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Originally posted by Vodstok
Have any of you had anything horrible happen to you that you managed to survive without too much physical or emotional harm?

i know i have shared my moose story more than a few times. (I hit a moose with my Jetta in a snowstorm once. Very bad night. Saved me $550 a month though. insurance paid off the car)

I used to work in a wood shop, and i never cut anything off (thank god), but i have had my fair shar of other injuries.


Using a table saw, i once had a piece of wood about the size of a celery stalk bind up in the blade and come flying back to hit me in the gut. it flew so hard that it punched a hole in my jeans and underwear. It broke the skin (fortunately, i think the jeans absorbed most of the impact), and bruised the sit out of me. the spot where it hit swelled up to the size of a tennis ball, and i had a hard time going to the bathroom for a week.

Similar story. Same saw, only this thim the piece of wood was 6 feet long and 1"x1". My zipper saved me from any serious, permenant injury this time. I leaned over while the wood was being cut, again it bound up in the blade, only this time it didnt hit me in the gut. It hit me in mr penis.

Ever see those parts in movies where someone gets hit in the package and they make a goofy face, their eyes cross, and then they double over and fall? I did exactly that. I had enough presance of mind to turn off the saw, then slowly crawled across the floor to the wall so that i could just lean and try not to throw up. there are few things worse than a bruised pecker, i speak from experience.

I was hit by a Volkswagen van when i was driving home at night on my bicycle some years ago. In some weird way i ended up with just a little scratch over my left eye, while my bike was totally smashed to bye, bye... :) The end