Worst video arcade related injury... Darwin awards 2006...

Gee and I thought I had it bad when I work on Live monitor chassis on
my bench with no tube. I flipped the chassis over still powered and the
HV Anode dropped right in my crotch.
Hurt like hell, but man you guys are talking blood and true pain.. Damn
I hate this thread.

thrushguy wrote:
> We may have a winner!
>
>
> "Tom Bombaci" <bombaci.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns9869B1450B02Abombacigmailcom@216.196.97.131...
> >I had a pipe clamp clampped to the side of a pac mini I was repairing. It
> > was poorly tightened (by me) I moved the cabinet and the steel pipe
> > whacked
> > me in the forehead and split my head open.
> >
> > This is the best part, before I could go inside and do anything about it,
> > I
> > moved the cabinet again and the other pipe clamp fell and hit me in the
> > head again.
> >
> >
> >
> > -Tom
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Yes that's what im talking about.I challenge anyone too beat the injuries i
got in the 25 years of moving repairing and just messing with everything
from soda machines too gumball machines.I was always know for getting hurt.I
remember all the way back too junior high school when i showed up straight
from the hospital with 22 stitches in the back of my head and the gym
teacher said.Your going too kill your parents with worry if you don't stop
this.That how you get a nick name.There were so many that i actually kept an
album of most of my injuries that i will post if someone could host them for
me as i don't have a web site.I would have too fax them too someone who
knows how too do that.It will be worth your while since most of these are
not average injuries but serious one's that are worth seeing.Let me know who
can do it.I have about a dozen pictures of separate one's.
"Chad Entringer" <chad DeleteThis @arcadecup.com> wrote in message
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> Thought this would be worth trying out... Plus bruises and
> electrocution stories fit welll with Halloween.
>
> For me it was working on a galaga cocktail.. i was removing cpo from a
> panel and used a putty knife to get it started / lifted. It jumped and
> slashed my left palm. Internal stitches, cut a muscle, tendon. and
> resulted in many office visits and hand exercises.
>
> Chad
>
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Ouch!!!! That had too leave a mark:)).Wait till you see some of mine.One of
them i look like a black man on my whole left side.The call it a
hemotoma.That just a giant black and blue mark but looks like i got hit by a
truck.That one was when i fell with a 1200lb soda machine and i was under it
sideways.That was a very bad one.They will be posted soon.
"Matt" <gamefixer RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I walked backwards off the back of a truck onto the steel liftgate with
>MsPac/Galaga in tow! 18 staples to the head and lots of big ass bruises!
>This was one of those 24 foot box trucks not a pick up. Now that I think of
>it this happened right around Halloween so I guess I could have left the
>blood in my hair and all over my clothes for a killer costume! Damnit!
>
> Matt
>
> "Chad Entringer" <chad RemoveThis @arcadecup.com> wrote in message
> news:1161987012.093808.211630@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>> Thought this would be worth trying out... Plus bruises and
>> electrocution stories fit welll with Halloween.
>>
>> For me it was working on a galaga cocktail.. i was removing cpo from a
>> panel and used a putty knife to get it started / lifted. It jumped and
>> slashed my left palm. Internal stitches, cut a muscle, tendon. and
>> resulted in many office visits and hand exercises.
>>
>> Chad
>>
>
>
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I had a pipe clamp clampped to the side of a pac mini I was repairing. It
was poorly tightened (by me) I moved the cabinet and the steel pipe whacked
me in the forehead and split my head open.

This is the best part, before I could go inside and do anything about it, I
moved the cabinet again and the other pipe clamp fell and hit me in the
head again.



-Tom
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Nope gata give this one a week or 2 before a winner are declared. or
longer. :-/
Think of all the "Dohs!" from people lifting there head after standing
up form working inside a cab finding it to meet with the woods edge.
hehe. My face was about 3 inches away from a live flyback anode once.
im very lucky it didnt jump, could have been an eyeball experience...
Iron burns are fun 2.
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We may have a winner!


"Tom Bombaci" <bombaci.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9869B1450B02Abombacigmailcom@216.196.97.131...
>I had a pipe clamp clampped to the side of a pac mini I was repairing. It
> was poorly tightened (by me) I moved the cabinet and the steel pipe
> whacked
> me in the forehead and split my head open.
>
> This is the best part, before I could go inside and do anything about it,
> I
> moved the cabinet again and the other pipe clamp fell and hit me in the
> head again.
>
>
>
> -Tom
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I don't think we have a winner yet.Im trying to scan all my pictures too
matt who is going to post them for me.I wouldn't look if your
squeamish.These are the real deal like an Ambulance EMT would see.There is
even one of me after a fight that i got 2 broken ribs from.Wait till they
come thru.I think we will have a new winner.These all happened too me around
15 years ago when my body could take it.I had to take it easy for years and
im still in pain from back then and take Percocet,Vicodin and whatnot too
help me get thru the day.I have more injuries then most football players.You
will see:))
"thrushguy" <garons.RemoveThis@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> We may have a winner!
>
>
> "Tom Bombaci" <bombaci.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns9869B1450B02Abombacigmailcom@216.196.97.131...
>>I had a pipe clamp clampped to the side of a pac mini I was repairing. It
>> was poorly tightened (by me) I moved the cabinet and the steel pipe
>> whacked
>> me in the forehead and split my head open.
>>
>> This is the best part, before I could go inside and do anything about it,
>> I
>> moved the cabinet again and the other pipe clamp fell and hit me in the
>> head again.
>>
>>
>>
>> -Tom
>
>
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Tom's story made me actually laugh.. Whether or not he wins this contest,
he was a winner that day.

We've all been there..

Scott


"MARK" <MARKLINE.DeleteThis@OPTONLINE.NET> wrote in message
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>I don't think we have a winner yet.Im trying to scan all my pictures too
>matt who is going to post them for me.I wouldn't look if your
>squeamish.These are the real deal like an Ambulance EMT would see.There is
>even one of me after a fight that i got 2 broken ribs from.Wait till they
>come thru.I think we will have a new winner.These all happened too me
>around 15 years ago when my body could take it.I had to take it easy for
>years and im still in pain from back then and take Percocet,Vicodin and
>whatnot too help me get thru the day.I have more injuries then most
>football players.You will see:))
> "thrushguy" <garons.DeleteThis@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:aLCdnaHy2-aONd_YnZ2dnUVZ_qmdnZ2d@comcast.com...
>> We may have a winner!
>>
>>
>> "Tom Bombaci" <bombaci.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:Xns9869B1450B02Abombacigmailcom@216.196.97.131...
>>>I had a pipe clamp clampped to the side of a pac mini I was repairing. It
>>> was poorly tightened (by me) I moved the cabinet and the steel pipe
>>> whacked
>>> me in the forehead and split my head open.
>>>
>>> This is the best part, before I could go inside and do anything about
>>> it, I
>>> moved the cabinet again and the other pipe clamp fell and hit me in the
>>> head again.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -Tom
>>
>>
>
>
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"thrushguy" <garons.RemoveThis@comcast.net> wrote in
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> Tom's story made me actually laugh.. Whether or not he wins this
> contest, he was a winner that day.
>
> We've all been there..
>
> Scott
>


LOL! I look back and laugh as well. My wife never lets me forget that one!!

-Tom
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I was on FIRE... I still can't believe it...

- Matt

Matt J. McCullar wrote:
> "RedWolfJC" <redwolfjc.TakeThisOut@excite.com> wrote in message
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> > Wow, that's memories there, is the Mini Mine Train still at Six Flags?
> > That was the first coaster I ever rode on back whe I was like 10 or so.
>
> Yep, the Mini Mine Train is indeed still there and still running. They had
> to modify the track layout VERY slightly a few years ago when they installed
> another ride nearby, but on the whole it's still entertaining kids just as
> much as ever. One thing they do not do anymore, however, is let the same
> carload of riders go around the track twice before having to get out. Now
> it's just one lap and out you go.
>
> Now that I'm grown, I can't even fit in the cars. But when I was a kid,
> this little roller coaster excited me so much that I always dreamed of
> having one just like it in my back yard.
>
> There are some Six Flags Over Texas former employee web sites out there,
> chock-full of memories such as mine. I've been to some employee reunions
> and had a blast!
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Nearly cut my thumb off trying to scrape off an old Satans Hollow CPO.
Still have little feeling in it.
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"RedWolfJC" <redwolfjc.RemoveThis@excite.com> wrote in message
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> Wow, that's memories there, is the Mini Mine Train still at Six Flags?
> That was the first coaster I ever rode on back whe I was like 10 or so.

Yep, the Mini Mine Train is indeed still there and still running. They had
to modify the track layout VERY slightly a few years ago when they installed
another ride nearby, but on the whole it's still entertaining kids just as
much as ever. One thing they do not do anymore, however, is let the same
carload of riders go around the track twice before having to get out. Now
it's just one lap and out you go.

Now that I'm grown, I can't even fit in the cars. But when I was a kid,
this little roller coaster excited me so much that I always dreamed of
having one just like it in my back yard.

There are some Six Flags Over Texas former employee web sites out there,
chock-full of memories such as mine. I've been to some employee reunions
and had a blast!
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Watched a guy drop a Gauntlet on himself this weekend, that was pretty
brutal....
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