Whats your experience with selfinflicted injury while practice your hobby

[Smoth]

self inflicted injuries

Xacto knife:

1. I forgot I was holding it and stabbed my mid section.. no major internal damage..

2. stabed my thumb with my wide blade.. bleed for 1 hour +.

3. sliced my finger tip off.

Regular knife:

1. Spit the tip of my finger. Anime styled blood spray all on my wall.

Super glue

1. went to lick my finger to wet it... there was glue on my finger...

2 & X+2. glued fingers together.

Pin vice:

1. stabbed finger after bit went through mini.

 

[Sturmhalo]

The worst injury I got was when I was a kid (before my mini painting days) when me and my friends were into plastic kits and balsa wood aircraft. We were arguing about something not very important and I got so angry that I stabbed myself in the leg with a Stanley knife to release my anger! It worked as well! All that anger just disappeared and was replaced first with laughter at the sheer insanity of what I\'d just done, then panic as the blood welled up in the wound, then shock as the blood poured down my leg, and then feintness and nausea. One sticking plaster and a bit of a lie down and everything was ok.

 

[Calavera]

Hmm, I have yet to cut my fingertips off, damn. Only gashed myself eighteen times since november or something(I count it !) Mostly thumb and index finger. Then I once drilled through my thumbnail, was drilling on purpose(I KNOW!) and felt a stinging pain... had to greenstuff the hole

 

[Braveheart712]

Injuries...

My personal bests include...

1) When I was 14 or so I acquired a knife wound on my left hand between my index finger and thumb. It seems that knifes work better when you cut AWAY from your hand.

2) Various super glue mishaps like stuck fingers, etc but the worse was placing a tube in my mouth while trying to hold a model with both hands. Let\'s just say for all the glueing strength super glue delivers, it definitely lacks a palletable flavor...

3) And last but not least, from the \"You\'re never too old...\" category, last year\'s inch long x-acto knife cut on my left index finger. The model slipped on the cutting mat and the next think I knew I had a knife sticking in my finger. God was pretty smart when he put a bone in there cause I think that was what kept the blade from coming out the other side. Again cut AWAY from your hand!

 

[wiccanpony]

ouch! ouch! ouch!

“damn!... I better see if my tetanus shots are up to date”lol

 

[Grizzix]

1) i have many permenant lines across the tip of my right thumb from my x-acto cutting me while removing mould lines.

2) i have a scar on my left thumb from when i glued an orky bit too it and tried to remove it forcefully. it came off but with a chunk-o-thumb attached.

3) stabbed my exacto into my palm trying to cut bricks apart from a stone wall scenery piece.

 

[johnboyjjb]

Not our hobby but still cool

A close buddy was drilling into hardwood and got the bit really hot when he hit a knot. The bit slipped, punched through the webbing between his thumb and pointer finger and it cauterized from the heat. When he went to show his wife she asked if it hurt to bend it and it cracked open but it was still cool.

 

[Chern Ann]

Just stupidity

When I was a little kid I put a pencil in my ear with the point sticking out. I then forgot it was there and reached to touch my head and stabbed my palm with the pencil. A piece of graphite broke off and embedded itself in my palm. It\'s still there. The very next year, for some reason I did it again, so there are two little black dots underneath the skin of my palm on my right hand between the index and middle finger. If I get murdered and someone cuts off all my fingers and gets my teeth, you can still identify me!

 

[Dragonsreach]

Dumbest thing I\'ve just been reminded of;
A few years ago I had to wear a name badge. (Hello I\'m Mike and I feel a prat!, Type of thing) I took the name badge off to attend a training course and placed it in the pocket of my suit jacket.
The jacket hung on back of chair for most of the course but at the end I put on the jacket and patted my pockets (As you do to find your Car Keys)
Somewhere during the day the pin of the badge had sprung loose and was poking out of the fabric.
Yep!, skewered the pad between thumb and palm. Hurt going in..Hurt even more pulling hand free. (cos you do it slowly) Weird thing no blood, and not even a mark!

 

[Nelson]

Hey, if we\'re just talking about dumb things that aren\'t hobby related, I\'ve got plenty of em.

Anybody know the game of Pick-up-Sticks? We have a set of plastic ones which are quite pointy. I was about 11, and had just gotten a slingshot. Since my parents were out of the house, I thought I\'d have a little fun by shooting pick-up-sticks around the house. The very first one I tried to shoot slipped down at an angle without me noticing, pointing straight at my hand. Needless to say, I pulled back as hard as I could, let it go, and the next thing I knew, there was a lime green pick-up-stick rammed more than a centimeter into the part between my thumb and pointer finger. It was actually quite funny, because I panicked and ran for bandages with it sticking out of my hand, wobbling around like an ungodly antenna. I\'ve still got that scar, although the blow was more to my pride.

I\'ve had one serious bike accident, too, and that was the result of sheer stupidity. A friend and I were barreling down a hill going 30 miles an hour, and we decided to go no hands for a bit of fun. I was in front and enjoying it, when my buddy said something behind me. With my hands still off the bar, I turned around to hear him better, and the next thing I knew, I was flying through the air. I think I got about 10-15 feet from the bike, and ended up with a broken arm, a concussion, and a few cracked ribs. The funny thing was, my buddy was actually warning me about a pot hole, the same one that launched me off my bike.

 

[Greymane]

How stupid am I

Stabbed myself just the other day with a nice sharp pin wire I had just inserted into the nether regions of sister christina (yes the mini before you start) I had just applied CA to the end to be inserted in the mini and gave it a good push home putting 1/2 an inch into the fleshy part of my thumb, I tried to pull it out but the mini came off the other end so I just grasped the glue covered end .....you see where I am going.
Though that brings me to a meeting I had a few years ago when I was relatively new to my company and was sat round the table with my Director ( a Fat Cat utility Director)
I was absentmindedly playing with a stapler and you guessed it the fleshy part of my thumb got it again. I then had to wait for a suitable time to excuse myself and extract the staple mind over matter.

 

[wiccanpony]

I can see the movie now...

And Gandalf said “lo, you shall know the bearer of the true “Paint Brush of Destiny” by the many.. (self inflected )..oops I meant to say battle scars upon his hands and body. He/she shall also be anointed in the balm of Bactine and cloaked in Bandages of Courage:innocent: to show his worthiness ......lol

 

[SmashyStudios]

ive got 2

1. stuck \"chiseling\" xacto (long flat one) all the way through the meat of my thumb (palm side) and then into the side of my middle finger whilst trying to disassemble a land raider
2. imagine you have a dremmel with a TINY graphite drill bit in it, and its parallel to your finger nail, then imagine sticking the bit thru the skin just above the nail up to the first knuckle... oooh yeah, good times

 

[torifile]

Headache and stiff knees.

Sometimes I sit so long reading these posts that my knees get very stiff and painful (arthritis), and I get a headache. Not to mention the countless back pains from sitting at my work desk (degenerative disc disease). Does that count?

Actually, I once drilled straight through a mini with a dremel, right into my finger. Everyone thought it was hilarious!
lol

 

[atacam]

Not really this hobby. But I have recently been putting a new kitchen in my house. I was happily angel grinding some tiles and it slipped. It went straight into my left index finger down to the bone. Must say it didnt hurt and still doesn\'t. lots and lots of blood, and 3 1/2 hours at A&E. not been able to paint since . But I did manage to get a picture of the wound. The bandages come off tomorrow so I wil wait to see if I lose the end or need skin graphs. But you know what? I just can\'t get bothered about it....strange.

BTW any one wanna see the pic I can post it or mail it.

 

[Calavera]

bring it on !

 

[Nelson]

Well, I\'ve got an update....

I had a baseball driven into my balls at lunch. I am told my castrated screech broke several windows in nearby homes, only drowned out by my buddies laughter.

I\'m sitting at home right now, with them on ice, with the WORST stomachache I have EVER had.

Cry for me!

 

[wiccanpony]

blanching

Originally posted by Nelson
Well, I\'ve got an update....

I had a baseball driven into my balls at lunch. I am told my castrated screech broke several windows in nearby homes, only drowned out by my buddies laughter.

I\'m sitting at home right now, with them on ice, with the WORST stomachache I have EVER had.

Cry for me!

sob..sob!..waaaaaaAAAAAaaaaaaaaa!!!!sniff

 

[Evil Dave]

I ...
A.) once put a dremel bit halfway through my thumb.
B.) Have accidently slit my wrist.
C.) Have broken a front tooth and an arm falling off a bunk bed.
D.) Have got a concussion from being slammed by some somoan guy in a mosh pit.
E.) Have gotten slammed in the face by a board swing when I fell off.
F.) Have gotten sliced on the cheek by a mugger\'s knife.
G.) Broken multiple bones in multiple fights.

Yet all these pale in comparison to the pain of getting stung in the white of the eye by a bee.
The doctor had to run a dry Q-tip over my eyeball to get the stinger out.
Believe me when I say broken bones hurt less.

 

[Sand Rat]

Well, if we want to talk about non mini related injuries, I dont remember getting the oldest scar I own - I have a half inch long dent in my forhead from the doctor getting me with the salad tongs the day I was born - this year that scar will be 38 years old. I did kick him for it - and he dropped me. God, today parents would probably sue for something like that - but 38 yrs ago, that was part of the deal, if not normal.