Stupidity takes its pound of flesh

The BBQ Pit
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::sigh::

This is getting overly dramatic. This is the only major injury I’ve sustained on the farm.

As I’ve said an urban lifestyle has it’s own risks, and I got injured far worse with more frequency playing high school football and other sports.

As I’ve also said, farmer’s and other working class people risk far more everyday, and suffer much worse injuries.

Yes, there’s been a couple of scary accidents living on the farm, and a couple of near misses.

I don’t know about you guys, but seriously, look over your lives. What kind of dangers have you been exposed to over the last 8 years or so?

These are the risks of life.
Spiritus Mundi:

Pot, kettle, black, buds. I may have done some foolish and dangerous things, but I would never have tried to disarm a mugger.

This was an accident, they happen. Yours was playing Russian Roulette.

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Point taken.

But you have to remember, I was young, foolish, and immortal then. I’m only foolish now.

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[sub]besides, it was a cute little boning knife and I wanted it for my collection.[/sub]

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Forgive me for asking Scylla but wasn’t it you, about a year ago, who asked if he should try to straighten a load bearing barn wall with a combination of hand winch and chain?

Glad you came out of this last one in essentially one piece.

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Quicksilver:

Yeah, that was a near miss, there.

And I didn’t ask. I tried it, but it wasn’t such a hot idea.

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Do tell.

By the way, does your life insurance agent know you do these things? :slight_smile:

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Glad you’re OK!

This time you have a great story and a cool scar to go along with it!

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Quicksilver:

That threads around here somewhere. A pit one if I recall.

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Are you sure you’re not a 'toon out of Roger Rabbit?

Glad you came through as well as you did.

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Just wanna throw in my “Glad you’re okay, man.”
I was having images of glancing blows off the temple, turning/flinching in the split second before something bounces off the spot your eye was a second before, getting pounded in the nuts…there’s a reason you’re supposed to wear eye-protection around tools and stuff, pro or not.

Not to preach, but damn, ounce of prevention and all that.

Glad to hear you’ll be okay, Scylla.

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It feels like I have Rice Krispies stuck on my arm and shoulder.

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With or without milk?

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But does it sound like you have Rice Krispies[sup]TM[/sup] stuck on your arm and shoulder?

Glad you survived. Place wouldn’t be the same without all your dastardly plots and such.

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  1. Glad to hear you’re feeling ok.

  2. I now feel better about my trip to the E.R. last night–I decided to try and install an a/c by myself–it slipped and put a 2 inch gash in my wrist–7 stitches.

  3. Nomahhhhh!!! (ok, that’s a Red Sox reference but I’m feeling good about their season, despite last night’s loss to Oakland)

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Scylla!

Oh dear, dear Scylla… How horrible… I’m glad you’re ok, though, and that you didn’t end up killing yourself…

Ouch…

From someone who has had lots of stitches and broken bones, those things are bloody painful.

Hope you’ll feel better soon! Oh, and be careful - soap, shampoo, hot water and stitches just don’t mix. Really.

Elly