.D. committees and seen dissertations submitted that were as bad as some of these examples. None have my signature on them though.

Phil

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Phil

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