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VunderBob
12-06-2011, 12:27 PM
This sure sounds like the setup for a joke, but it isn't. (http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/12/06/texas-model-has-long-road-to-recovery-after-walking-into-plane-propeller/) At least she walked into it face-first; if she had backed into it, disaster.
UncleRojelio
12-06-2011, 12:42 PM
Yeah, blonde jokes aside though, why was this news today ahead of all the other stuff going on in the world? Is it because she is white, blonde, and pretty?
Ouch.
At least they can reattach the hand.
Tom Tildrum
12-06-2011, 01:12 PM
If I'm reading the article right, it was the doctors that amputated the hand, not the propellor, which suggests to me that it was too damaged to save.
Walking into a propellor is just so gruesome that it counts as top news. Plus we've all seen Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Oh yeah, I guess you're right.
But hand transplants are happening these days.
Shagnasty
12-06-2011, 01:18 PM
She isn't the first or the last one to do this. It is a fairly common accident in aviation.
romansperson
12-06-2011, 01:21 PM
She isn't the first or the last one to do this. It is a fairly common accident in aviation.
I used to work on a Navy base. This would happen occasionally. I don't know of anyone who lived to tell about it though.
I did hear about a guy who got sucked into a jet engine and survived though - amazingly, he only had minor injuries. His belt buckle caught on something inside the engine and kept him from being chopped to bits.
VunderBob
12-06-2011, 01:24 PM
I did hear about a guy who got sucked into a jet engine and survived though - amazingly, he only had minor injuries. His belt buckle caught on something inside the engine and kept him from being chopped to bits.
I used to have a video clip of this. He was sucked into the starboard engine of an EA-6B.
I did hear about a guy who got sucked into a jet engine and survived though - amazingly, he only had minor injuries.
Did he still have his hearing?
romansperson
12-06-2011, 01:44 PM
Did he still have his hearing?
IIRC, initially no, but he recovered it quickly.
Here's a History Channel clip about it:
http://youtu.be/GF3Iz7b95-8
It says his helmet saved him - it hit the engine first and shut it down.
LateComer
12-06-2011, 01:47 PM
That is terrible. When I read "moving prop" I was expecting to read that she ran into a cardboard tree being moved at a photoshoot. A propellor is much worse.
kayaker
12-06-2011, 02:00 PM
She isn't the first or the last one to do this. It is a fairly common accident in aviation.
I'll bet nobody has done it twice!
robardin
12-06-2011, 02:26 PM
That is terrible. When I read "moving prop" I was expecting to read that she ran into a cardboard tree being moved at a photoshoot. A propellor is much worse.
Yeah, really. I also was picturing a prop piece on the shooting set, which would have been appropriate (sort of) for making "blonde model" type jokes. An airplane propeller incident that mangles her face and hand? Sheesh. That's just gruesome.
Dogzilla
12-06-2011, 02:31 PM
Yeah, blonde jokes aside though, why was this news today ahead of all the other stuff going on in the world? Is it because she is white, blonde, and pretty?
It's because she lived.
And because it sounds like the start of a really great blonde joke.
drewtwo99
12-06-2011, 02:33 PM
I admit... I did chuckle a bit at the way they worded it. Why do they keep pointing out that she's a "fashionista"? Obviously they are playing to a particular angle/sentiment.
If I were writing the headline it would say "Woman miraculously survives walking into running airplane propeller" or something like that.
OpalCat
12-06-2011, 02:38 PM
Walking into a propellor is just so gruesome that it counts as top news. Plus we've all seen Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Walking into a moving airplane propeller is one of the many exciting ways that characters died in the one-act play "Addict" that we performed in high school. Googling seems to find the play-write as a one Jerome McDonough, if you care to look it up. My character died by stabbing herself in the eyes with knitting needles while high on PCP. Great stuff and perfect for the kids.
runner pat
12-06-2011, 02:40 PM
I admit... I did chuckle a bit at the way they worded it. Why do they keep pointing out that she's a "fashionista"? Obviously they are playing to a particular angle/sentiment.
If I were writing the headline it would say "Woman miraculously survives walking into running airplane propeller" or something like that.
So twenty years after her horrible accident, the blonde was getting off a small plane when another passenger asked her how she acquired such horrible injuries.
And she said: "like this!"
VunderBob
12-06-2011, 03:03 PM
It's because she lived.
From the brief description of her injuries, it had to be feathered variable pitch, so she got slapped instead of struck by the leading edge. If you don't know what I'm talking about, she got hit with the wide side of a broadsword instead of the business edge.
Also, my op was a blonde joke. Backed into it -> dis-assed-her...
Tom Tildrum
12-06-2011, 03:14 PM
I'm going to be a lot more wary of my ceiling fan.
runner pat
12-06-2011, 03:20 PM
I'm going to be a lot more wary of my ceiling fan.
Mythbusters busted that one.
panache45
12-06-2011, 04:54 PM
Reminds me of the pilot for Lost, in which a guy was sucked into a jet engine on the beach.
kayaker
12-06-2011, 10:19 PM
I'm going to be a lot more wary of my ceiling fan.
In Korea.
Amblydoper
12-07-2011, 12:10 AM
That is terrible. When I read "moving prop" I was expecting to read that she ran into a cardboard tree being moved at a photoshoot. A propellor is much worse.
Me too. I feel bad for laughing.
aceplace57
12-07-2011, 12:33 AM
No doubt a ceiling fan blade could hurt you.
Mythbusters tested the myth that a ceiling fan could decapitate. They proved ceiling fans aren't strong enough to do that. But, the dummy they used sustained damage. I'd say it was enough to inflict a skull fracture. It could definitely send you to the ER.
I'm going to be a lot more wary of my ceiling fan.
Pixiesnix
12-07-2011, 02:10 AM
Lord help me, the first thing I thought of when I read she lost her hand in a freak accident was DORRANCE #5X STAINLESS STEEL HOOKS.
How bad a person does that make me?
Link (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64354) for those who wonder what I'm talking about.
brittekland
12-07-2011, 03:07 AM
Wow...
Well, everything is fine until it's not. Be careful everyone.
Lord help me, the first thing I thought of when I read she lost her hand in a freak accident was DORRANCE #5X STAINLESS STEEL HOOKS.
How bad a person does that make me?
Link (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64354) for those who wonder what I'm talking about.
Unfortunately, the page the OP refers to is dead, so here's a quote of the first couple paragraphs.
ABOUT ME
HI! MY NAME IS CAROLE, AND I'M A 21 YEAR OLD COLLEGE STUDENT STUDYING TO BECOME A TEACHER OF EXCEPTIONAL ("DISABLED")
CHILDREN. I'M A HIGH MYOPE, AND I WEAR GLASSES WITH THICK
PLASTIC LENSES. ALTHOUGH I USED TO WEAR CONTACT LENSES AT TIMES, I'VE DECIDED TO GIVE THEM UP ALTOGETHER IN FAVOR OF MY GLASSES. I'M ALSO A BONAFIDE DBE (DOUBLE BELOW ELBOW) AMPUTEE WANNABE. YES, THAT MEANS THAT I REALLY DO WANT TO HAVE BOTH OF MY HANDS AND BOTH OF MY WRISTS AMPUTATED ABOUT EIGHT INCHES BELOW MY ELBOWS! IT WAS ONLY RECENTLY THAT I HAVE FINALLY COME TO FULLY UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT OF MY DESIRE TO BECOME A REAL DBE AMPUTEE. WHEN I WAS THREE YEARS OLD, I MET A YOUNG MAN WHO WAS COMPLETELY MISSING ALL FOUR OF HIS FINGERS ON HIS RIGHT HAND. EVER SINCE THAT TIME, I HAVE BEEN ABSOLUTELY FASCINATED BY AMPUTEES, MOST ESPECIALLY WOMEN AMPUTEES WHO ARE MISSING THEIR HANDS OR THEIR ARMS AND WHO WEAR HOOK PROSTHESES. EVER SINCE I CAN REMEMBER, I HAVE CONSTANTLY DREAMED AND FANTASIZED ABOUT BECOMING A REAL AMPUTEE MYSELF, ESPECIALLY A REAL DBE AMPUTEE WHO WEARS TWIN BODY-POWERED PROSTHESES WITH MATCHING DORRANCE #5X STAINLESS STEEL HOOKS. SINCE I HAVE PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT THAT MY OBSESSION ABOUT BECOMING A REAL DBE AMPUTEE WAS "UNNATURAL" (I. E.: WRONG, IMMORAL, INDECENT, ETC.) -- LIKE "COVETING THY NEIGHBOR'S HUSBAND OR COVETING THY NEIGHBOR'S GOODS" -- I ALWAYS USED TO HIDE MY FEELINGS FROM EVERYONE. I SAY "USED TO" BECAUSE MY WHOLE LIFE HAS NOW CHANGED QUITE SIGNIFICANTLY!
LSLGuy
12-07-2011, 05:13 PM
No doubt a ceiling fan blade could hurt you.
Mythbusters tested the myth that a ceiling fan could decapitate. They proved ceiling fans aren't strong enough to do that. But, the dummy they used sustained damage. I'd say it was enough to inflict a skull fracture. It could definitely send you to the ER.Way back in the Dark Ages when I was in the service a very drunk girl climbed up on a table in the O' Club bar. She was gonna dance.
That lasted about 20 seconds till she hopped just a bit too high & took a fan blade in the forehead. As you'd expect for a forehead laceration, it bled like Hollywood. She looked mortally wounded even though it was just cut skin. She ended up in the base ER with, IIRC, 4 stitches to close the wound. Real buzz kill for her. That night's party continued pretty much unfazed.
And she gained a reputation as the go-to party girl that took years to live down.
OpalCat
12-07-2011, 06:04 PM
Lord help me, the first thing I thought of when I read she lost her hand in a freak accident was DORRANCE #5X STAINLESS STEEL HOOKS.
How bad a person does that make me?
Link (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64354) for those who wonder what I'm talking about.
Oh god I remember that thread/that site/what whatever!
arseNal
12-07-2011, 06:20 PM
No doubt a ceiling fan blade could hurt you.
Mythbusters tested the myth that a ceiling fan could decapitate. They proved ceiling fans aren't strong enough to do that. But, the dummy they used sustained damage. I'd say it was enough to inflict a skull fracture. It could definitely send you to the ER.Hey, fuckers (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_wx-snzMCU) (related youtube link)
Pixiesnix
12-08-2011, 12:16 AM
Oh god I remember that thread/that site/what whatever!
And after all these years, that thread still makes me a little queasy. And it makes my wrists hurt.
GusNSpot
12-08-2011, 02:22 PM
I do not know about a full beheading but we have some old small metal ceiling fans that on the high setting would do way more that just cut you a little.
Also, after the totally stupid cannon ball stunt the 'M Busters' just pulled ( Round cannon balls skip like crazy, a long known fact. ) it makes me even more aware of how many things the set up to reach a foregone conclusion.
Fun show but they are not the definitive word on a lot of the things they say they are.
YMMV
runner pat
12-08-2011, 11:03 PM
Injured model takes first steps. (http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2011/12/model-lauren-scruggs-first-steps-after-propeller-accident)
Must have gone to a spin doctor.
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