# Ever had a Rambo moment? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-rambo-moment/464869 "2008-09-23T18:37:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-rambo-moment/464869/21 "2008-09-24T21:05:07Z")
Why did I come into this thread? Why? _queasy_ (it’s the fishing hook stories specifically – I have a thing about impalements) > [@rjk](#): > > The scalp wounds mentioned above remind me of a story I saw here about a rugby player who came to the bench with half his scalp hanging down, found the team’s medics busy with someone who was _really_ hurt, so rummaged through their stuff for a suture kit, and stitched himself up enough that he could go back into the game. He’s not Rambo, he’s nuts. I think that’s true of many many rugby players. An Australian player named Pinetree Meads was known for an incident where he had a compound fracture of the arm (I think, it was definitely a very nasty break) in the scrum and made the medics strap him up just enough so he could KEEP ON playing. And at the end of the game he’s reputed to have grumbled as they carted him off to hospital, “At least we won.” ---
**Author:** ![Influential\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Influential\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Influential_Panda)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-rambo-moment/464869/22 "2008-09-24T21:06:32Z")
I was working in a kitchen, next to the head chef. I bumped into a pizza peel, and after a series of things bumping into each other, I knocked his 9" chef’s knife off the counter and sent it twirling towards his foot. I reached out and snatched it by the handle mid-flight before it could pierce his foot. He looked down to see me holding his knife about 3" away from his foot and said “…good catch.” We went back to work. ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-rambo-moment/464869/23 "2008-09-24T21:45:34Z")
> [@Influential\_Panda](#): > > I was working in a kitchen, next to the head chef. I bumped into a pizza peel, and after a series of things bumping into each other, I knocked his 9" chef’s knife off the counter and sent it twirling towards his foot. I reached out and snatched it by the handle mid-flight before it could pierce his foot. > > He looked down to see me holding his knife about 3" away from his foot and said “…good catch.” We went back to work. Lots of people know the rule, “Never try to catch a falling knife.” Few people don’t know about the exception, “Unless it’s headed for the head chef’s foot.” Nicely done. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-rambo-moment/464869/24 "2008-09-24T23:30:10Z")
I had a pretty bad fall once down a small cliff and managed to break both elbows and one wrist. I drove home (it was a manual transmission). In HS, I was talked into trying a ‘flaming shot’. I hiccuped and it burned out the inside of my nose. (People said it was impressive, flame out my nose almost a full foot.) I never sought treatment or fessed up to the injury, but Man that hurt. (Kids, don’t try this at home…) While running by a fence in HS, my foot slipped down a dirt hole with a sharp horizontal pipe at the bottom. It impaled my calf with my full body weight. I walked/limped home (50 stitches). A few nurses have commented about my high thresshold of pain. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-rambo-moment/464869/25 "2008-09-25T05:37:54Z")
…I rolled into the parking lot behind my stolen motorcyle and produced a 12 guage and a 9mm and politely requested the gentelmen put my bike on the kickstand and walk slowly away… Got out of the cuffs, got my bike back and broke up a bike ‘chop shop’ operation all in one night! ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-rambo-moment/464869/26 "2008-09-25T07:16:43Z")
> [@lizardling](#): > > I think that’s true of many many rugby players. An Australian player named Pinetree Meads was known for an incident where he had a compound fracture of the arm (I think, it was definitely a very nasty break) in the scrum and made the medics strap him up just enough so he could KEEP ON playing. And at the end of the game he’s reputed to have grumbled as they carted him off to hospital, “At least we won.” Australian? I’m surprised that the New Zealanders haven’t come after you with flaming torches and pitchforks. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-rambo-moment/464869/27 "2008-09-25T08:16:38Z")
Nope, I am anterambo to the core. I did watch an ER doc piece together the shreds of the tip of my right forefinger after I’d run it through the router in my woodshop, but my hand was dead to the elbow at the time. I cry like a little girl just trying to pull a splinter out of my finger. ---
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-rambo-moment/464869/28 "2008-09-25T15:55:58Z")
Wow. It has been fun reading these. The SPAM has been reported. Thanks to all you Rambos, ninjas, and Kwai Chang Caines. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-rambo-moment/464869/29 "2008-09-25T19:19:28Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > Australian? I’m surprised that the New Zealanders haven’t come after you with flaming torches and pitchforks. :smack: That’ll teach me for not checking my memory before posting. My deepest apologies to NZ and any rugby fans from that neck of the world! _blush_ ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-rambo-moment/464869/30 "2008-09-25T20:30:22Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > …I rolled into the parking lot behind my stolen motorcyle and produced a 12 guage and a 9mm and politely requested the gentelmen put my bike on the kickstand and walk slowly away… > Got out of the cuffs, got my bike back and broke up a bike ‘chop shop’ operation all in one night! How 'bout long-story-long on this one - seems worth some expounding. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-had-a-rambo-moment/464869.md?page=1)