Are you as tough as this guy?

[tim0thy]

now this guy is a tough mofo... !

i'dprobably missall the spacesthat i would normallytype if i lostmy thumb.

 

[IBhacknU]

<< I told him he is the toughest SOB I know >>

Either him or that John Wayne Bobbit<sp> guy.

 

Hrmm, is it not my opposing thumb that makes me human.
HE IS ONLY HALF THE MAN NOW@($*&amp;#

 

[Killbat]

Losing any extreme part of my body scares the holy hell out of me, probably one of my top fears. If I ever lost any part of either hand much less the entire hand I can't imagine continuing to live normally.

 

[GoldenGuppy]

Thumb, eh? THat's pretty crazy... I mean, I've sprained my ankle at basketball and have been able to replay through the pain w/in it (only when necessary) ... but, man, I don't think that even I would be able to get back on my feet (so to speak) that quickly! Kudos!

 

[SackOfAllTrades]

i'd bite my other thumb off just so i can be symmetric

 

[PlunX]

My dad had a similar ordeal at his work. A Native American man working there named Delbert got a few of his fingers taken off by a belt in some machine and was working again with no problems just a week later.

 

[trmiv]

I would cry like a little girl

 

[Phunktion]

Maybe he's just really optimistic.. I mean with all the advances in prosthetics and robotics.. who knows

 

[Omegachi]

Wow.. He can be my hero.

If it was me, i would first faint at the sight of my lost finger. THen i'll cry about later because i can't play thumb wrestling no more

 

[pen^2]

are you sure he is um... a human being?
i would have been depressed for few weeks i am sure, i just cant imagine returning to the job

oh... wait a sec, i misread the whole thing and omitted the part 'unable to' :disgust:

OMG! that really sux for him... peronally, if i had done that to save someone else from a greater harm i wouldnt have felt as bad, but just from doing a daily work? damn he really sounds one of those tough numbnuts

 

[rc5]

Thumb is something you can live without.
Testicle is a different story.

 

[ratkil]

Haven't you seen City of Angels?!? Look out, pretty soon this guy will be jumping off a building......... ;-)

Killbat you would still be sitting at home trying to figure out how to get that nail gun you attached to the stump to not hurt so much when it kicks back from firing.......

 

[Elledan]

He's only two-third man now.

 

[Tauren]

I'd still be crying like a little girl!

 

[bunker]

If he misses his thumb, tell him about this medical show I saw on Discovery where they took a this guy's big toe and attached it to his had for a thumb. It looked funny, but worked great!

 

[Viper GTS]

My dad knows a guy who lost his thumb to a table saw. They couldn't salvage the thumb, but they removed one of his big toes &amp; put that in it's place. Just looking at it you can't tell anything all that different, it's just a little thicker than the real thumb on his other hand.

Viper GTS

 

[Doboji]

I'll tell ya what I'm so not close to being as tough as him, that I just cried for the past half hour thinking about losing my thumb...

MIGOD... THATS MY FRIGGIN THUMB!!!!

-Max

wiggle wiggle.. whew still there.... 10 minutes later wiggle wiggle.... whew..

 

[frizzlefry]

Yeah I saw that same episode. Looked prety wicked having a toe as a thumb!

But one questions, would it smell funny??? :Q

 

[PG]

My dad knows a guy who lost his thumb to a table saw. They couldn't salvage the thumb, but they removed one of his big toes &amp; put that in it's place. Just looking at it you can't tell anything all that different, it's just a little thicker than the real thumb on his other hand.


That's a great thing, but I bet this guy can't afford the procedure. He probably only went back to work so he could keep getting a paycheck.

 

[WordSmith2000]

When I was a kid, I stopped into a corner store to get a comic book. Standing in line waiting to check out was a local farmer with his hand all bandaged up. I asked him what happened, and he said he lost a couple of fingers in a thresher or something. I said &quot;wow, that must have hurt! What did the doctor say when he saw your hand?&quot;

The farmer looked at me, and said &quot;I ain't been to the doctor's yet.&quot;

Maybe he was that guy's dad...

 

[PG]

When I was a kid, I stopped into a corner store to get a comic book. Standing in line waiting to check out was a local farmer with his hand all bandaged up. I asked him what happened, and he said he lost a couple of fingers in a thresher or something. I said &quot;wow, that must have hurt! What did the doctor say when he saw your hand?&quot;

The farmer looked at me, and said &quot;I ain't been to the doctor's yet.&quot;

Maybe he was that guy's dad...


Well, if we are going to get into farmer stories, I've got a few.

Does anyone remember the kid from Iowa a few years ago who had BOTH of his arms ripped off? He went to the house and somehow dialed 911. Then he went and sat in the tub in bathroom because he was worried that his mom would be mad if he got blood all over the carpet. The doctors reattached both arms, but I'm not sure if the surgery was sucessful over the long run.

I worked for a farmer once who had a terrible accident when he was younger. Back in the old days, they didn't have big combines for picking corn. Corn pickers were pulled and powered by tractors. They were real slow and not very reliable. They got jammed up all the time. Anyway this farmer was picking corn and the picker got jammed up frequently. To save time, he got good at getting off the tractor and clearning the pcker, but he let the tractor keep running and going straight! The tractor was going pretty slow anyway, and it would keep following the ruts in the field.
I think you can see where this is heading. He got his hand stuck in the picker and then panicked and put his foot in the picker to get his hand out. Well, that got stuck too. He lost all the fingers from his right hand and a large part of his right leg. The worst part is that he was working alone. The tractor kept running for hours and drug him around the field in circles the whole time until someone noticed that he was late getting home.
He had some sort of wood leg, but it squeaked all the time when he would walk. He kept farming and modified his equipment to he could still work. He put a special gas pedal on the left side of the break pedal so he could drive with his left leg. He also only had Auto cars and trucks. Tractors weren't so bad and he just drove them as usual.
He was always real nice to me and was about the nicest guy I ever met.

 

[tom3]

Wow.. this is probably inappropriate but the story reminds me of that tv commercial for &quot;Mike's hard lemonade&quot;..

 

[lamplighter]

My Grandpa, a farmer, lost his pinky in some machinery. I know that isn't as bad as a thumb, but he said it wasn't too bad and didn't take time off. A farmer can't really just take time off but if I lost my thumb and contruction I'd certainly take my time coming back to work!

 

[lamplighter]

errr double post

Come to think of it, I'd rather lose both pinky fingers than one thumb.