# I Warned You Kids! "don"t Play With Power Tools" I Said! Now See What Happened? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 29, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-warned-you-kids-don-t-play-with-power-tools-i-said-now-see-what-happened/171955 "2003-04-29T17:35:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-warned-you-kids-don-t-play-with-power-tools-i-said-now-see-what-happened/171955/1 "2003-04-29T17:35:29Z")
[Sub titled–This guy has **way** too much time on his hands. Or, this guy was _seriously_ “bored”. 😃](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/devon/2982391.stm) ---
**Author:** ![hyperjes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@hyperjes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hyperjes)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-warned-you-kids-don-t-play-with-power-tools-i-said-now-see-what-happened/171955/2 "2003-04-29T17:42:13Z")
Or he wanted a really _creative_ suicide. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-warned-you-kids-don-t-play-with-power-tools-i-said-now-see-what-happened/171955/3 "2003-04-29T17:45:38Z")
Dr. Peter Venkman: Egon, this reminds me of that time you tried to drill a hole in your head. Dr. Egon Spengler: That would have worked if you hadn’t stopped me. ---
**Author:** ![\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/7cd45c/32.png) [@\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Deep_F_ied)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-warned-you-kids-don-t-play-with-power-tools-i-said-now-see-what-happened/171955/4 "2003-04-29T18:19:10Z")
Didn’t he know that you can’t get the voices out with a drill? You need a ballpeen hammer and an ice pick…duhh. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-warned-you-kids-don-t-play-with-power-tools-i-said-now-see-what-happened/171955/5 "2003-04-29T18:36:18Z")
> [@](#): > > Joseph Mellen met Bart Huges in 1965 in Ibiza and quickly became his leading, or rather one and only, disciple. Years later he wrote a book called Bore Hole, the contents of which are summarized in its opening sentence: ‘This is the story of how I came to drill a hole in my skull to get permanently high.’ [Do NOT try this at home- or anywhere else](http://www.noah.org/trepan/people_with_holes_in_their_heads.html) ---
**Author:** ![Gulo\_gulo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@Gulo\_gulo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gulo_gulo)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-warned-you-kids-don-t-play-with-power-tools-i-said-now-see-what-happened/171955/6 "2003-04-29T18:40:32Z")
Odd, I was just thinking about self-trepanation the other day. I was wondering if people still did that. I guess this is my answer. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-warned-you-kids-don-t-play-with-power-tools-i-said-now-see-what-happened/171955/7 "2003-04-29T18:56:09Z")
From DocCathode’s quoted site: > [@](#): > > According to his theory of evolution, the adoption of an upright stance brought certain benefits to the human race, but it caused the flow of blood through the head to be limited by gravity, thus reducing the range of human consciousness. Certain parts of the brain ceased or reduced their functions while others, particularly those parts relating to speech and reasoning, became emphasized in compensation. One can redress the balance by a number of methods, such as standing on one’s head, jumping from a hot bath into a cold one, or the use of drugs; but the wider consciousness thus obtained is only temporary. … couldn’t you just _lie down?_ ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-warned-you-kids-don-t-play-with-power-tools-i-said-now-see-what-happened/171955/8 "2003-04-29T18:57:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gulo gulo \* > \*\*Odd, I was just thinking about self-trepanation the other day. > > I was wondering if people still did that. I guess this is my answer. \*\* It was five years ago today that I stood over the body of a friend. It was impossible to tell where her cut-away coat ended and the blood stains began. One cold hand clutched a whip. The other was wrapped tightly around a drill. And it was my fault. But, I told myself, at least I can know that I will never be responsible for the self-trepanation death of another lion-taming woman. Now, I see that I was wrong. Will the horror never end? I beg you Gulo, don’t do it!!! Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-warned-you-kids-don-t-play-with-power-tools-i-said-now-see-what-happened/171955/9 "2003-04-29T19:35:27Z")
Anybody got an aspirin? ---
**Author:** ![Gulo\_gulo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bcef8e/32.png) [@Gulo\_gulo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gulo_gulo)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-warned-you-kids-don-t-play-with-power-tools-i-said-now-see-what-happened/171955/10 "2003-04-29T22:20:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DocCathode \* > \*\*It was five years ago today that I stood over the body of a friend. It was impossible to tell where her cut-away coat ended and the blood stains began. One cold hand clutched a whip. The other was wrapped tightly around a drill. And it was my fault. But, I told myself, at least I can know that I will never be responsible for the self-trepanation death of another lion-taming woman. Now, I see that I was wrong. Will the horror never end? > > I beg you Gulo, don’t do it!!! > > Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! \*\* I guess I should have specified that I wasn’t thinking about trying it myself! But thanks for the laugh. I even almost fell off my chair. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-warned-you-kids-don-t-play-with-power-tools-i-said-now-see-what-happened/171955/11 "2003-04-29T23:00:14Z")
Cecil wrote a column last year on [trepanation](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/020906.html). ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-warned-you-kids-don-t-play-with-power-tools-i-said-now-see-what-happened/171955/12 "2003-04-30T02:56:08Z")
That’s weird-just yesterday I was watching ER (in syndication), and they had the episode where the guy had someone do a trepanation on him because of a headache.