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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My husband said he saw a similar tug-o-war story where people got pretty fucked up from it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My SO got two broken fingers just by picking up the leash of a running lab.