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sleazy — GMT

ok, I admit it I'm a plank.

I bought a load of Eldar on ebay and left them for a few days in a glass jar of nitro mors.

No probs? I've done this loadsa times, unfortunately I left the jar with the top on in direct sunlight and it exploded! The nitro mors which had turned orange from the stripped paint splattered over the upvc window frame and has now stained it bright orange.

My Missus is not impressed.

My worst ever calamity was about 7 years ago, I was building a polysterene blood bowl arena and had sprayed it black ready for painting. I notice a lump of polysterene i wasnt happy with and decided as I couldnt be bothered to go fetch a knife I would burn it off with a lighter( I think you can see where this is going). The still wet primer ignited and the whole thing went up in flames, I legged it across the house carrying what can only be described as a fireball and dumped the whole thing in the bath. I had burnt the carpet, my hands and was sans eyebrows for a while.

Has anyone else managed an act of supreme stupidity in this great hobby of ours?

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Tetchy — GMT

Spray priming my models too close to our house with the wind in the wrong direction meant that our white UPV door was covered in a fine mist of black spots.... d'oh!

That and the sadly predictable regular mixing up of my paint water and current beveridge. I can say from experience that wine is great for washing your brushes but foundation paints taste like cack!

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Vandez — GMT

I have a friend who decided it would be a good idea to sculpt large pieces of polystyrene terrain with a belt sander.

In his bedroom.

Schoolboy error.

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Foda_Bett — GMT

I think the worst I did was while dipping my models in minwax. I was working on dipping my trygon (no easy feat since its huge) and while I was swinging the trygon to get the dip off I hit a box of carnifexes. The carnis were still wet and hit my deck. Being more worried about what crap the carnis would have stuck in them from the dirty deck I set down the trygon on the nearest surface and started picking up/cleaning off the carnis.
When I'd finally finished the trygon had dripped minwax onto my mothers wooden gardening table.
To this day (2 years later) there's still a snaky outine on the stained wood.

Another one was where I decided to prime my drop pods outside on the trash can. I set down a box top catch the blue primer, this however didn't help much because it was so windy. I ended up with the entire trash can lid being blue, apart from a few rings where the pods where sitting.

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malfred — GMT

I was sawing a sprue with a hobby knife while the sprue
was suspending in the air with hand.

I got away with a small cut that was so clean it wouldn't
clot for days.

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usernamesareannoying — GMT

i once droped a pot of black paint on a white carpet.
i dabbed the paint up which just made it a thinner but bigger mess and then decided to try and soak it up with water and a towel.
i started adding water to dilute it and had a pond of black ink. the funny thing was it started to sort of work so i figured i just need more water right, so i got a gallon jug and used it. now i have a pond on my moms carpet...
low and behold i see the vacuum cleaner sitting there and figure its kind of like a shop vac, right?
i proceed to vacuum up the pond and think, wow, thi is actually working... that is until water starts spewing out of the vacuum bag. it made a neat foam like substance and made yet more mess to clean.

the best part... it worked overall. the black paint came up and after things dried everything looked good...

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Wehrkind — GMT

I had a similar knife incident cutting my CoD sprues. Hour 5 or 6 into cutting and cleaning and I buried a new hobby blade into the side of my thumb joint. Didnt' clot for two days, ruining any chance of painting for the entire weekend.
Otherwise, priming models on the railing of the back deck, while I did use a box to hold them and catch paint, I left a black and white pattern on the rails. My wife never goes out doors, but somehow managed to spot that and scolds me about it every time she hears the rattle of spray cans.

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Morskul — GMT

I somehow managed to superglue a chaos terminator arm to my face about 7 years ago.

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Boss_Salvage — GMT

Great thread

Disappointingly my worst mishaps just involve dumping brand new $3.50 pots of paint on my hobby table / camo shorts. Clearly my wallet was damaged much worse than the table or camo

- Salvage

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VermGho5t — GMT

probably my worst was during an aggravating session of Planetside. I used to convert and assemble my models right on my computer desk for the distracting convenience factor. Well one day I had just finished assembling a box of boyz for a friend and decided to get my game on. At about hour 2 the frustration of dieing repeatedly to a cloaker made me angry enough to the numeral 9 key. What I didn't realize was that my old x-acto knife, the one with the big red handle and 45 degree blade had rolled right intot he path of my finger as I was slamming to and fro on that number 9 key. Sliced all the way through the pad on my middle finger. And I had to work the next day. In the Aquatics section at my local Petco, not fun!

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Mekboy — GMT

Yup, this is pretty funny.

Probably my worst was when I funished gluing and didn't notice I'd knocked the left the top off. I then knocked it over, but didn't notice.

By the moring I had an empty superglue pot stuck to my desk

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Grignard — GMT

I remember about ten years ago I was cutting foam with a good sized knife ( I did not yet realize there was such a thing as a foam cutter) and I lost my grip on it. Well, it fell at such an angle that the blade passed through the flesh on my left index finger, almost down to the bone. I found out that a knife passnig through tissue makes its own uniqe sound that is hard to describe. Wasnt all and all a bad cut but it was deep, and I bled all over the carpet

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kutzmon — GMT

About six years ago I’m trying out different stripping agents. I remembered my dad cleaning his fence painting brushes in a coffee can of gasoline. Now, I do consider myself of above average intelligence. I really do. Well, there on the shelf is a gallon of gas for the mower. On the next shelf up… the coffee can I keep there for just such an occasion. It’s December. I won’t be needing the gas for the mower. What the hell. I fill up the can and throw in the next bunch of metal figs. (Not plastic, I wasn’t being that retarded) No lid of course. That would not be very conducive to the idiocy at hand. I grab a bunch of minis, put them on the work bench and start priming, like 200 minis worth. Many, many cans of black primer are used. Okay, remember it’s December? It’s cold outside. My wife is gone so the barely fits one car garage is empty. The doors are closed. I’m wearing my cool little respirator mask so I don’t smell a thing. After finishing priming, an hour or two, I finally notice the haze of black mist in the air and think to myself, “I need to open the door and air this place out before the wife comes home and yells at me.” As if on cue my neighbor, Bill, opens the side door and has his hands cupped up to his mouth lighting a cigarette. WOOF!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It lasted about half a second. Thank God it was cold and I was wearing a hat and a coat otherwise I’d have gone up like all the oxygen in the garage. Bill stood there at the door… smouldering, staring at the lighter and cigarette held in each hand.

Nobody was hurt but I did have a nice sunburn around my eyes for a while. Like a reverse sunglasses tan. When my wife got home she didn’t ask but the look on her face was telling. She knew. Maybe not exactly what had happened but that if I was involved it had to be good… or dumb. Now when I head out to the garage in our new house, which is an oversized double with a little spray painting booth for minis complete with exhaust fan, she hides my lighter.

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Krak_kirby — GMT

LOL! Great stuff!

I was designing a battlewagon for Ghazkull with a drawing program on my PC. I use a laser engraver and cutter to make wooden and plastic models. I had the overhead view at 1:1 scale on my screen and I wanted to check that Ghazkull and my mega armored nobs would fit well into the wagon, so I just held Ghazkull's base up to the screen. I didn't remember that I had a 3/4" rare earth magnet in the models base for transporting to tournaments. My screen went rainbow colors and started distorting like a Dali painting. I realised what I had done the instant I did it. Thank goodness for the degauss button on the monitor.

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rryannn — GMT

i love forgetting to put the lid back on the glue and gluing random items to my desk... pens, pencils, brushes, models, books, cups... everything...

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Geddonight — GMT

Okay... I bought a chimera on ebay and the sod had glued the turret down. I would have none of that, so after stripping the model, i grabbed my large retractable carpet knife and slid it out several clicks. I was slowly working the blade under the turret when suddenly it popped off (apparently he only glued the pivot point and a little behind it....).

I managed to literally fillet my left thumb on the inside. I still bear the scar with... what's the opposite of pride again?

P.S. great thread

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Savnock — GMT

Note to everyone: epoxy _can_ stick to tooth enamel.

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hellsguardian316 — GMT

I did the same thing as "Malfred", only diference was that I took a chunk out. Ouch!!

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Cypher037 — GMT

[quote=rryannn]i love forgetting to put the lid back on the glue and gluing random items to my desk... pens, pencils, brushes, models, books, cups... everything...[/quote]
...pockets...

Some of my favorite pants too --I still wear 'em.

But really, I've got nothing that compares to most of these stories, not even cuts.

-LE037

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Boss_Salvage — GMT

Actually, remembered near disaster story ...

Long time back was building marines or something, and my superglue had glued shut over night. Instead of clearing the barrel with a paperclip or pin like I do now, I instead grabbed the bottle with some pliers and started crushing the thing to try to pop the clog out and get things moving. The blockage popped alright, and since I was squishing the bottle maybe a foot from my face AND had the tip pointed towards me I suddenly had a big gob of glue headed towards me left eye!

Thank god I wear glasses, cause while Lens Crafters cleaned the stuff right off I don't think my poor eyeball would have liked a nice superglue coating

- Salvage

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Grand Preceptor — GMT

Awesome thread. Fortunately for my minis but unfortunately for your entertainment, most of my greatest feats of stupidity have been unrelated to modeling. The biggest mishap I can think of was when we had a power outage while I was painting and I just put down the Termie I was working on and left my worktable w/o putting the lid on the Shining Gold paint sitting right next to the mini. When the lights came on 1/2 an hour later the cat had knocked the paintpot over and I had a Terminator that looked like he'd spent an assault phase base-to-base with King Midas.

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Ozymandias — GMT

My fingers bear many a scar from slipped knives. I even went to the on-campus health clinic once to see if I needed stitches (I didn't). Another time I was cutting something and my knife slipped, down to my leg and cut a neat little hole in my jeans. I didn't even realize it got my leg too until it started bleeding.

Other than that, nothing too bad. No explosions... yet.

Ozymandias, King of Kings

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Phoenix — GMT

[quote=Morskul]I somehow managed to superglue a chaos terminator arm to my face about 7 years ago.[/quote]

Ok, I want to hear more about this one. Glued to your hands...normal. Glueing something to your face is something of a feet.

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Death_Master — GMT

About 12 years ago I'd just finished painting my Space Wolf army and decided to display them on a shelf in my room (one of the ones thats just resting on brackets). My grandma came into my room and I decided to proudly show her my army. She walked over to the shelf and at the same time as saying "You mean these here!?" She plonked her hand down on the edge of the shelf. As you can imagine, watching your entire army fly across the room and disintegrate on the floor and wall is not fun.

Craig

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Hordini — GMT

Ouch...that must have hurt, Death_Master.

Luckily for me, I think I've read enough of these type of threads on Dakka to learn from the mistakes of others. I don't really have any horror stories so far. I've never drank paint water, never had to get stitches, never accidentally primed finished models instead of varnishing them.

Knock on wood, of course.

Really, the worst I can speak of is a few minor cuts (and by minor I mean I didn't even need a band-aid - just a quick wash in soapy water), and I've gotten superglue on my fingers (but so far I've been quick enough to separate them before they dry permanently.)

I guess there was one time where I accidentally got a few drops of black paint on a crappy pair of jeans...not really much of a tragedy.

I just hope my good luck doesn't reverse all of a sudden and I put a pin vise through my hand or slice my pinky off.

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Death By Monkeys — GMT

Yeah, I don't have any specific disaster stories, but I always feel like if I haven't drawn blood on a conversion, then I haven't tried hard enough.

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malfred — GMT

[quote=Hordini]
I guess there was onetime where I accidentally got a few drops of black paint on a crappy pair of jeans...not really much of a tragedy. :p
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Yeah, that's more like business as usual around here.

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DFo — GMT

Mine is merely another paint-all-over-the-carpet story (red on cream, in this case, and so it remained), but my method was extra stupid...

I was painting a scale model of some kind about 6 years ago, and as such was using enamel paint - one of the small, squarish glass Testors jobs. Anyway, it was an old pot and was firmly stuck closed with dried paint. Now, you can run one of those pots under a hot tap for 30 seconds and it will open easily... but who's got that kind of time? So I grabbed a monkey wrench and a slide-adjustible wrench I kept on hand for just such occasions, firmly clamping the monkey around the glass bottle and the other onto the cap. I then torqued the wrenches in the appropriate manner. The lid was stuck on SO tightly, that the glass bottle cracked all the way around into two perfect halves, one in each wrench hand, dumping red everywhere.

Needless to say, I hold the bottles with my bare hand now, and just use a wrench for the lid. Lesson well learned.

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akira5665 — GMT

Crikey, horror stoiries/lol.

Ok, I have just gotten a new box of Assault termies. I get out my pliers and start de-spruing them. A 6 yr old cousin asks "Can I help?"

Sure I think, (it is a pair of pliers with a little cutting section in the back near the hinge).

I watch David carefully seperate an arm or two, and say"Good work Mate!"-and then go to watch a couple of highlights of the Australia vs India Cricket test match.

After 2 beers and about 40 minutes, my Aunty(who was supervising) calls out..
"Johnno, come and look at all the stuff David has done!"

I walk out, and to my horror, he has carefully cut every piece in half. Chests, Hammers, Legs, and arms are all over the table, with the sprue still attached to each 'piece'.

It was a Jigsaw puzzle that cost me $65.00 Aus.

Who was dumber though?

Me, methinks.........................

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Elnicko5 — GMT

I have a super-glue horror story, and this is a warning to all of you with contacts: do not wear them while working with super-glue.
I was building my blood angels, I used to work in my basement, hunched over a little white desk. If i remember correctly, I started building at around 6 and by the time i was done it was 11pm or so. In five hours I cleaned and glued together an assault squad and two tactical squads, I work slow, I know. I was only 14 or so at the time, and I had just started wearing contacts. It was time for me to go to bed, and this was when I discovered my problem.

Later in life, when I was in college, I discovered what had happened. Apparently Super Glue fumes are an organic solvent, and something that apparently will dissolve plastics. When the fumes evaporate off of the melted plastic, the plastic hardens again. With plastic based contacts this means that your contacts will adhere to your eyes, although amazingly, without any noticeable depreciation of function, however to get them off you need to have them surgically removed.
At the age of 14 all I knew is that my contacts were stuck to my eyes, and no matter what I did, I could not get them out. It took a painful surgery where I watched as they cut the contacts off of my eyes, not a pleasant experience.

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akira5665 — GMT

[quote]Elnicko5-I have a super-glue horror story, and this is a warning to all of you with contacts: do not wear them while working with super-glue.
I was building my blood angels, I used to work in my basement, hunched over a little white desk. If i remember correctly, I started building at around 6 and by the time i was done it was 11pm or so. In five hours I cleaned and glued together an assault squad and two tactical squads, I work slow, I know. I was only 14 or so at the time, and I had just started wearing contacts. It was time for me to go to bed, and this was when I discovered my problem.

Later in life, when I was in college, I discovered what had happened. Apparently Super Glue fumes are an organic solvent, and something that apparently will dissolve plastics. When the fumes evaporate off of the melted plastic, the plastic hardens again. With plastic based contacts this means that your contacts will adhere to your eyes, although amazingly, without any noticeable depreciation of function, however to get them off you need to have them surgically removed.
At the age of 14 all I knew is that my contacts were stuck to my eyes, and no matter what I did, I could not get them out. It took a painful surgery where I watched as they cut the contacts off of my eyes, not a pleasant experience. [/quote]

Crikey, that sucks. And I thought a cut-thumb was bad.

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Teek — GMT

Man, affixed contacts beats my stories. Jeez.

Back in highschool, at the height of the fair city mall GW Gorkamorka campaign, I decided I didn't like the upper half of my stock Kopta pilot. The model was originally 2piece, torso and legs. I was trying to x-acto my way back to having 2 pieces. After a few minutes of making zero progress, I got fed up and pressed far too hard. Blade ripped through my thumb, probably straight to bone (I never really stuck around to confirm that bit). Bled like a stuck pig, ran upstairs to the bathroom medicine cabinet and nearly passed out. I was young, stupid, and scared of parental wrath, so instead of fessing up and seeing a doctor for stitches, I cleaned it out with peroxide (that'll make you religious, trust me) and, yep, [b]superglued[/b] my thumb closed. I wrapped a piece of clear packing tape around it to hold the mess together.

Let me reiterate, I was borderline brain dead for handling it that way, don't be dumb like me. To this day my gnarliest GW scar runs along the inside of my thumb, from the middle knuckle, through the pad, around, up to, and about 1/8" under the thumbnail. The silver lining was the permanent change to my fingerprint!

And Death by monkies, I've got to sig you.

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Hordini — GMT

I can't even imagine working on some minis one minute and then having surgery [i]on my eyes[/i] the next.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure contacts glued to eyes = you win this thread.

At least until someone comes along an tops it. Any takers?

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malfred — GMT

I dunno. I propose lockdown.

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JohnHwangDD — GMT

[quote=kutzmon]After finishing priming, an hour or two, I finally notice the haze of black mist in the air and think to myself, “I need to open the door and air this place out before the wife comes home and yells at me.” As if on cue my neighbor, Bill, opens the side door and has his hands cupped up to his mouth lighting a cigarette. WOOF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ding-ding-ding!! We have a winner!!!

(I like this story best because this is two people getting flamed. Literally.)

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jah-joshua — GMT

wow, that sucks bro...i think that's one of the worst stories i've heard...i would be so bummed if somethin' happened to my eyes..

one of my worst mini injuries was with the clippers...they really do the job...i had 'em slip while i was workin', and in the split second before i squeezed i saw 'em against my finger tip, and tried to tell my brain not to do,it, but it was too late...half my fingertip was in the clippers...the sound of those clippers will haunt me for the rest of my life...

i'm no stranger to pain, as a longtime skater, and big wave surfer...i once had a wave in costa rica fracture my arm, and then fold me in half backwards, fracturin' one of my vertebrae...i didn't even go to hospital, since i knew they didn't need to set fractures(the brains diagnostic system is amazin')...i walked out and had a little herbal remedy on the beach...i layed in bed for a couple days, but gravity was kickin' my arse...3 days later i put on my flippers, and spend my days floatin' around in the ocean...i couldn't even put on a t-shirt for a month, 'cause it was too painful...luckily it was rainy season in the tropics, so a shirt was pointless...

the point is, the pain in my finger didn't bother me too much...i just squeezed it, and walked into the bathrooom, and made some nice designs on the wall when i let go of my finger...wrapped it up, taped it, and went back to the couch...i sat down, and started thinkin' about the sound that the clippers made, and damn near passed out!!!

as an aside, i always end up bloodin' a new blade in my exacto...every damn time!!!

blood for the blood god...

cheers
jah

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Hordini — GMT

Holy crap, I don't know how I missed kutzmon's "flaming" post. Man, that is crazy. You're lucky you didn't burn your face off....

Let's hear it for ventilation!

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Vandez — GMT

To add to the scars discussion, I have a nice, neat little scar on my right index finger from a couple of years ago. I use a small leatherman multitool for most of my miniatures assembly stuff, and while removing pieces from a sprue to build a tactical squad I quickly picked it up to cut something without realising I had it upside down. The blade, of course, folded back into the handle without stopping to allow my finger to escape. It left me with a neat cut running parallel to my finger about a centimetre and a half long. It was pretty shocking at the time though, I had a big flap of flesh hanging loose and bleeding everywhere.

[quote=Teek]instead of fessing up and seeing a doctor for stitches, I cleaned it out with peroxide (that'll make you religious, trust me) and, yep, [b]superglued[/b] my thumb closed. [/quote]

Bizarrely, apparently that's what superglue was originally used for - quickly sealing wounds. This is why it sticks your fingers together far better than it sticks minis together.

It's entirely possible (probable) you already know that, but I thought I'd share the snippet anyways.

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theHandofGork — GMT

I've never set my garage on fire- that story was great!

Demonstrating to a friend how plastic glue "isn't really glue" I swiped some on my hand- which happened to have an open cut. It hurt. A lot. And I looked like an idiot.

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tomguycot — GMT

I can't come near topping most of these. The best I've seen was a friend getting a mouth full of super glue after trying to get it open using his teeth (he wasn't real smart if you couldn't already tell). The worst I have done was to gash open my thumb real good while assembling my Chaos Landraider. I considered it to have been a blood sacrifice so it was all good (or at least after my thumb finally healed after a couple of weeks). I probably should have gotten stitches but I'm far too stubborn for that. And besides, I had a landraider to finish putting together!

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chromedog — GMT

My worst was slipping with an x-acto and bisecting the pad on my left thumb. The scar's about an inch long, and it was about 10mm deep. That was 1991. I now have a VERY distinctive left thumbprint, so a life of crime for me is out of the question - and gloves make my hands sweat.

ps, I think the opposite of pride is "chagrin".

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DFo — GMT

The opposite of pride is humility.

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chromedog — GMT

I sit corrected.

(standing while typing is bad for you).

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Platuan4th — GMT

[quote=Elnicko5]I have a super-glue horror story, and this is a warning to all of you with contacts: do not wear them while working with super-glue.
I was building my blood angels, I used to work in my basement, hunched over a little white desk. If i remember correctly, I started building at around 6 and by the time i was done it was 11pm or so. In five hours I cleaned and glued together an assault squad and two tactical squads, I work slow, I know. I was only 14 or so at the time, and I had just started wearing contacts. It was time for me to go to bed, and this was when I discovered my problem.

Later in life, when I was in college, I discovered what had happened. Apparently Super Glue fumes are an organic solvent, and something that apparently will dissolve plastics. When the fumes evaporate off of the melted plastic, the plastic hardens again. With plastic based contacts this means that your contacts will adhere to your eyes, although amazingly, without any noticeable depreciation of function, however to get them off you need to have them surgically removed.
At the age of 14 all I knew is that my contacts were stuck to my eyes, and no matter what I did, I could not get them out. It took a painful surgery where I watched as they cut the contacts off of my eyes, not a pleasant experience.

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In all my years working on models and wearing Contacts, I've yet to encounter this myself. That sounds incredibly painful.

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UlrikeDG — GMT

My husband sent me the link to this thread. "I don't think I've done anything bad enough to warrant mention, thankfully."

This is the man who left his entire army sitting on a table in our living room when he deployed 5 months ago. He'll be gone for another 7 months. We have 4 kids and a dog. Raise your hand if you think this wasn't the pinnacle of stupid.

(Sorry, Hun.)

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sleazy — GMT

you're right, hes a fool. If I had done that my other half would have ebayed the lot and bought shoes or cross-stitch or whatever it is women buy.

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Blackheart666 — GMT

[quote=JohnHwangDD][quote=kutzmon]After finishing priming, an hour or two, I finally notice the haze of black mist in the air and think to myself, “I need to open the door and air this place out before the wife comes home and yells at me.” As if on cue my neighbor, Bill, opens the side door and has his hands cupped up to his mouth lighting a cigarette. WOOF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ding-ding-ding!! We have a winner!!!

(I like this story best because this is two people getting flamed. Literally.)[/quote]

as opposed to you getting flamed enough for two people back on the newsgroup?

luckily.. or more likely because of my naturally high IQ and college education.. I've never been an idiot with things like paint, glue, sharp objects and other associated hobby items.

most I can say is that there was a time when I paid full retail for Warhammer models.

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sleazy — GMT

I dont think intelligence is any protection against acts of stupidity.

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Geddonight — GMT

Elnicko5--you definitely win the "wince" award for this thread... but I'm sorry, explosive garages from cigarettes gets the win for funny stupidity.

[quote=Blackheart666]
luckily.. or more likely because of my naturally high IQ and college education.. I've never been an idiot with things like paint, glue, sharp objects and other associated hobby items.
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Hubris, Blackheart... Hubris. Keep in mind IQ has nothing to do with coordination (though if you know you're naturally klutzy, I suppose you can take measures to avoid hazards). I mean, I'm running around with a master's degree and still do clumsy stuff that results in injury

Actually, this kinda reminds me of my first disaster. When I first got into the hobby, I started an army of tyranids (when the 3rd ed hive tyrant just came out). I was living with my parents over the summer between classes and decided to use the pole barn floor (laid down cardboard) to prime my 'Nid horde. The mechanical door is wide enough to fit two vehicles abreast, and my father always parked his pickup on the north side. Naturally, I sprayed my models on the south side that was unused. For some unknown reason, he decided to park on the south side when he returned, and ran over all my minis.

Well.... not all of my minis--but two tire treads worth. he crushed about $90 worth of warriors (fixable) and gaunts (new terrain)... It hurt.

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Grimaldi — GMT

[quote=UlrikeDG]My husband sent me the link to this thread. "I don't think I've done anything bad enough to warrant mention, thankfully."

This is the man who left his entire army sitting on a table in our living room when he deployed 5 months ago. He'll be gone for another 7 months. We have 4 kids and a dog. Raise your hand if you think this wasn't the pinnacle of stupid.

(Sorry, Hun.)[/quote]

There was no physical injury involved in your story, so I, er, the guy you're talking about shouldn't count.

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Grignard — GMT

[quote=Elnicko5]I have a super-glue horror story, and this is a warning to all of you with contacts: do not wear them while working with super-glue.
I was building my blood angels, I used to work in my basement, hunched over a little white desk. If i remember correctly, I started building at around 6 and by the time i was done it was 11pm or so. In five hours I cleaned and glued together an assault squad and two tactical squads, I work slow, I know. I was only 14 or so at the time, and I had just started wearing contacts. It was time for me to go to bed, and this was when I discovered my problem.

Later in life, when I was in college, I discovered what had happened. Apparently Super Glue fumes are an organic solvent, and something that apparently will dissolve plastics. When the fumes evaporate off of the melted plastic, the plastic hardens again. With plastic based contacts this means that your contacts will adhere to your eyes, although amazingly, without any noticeable depreciation of function, however to get them off you need to have them surgically removed.
At the age of 14 all I knew is that my contacts were stuck to my eyes, and no matter what I did, I could not get them out. It took a painful surgery where I watched as they cut the contacts off of my eyes, not a pleasant experience.

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You know, ive never really thought about this, but it makes sense. We always encouraged people who took organic chemistry lab not to wear contacts. I never really thought about why, but most plastics are quite soluble in several of the solvents we used. Cyanoacrylate ( Which I think is actually ethyl cyanoacrylate ) is not really used as a solvent and is not a solvent based glue but as we here all know it will dissolve some types of plastic. I never really thought about it and just assumed we told people that to keep them from complicating any potential splash in the eyes.

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smiling Assassin — GMT

Hmmm.

Although nothing exceedingly excitingly flamingly explosive has happened to me, while using superglue, but ONE TIME...

Ok, so I was gluing together that extremely awesome SM 'Master of the Fleet' for use, and was a bit tied up at the time, trying to glue a base with one hand, and undo the top of a superglue with the other.

The phone rings - "**** this," I think, and get the phone in one hand, gluing base in the other, then try getting the lid off the glue wih my teeth: not a plan worth carrying out.

Yanking, yanking, I was. Then, the top kind of... explodes. Superglue all over my face and mouth, antique table, modelling equipment, phone, and some of the carpet and walls close to where I was working.

Obscene words rush through my mind, and a run to the kitchen, pulling fragments of the plastic glue casing off my cheeks, while with the other hand, washing myself off. I realise that after I'd washed myself, cleared up the still-wet things on the walls, and carpet, and pulled everything off my face, I have a huge chunk of plastic superglued to my hand.

Me being 12 at the time, I tried PULLING IT OFF. Not a plan to make your list of no.1 awesome plans. Oh, yeah.

Skin grafts later (trust me, not something you like), I learn my lesson.

*NEVER TRY MULTI TASKING INVOLVING SUPERGLUE: CONSEQUENCES MAY BE PAINFUL and/or EMBARASSING!*

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ZamboniKnight — GMT

[quote=smiling Assassin]The phone rings - "**** this," I think, and get the phone in one hand, gluing base in the other, then try getting the lid off the glue wih my teeth: not a plan worth carrying out.[/quote]

So, uh... who called?

Worst story I've got are just a few cuts and a green spot of paint on the carpet, sorry... Oh, and a couple superglued fingers, but still not much.

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Greebynog — GMT

The wprst one that ever happened to me was dropping a new craft knife into my big toe. I slipped while cutting, and it went straight down, point first, but twisted 90 degrees on the way so it ended up sticking right between the two bones of my toe in the joint, it stayed for about half a second, then slowly tipped over, came unstuck and fell out. It didn't clot for ages and walking was agony. The noise it made and the feeling when it stopped in my toe haunts me.

The most stupid thing I've ever seen was a kid at my local GW superglueing his head to a table. He'd done something else stupid, not exactly brain of britain this one, was eing laughed at for it, made the "d'oh" action of banging his head on the table, straight into some spilt superglue. I've never laughed so hard.

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Kilkrazy — GMT

[quote=Greebynog]The wprst one that ever happened to me was dropping a new craft knife into my big toe. I slipped while cutting, and it went straight down, point first, but twisted 90 degrees on the way so it ended up sticking right between the two bones of my toe in the joint, it stayed for about half a second, then slowly tipped over, came unstuck and fell out. It didn't clot for ages and walking was agony. The noise it made and the feeling when it stopped in my toe haunts me.

The most stupid thing I've ever seen was a kid at my local GW superglueing his head to a table. He'd done something else stupid, not exactly brain of britain this one, was eing laughed at for it, made the "d'oh" action of banging his head on the table, straight into some spilt superglue. I've never laughed so hard.[/quote]

I laughed pretty hard just reading that story.

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swize1 — GMT

Slightly off topic but.. how about opening lots of the older, screw-top GW paint pots when the paint dried into the cracks of the screw threads.. and doing it laboriously by hand before discovering the wonders of wrenches.. and routinely forming and popping blisters on your palm just under your fingers.. and routinely having other people wonder out loud, jokingly but not really jokingly, what you must be doing to wear your palms out..

Or was that just me?

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99MDeery — GMT

my worst one was caused by goblins, i had just finished building a unit of night goblin spearmen and left them on the floor beside my bed and went too sleep, waking up rather late for college i jumped out of bed and landed straight on a load of speartips, suffice to say i was still late for college as i had to spend the next 30minutes picking speartips out of my, oddly the goblins werent damage they must of really hated me

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Jazz is for Losers — GMT

[quote=Blackheart666]

luckily.. or more likely because of my naturally high IQ and college education.. I've never been an idiot with things like paint, glue, sharp objects and other associated hobby items.

[/quote]

This is what you learned at college? What course was this? I think they saw you coming.

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HF — GMT

[quote=Jazz is for Losers][quote=Blackheart666]

luckily.. or more likely because of my naturally high IQ and college education.. I've never been an idiot with things like paint, glue, sharp objects and other associated hobby items.

[/quote]

This is what you learned at college? What course was this? I think they saw you coming.[/quote]

the warhammer college curriculum includes such in depth courses as

intro to hobby techniques
getting little kids to buy you food 101
the world of unwarranted self important

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malfred — GMT

[quote=sleazy]I dont think intelligence is any protection against acts of stupidity.[/quote]

Like when people talk down on Internet forums? (not you, sleazy)

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Jazz is for Losers — GMT

[quote=malfred][quote=sleazy]I dont think intelligence is any protection against acts of stupidity.[/quote]

Like when people talk down on Internet forums?[/quote]

Something that you suck at, you gummy b*tch.

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malfred — GMT

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dmkjesus — GMT

i managed to get a firewarrior stuck to my jeans and didnt realise till about 6 hours later

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Platuan4th — GMT

[quote=dmkjesus]i managed to get a firewarrior stuck to my jeans and didnt realise till about 6 hours later[/quote]

Is that a Tau in your pocket or are you just happy to see Malfred?

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Foda_Bett — GMT

While getting dressed the other day I remembered another horror story.
I was trying to pin my flying hive tyrant's wings on (using BIG pins mind you) and I dropped my dremel.
As the dremel is falling through the air my brain remembers that bits break when they hit the ground, this bit cost $1, and I didn't want to replace that bit so I stuck my bare feet below the RUNNING dremel. Not a good idea.
Normally dremels fall sideways or bottom first due to the weight of the battery pack, this dremel went straight down like a lawn dart and hit my right big toe.
Since the dremel was still running at the time the bit spun and started going into my to till it hit the bone.
I pulled the still running dremel out of my toe, turned it off, pulled the skin out of the drill bit and then proceded to run to the bathroom to get a bandaid.
For the next month it hurt to walk and I couldn't flex my toe.

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malfred — GMT

It's simple enough to [url=http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Special:Edit?topic=War%28gaming%29_Injuries]edit[/url] this article[/quote].

Let's say you cut yourself. First you'd find the Blades
section of the article and find the [[url=http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Special:Edit?topic=War%28gaming%29_Injuries§ion=1]Edit [/url]] link to the right of the Blades section.
[code]
If you look at it, you'll see that legoburner has started
the article by putting individuals' experiences in little
boxes. You create those boxes by using the quote button.
Press the quote button, it should create a

tag. Type your nasty experience then press the quote
button again. It will close your tag with the

tag.
[/code]
What if your section isn't represented?

Then find the [[url=http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Special:Edit?topic=War%28gaming%29_Injuries]Edit[/url]] button for the article.

Sub-sections are separated by ==section name==

Just type the section name between double equal signs
and the wiki will generate the section for you. Use the
quote method mentioned above to include your experience
and save your changes.

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Ratbarf — GMT

I pass out ocassionaly for several minutes. (doctors haven't yet discerned why, I think its the fumes) and my forehead managed to land squarely on the unit of Night Goblin spearmen I had been assembling from the Battle for Skull pass set....

Needless to say those gobbos are solid little buggers....

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Kanluwen — GMT

In the spirit of the great shenanigans incorporated in this story, I'm going to let forth my biggest secret ever in regards to hobby accidents.

I was sitting at my card table in my room, using the rotary attachment for my Dremel tool, cleaning the parts for a few Sabre Gun Platforms.
Phone rings, I jump as it's on vibrate in my pocket.
Dremel falls, lands on lap.
Dremel proceeds to sand my entire pelvic region.

That was NOT a fun day.

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grizgrin — GMT

I've done all the standard crap. Held a container of superglue up to my ear to listen if it was open when I squeezed it. Reflexively tried to wipe gob of glue out of the inner ear when it inevitably hit, and glue hand to ear. Worst part was I had to wash half my face in acetone. That got in my eyes. Of course.
Dremel with a drill bit, pinning. Drilled through a piece, and forefinger.
Glued finger to nose. I got that damn magic nose goblin out, though! And about 3 pounds of nose hair as well, stuck to my finger. Holy MACKEREL.
Decided that I had so many gaunts to put together that I needed some liquid courage. Some became a lot. A knife became embdded in my forarm. One trip to the ER later, I'm slurring to a counselor that I realize life is a great gift, truly.

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two_heads_talking — GMT

[quote=Wehrkind]I had a similar knife incident cutting my CoD sprues. Hour 5 or 6 into cutting and cleaning and I buried a new hobby blade into the side of my thumb joint. Didnt' clot for two days, ruining any chance of painting for the entire weekend..[/quote]

those are the kind of wounds that superglue was created to fix. Just put a thin line over the cut and you are ready to get back to work. sure it will sting, but it will seal that wound better than stiches and you don't even need a needle.

speaking of super glue, I had been working on a multi-part heavy metal model and had decided that I was tired of glueing my fingers together trying to hold the arms and legs together while it dried. so I put a bit more superglue on the models and grabbed my "zip kicker" super glue accelerator. I shot the part and thought, cool, now I am done. Then I noticed that my fingers and thumb (that also had superglue on them) get a bit warm, then hot, then ... well suffice to say, I blistered the fingers that had superglue on them and in the process threw themodel (which I had just glued) on the floor and it broke. Needless to say, I am very careful now, not to get the glue on my fingers anymore. ..

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biztheclown — GMT

I have glued nearly every part of myself to nearly every other part, but Contact lens guy is probably the "winner" here. We are so, hmm whats the opposite of shame?

Pride

No not that far from shame.

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Ratbarf — GMT

"those are the kind of wounds that superglue was created to fix. Just put a thin line over the cut and you are ready to get back to work. sure it will sting, but it will seal that wound better than stiches and you don't even need a needle."

Except that superglue is a toxic material in large quantities... (and I think its also been linked to birth defects in California)

And the opposite of pride is humility.

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akira5665 — GMT

[quote]Ratbarf-"those are the kind of wounds that superglue was created to fix. Just put a thin line over the cut and you are ready to get back to work. sure it will sting, but it will seal that wound better than stiches and you don't even need a needle."

Except that superglue is a toxic material in large quantities... (and I think its also been linked to birth defects in California) [/quote]

Which is probably why he didn't recommend it for sealing you up after Open-heart Surgery, just a cut on the finger.

PS-I think the 'Birth Defects' you mentioned could be caused by more than just Superglue.

[img]http://images.askmen.com/galleries/model/arnold-schwarzenegger/pictures/arnold-schwarzenegger-picture-1.jpg[/img]

Living near THIS guy would change anybody.......

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avantgarde — GMT

Does GW primer still cause cancer in California?

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two_heads_talking — GMT

what doesn't cause cancer in Caulifornia?

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Ratbarf — GMT

Hitler

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Plastic Parody — GMT

cracking thread - my 'disasters' are positively pedestrian by comparison.

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wittzo — GMT

I've cut myself with a craft knife so many times and I know better. Once I stabbed myself in the end of the thumb all the way to the hilt of the Exacto knife.

One night I was building 4 Rhinos. I had a Rhino, a Razorback, and two Predators. I put the hulls together first. I wear glasses and it was getting late, so my work got closer and closer to my fatigued eyes until I got to the point where the fumes were making my eyelashes glue together, they sounded like velcro when I opened my eyes and they started burning and tearing up. I swear I had a layer of crazy glue on my eyeballs..

Another night, I had spilled an excess of crazy glue on my fingers. I rub my fingers together quickly so it dries faster than it can bond and then I gnaw it off my fingers at my leisure. I guess some of it wasn't cured, I had an itch on my lip, so I scratched it. My finger got bonded to my lip. It only bled a little bit.

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Phoenix — GMT

So one night a friend of mine is working on his land raider and the super glue gums up and won't come out of the bottle. So, of course, he just squeezes harder...and harder...and harder till the jam clears. He managed to cover a good chunk of his left hand with super glue. Not only did this manage to glue the land raider to his hand, but it managed to superglue his wedding ring to his hand. The kicker to all of this is that he didn't have (or really know about) acetone at the time. So after washing everything off to no avail, he broke out the exacto to surgicaly remove the land raider and the ring. It wasn't pretty, although it apparently was pretty bloody.

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temprus — GMT

When I first came back in the hobby early last year, I cut myself within about 4 minutes of working on my first model. I was holding the piece in my hand while cutting towards my hand, it slipped and tried (unsuccessfully) to remove the tip of my middle finger. My roommate had a liquid bandage kit, so we had me fixed up in about 5 minutes. An hour later I was back to cutting and have not cut myself since (I learned to be extra careful cutting stuff).

Many, many years ago, I had most of my bookshelves collapse. They had been installed about 15 years before to hold stuffed animals and such. The weight of too many RPG books pulled them down after a few years of abuse. Thankfully, I had all my minis on the top shelf against my parents wishes because it DID NOT fall down with the rest of them (they thought it made more sense to have them on the bottom shelf where they could be seen). Sadly, I lost them all to having my storage space being canceled without my knowledge.

OT but in the same vein: I used to collect weapons. I bought a sword that had a cracked sheath. I handed it to my mother with strict instructions to not let my brother have the sword while I did something really quick in the kitchen. About 6 seconds later, I hear a very loud and blood chilling scream. My brother had taken the sword, pulled it out and put it back in a rapid fashion, and therefore sliced the webbing between thumb and index finger, cutting it almost completely in two and exposing some bone. He had to get stitches.

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Foda_Bett — GMT

My work recently received the new GW paint rack. Well the labels (little marquees that show which paint is in which row) are exreemly hard to get in so I'm pushing and pulling the little things every which way and finally my hand slipped, and skimmed down the marquee holder. I noticed a little pain and took a look at it, I had cut the side my middle finder from the joint all the way up to the tip. Bled like crazy, but some super glue patched it up.
It wasn't until the next day that I saw I had tons of smaller cuts on other parts of my hands. Apparently I'd been cutting myself all night on the stupid thing.
Moral of the story: Be careful when installing the marquees on the new GW paint rack.

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Death By Monkeys — GMT

An interesting note about superglue - the U.S. government actually experimented with using superglue to seal wounds and stop bleeding during the Vietnam War.

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Ifurita — GMT

No disasters here. The cat decided to lay down on my painting table once and got white glue all over his fur, but that's about it.

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keezus — GMT

An interesting note, Bruce Banner (Ed Norton) uses superglue to seal a cut in the new Hulk movie.

When I saw that - first thing I thought was - HA! Me too!

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gerilla_93 — GMT

i have loads of storys and im just 15 have been in the hobby since i was 10....

first time i was building a styrofoam hill i used a good 'ol fisher knife of mine.....
i lost controle and slid it in my left handsthumb it's a 1 inch scar now....

or like when i was building a bridge in styrofoam, almost sewerd the top of my left thumb from the thumb, 2 stiches and 8 hours in the emergency room....

or when i were trying to put some metal modes together and superglued two of my fingers togheter...had to take em apart with a knife....

thats the funny ones at least....

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Iorek — GMT

Wow, thread necromancy!