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67rustavenger 
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 Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 8:54 pm Post subject: Re: Sketchy, Stupid, and Dangerous |
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Saw this little story, way back in 1991.
If your a male. Sit down and get ready for an unreal but true story.
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UNUSUAL CASE Scrotum Self-Repair By William A. Morton, Jr, MD
One morning I was called to the emergency room by the head ER nurse. She directed me to a patient who had refused to describe his problem other than to say that he "needed a doctor who took care of men's troubles." The patient, about 40, was pale, febrile, and obviously uncomfortable, and had little to say as he gingerly opened his trousers to expose a bit of angry red and black-and-blue scrotal skin.After I asked the nurse to leave us, the patient permitted me to remove his trousers, shorts, and two or three yards of foul-smelling stained gauze wrapped about his scrotum, which was swollen to twice the size of a grapefruit and extremely tender. A jagged zig-zag laceration, oozing pus and blood, extended down the left scrotum.Amid the matted hair, edematous skin, and various exudates, I saw some half-buried dark linear objects and asked the patient what they were. Several days earlier, he replied, he had injured himself in the machine shop where he worked, and had closed the laceration himself with a heavy-duty stapling gun. The dark objects were one-inch staples of the type used in putting up wallboard.
We x-rayed the patient's scrotum to locate the staples; admitted him to the hospital; and gave him tetanus antitoxin, broad-spectrum antibacterial therapy, and hexachlorophene sitz baths prior to surgery the next morning. The procedure consisted of exploration and debridement of the left side of the scrotal pouch. Eight rusty staples were retrieved, and the skin edges were trimmed and freshened. The left testis had been avulsed and was missing. The stump of the spermatic cord was recovered at the inguinal canal, debrided, and the vessels ligated properly, though not much of a hematoma was present. Through-and-through Penrose drains were sutured loosely in site, and the skin was loosely closed.
Convalescence was uneventful, and before his release from the hospital less than a week later, the patient confided the rest of his story to me. An unmarried loner, he usually didn't leave the machine shop at lunchtime with his co-workers. Finding himself alone, he had begun the regular practice of masturbating by holding his penis against the canvas drive-belt of a large floor-based piece of running machinery. One day, as he approached orgasm, he lost his concentration and leaned too close to the belt. When his scrotum suddenly became caught between the pulley-wheel and the drive-belt, he was thrown into the air and landed a few feet away. Unaware that he had lost his left testis, and perhaps too stunned to feel much pain, he stapled the wound closed and resumed work. I can only assume he abandoned this method of self-gratification. |
This is a verifiable account of the story!
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/suture-self/
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Pruneman99
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| Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2023 10:35 pm Post subject: Re: Sketchy, Stupid, and Dangerous |
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finster
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| Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2023 4:45 am Post subject: Re: Sketchy, Stupid, and Dangerous |
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I'm having to pace about the room for a while after reading that!
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outcaststudios
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| Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2023 7:08 am Post subject: Re: Sketchy, Stupid, and Dangerous |
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that story WAS 'nuts'. 
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outcaststudios
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| Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2023 7:22 am Post subject: Re: Sketchy, Stupid, and Dangerous |
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im warning you before you watch this video. do not watch in front of intelligent people, wives or good company.
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disclaimer: i take no joy in the absolute idiocy portrayed here, in fact to me it's a sign that the entire civilization has degenerated into total apathy ,mediocrity and foolishness and people seem to take delight in watching it. we are doomed. 
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Abscate
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| Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2023 1:55 pm Post subject: Re: Sketchy, Stupid, and Dangero |
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Does anyone have any drive belt machinery for sale?
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67rustavenger
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| Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2023 2:17 pm Post subject: Re: Sketchy, Stupid, and Dangero |
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| Does anyone have any drive belt machinery for sale? |
No!
But there is a local "Grist Mill" I can get you contact info to.
All the machinery runs off fabric drive belts.
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Mr. Mike
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2023 3:23 pm Post subject: Re: Sketchy, Stupid, and Dangerous |
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busdaddy
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2023 4:00 pm Post subject: Re: Sketchy, Stupid, and Dangerous |
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Sketchy or not I have to give at least a nod to the engineering involved to pull that off, pretty impressive!
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Abscate
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2023 4:48 pm Post subject: Re: Sketchy, Stupid, and Dangerous |
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| . Unaware that he had lost his left testis, and perhaps too stunned to feel much pain, he stapled the wound closed and resumed work. I can only assume he abandoned this method of self-gratification |
You can’t get good workers like this, anymore
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outcaststudios
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2023 5:23 pm Post subject: Re: Sketchy, Stupid, and Dangerous |
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not only was he productive, but also reproductive!
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my59
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2023 7:48 pm Post subject: Re: Sketchy, Stupid, and Dangero |
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| 67rustavenger wrote: |
| Abscate wrote: |
| Does anyone have any drive belt machinery for sale? |
No!
But there is a local "Grist Mill" I can get you contact info to.
All the machinery runs off fabric drive belts. :shock: |
I've a bundle of emery cloth belts out in the barn, I'll save a few for you. I've been ripping one into bits to use to clean rust off of tools...
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Mr. Mike
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2023 8:04 pm Post subject: Re: Sketchy, Stupid, and Dangerous |
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| Sketchy or not I have to give at least a nod to the engineering involved to pull that off, pretty impressive! |
Indeed! I'm curious what their goal was?
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Xevin
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| Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2023 10:18 pm Post subject: Re: Sketchy, Stupid, and Dangerous |
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| Mr. Mike wrote: |
| busdaddy wrote: |
| Sketchy or not I have to give at least a nod to the engineering involved to pull that off, pretty impressive! |
Indeed! I'm curious what their goal was? |
I think it was to get likes and thumbs up in the popular periodicals of the time 
They would have killed it on TikTok 
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Abscate
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| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2023 3:48 am Post subject: Re: Sketchy, Stupid, and Dangerous |
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First report: 80 grit, too rough. I’ll post when I can walk again
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Who.Me?
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| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2023 6:59 am Post subject: Re: Sketchy, Stupid, and Dangerous |
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I'm struggling to imagine how they did that. Unless there's a load of dissasembled cribbing timber out of shot.
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Bulli Klinik
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| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2023 7:34 am Post subject: Re: Sketchy, Stupid, and Dangerous |
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| Mr. Mike wrote: |
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| Sketchy or not I have to give at least a nod to the engineering involved to pull that off, pretty impressive! |
Indeed! I'm curious what their goal was? |
Chicks, dude....it's always about the chicks.
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NJ John
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| Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2023 12:05 pm Post subject: Re: Sketchy, Stupid, and Dangerous |
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Maybe it’s a funeral pyre? Right Jim?
I like the deep rear wheels.
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