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Old 03-19-2010, 11:19 AM
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I remembered that you should never use a beer or soda can to catch brake fluid or something like that...you might forget which can you used

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Old 03-21-2010, 09:41 PM
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Did you get her plate number and get it resolved?
Oh yeah, got the plate number. Didn't match the car. I later saw the same car with the same plate on it; guy was selling tv's out of it. Called the cops and they wouldn't even come out and investigate.

Sokay I guess. I sold the car for exactly what I paid for it. Even wrecked.
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Old 03-21-2010, 09:45 PM
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the worst pain I ever had was the pain from a kidney stone. it was like somebody kept on stabbing me over and over in my lower back. I actually cried from the pain and I normal don't cry from pain at all.
Well, I didn't exactly cry but I moaned a whole lot from a sore tooth so don't sweat it. Root canal and a crown fixed that.
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Old 03-21-2010, 09:54 PM
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I can't even remember all the work injuries over more than 35 years.

* Automotive fluids sprayed, dumped, dripped, and scalded to varying degrees over every inch of my body at one time or another.

* Spud wrench punched through my hand (dropped by a co-worker).
* Leg hairline fracture from an engine hoist hydraulic cylinder blowout.
* Concussion from a car hoist blowing a hydraulic line and dropping onto the stop lock.
* Several fingers have been run through V belt pulleys thanks to a co-workers failure to think...
* Hospital visit to remove wire wheel bristles punched deep in my face, arm, chest, and leg, thanks to a co-worker installing a coarse low speed wheel on a high speed motor.
* Screwdriver through hand, arm, and leg, (several by a co-worker).
* Hospital visit to sew up a Skill saw cut into the edge of right hand, wrist to first knuckle down to bone.
* Drill chuck key half way through hand, bounced off bone.
* Three ton chain hoist broke off the overhead tram, landed on my chest cracking ribs.
* Car fell on my foot when the jack stand punched through a bad Unibody sub-frame.
* Smashed between manual trans truck and my toolbox by a co-worker that cranked it in gear...
* Blind for three days, flash burn from welding with a damaged shield..
* Pocket screwdriver through the cheek, it fell into a running engine and came out like a dart.
* Mashed fingers to many ways.
* Ripped a fingernail off three times.
* Paralysis from mid back down due to working upside down (driver/passenger dash) for hours, co-workers had to remove me from the vehicle to recover (painful).
* Wrenched my back catching a naked v8 block before it could decapitate a co-worker.
* High power ignition spark burned through thumbnail to bone.
* Many welding slag burns, deep enough that I use forceps to reach in and rip it out before it starts to hurt (doctor keeps me stocked with burn treatment).
* Passed-out due to a co-workers failure to connect the exhaust vent.
* Knocked 30 feet by a drunk crane operator, cracked ribs + both legs hairline fracture.



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Ouch. That's an impressive list!
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Old 03-21-2010, 09:59 PM
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The owners of the company happended to be right there and asked if I was ok, I said yes and told them I guess I'm pretty tough and can take a punch...I felt like Billybob for a few days.

I am older and much wiser now and I try to teach others about my past experiences, some will never learn.
When I was doing roofing a looooong time ago, they told me that if I fell, I was fired a second before I hit the ground. I saw a few people fall though...
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Old 12-31-2011, 03:04 AM
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I was changing the starter once and I dropped the socket wrench on my face. That sucked.
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Old 12-31-2011, 04:15 AM
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well...... if the "mental" or "wallet" hurt is applicable... best way to hurt yourself
is to give some weird non-checked mechanic to overhaul your w126 darling .. definitely ...and yeah...it did happened to "my friend" lol
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Old 12-31-2011, 08:09 AM
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rust

How about the rust and dirty greasy blobs that fall into your eyes that make you go immediately into the bathroom to look into the mirror to fish them out and you can't see them and you ask your wife to have a look and she can't see anything so you just rub real hard and scratch the inside of your eyelid and you lose 25 minutes or an hour? Anyone else done that?
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Old 12-31-2011, 12:02 PM
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Kidnyey stones! I have had about 15 or so. Almost as bad is the phrase "It might be uncomfortable when you first urinate". That was after a kidney stone exaction.

Now being outside one nice afternoon, I hear my neighbor calling for his wife in a panic. Of course she had the stereo on in the house and didn't hear him. About a minute later I hear him calling for help! I run over and his BMWs right rear tire is rolled up onto his foot! He didn't set the E brake or block the front wheels. Our driveways have about a 15 degree pitch to them so the BMW rolled off the jack and onto his foot. Very nasty bruising but not broken.
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Old 12-31-2011, 07:05 PM
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When i was a kid a long time ago(just turned 80 a few days ago) i guess nobody had told me about putting the ground cable on last,didnt matter anyway back then i knew everything anyway.I was putting the + cable on last and got my class ring between the wrench and the frame with a fully charged 6 volt battery the ring lit right up,lucky there was a puddle nearby to stick my hand in which cooled the ring but by then the ring had melted its way thru the skin and im not sure which hurt worse the burn or the removal of the imbedded ring. there has never been a ring on any of my fingers since.Married twice but no ring for me! Don
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Old 12-31-2011, 07:33 PM
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Was working on a 48 volt forklift battery and set a screwdriver down in the wrong place. The screwdriver shorted, exploded and spattered hot molten steel all over me.


I was holding a part in my left hand and was prying something off of it with my right. The flat head screwdriver I was using slipped off and went through the part of my hand between the thumb and pointer finger. Completely through. I was stunned and stared at it for a few seconds before working the nerve up to pull the eight or so inches back out of my hand.


Was working with a rosebud torch heating up a piece of 1 inch steel for welding when someone tripped over the hoses. That action pulled the torch out of my hold and extinguished the rosebud on my forearm, holding it there. It was then I realized I had a six foot vertical.
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Old 12-31-2011, 08:01 PM
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Far from the worst of my pains, but

back about 15 years ago, I was checking something on the 429 in a '71 Ford Thunderbird 4 door (suicide doors, etc.), which my bro-in-law had sold to my daughter and I just touched my forearm to the sheet metal shields on the hot exhaust manifold long enough to leave a scar about 3 inches long. What makes it a big problem is that the scar looks just like the stereotypical Arab scimitar, complete with hilt, and I worry everytime I have to go through airport security that they'll think it's some sort of terrorist cult mark.
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Old 08-27-2012, 02:45 PM
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Just finished changing the hood springs on my '63 Chevy Impala SS. Closed the hood for the "perfect" alignment. Feeling proud as all get-out, I decided to pull the SS up to the garage door, but since it was approaching 2300, and I was running a pair of "lake-pipes" off the collectors of the headers on the 327, I figured that waking up the neighbors (one was a "Mrs. Cravits" from the "BEWITCHED" television program)was not one of a myriad of smart moves to make that night, I thought I'd do the ol' "ignition-bump" I had seen others perform with success.

I said that I had seen, but never performed myself...

Yep...you're getting ahead of me...

Not only did the SS respond to the "bump" - it actually started right up...and in spades.

Fortunately (yeah...right!), I managed to hang onto the key long enough to be able to actually turn the car off...after traveling all the way up to the wiper blades through the garage door...which was in its "closed and locked" position...but no more...

The "other fortunate" part was that I did all of this with my left leg dangling out of the door and when the door started hitting the left side of the garage-door post and started pressing the door closed on my leg, I managed to get the leg back far enough to only end up with a partial double-bruise from the near-severation (word?) of the post-knee part of my leg.

Punch-in garage door repair? $275.00
Car-damage? $zero
Pride: <<<˘˘˘˘˘
Mother: SUPER-PISSED BEYOND WORDS
Driving Privileges: Couldn't be touched. Mother (see above) still needed me to keep her from returning to being "Cab-Driver" for the rest of the family...but she kept reminding me...refer to "SUPER-PISSED" above...it says it all.

"BA5TARD CARE". . . . All that's left when you punch out the garage door before leaving it."
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Old 08-27-2012, 02:53 PM
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I thought I'd do the ol' "ignition-bump" I had seen others perform with success.
I did much the same thing with a Volvo 740 Turbo stick, which was parked in first gear while I was trying to troubleshoot some electrical issue (repeated key on, key off, with me lying on my side working up under the dash). I got dragged across the lot and through a pile of scrap body parts (my bay was beside a body shop) until the Volvo t-boned a Honda. Which was fortunate as there was a culvert on the other side of the Honda.
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Old 08-27-2012, 02:56 PM
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Here's a funny one. Air ratchet with a valve body that can twist. Twisted 90 degrees, Frame + Hand + Air Ratchet = Ouch sandwich. Had to pinch the air hose with my free hand.

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