Don’t know about that. The Mythbusters did an episode busting the myth about a high tension cable severing a person in two. And they used a steel cable under more tension than any humans could create. I couldn’t find a link to your story but I didn’t search all that hard.
Well, it seems like the kid got a good hand job, and he’s okay.
Well, there was that Six Flags accident last summer where the girl’s feet were severed. It can happen.
My husband said he saw a similar tug-o-war story where people got pretty fucked up from it.
Why does that site want access to my clipboard?
We’ve talked about ALOT of TMI stuff on here, and I’ve only cringed a handful of times. But I have to say that reading the term ‘deglove’ is the first time I’ve ever wished I could unknow something.
Gah.
Ah.
Augh.
ew.
Of course I had to google-fu find it. And as the physician said the guy did completely have his arm severed off by the force of the pull and the cutting of soft tissue by the rope. But somehow they managed to successfully reattach it with duck tape.
Okay, it was really surgery.
Yeah, I remember some incident where lots of people lost fingers and hands due to having a gazillion person tug-of-war combined with a snapped rope.
About a week ago, a blue whale washed up just south of here. They hired some nimrod tow truck driver to try to drag the whale up on the beach. My friend was there checking it out and he said that there were hundreds of people watching. He says the tow truck driver was attempting to drag the 80 foot whale with a 5/16" cable. It probably weighed about 150 tons. People were crowding around the thing and sure as shit, the cable snapped. Fortunately no one was sliced in half due to the fact that the prevailing wind and the stench of a decomposing whale caused the crowd to be on the safe side.
Professor Gus Martin, English Professor at University College Dublin, was missing several fingers on (IIRC) his right hand, from a tug-of-war related injury. (There’s a phrase you don’t use very often).
It happened on one of his children’s school sports days, there was a fathers’ tug-of-war, and half his side lost their footing. The strain went on the rope wrapped around his hand.
I remember seeing the photos of the immediate aftermath - but the account of how the injury actually occured may have been inaccurate in the article. The rope was a thick blue nylon one - which is more elastic than a steel cable - so while the tension might not be as great immediately before breaking as it would be in a steel cable, the length of recoil is likely to be greater.
Well, a slight hijack, but… if you can’t let go of the rope, bad things can happen.
First rule of leading or longeing a horse – do not hold the excess line in loops, however slack, around your hand. Lay the excess back and forth over your palm so that if the horse suddenly decides to be elsewhere the line will pay out rather than take a chunk off of you.
Sad thread, but informative.
learned two new words…
Avulsion
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- The forcible tearing away of a body part by trauma or surgery.
- The sudden movement of soil from one property to another as a result of a flood or a shift in the course of a boundary stream.
and its family member…
Avlused
*to pull off or tear away forcibly: to avulse a ligament.
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Hope the kids will be OK…
tsfr
My SO got two broken fingers just by picking up the leash of a running lab.
Sign on the Church this week:
“I was once upset that I had no gloves until I met the man who had no hands”