# How long could a person dance on top of one of those industrial shredders before getting caught?

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**Created:** [July 28, 2026, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-a-person-dance-on-top-of-one-of-those-industrial-shredders-before-getting-caught/1031971 "2026-07-28T03:34:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2026, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-could-a-person-dance-on-top-of-one-of-those-industrial-shredders-before-getting-caught/1031971/15 "2026-07-30T12:02:19Z")

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> [@robby](#):
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> I hesitate to even post this because it’s so horrific, but something very similar happened with tragic results to a little boy in my town a few years ago who was helping his father put brush through a large wood-chipper. A branch being pulled into the chipper somehow got wrapped around his wrist…

Here’s the 14 year old thread discussing this event: [I never knew wood chippers were this dangerous.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-never-knew-wood-chippers-were-this-dangerous/618409)

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