# Blonde model walks into moving prop **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 6, 2011, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-model-walks-into-moving-prop/605281 "2011-12-06T18:27:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-model-walks-into-moving-prop/605281/21 "2011-12-06T22:54:19Z")
Reminds me of the pilot for \*Lost, \*in which a guy was sucked into a jet engine on the beach. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-model-walks-into-moving-prop/605281/22 "2011-12-07T04:19:18Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > I’m going to be a lot more wary of my ceiling fan. In Korea. ---
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-model-walks-into-moving-prop/605281/23 "2011-12-07T06:10:36Z")
> [@LateComer](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-model-walks-into-moving-prop/605281/24 "2011-12-07T06:33:31Z")
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. > [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > I’m going to be a lot more wary of my ceiling fan. ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-model-walks-into-moving-prop/605281/25 "2011-12-07T08:10:42Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![brittekland](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@brittekland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittekland)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-model-walks-into-moving-prop/605281/26 "2011-12-07T09:07:01Z")
Wow… Well, everything is fine until it’s not. Be careful everyone. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-model-walks-into-moving-prop/605281/27 "2011-12-07T09:36:13Z")
> [@Pixiesnix](#): > > 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! ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2011, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-model-walks-into-moving-prop/605281/28 "2011-12-07T23:13:17Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-model-walks-into-moving-prop/605281/29 "2011-12-08T00:04:46Z")
> [@Pixiesnix](#): > > 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! ---
**Author:** ![arseNal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@arseNal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arseNal)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-model-walks-into-moving-prop/605281/30 "2011-12-08T00:20:58Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > 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) ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-model-walks-into-moving-prop/605281/31 "2011-12-08T06:16:46Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-model-walks-into-moving-prop/605281/32 "2011-12-08T20:22:53Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-model-walks-into-moving-prop/605281/33 "2011-12-09T05:03:52Z")
[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. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blonde-model-walks-into-moving-prop/605281.md?page=1)