They bite.

I remember talking with a professor in college and he asked why I had a large Band-Aid on my hand. I told him that my computer bit me. (I had cut it on a cheap case.)

Since that time I've had a my share of dumb injuries. Last night was the worst. My wife asked me to do something, so I swung around in my chair and caught my naked toe in the open CD tray of my computer. It put an inch long bleeding gash in my big toe. It hurt like a MF'er! I'm surprised I didn't break the tray off the CDROM. My wife had a good laugh as I howled in pain.

I only mention it now because my toe is stuff throbbing a day later.

My previous most-painful-injury occurred when I took apart a "No Servicable Parts" power supply. We all know that those shock warnings are just dares. Anyway, I had forgotten about it and a few hours later I grabbed the piece of junk on the floor by it's wires and ZAP! It burnt a small hole in my finger. Ouchie!

I have had those days...sometimes a tech can be his/her own worse enemy.

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I might rock, but I am not made of stone!

I was mad and in a hurry one day (imagine that - a tech mad and being rushed) and was trying to get a bigfoot drive out of a cheap mini tower. It was wedged in tighter than hell. It came flying out after that last good pull.

Maybe I shouldv'e been wearing "cheap case gloves" or some other safety gear.

Still have a nice scar on my right knuckle.

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Paint your old laptop!

Had another tech here a few months ago have to get minor surgery to repair his knuckle. He was tugging on an atx power connector on the motherboard, you know, the ones positioned right under the cheese grader side of the powersupply. I'll let you visualise what the other half of his knuckle looked like.

I have really done some damage before but whats even more fun is when one of your colleauges says i can't figure ths out can you take a look. As soon as both my hands touched the case to complete the circuit I discovered the problem. When the power supply had been put into the system a couple of screws had been dropped and so any other screw would do like this nice inch long one. Can we say hello to Mr. 110 once again.

I used to throw papers for some extra cash, well one night, i had to pee really bad, so i pulled onto a dark dirt road to take care of business. When i got out of my car, i slammed my finger in the door and broke it. the skin ruptured from the impact and pretty much turned the tip of my finger into sausage. anyways, true to form, i took a leak, broken finger throbbing, and a wet shoe(figure that one out!). i went to the emergency room, had my finger set, got some pain killers, then finished throwing the stupid papers.............

i've had stitches twice , and i use VERY good cases (you know , good folded edges , heavyduty steel, etc)

once , i was replacing a front panel switch (with the power plugged in of course{moron}) , and while i was placing it back into the case , i wnt through the sheilding and touched the 110v leads... while pulling out from fright , i got cut on the screw tab for the drive bay. 4 stitches...

another time , i was pulling one of the original celerons out of those original mounts (tight as h3ll) , and when it finall y slipped the card edge caught my other hand , and gave me another 4 stitch cut...

Managed to slice my right thumb open while installing a CD-ROM in a cheap-o case at a car dealership last year. It was a suprisingly deep cut, and even more suprising was the fact that I didn't notice it until I looked down and saw a small puddle of blood forming on the bottom of the case. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2000/09/1.gif

I remember the first time we ever got a 3rd party service call to run. (Through one of those warranty companies, Cormac I think), Anyhow, I went out onsite all nervous to install a motherboard, I was nervous because they were paying us $50.00/hr. (at the time we charged $25.00/hr to our customers) to install this board at a very large company.

Anyhow, about 10 minutes into the install, (with the MIS person staring over my shoulder), I sliced my finger on the side of the case, getting blood all over the case, board, desk and chair until it was all said and done. Pretty embarassing!!!

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Gee, and I thought you were called 3fingersalute for an entirely different reason...

I've cut myself a sveral times when trying to fix systems using cheap cases.
The worst was cutting my finger, last new-year's eve, when punched a monitor filter.
It broke (the filter only - thank God) and it cut me so bad that the scar is always there, on my finger, to remind me the last hours of the previous millenium!

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"Matter is passive. In spite of its power, it can't be controlled without the human mind." Sokrates

Photos Of My Work

I know I'd mentioned this before on a post awhile back...

One time I was repairing a computer at a tooling shop. Lots of big machines. Lots of grime.

I carried a computer across the floor to an air compressor because it was filled with black dust. When I carried it back I discovered oil trickling down my forearm.

Ends up it wasn't oil. I had cut myself and the blood had mixed with the computer dust to make black goo.

A couple years ago, I was replacing someone's CD-ROM in a tight-a$$ed Aptiva case. I was trying to get the power connector out when suddenly it popped. I felt something funny on my thumb, and looked at it. It wasn't bleeding, but if I seperated the wound, I could see all the little veins and how neatly cut they were...I could also see my finger bone.
So, off to ER I went (I hadn't had a tetnis shot in a while, so I figured that slicing my thumb open on a dirty case was as good an excuse as any). 8 hours later....I finally got to see the doctor told him, "Listen, I just need it professionally cleaned, and a shot so I don't get lockjaw."
In the bed beside me was a guy who got a piece of metal in his eye while working on a factory line, and on the bed beside him was a 15 year old girl who had stomach pains and whined that she didn't like needles.
Hehe. The first thing I said to the nurse was, "Well, I don't like needles...but NOT as much as that girl. Just stick me fast and we'll get this over with."
She just sighed...tough time with that girl, I guess.

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- Fate drove me here...then told me to get out of the car...

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Gee, and I thought you were called 3fingersalute for an entirely different reason...

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Actually, funny you should mention it. I AM missing about half a thumb and about 1/16th of my index finger, but it has nothing to do with computers.....I just underestimated the fuse length on a homemade pipe bomb!!!



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OOOWWWWWW!!

ooops... kabang!

It is amazing how easily they cut you... So far no disabling injuries to me, though I have lost several pounds of flesh to the usual stuff mentioned here. Like pulling the power supply cable out of reluctant hdds and cdds (cheese grated knuckles is a good description) and my favorite, reaching in the case, looking away, and nailing some piece of aluminum dead on... had several gashes dead on to my thumb- split open for 1/4 inch or more. And those take forever to heal. My worst though, was working on my stereo. ummmm... Bridged a capacitor. Went through my chest: hand with capacitor to hand toughing case... I have no idea how long it lasted- probs no more than 10-15 seconds, but it seemed to go on forever...
Was able to finally throw it out of my hands. All my fingers were completely scraped and perforated b/c the current made me clamp onto the circuit board... so plenty of flesh went out with the stereo. Closest I've been to buying the big one. And no, you don't retain enough electricity to shock your cat after being hit. Darnit, I tried.
Me:Here, kittykitty!
Cat: What the hell is this freak with the bad hair staggering and twitching at me for?

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My hands look like the hands of a bare-fist boxer or something. I absolutely cannot put my hand into a case without cutting it. That's why I carry a small first-aid kit in my toolbag. (-;

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Injuries in the workplace... https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2000/08/1.gif Well, other than the scars from the soldering iron, my worst was... One time, I was onsite, at a restauraunt I had once worked at... Turns out someone was having problems with the Pizza Dough Roller(kinda like a wringer washer)... Me, having
A.) worked there before, and
B.) being a computer guy, they asked me to look at it. End result, I ended up running my hand through the roller, with it on a setting smaller than my hand, and it crushed my hand, caused nerve damage, and left a pretty good sized scar between my index and middle fingers, where the blood gushed out from my hand exploding. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2004/08/1.gif NOT a good day for me...

Chris

Ok. I wanted to stay away from this on, (too many bad memories) but you've piqued my intrest with the stupid injuries.

I have had all kinds of cuts and nicks from computers, none bad enough to leave a scar. My worst computer related injury was the broken Knee Cap I got replacing a power suply. (Chair moved while reaching for the new one on the top shelf of the store room)

My worst sports injury was three broken ribs from playing golf. (Got tossed off the cart)
2nd: Cracked Tibia playing Ping Pong (don't ask) https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2000/09/1.gif

All time stupidest: Broken collar bone from playing cards (don't play spoons with your girlfriends body builder brother)

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[This message has been edited by MAYHEM (edited September 14, 2000).]

I think you all forgot the stupidest injury of them all (we've all done it). back of the head to the underneath on the desk. Nothing in the world pisses me off worse than that. Not the pain just the pure stupidity of it.

Hunh? Everything's going dark....I don't remember a thing......

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I think you all forgot the stupidest injury of them all (we've all done it). back of the head to the underneath on the desk. Nothing in the world pisses me off worse than that. Not the pain just the pure stupidity of it.

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I usually laugh about those, but a few weeks back I posted about the time I was climbing around in dark rafters cabling an office in a warehouse. Sweating like a pig, shirtless, dirty, I hit my head on the corner of a steel "I" beam. Funny, those things just don't move at all. When I dropped the cable down to my buddy below, he asked if I was OK. I said, sure, why? He said, because the cable is covered with blood.

When I came down I must've looked like a nightmare from a GWAR show. Blood, dirt, sweat, ick. I still have the scar on my head which shows up every summer when I get a buzz-cut.



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When removing a metal tab from a case, it went not at all, then with great rapidity. I ended up with a cut the length of my fingernail down both sides of the nail...

Really deep cuts, huge pieces of skin/tissue flapping ....

The bang-head-on-bottom-of-desk happens occasionally.

When upgrading a 486, I accidently put some of the cache in backwards... After a few seconds of the computer not booting, I pressed down on the chips to make sure they were seated well.... Ahh, the lovely smell of burning flesh...

not computer related

rated eg for extremly gross

when i was in 5th or 6th grade, i was jumping up and down on a pogo stick, and thought it needed to be oiled. remember those oil cans with the bell bottom and the long pointy oil dispenser, like in the wizard of oz?

well, after oiling the pogo stick i put the can on the ground, and started praticing jumping w/out hands. first time i fell off, ouch, that hurt. second time i fell off, hmm, my left hand feels kind of funny, let me see here- OH CR@P!!!!

parents rushed me to the hospital, it was a sunday, waited like an hour and a half for the hand surgeon to arrive, then went for surgury.

funny thing is that i was able to use the hand like normal the next day, except for some stiffness that gradually went away in a month. didn't need therapy or anything

email me [email protected] if you want to see a picture of the hand as it is today

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I was going to be a procrastinator, I just never got around to it.

I have so many scars on the backs of my hands from cheap cases my friends all think I knife fight on the weekends.

Worst cut I ever got from a computer was on an oldie with a long-*** Diamond VESA card in it. I was removing the card and put my right index finger under the monitor connector. I pried up and the card came loose all right - and the razor-sharp case cutout slit the end of my finger wide open.

I was takeing out a keyboard fuse with a sodering Iron and use at as a prie bar and slip and hit me in the head. The smell of burned skin does not smell good

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When your CPU cooling fan is spinning at over 5000RPM DO NOT PUT YOUR FINGER IN IT!

This may sound stupid but it really hurts!!!

I forgot to mention that I am talking about the metal fans, not plastic.

I want to meet the guy that sits in Japan and China, filing the edges of cheep cases you a knife edge!! I don't think i have one knuckle that doesn't have a scar

RLD, I don't know about ALL plactic fans, but one of my new trainees managed to take a nice chunk of his index finger in a socket A golden orb. That sad thing is, he's been here for about 2 weeks, and he usually manages to hurt himself at least once a day. Oh well, better him than a customer's machine, I guess...

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Clatu...Verata...nnnn...necktie...nectur...nickel. ...it's definately an "N" word...

I'm talking about the old crappy ones!

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When your CPU cooling fan is spinning at over 5000RPM DO NOT PUT YOUR FINGER IN IT!

This may sound stupid but it really hurts!!!

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Hey thats how I check for a noisey CPU fan! "Ouch !!! " OK the noise is gone since part of my finger is in the fan, Replace fan


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Some cases are the pits. I've cut my thumb and just below my pinky while trying to add RAM. Two cuts at once!

I hate it when they scratch your fingernails too.

I like the new Dell cases. Easy to open, and the power supply pulls up on a hinge. No cuts on them yet.

Right now I have a non-computer related cut on my hand. I tried to pick a flower for my wife and it was stubborn. I pulled hard and the darned thing slit my finger. I've never been beat up by a flower before.

Once I had just finished getting my mom on the internet (we get it though the government so it takes 5 mins to get in), I went outside to see what my dad was doing. He was demolishing the old delapidated greenhouse (it was there when we moved here) with the tractor. Anyway, he had a few panes of glass lying around so I chose to stand where there wasn't any. Before I knew it, a pane came sliding off the top, hit the ground shattering and slicing strait into my calf. I didn't notice it for a few seconds until I realized I could no longer stand... down I go. I'm feeling better now.