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    Guy Loses a Chunk of His Finger In Neodymium Magnet Accident (NSFW)

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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    02/19/09

    In reply to Guy Loses a Chunk of His Finger In Neodymium Magnet Accident (NSFW)
    Resisting... urge... to...click... on... link... with... horrible... pictures.
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    02/19/09

    In reply to Guy Loses a Chunk of His Finger In Neodymium Magnet Accident (NSFW)
    how is this NSFW? who's employer would say 'browsing gizmodo aimlessly is ok but a ripped off finger? that's a no-no'.


    *perplexed*

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    02/19/09

    In reply to Guy Loses a Chunk of His Finger In Neodymium Magnet Accident (NSFW)
    Fucking magnets... is not a good idea ; )
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    02/19/09

    In reply to Guy Loses a Chunk of His Finger In Neodymium Magnet Accident (NSFW)
    I guess it could have been worse. So much for the giant headphone idea I had.
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    02/19/09

    In reply to Guy Loses a Chunk of His Finger In Neodymium Magnet Accident (NSFW)
    Just curious, how much force would it take to pull those magnets apart now?
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    02/19/09

    @KRiSone87: All ten fingers at least..
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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    10/17/09

    @KRiSone87: I've got a pair of smaller spherical N45 magnets that are 1 inch in diameter. You have to roll one over 90 deg from the poles to pull them apart. So far I've not found anyone that can pull them straight apart. #neodymiummagnetaccident
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    02/19/09

    In reply to Guy Loses a Chunk of His Finger In Neodymium Magnet Accident (NSFW)
    that hurts to just fucking LOOK at.
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    02/19/09

    In reply to Guy Loses a Chunk of His Finger In Neodymium Magnet Accident (NSFW)
    There are consequences for failing to enter the code every 108 minutes. When will people learn?!
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    02/19/09

    @frigg: How long have you been saving that one up? :)
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    02/19/09

    In reply to Guy Loses a Chunk of His Finger In Neodymium Magnet Accident (NSFW)
    BTW Giz, like the new NSFW icon/graphic.
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    02/19/09

    In reply to Guy Loses a Chunk of His Finger In Neodymium Magnet Accident (NSFW)
    Dirk of the nine fingers..
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    02/19/09

    In reply to Guy Loses a Chunk of His Finger In Neodymium Magnet Accident (NSFW)
    This look will be stuck on my face all day. It is also my birthday.


    ;_;

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    02/19/09

    @CatboyMac's angry girlfriend: Happy/angry birthday to you.


    Here, have a nanerpus

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    02/19/09

    @CatboyMac's angry girlfriend: Your avatar looks like you're blowing smoke rings.
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    02/19/09

    In reply to Guy Loses a Chunk of His Finger In Neodymium Magnet Accident (NSFW)
    tough call - I sawed 2/3 of my thumb off on a bandsaw and it happened so fast there was no pain. just blood and this weird moment where you look down and see a part of you not attached to you.
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    02/19/09

    @kingsnake: Two fingertips in a jointer for me.


    Exactly as you said. No pain, just shock. It didn't hurt for 45 minutes, at which point I was already in the hospital being shot up with drugs so the plastic surgeon could get working.

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    02/19/09

    @Hestika: Oh man now I'm queasy... But you guys did get them successfully reattached right?
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    02/19/09

    @Nintenboy01: Nope. A jointer shaves, it doesn't cut. It's like a planer. So 100s of little slices of finger were down in there with the sawdust.


    The plastic surgeon took the skin that was left and wrapped it up and over, and now those two fingers are about 1/2 shorter.

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    02/19/09

    @Hestika: If you don't mind my asking, are those the fingers in your avatar?
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    Image of Saboth Saboth
    02/19/09

    @kingsnake:


    I once lost a teeny tiny chunk of flesh on a finger when using some wire cutters. I'm talking like 1/8 of an inch. Maybe I'm a wuss, but I felt damn nauseous the whole rest of the day.

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    02/19/09

    @Nintenboy01: I doubt it is b/c #1, it's both his middle fingers showing, and #2, there's nails on both of them. ;)
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    02/19/09

    @Saboth: There is a difference in pain when it is just a little cut and a freaking wound. Even though your cut wasn't "little" per say the nerve endings were firing still... when you just lose the finger, you have no nerve endings anymore.


    I hate paper cuts because they hurt like a bastard but when i put a quarter inch slice into the bridge of my knuckle (blood everywhere, damn desk not fitting togeather) there was very little pain until after the blood stopped.

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    Image of tande04 tande04
    02/19/09

    In reply to Guy Loses a Chunk of His Finger In Neodymium Magnet Accident (NSFW)
    Why would you stop to take the pictures?


    I crush my finger my first thought isn't to document it so that others can be spared my pain. Its fixing the pain.

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    02/19/09

    @tande04: I'm guessing he didn't, or he did it while waiting for EMS to arrive. Not much to do after such an accident except NOT panic. If it happened at work, it might have been photographed as part of an investigation.
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    Image of Homerjay is utterly alone. Homerjay is utterly alone.
    02/19/09

    @tande04: The picture probably came well after the medical attention.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    02/19/09

    @Closed captioning provided by Homerjay: Or before. When I broke my leg while walking to the shower, I took the time to put on a clean non-smelly shirt before the ambulance crew arrived.
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    02/19/09

    @Closed captioning provided by Homerjay: That makes sense.


    I didn't think about that. I guess its because I haven't had any major medical emergencies when by myself so everything was cleaned up fixed by the time I get back from the hospital, Dr., etc.

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    02/19/09

    @Woot!-Off_GitEmSteveDave: Um, story time. How do you break your leg walking to the shower?
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    02/19/09

    @tande04: Major medical emergencies have a way of putting you into shock. After splitting my head open diving into a river, my main concern was finding a mirror or a camera so I could see it. The doctors didn't oblige, I guess they thought I'd go into a panic if I saw it.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    02/19/09

    @snubz: My bathroom was in a furnished garage/semi-apartment. It was all carpeted, and no cars were parked in there. On SuperBowl Sunday, I had just got done making Jello Shots, and was getting ready to goto work, and I would be off work around the 3rd quarter, whereupon I would return home and party. I say that so you know I wasn't drinking. While walking up the two stairs from the garage floor to the landing where the door to the house was on my left and the bathroom door on my right, my right foot slipped under me. It stopped when it hit my left foot, and my knee wedged against the side wall. So we have a triangle, with one side being the floor, the other being a wall, and the last side(the weakest), my right leg. I then fell ON that leg w/my 200+lb girth(I subtracted the weight of my legs to get to that figure. I've lost a lot of weight since then). I then heard a SNAP. I screamed. No one in the house came to help. I screamed again. No help. I then took my good leg and slammed my foot against the wall the door was on. My mother came out into the garage, and started one of the funniest exchanges of my life.


    Mom: What happened?

    Me: I think I broke my leg!

    Mom: Are you OK?

    Me: I..THINK..I..BROKE..MY..LEG!


    So we then looked at the semi swelling area above my ankle where my Fibula w/a spiral fracture was. So we called the ambulance, and put some ice on it, which was hard, as it was on the outside part of my leg, which meant I had to put my leg ON the ice pack. While waiting for the ambulance, I asked someone to get me a clean shirt and call work and explain what happened and I might be late. Changed shirts, got into the ambulance, and headed off to the local hospital. I didn't change shorts b/c besides there being people all around me, I don't think I could have gotten them over my leg.

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    Image of Daemonicus Daemonicus
    02/19/09

    In reply to Guy Loses a Chunk of His Finger In Neodymium Magnet Accident (NSFW)
    i guess he doesn't watch Mythbusters he would of known better lol
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    02/19/09

    @Daemonicus: The magnet bullet one?
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    Image of Stitchopoulis Stitchopoulis
    02/19/09

    @Woot!-Off_GitEmSteveDave: I liked the "using magnets to climb up the ventilation shaft" one. The whole time, Adam is talking about how terrified he is to even be in the same room as Jamie and his 4 giant neodymium magnets.
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    02/19/09

    @Stitchopoulis: Forgot about that one. I remember the HUGE racket they made.
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    02/19/09

    @Woot!-Off_GitEmSteveDave: lol ya and they were supposed to be doing a show on stealthy intrusion into a building haha ... unless they were tryingto break into the offices of the hearing impared that was fail heheh
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    02/19/09

    @Daemonicus: Not really. I was watching Transformers again, and wondered why almost everyone int he film had NO peripheral vision, and didn't notice robots walking 2 feet from them. Then I noticed that in almost every movie, guards can see/hear things moving around them, unless it's a small stone thrown in the opposite direction, or something similar.
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    02/19/09

    @Stitchopoulis: The "Giant hockey puck magnets of death". I think there were ten of 'em.
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