[Bobboau]

the other day, I found this neat giant ruber band, and I got to thinking, this would make for a realy nice weapon to use against those fucking rabits if I could put all the energy into something hard, and preferably pointy. and I had a shit load of 1" PVC laying around, so my first instinct was to cut a chanle into a long section of it and use it as a type of sling shot like device, this failed miserably, when ever the projectile reached the far end the ruber band bunched up and screwed the shot up. my next design was somewhat more conventional, it had two long spokes and a center handle forming a Y (exept it was all 90 degree angles and a tee), exept unlike the clasic sling shot you pulled along the spokes not perpindicular to them. the first test shot I tried, I looked around for soething that I could fire off easily, without haveing to wory about keeping it centered on the band, I saw a old wire coat hanger, and grabed my wire cutters, nipped of a chunck of the 1/8th inch thick steal wire, the cut wasn't very clean so the long end of it was all barbed and jaged, I formed it into a sharp hook shape, aimed it at my trash can pulled it back as far as I thought it would go without breaking and releasted.

it didn't fire properly I heard it hit something I fealt something hit the side of my head, my trash can was fine. I couldn't find the prjectile.
/*point at the trash can*/ I fired it there,  /*looks to the left*/ I heard something there, right after I fealt something hit the side of my head here /*reaches to the side of my head*/
/*feels something that didn't belong there*/
/*stairs blankly*/ no.... I don't have a jagedly cut coat hanger lodged in my skull...
/*feels the side of my head, it's still there*/
fuck...
/*walks up stairs and looks in the mirror*/
wow, it's like an inch and a half deep too, good thing for that nice hard bone there, I can see it goeing into my head just behind my hair line about an inch above my glasses, right next to my temple.
/*grabs the part still outside my body*/
ah, ahw.. eerrr

I can feel a sort of suction sensaition, not that much pain, at this point my body's like "I know you already know you fucked up, I don't even need to remind you, you have a fucking coat hanger stuck in your head, you fucking dumbass!", I can feel little strips of head meat getting riped as I pull it the rest of the way out, and just as I get to the surface, AHOY me maty, thar be pain reseptors thar!, ouch.

so, todays lesson is: if your makeing an experimental slinghsot, don't bring the first test shot up to full power.

another inch to the right and i would have taken out my eye, and posably the better part of the left half of my brain. if that alternate universe theory is corect there are probly a **** load of dead 'me's right now

[Ford Prefect]

A part of me just died. That story damaged my brain more than any coat hanger could have.

[Jeryko]

Ouch that sucks, but seems strangley familiar to what I did one day. Heh.

[WMCoolmon]

[phreak]

@ alternate universe comment

[achtung]

really sounds like something I would do, except my incident would most likely involve black powder or something of the like.

was it near your temple?  Or kind of between there and your forehead?

[Bobboau]

I seem to be developing a headache now, probly has to do with the hematoma forming in the hole, I just have this feeling that if I go to sleep I'm gona wake up in unbridaled pain.

[Ford Prefect]

Temple? He's in Belleville, IL, dude. [/Oi_vey]

Batum-ching! (Yeah I was afraid that wasn't going to go too well.)

[achtung]

Originally posted by Ford Prefect
Temple? He's in Belleville, IL, dude. [/Oi_vey]

The temple of your skull or.... wait.... hell I can't remember how it's spelled.

[Bobboau]

Originally posted by Bobboau
...right next to my temple...

[Singh]

ermmm....and if its STILL in your head, what are you doing on the computer? Dude! GO TO THE HOSPITAL for heaven's sake. If the coat hangar was old rusty, you're going to have a BAD case of infection/ god knows what else.

[achtung]

heh, whoops

but I agree with singh you should really go get that checked out.

[Ford Prefect]

We've got a whole bunch of Brits on this forum, safely going about their lives amid terrorist attacks, and someone in the American Midwest -- arguably the safest place on Earth -- manages to mutilate himself with a coat hanger.

[Rictor]

You didn't have any thoughts along the lines of "Gee, maybe a trained professional would be better suited to pulling out a large piece of jagged metal out of my skull"? No, nothing like that?

Honestly man, get thee to a hospital, they should at least have a look at you.

But I appluad you scientific curiosity. No pain, no gain. Next time, try using something rounder and softer, eh?

[Bobboau]

as I lack a digital camera, I had another great idea, "stick your head into the scaner" this idea turned out to be less painfull. and this happened like four/five hours ago, I've been playing game cube with my brother sence then, I'll be fine... unless it gets infected, in wich case I'll go to the hospital

[Singh]

see a doctor.

Period.

There's no question about infections, and I bet you probably have a piece stuck towards the end as well. At the very least, you will need a tetnus (that is the correct one for rusty metal, right?) shot to counter it, regardless if there is an infection or not.

[Bobboau]

it wan't an old rusty one, it was laminated in some sort of plasticy paint, and the end that penitrated had been cut not one minute before, it had been hanging in my shelf for ages and wasn't particularly dirty, I doubt there'll be any major infection (though probly a minor one) it's midnight, I am alone with my little brother, my health insurance just ran out and I'm tired. I ain't going to no hospital. not tonight anyway.

and there might be a shard or two, but it's solid material, nothing major was left in there.

[Singh]

Originally posted by Bobboau
it wan't an old rusty one, it was laminated in some sort of plasticy paint, and the end that penitrated had been cut not one minute before, it had been hanging in my shelf for ages and wasn't particularly dirty, I doubt there'll be any major infection (though probly a minor one) it's midnight, I am alone with my little brother, my health insurance just ran out and I'm tired. I ain't going to no hospital. not tonight anyway.

and there might be a shard or two, but it's solid material, nothing major was left in there.

If you're talking about plastic/metal, you dont need something major for an infection/other problem to start up.

Your call though - just dont say we didn't warn you.

[achtung]

Originally posted by Rictor
But I appluad you scientific curiosity. No pain, no gain. Next time, try using something rounder and softer, eh?

Yes!  next time use a kitten!:nod:

[Ghost]

Jesus, ow. Sorry about that, man. That sucks.


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