Just one more reason to use hand tools instead. *LINK*

Geez!

Ted Owen, Pittsburgh

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Saw this on the Today show...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>Guy didn't know it hit him, just had a tooth and headache. Man o man that�s scary�

Re: Saw this on the Today show...

Bob Sheppard

>It could still be done by hand, but I think you'd notice it.

Re: Just one more reason to use hand tools instead

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA, the rain's here

>That's got to be one committed carpenter, not to notice a nail getting driven into the roof of his mouth - did he think he swallowed a bee or something when it happened?

Re: Just one more reason to use hand tools instead

Jack Guzman from Maine

>I was operating one of those beasts once when it misfired.I saw the head of the nail on my coat cuff and from that angle I figured out that it had gone through my wrist.I didn't feel it. It only hurt when it got pulled out.The nail travelled between the wrist joints and came out the other side without damaging anything but flesh. I still think it's odd that he didn't know he had a nail in his head.

I considered it a warning. I don't use them anymore.---Jack

Saw him again today...

Scott Burr in Ben Lomond CA

>He thought the back of the gun hit him in the jaw. Some how it got turned around and fired a nail into the fleshy tissue of his head.

I think I'll stick with my Hart hammers...

Re: Just one more reason to use hand tools instead

Brian Yankee

>I had a distant cousin who cut off a good part of his left thumb with a hand saw while crosscutting a board for the house he was building. Just think about it - Push saw - Ouch!, push saw again - OUCH! push saw again OUCH! I'VE CUT MY &#%$* THUMB OFF!!!!

That saw must have been incredibly sharp or he must have been incredibly dumb. My dad says it was the latter....

Likely apocryphal story...

Jonathan Kaplan (OR)

>Can�t recall where I heard this, and it�s probably apocryphal, but...

Someone claimed that, after putting a nail through their wrist w/ a nail gun, they went to the E.R., and the E.R. nurse, looking at it, commented �Why didn�t you stop hammering?�

jk

I suspect...

Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA, the rain's here

>that a good many ER nurses would say something like that, but after the patient left, not right to his face.

The only people with more dark humor about their clients are cops, which may be why I get along with them so well - HR people are pretty prone to dark humor too.

The trick is...

Bob Hackett

>to deliver the line with a deadpan face.

Sometimes it`s even harder to keep that straight face after you see the reaction.

Mainely,Bob

Dark humor...

Greg Phillips, Berrien Springs, MI

>is definitely alive and well in the ER. As an ER nurse, my first thought after seeing the x-ray image above was that the nail a bit too short. That being said, I wish the poor guy no ill-will and a speedy recovery. I guess dark humor just kinda goes along with that kind of work. In reality, probably a coping mechanism.

Cheers,

Greg