Their HANDS were pulled off??

[Kalhoun]

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/14374881/detail.html

I don’t understand the mechanics behind this. If a bunch of kids let go in the tug-o-war, wouldn’t that lessen the tension that would have pulled their hands off?

This line cracked me up:

Signs posted around the private, Christian school read, “Their hands are in His hands.”

[silk1976]

@Kalhoun

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/14374881/detail.html

I don’t understand the mechanics behind this. If a bunch of kids let go in the tug-o-war, wouldn’t that lessen the tension that would have pulled their hands off?

This line cracked me up:

Only if the kids that let go were on the other side. I’m thinking that a bunch of kids let go on this particular childs hands, and so all the pulling force from the other side was now concentrated on his wrist alone.

[Mangetout]

@Kalhoun

I don’t understand the mechanics behind this. If a bunch of kids let go in the tug-o-war, wouldn’t that lessen the tension that would have pulled their hands off?

I think what’s being described is:

-A bunch of kids playing tug-o-war
-A couple of kids on one team looped the rope around their hands for a better grip
-Their team-mates let go of the rope suddenly
-The sudden force of the other team pulling more or less unopposed caused the looped rope to injure the hands of the kids who had it looped around them.

[Kalhoun]

Got it! Thanks! (Definitely a pretty fucking gruesome picture!)

[WhyNot]

Henry Bennett and classmate Mitch Helfer were participating in a team-building activity at Lutheran High School in Parker on Oct. 12 when the accident happened.

<snip>

“He says it’s brought people together,” Reggie Barrett said …

Um…Mission Accomplished? :eek:

[twickster]

“He says it’s brought people together,” Reggie Barrett said …

If people are losing body parts, aren’t they, uh, falling apart, rather than coming together?

[Hirundo82]

The mistake was wrapping the rope aroung their hands–when dealing with a rope under tension, that is the first thing you are not supposed to do.

“At some point a bunch of the kids let go, creating an imbalance in the tugging, and it pulled his hand off. The medical term is avulsed,” said Dr. Lewis Oster, Microsurgeon with Hand Surgery Associates in Denver.

Based on the above line from the linked story, it sounds like it wasn’t the entire hand wasn’t ripped off–ie bones and everything–but rather just skin and soft tissue. This is called a “degloving injury,” which gives a disgusting yet accurate visual image.

[Flutterby]

@Mangetout

I think what’s being described is:

-A bunch of kids playing tug-o-war
-A couple of kids on one team looped the rope around their hands for a better grip
-Their team-mates let go of the rope suddenly
-The sudden force of the other team pulling more or less unopposed caused the looped rope to injure the hands of the kids who had it looped around them.

I did something similar, only around my waist.

I ended up with a badly sprained ankle.

[Duckster]

Put your hand in the hand of the Man who pulled the rope so taught …

[WolfpackJeep]

@Kalhoun

This line cracked me up:

Makes for a great visual, doesn’t it?

There’s a pretty graphic video that was popular as part of those “Most Extreme” programs…it features a group of people playing tug-of-war, and a man who nearly loses his arm because he had wrapped the rope around it.

[Kalhoun]

@Hirundo82

The mistake was wrapping the rope aroung their hands–when dealing with a rope under tension, that is the first thing you are not supposed to do.
Based on the above line from the linked story, it sounds like it wasn’t the entire hand wasn’t ripped off–ie bones and everything–but rather just skin and soft tissue. This is called a “degloving injury,” which gives a disgusting yet accurate visual image.

Well it did mention something about steel plates which makes me think there was at least some bone damage.

Oster performed the delicate surgery on Bennett’s hand, first repairing bones with titanium plates. Then, muscles and microscopic veins and arteries were reattached.

A bit more than just the skin.

[Plynck]

@Kalhoun

This line cracked me up:

Signs posted around the private, Christian school read, “Their hands are in His hands.”

I’ll have to remember this when one of my friends goes in for a vasectomy.

[Ponder_Stibbons]

I just want to say this:

Ewww! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ewwwwwww!!! :eek:

[tdn]

@Ponder Stibbons

I just want to say this:

Ewww! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ew! Ewwwwwww!!! :eek:

Yeah, I opened this thread really hoping it was going to be about clocks.

[WhyNot]

@Hirundo82

The mistake was wrapping the rope aroung their hands–when dealing with a rope under tension, that is the first thing you are not supposed to do.
Based on the above line from the linked story, it sounds like it wasn’t the entire hand wasn’t ripped off–ie bones and everything–but rather just skin and soft tissue. This is called a “degloving injury,” which gives a disgusting yet accurate visual image.

Mmmmmmmaybe, but I don’t think so. My medical dictionary gives a clear distiction between degloving and avulsed - avulsed means that one body part is separated from another by tearing - so if the hand was avulsed, that means it was pulled off the body. De-gloving, as you say, isn’t a separation of the hand from the body, but the skin from the hand. Very different injuries. It’s possible we’ve simply got sloppy reporting here, but I’m thinking it was more Thing than Warren-after-Willow.

[Fetchund]

I’ve taught dog obedience for years, and the first thing we teach is how NOT to hold a leash. No wrapping it around your hand, wrist or fingers. Still, a friend of mine (and another instructor) just had her wrist massively fractured when her lab took off.

And that was just one dog, not a whole bunch of people.

[Mangetout]

@Flutterby

I did something similar, only around my waist.

I ended up with a badly sprained ankle.

You’re lucky - it could have pulled your waist right off.

I saw a photo of a different kind of tug-o-war injury - two teams of adult men had been pulling and the rope snapped - and it was under such great tension that the snapped end twanged toward the foremost member of the team and severed his whole arm.

[Dinsdale]

Any tug fans in the Chicago area, there’s somewhat of a mecca just west of us in DeKalb.
I had a nephew in a frat out there, and those boys (and girls) take their tugs seriously!

[Drain_Bead]

@Fetchund

I’ve taught dog obedience for years, and the first thing we teach is how NOT to hold a leash. No wrapping it around your hand, wrist or fingers. Still, a friend of mine (and another instructor) just had her wrist massively fractured when her lab took off.

And that was just one dog, not a whole bunch of people.

My husband’s cousin had her left ring finger nearly completely severed by looping her dog’s leash around her hand like that. The dog took off after an unleashed dog in the park and took most of her finger right off. It was basically hanging by a thread. She’s lucky to still have it–had she not been about five minutes from a hospital known for appendage reattachment when it happened, she probably would have lost the finger entirely. As is, she doesn’t have perfect movement and the nail still hasn’t grown back, but it’s at least still on her body.

shudder From what I hear of the injury, it was gross. Her father passed out and her sister puked when it happened. I can’t imagine what having that happen to a whole hand would be like.

[2nd_Law]

@Dinsdale

Any tug fans in the Chicago area, there’s somewhat of a mecca just west of us in DeKalb.
I had a nephew in a frat out there, and those boys (and girls) take their tugs seriously!

I’m just surprised the google ads below aren’t for Tug-Ahoy.