RonL,
There was a TV show on a few nights ago where they where talking about
wierd/strange injuries. One was a guy who had an 8 inch "hunting/rambo"
knive buried into his skull. It missed some major blood vessels by a 1/16th
of an inch....
One of the other stories was a guy working construction. I think he was
working around a small cement mixer. The mixer for some reason had a
nub, pun intended, of a spinning shaft that was not shielded. I first
saw it and "PTO shaft" went through my mind.
He was wearing sweat pants and they somehow got grabbed by this
little shaft. It promptly and quickly pulled him, groin first, into the
spinning shaft. He said at first it just felt like grinding action. Then
it was REAL painful. They pictured this guy walking around on in a wierd
way. Kinda like a Cowboy who has been on a horse for 24 hours. His
legs where kinda splayed out as he walked. And he walked on his toes
or balls of his feet. So while he did this waddle he also was holding
the front of his sweat pants, right in front of his groin, to keep the cloth
from touching his body.....
At this point in the show I was really loosing interest. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif I really
did not need anymore info.
But what I did pick up before I resumed my channel surfing, was that the
shaft had taken off his shaft. /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif And I think some other things as
well but I was pushing the up channel button at this point. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif After
the got him to the hospital and drugged up he worked up the courage to
lift up the sheets to see what equipment remained. And it was not much.
Nub would be a good word.....
It sounded like they found "things" and reattached the equipment but I
could be wrong.... Shudder....
There was another story of a women who it looked like had lost all of the
skin/scalp from about the midpoint of her nose UP. I never caught how
she lost the skin/scalp but they showed a 3PH auger. She had major
reconstructive surgery and does not really look bad for someone who had
have her face pulled off. They where afraid the surgery would not work.
I'm afraid to ask what would have happened if the surgery had failed.
The women would have had no skin from the nose up.......
After this show I think I found a comedy to watch. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Be careful out there!
Later...
Dan
