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ST1100:

--- Quote from: SteveW on January 15, 2021, 08:44:59 PM ---... something a bit more juicy.
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Fortunately no serious bodily harm yet... the usual micro splinters or wire copper threads impaled in the skin you've to search for days...
 
Some years back I'd forgotten to unscrew the fork-caps on my ST1100 before opening the drain plugs on the low outside of the bottoms...
POOF!!
...blackish, stinking stuff everywhere... face, mouth, nose, eyes, hair, forearms, shirt, pants, shoes, workbench, cabinets, wall, ceiling... took me days to get rid of the stench (and taste!)...  ;D

Bryanj:
Had a piece of lump hammer face in my forearm for several months without noticing after changing HA van brakes to discs at 2am, one day noticed a black mark and squeezed out out a 1/8 inch cube of steel.
Got a scar  halfway round left thumb from whem it got trapped between a large hammer and speedo drive ring on Triumph T140 rear wheel, hospital thought they may have to set the joint in one position for that one but no, now i can feel the end of my thumb in two places, at the end and at the scar!! Also i probed you can get a 3ltr Capri round a right angle right turn at 70 with one hand

smoothoperator:
Whilst fitting the obligatory upgraded speakers to my first car, a mini, I was drilling holes out of the rear parcel shelf whilst sat in the boot. The inevitable happened and I got a piece of hot swarf in my eye. It didn't hurt at first but half an hour later I couldn't open either of my eyes because of the pain. Trip to A & E where it was pulled out by a pair of tweezers. I got lucky and my eye recovered with a small scar that doesn't affect my eyesight but always causes the opticians to say ooh what happened there! Big improvement to the acoustics though.

MCTID:
Hahahaha I was a Health and Safety Manager on London Underground so I could tell you a few tales.........but the best was my old retired Neighbour in Worthing who used to be a Nurse at a Brighton Hospital.

We were nattering over the garden wall one sunny day and talking about incidents and accidents at work when she said "When I worked in A & E, I saw some really unusual sights......it's incredible what people can get up to with bottles and things" !!!!!

When I get a bit low or depressed, I turn on YouTube Fails and see just what lunatics there are out there stealing oxygen from the rest of us ! Always cheers me up no end.

Stay safe Folks........this will all be over soon.

Laverda Dave:
I needed to get my workmate bench from the shed. I'd cut the grass in a hurry the evening before and just slung the mower and rake back in the shed. When I walked in to get the workmate I stepped on the rake and just like the comedy sketch the steel handle of the rake shot up to greet me! I actually saw stars and the pain was something else. The wack split the skin on my forehead really deeply with blood gushing out and into my eye, a big bruise came up within a couple of hours. To embarrassed to go to the hospital on the bus I used plasters to hold the wound closed. The plaster would come off whilst I was asleep opening the cut again, this went on for days. I couldn't wear a crash helmet because it would open the cut putting it on. I never lived it down at work, people would crease up laughing when I told them what happened ::)

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