At 01:24 AM 12/12/04 +0000, you wrote: The closest that I've come was a doctor's visit for a tetnus shot. I was in a very cluttered junk yard and stepped backward and tripped. I fell backward and put my hands out to catch myself. However there was a plate on the ground with a #10 screw/stud about 1 1/2" long sticking out of it and the stud went all the way through the palm of my hand. I'm curently regrowing a toe nail. The original fell off after having one of the large steel baskets of scrap fall on it. Joe

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Peter Brown wrote: Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. I was lifting a couple boxes off of the top of a taller-than-me stack. There was an old Apple Disk ][ drive (with the heavy metal enclosure) sitting on top of the top box. I knew this. I told myself, "Don't tip the boxes". So what did I do? I forgot what I just told myself and tipped the boxes as I lifted them off. All of a sudden, WHAM! Blunt force trauma to the head. The corner of the hard drive enclosure walloped the top of my skull. I had a nice corner-shaped impression on my head. A bit of blood, but no stitches required. Duh. -- Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ International Man of Intrigue and Danger http://www.vintage.org [ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers ] [ and academia at www.VintageTech.com || at http://marketplace.vintage.org ]