1/17/2005: Man nails himself without knowing

[dar512]

I just read the title to this thread a little differently (tired this morning) and it became the punchline for a joke something like:

What happened when someone told this guy to go fuck himself, he did, and then forgot about it.

[glatt]

Nailguns can fire nails in rapid succession if the trigger is kept depressed and the user is bouncing the nose off the wood. A not uncommon "misfire" is for a second nail to shoot out, hit the head of the first nail and go ricocheting off in some randomn direction. Usually the second nail will be bent if it does this, but it's possible that this guy got hit with a ricochet.

I remember hearing about a death a couple years ago where a guy was holding a nailgun by his side with the trigger depressed. This is all too common. Only thing is that he was on the edge of a roof, next to a ladder he had just climbed. His brother was following him up the ladder and depresses the "safety" shoe on the gun with the top of his head. Gun immediately fires into the skull of the brother. Dead.

A couple people get killed by them each year. I'm surprised in this day and age that the companies haven't been litigated out of business. America has, I beleive, the highest rate of home ownership in history today, in part because of the nail gun and cost savings it passes on.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by dar512

I just read the title to this thread a little differently (tired this morning) and it became the punchline for a joke something like:

What happened when someone told this guy to go fuck himself, he did, and then forgot about it.

That's understandable...I do that a lot...no, not misread the thread title.