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#461556 - 09/14/05 12:16 PM Re:Modding Injuries [Re: Anonymous]
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Registered: 03/01/04
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speaking of knives, I was trying to cut one of those crimp-ties, as I call them. As I was pulling the knife towards me, trying to cut it it happended and I couldn't stop the knife in time. I ended up stabbbing meyself in my left palm. Still got a nice scar from that one.

Post edited by: oojacoboo, at: 2005/09/14 12:18
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#461557 - 09/14/05 01:37 PM Re:Modding Injuries [Re: Anonymous]
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Registered: 08/16/04
Posts: 500
Loc: Portland, Oregon
heh, I shouldnt be up for consideration in this category. my proximity to damaged machines is way high on a daily basis. At work we've had monitors arc with bolts of electricity, cracked CRT's hard drives burst into flames, shards of glass, plastic and metal, etc. I open a new wound probably every week, courtesy of sharp case edges or solder points. So, that we're gonna leave out.

Best I've done so far was when I was cutting airbrush mask on an ipod backplate. my brand new x-acto blade hit a nick in the metal, and jumped, my forward motion and proximity caused me to slice open the skin on my right thumb palm side, between the basal knuckle and the center one. I went clean through the skin. Luckily, I managed to miss everything else.

Now, imagine a moron like me, my hand wrapped in paper towels, driving to the hospital with my hand above my head, smoking a cigarette, bleeding everywhere. I didnt know I could make a u-turn while driving with my knee :silly:

Anyway, long story short, they washed it out, sealed me up with derma-bond skin glue, (irrational phobia of needles, stitches were not happening) and gave me pain killers. I was one handed for 3 weeks while my skin pulled together. Now, I have an inch long scar, and some minor tissue buildup around the wound.

The morals? 1)Always cut away from yourself. 2) even when cutting away, wear cut proof gloves. 3) when putting a new blade in your knife, give yourself a tiny prick, and taint the blade. Once it's had blood, it usually wont strike again. :evil:
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#461558 - 09/14/05 01:47 PM Re:Modding Injuries [Re: Anonymous]
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Registered: 05/30/04
Posts: 1016
blood makes me woozy....otherwise I'd still be in school right now...well on my way to being a rich doctor.

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#461559 - 09/14/05 01:52 PM Re:Modding Injuries [Re: Anonymous]
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Registered: 08/16/04
Posts: 500
Loc: Portland, Oregon
College made me woozy. Otherwise, I'd be a highly paid graphic desi....nevermind. I'm always in awe of the fact that when I started my college career, digital art was new, and highly paid. When I was in my senior year, the market was totally different, and there was a glut of talented people. Good thing I know how to fix em too. laugh
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#461560 - 09/14/05 03:35 PM Re:Modding Injuries [Re: Anonymous]
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Registered: 11/16/07
Posts: 1656
This is not a mod injury but its a great story none the less. Well, I sort got in a fight and punched through a window. Bad idea. I have a 5 inch scar that required 27 stiches inside and out. I cut though veins and tendons. Took me six months to recover. The scar is cool though.
My advice, if you must drink excessively and someone confronts you to fight....RUN! B)
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#461561 - 09/15/05 03:53 PM Re:Modding Injuries [Re: Anonymous]
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Registered: 02/14/05
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this is all too true
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#461562 - 09/15/05 05:59 PM Re:Modding Injuries [Re: Anonymous]
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Registered: 07/05/05
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OK so I was opening up this iMac one day...oh heck I'm the guy who can't make it down the stairs without 6 screws and two pins in the foot and three months on my butt. I just won't get started... :P
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#461563 - 09/15/05 06:15 PM Re:Modding Injuries [Re: Anonymous]
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Registered: 06/07/04
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I'm starting to think with all of these knife injuries that modders should be required to get a Toten Chip.



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#461564 - 09/15/05 06:33 PM Re:Modding Injuries [Re: Anonymous]
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Registered: 02/14/05
Posts: 491
HAH that thing brings back memories. i was using my knife to do something, and my scout leader came up to me and told me i shouldn't be using a knife like that. he wanted to cut a corner off my totin chip. i took it out of my wallet, ripped it into several small pieces and threw them at him.... then went back to what i was doing... :S

i wasn't the nicest boy scout in the troop :blink:


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#461565 - 09/15/05 07:20 PM Re:Modding Injuries [Re: Anonymous]
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Registered: 08/16/04
Posts: 500
Loc: Portland, Oregon
Okay, so I'm laughing at the moment. How many of us were boy scouts? Better than that, how many of us looked at it not as personal betterment, and honorable scouting, but as having your own badly trained swat team on a sugar bender?

I dunno about the rest of you, but my scoutmaster gave up on the totin chip thing when he realized I could juggle throwing knives, and was teaching the other guys. He drew the line at throwing axes though laugh But He DID appreciate my ability to breathe fire with a mouth full of rubbing alcohol, and my ability to keep 30 other kids in line, in check, and out of trouble with my antics. go figure...

god I miss those days, I dont think I've blown a decent fireball since I was 18. whistle Wait, no, my icon is from 2 years ago. Nevermind.
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