Really Stupid Stuff

[CCR]

i have "shot" my eye out. whistler bottle rocket at the age of 7. i stuck it in the sand box and lit it. the wet sand kept it from taking off into the air, at the time i didnt know there was a delay from the "thrust" and the "burst". since it didnt take off i thought it was a dud, went over to pick it up and POP! the plastic whistler tip went straight through the pupil and bounced off my retina in my left eye. think i had close to 30 stitches in my eye. got rushed to st louis to barnes childrens hospital, its like a war zone there around the 4th of july :shock:

now stuff like weedeating, welding, grinding and the like always make think twice about not wearing safety glasses.

a couple years ago, it was hot in the garage, we had a massive floor fan blowing on us as we were working on my brothers truck. i watched this big fat bug fly in front of the fan and !Whamo! the hardshelled little booger hit me right in my bad eye, i had a piece of the bug stuck in my eye for 2 days, went to the doctor to get it out on the 3rd day because we were leaving for vacation that afternoon. took the doc 30 minutes digging to get all the pieces out.

p.s. they took the stitches out with an exacto knife while staring at my eye through a microscope :!: they just used tweezers for the bug parts :mrgreen:

 

[Anonymous]

Bottle rockets have got a friend and I.

Story gos.

4th of july. a buddy calls he went down and got like close to a grand of fire works and said I can't lite them all myself. Told everyone at the house party I was at. Got Like 6 takers to go over a have some fun shooting off his fireworks. We were there like 30 mins. When one buddy sets up a plastic tip rocket in this janky launcher. I see it fall over as he is running away from it. I yell it fell over and told all standing by me turn your back to it. As I turn I see the sparkling gun power trail going right for him. Last second he turns. I see his face light up in the explosion of the rocket. He gos down SCREAMING. Really like I've never heard anyone make some of these sounds. A few people take him in the house to see how bad it is as I went in the house I thought Powder burns a cut or two. it hit him right in his eye. The white of his eye was blood red and the iris had been tore up. There was a big piece that had been ripped from the top and was hanging down over his pupil. After about 60 k in doctor bills he now has about 30% vision I wish I had a pic of it and many would second think not wearing safety glasses

Age 10. My close one was a rocket that I put in a rod was using it like a gun. Would put the rocket in it and aim. Putting to my cheek and all.
Was going well till I seen a plane in the sky and started counting the launch down. I raise it to the sky tracking the plane. It goes off and the blast wash goes right in my face. A big chunk of the wick hits me in the eye. Eyelid closes and gets melted together from the wick. Later in life I can still see a funny spot in my eye.

 

[maddogrider]

Hey Uncle Stetch how is your greesy eye doin anyway?
This thread you started is makin me laugh and at the same time makin me kinda sick. Hopefully all you guys keep sight in at least one eye so you can keep building bikes good luck and wear SAFETY GLASSES 8)

 

[TheFlyingDingo]

Maybe the grease will make you blink faster?

 

[Uncle Stretch]

I got it all washed out ok . Its funny to look back at all the stupid stuff and still lived. When I was young kids use to bring small bottles of mercury to school. We use to rub it on silver dimes and it made them shiny. Our cars had no seatbelts and if you hit anything the only thing to stop you was a big good ol american steel dash board. If you survived the inital impact then the motor came through the firewall to get you. The part that really blows me away is growing up they tested above the ground nuclear bombs in nevada. I would think the fallout would have given us all cancer. The half life of the radiation is like 65 years.....I dont go to vegas. :shock: :shock: :roll:

 

[maddogrider]

I have kind of a funny stupid stuff story, back when i was about 10 years old we had a good snow storm school was out so a friend and i piled the snow up in a big oh mond and thried to blast threw it we almost make it all the way threw, after the dark came around we went in, well that night it got real cold. The next day still out of school i took off up the driveway and was gonna get all the way threw the mond but the mond was frozen solid, didnt relize it until my front wheel hit it i think i flew 30 feet before i landed. I made it without blowing my eyes out but the bicycle's front wheel didnt fair so well.

 

[rgallen]

This has been some fun reading. My side hurts from laughing so hard. I too am glad you didn't get hurt. I truely have done my share of stupid things. But I do have one question for you Uncle Stretch. Does this now make you a Certified Slick Eyed Gyrologist? Ha, ha, ha, oh my side, help me Jesus, ha, ha, ha. I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing with you. Please forgive me

 

[Uncle Stretch]

Did a really cool one yesterday.Needed to cut a 10 gauge spoke ,to use part of it for a cotterpin....instead of walking to my garage and getting one. Used a pair of ........you know flat across the front and the cutters on the side. It took alot of pressure with my hand to snap through the spoke and of course the first one took off for parts unknown.On my second try I was holding one side of the spoke with my hand and tried to hold the little piece I was cutting with a couple fingers. My mistake in this endevor was to have the web of my index finger between the plyers part. Like I said it takes alot of force to cut through a 10 gauge spoke. The minute it cut ,it smash one of those ,just pinch the bejabbers out of your skin,and started bleeding like crazy things. Ill maybe remember not to do that again.....said some dirty words really quick. Stupidity is so sad

 

[maddogrider]

Man Uncle Stretch sounds like you might need some kevlar gloves to go with your safety glasses. :mrgreen: and maybe some steel toe shoes