Mangled Thumb

Kjeldorian Royal Guard 42 · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 9:18 pm Post subject: Mangled Thumb

"Ted, turn that light just a "scoach" and point it at his guts". .

This is what I heard just seconds before disaster!

I'm at the haunted house doing some last minute adjusting with the lighting in a couple scenes. I grab ye ole faithfull Makita and begin to unscrew/rescrew a light which was slightly out of range of a corpse on the floor. One foot on the ladder. . .one foot resting on the adjacent wall. .. I jam the Makita into the bastid screw in question and begin to retract it. . . . .the phillips bit begins to spin, stripping the screw in the process. . ."damn" , I scream. . . . I lean in to get more leverage. . .. the bit takes hold and begins to draw the screw out. . .. just as I am seeing the final thread on the screw. . .. .my foot on the wall (plywood) begins to slide. . . ."oh S#^!" I yell out!. . . . in a split second I made a decision. . .

To use my elbow to grab the adjacent stud and brake my fall. . . or put my available hand out to grab the wall in front of me. .. . . .I myself loath any funny bone injury, thus I chose to stick my available hand out and grab the wall. . ..

Bad decision. . .. I subsiquently raked my thumb across an exposed piece of wrought iron. .. . . .I could almost hear the flesh tear. . . .

I could feel the blood pumping out of my veins onto the floor. .. I did not fall off the ladder but the damage had been done. .. My thumb was toast. . .Shredded. . .The skin flapping in the breeze like a skin kite. . . .

Basically, I just cut my thumb! I can't play (optical mouse) but the corpse got the light he needed!

And we are now ready to open on Friday!

A small price to pay for scaring more than half the population of Austin Texas!

So, I can't play until this nasty wound heals!

Give me a couple days and I'll be back to "suicide for the team "in no time!

PS. I am stuck on Bandaid brand 'cause Bandaid's stuck on my hideous thumb wound!

Replica · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 9:24 pm Post subject:

tough about that thumb, worst i've done is gouged it with my x-acto blades, not like that didn't bleed and all, but ripping flesh is bad too. my advice.... 1. super glue is great for that kinda stuff, keep it in place long enoguh to heal and 2. don't bleed on the damn Zen garden.

Get well soon

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Bright Red Nipples · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 9:25 pm Post subject:

<-----hates flesh wounds. Been there, done that. Sorry to hear that KRG, before I even got far enough for the explanation I knew what was coming. Hope it heals quickly for ya.
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-=ITS=-GaladerieL[Vegas] · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 9:38 pm Post subject:

ouchie for the thumb there

.. but i send U get well wishes and looking forward to seeing u back soon!!!

Ktulu · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 9:43 pm Post subject:

Stiches? Pics? Come on give us the good stuff we crave royal blood

Dude is there anyway you could set up a live cam in or around your haunted house? That would rule, you could even do it with a dial-up modem... i've done it before.

Oh your thumb.... hmmm, sorry about that bud. One questions, did you damage the corpse on the ground?

hoaxie · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 9:43 pm Post subject:

'cause they hold on tight in the bathtub and they cling in soapy suuuuuddddsssssss!
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Replica · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 9:49 pm Post subject:

Kjeldorian Royal Guard 42 · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 9:50 pm Post subject:

LMAO, that Kenny pic is totally me right now!. .

Ken, we have done the webcam thing before but it's just too dark inside for cameras and it didn't turn out so well. When the news crews come through, they shoot their lights all over the place and it . . I'll use the word "angers" us.

I am taking a bunch of pics of the house this Thursday and I'll post em so you can check 'em out. No, I didn'y hurt the corpse!

He is doing fine. . . for a gutted croc-a-gator victim!

MUAHAHAHAHA!

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osiris · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 10:11 pm Post subject:

Bah who needs opposable thumbs i think a amputation is in order! scapel!

hoaxie · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 10:21 pm Post subject:

OpTlk · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 10:51 pm Post subject:

weird, I just did the same thing the other day at work. the only real difference was that I was not standing on a ladder with one foot while the other was on a wall, I was not unscrewing a screw with a "gutted croc-a-gator victim" at my feet, and it wasn't caused by a piece of wrought iron. Hmm, maybe I didnt just do the same thing the other day

But I wasn't kidding about the thumb part! Although it was on my left hand, so I can still play without problems.

Oh, and in case curiousity is your thing, I cut mine while using a straight edge blade boxcutter at 4 in the morning, the blade slipped and next thing I know theres blood everywhere. hEh oh well..it happens.

seeya back in game soon KRG!
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BitterBeerFace · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 11:12 pm Post subject:

So KRG, do we get to call you "lefty" from now on?

Workplace injuries are really fun, especially cutting through flesh and in my worst case, fingernails/the soft fleshy skin under the nail... probably not as much blood involved though! You should have dribbled it all over your corpses, much better than that cheap fake junk you were using!

Kjeldorian Royal Guard 42 · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 11:25 pm Post subject:

Chan · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 11:27 pm Post subject:

I cut my finger like that before, cept it was with a slegdehammer and a Steel spike. Don't ask

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Replica · Posted: Tue Sep 24, 2002 11:34 pm Post subject:

should I.... nooo i can't... okay

so what happened chan?
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