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Thumb grinded off

Today in school, some kid in wood shop ground off his thumb. Crazy.
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02-22-2008 08:42 AM
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Ouch.
02-22-2008 08:50 AM
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Laugh
Am I on Who Wants to Be A Sadistic Psychopath yet?
anyway, ouch.
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02-22-2008 08:52 AM
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OMG EWEWEWEW
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D: Gross.

Is there any interesting story behind it?
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The entire thumb or is it going to turn out to be just a big misunderstanding but the guy is forever to be known as the dumbass who grinded his thumb off during shop?
02-22-2008 10:22 AM
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ooooh that's gotta hurt, our tech teacher gave a whole safety lecture about those. it went something along the lines of "ok meatheads, listen up. get in the car, get up to 65 on the freeway, open the door, stick your arm out and let your hand drag along the pavement and you'll get a good feel for what the grinder will do to you."

yes, he adresses us as "meatheads."
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Ouchies. Oh and rebel's story made me laugh. Laugh
02-22-2008 11:50 AM
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Ow. That's gotta hurt... I'd also like to know if it was the whole thumb though.

I heard this story about some guy who lost a finger, and instead of doing what the doctor said, he listened to his brother who put some weird powder from a pig's stomach on it, and then it actually grew back the entire finger, nail and all. Wtf
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In grade seven I sanded the skin off my thumb and index finger with the power sander.
02-23-2008 08:14 AM
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one thing i learnt in shop class... is not to screw around in shop class. í consider myself lucky to leave with all my digits and only a few burns lol.

one time i accidently melted a hole through a gas hose. i told the teacher about it and he said he would fix it, but the next day someone was using that same welder, ignited the gas from the hole and there was a huge flame shooting out from it. it was gigantic. no one was hurt luckily, but the teacher just walked up towards and turn the knob off like it was nothing Laugh
02-24-2008 05:10 AM
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