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today i was cleaning my tiny window garden and have done a dumb motion which resulted in me getting about 15 cactus needles into my index finger and i got all but one out which i will get removed in a medical office because its so deep stuck and is swelling my finger.... I do not hate cactus after that though they still flower nicely.

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After reading threads like this a few years ago, I decided to put a simple zip tie around the knife handle. It works the same as the tape trick, but it is a little more solid. Either works great, it just depends on what you have lying around.

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Hate to hear about your injury. I had my first hobby injury while I still lived at home. I was cutting the top off of a Camaro with a Testors hobby knife when it slipped and sliced about a half inch down the skin on the side of my thumb...had a few stiches. Soon after, my dad purchased me a hobby kit with two different size Xacto handles, a plethera of #11 and other blades, a miter box, and a hobby saw. Needless to say, I never tried cutting off a top again without a saw.

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Al, I trust you have mended well enough to come to our meeting on Saturday? This is the meeting where we do the NNL East mailing, so be prepared to put address sticker and stamps on a bunch of postcards!

And of course, bring your appetite, as usual we will have lots of food!

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I saw a worse one today on a customer. He got bit by a park flier prop so bad that he needed 40 stitches between his thumb and pointer finger on his left hand! Be was adjusting linkages on the plane itself while it was powered up with the motor plugged in and something moved hitting the throttle stick, throttling up the motor, causing the prop to strike him 3 times. He said the E.R. doc wasn't sure if he was going to need a specialist, but the blades managed to miss anything important inside his hand..........almost sounded like the Doc was more relieved than this customer was!

I told him about a customer who runs in the Vance and Hines 1200cc spec class that laid his Harley down at over 100mph trying to qualify at Indy this summer. All but destroyed his knee cap and ground the skin on his left had down to the point they could see the tendons working!

They both offered to show the pics, I thanked them for the offers, but declined both.........didn't need to see either!

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Want fun? Try getting an ounce of molten solder splashed on your leg. Did not hurt the jeans I was wearing, but it sure burned. I was jumping around and yelling ouchouchouchouchouchouch. How did this happen? I was using what is called a tinning pot. Kind of a bucket with a heater element around it. I was dipping the tip of some brass rods into it when I dipped a dirty one and it popped and sizzled and caused me to back up and hit the table and then the stuff flew out and nailed me on the leg.

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