[cgredalertcc]

Let me set the scene for you. A couple days into build season 1741 is working on an ingenious design to pickup the ball using a high volume vacuum. One of the captains (we have two) is using a makeshift cup made with about four inches of the top of a 5 gallon bucket and plywood plate to pick up the ball with an (extremely underpowered) 12 volt portable vacuum. Captain lifts ball vertically with the cup. No problem right? right. he then tries pivoting the ball up using the vacuum and at about forty five degrees from vertical he loses vacuum and the ball pops off. Well remember that whole for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction thing? The reaction in this case was him smacking himself with the plywood edge on the cup in his forehead. He hit himself hard enough that it made a cut in his forehead and he fell over.

I (because of the three stooges nature of the incident) began laughing hysterically and felt absolutely awful later on. It's too bad we don't have a video because it would be one of those things that you watch over and over and never cease to laugh when you see it.