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Unread 21-01-2003, 11:21
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Hmm. This year we thought it would be fun to go riding down the nice ramp. On little carts, you know the ones for mock competitions. I, of course, being the sane one in the group watched carefully to see that no one killed themselves. ANYWAYS, they decided, hmm lets see if we can do spins. Right. So, they turned the ramp so they could have the most room to go flying down it. which happened to be directly into a large steel door. (we were in our schools auto body shop) needless to say, there is now a large dent in this supposedly steel door. *sigh*
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We did something similar with our 2001 bot at a demo one time. We were at parent-teacher conferences, in a school hall way, and we accidentally whacked the wall with our arms, leaving a big black mark on the wall. Later that day, we almost tipped it onto a parent. That robot's just a little dangerous for demos. It's retired now...
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I cut my finger by playing with a vice... .... ?
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Well, I think i am one, if not the only one, here that hasn't shead any blood/hurt for FIRST. All 4 (yes, Four) years that i have been on my team, I don't recall being hurt, even by a stupid vice grip or anything... Hmmmm, i must not be working hard enough...

I will say, though, I have shead tears before...
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I've been doing FIRST for 3 years with no injuries but today after school I cut my hand peeling an orange and had to get stitches.
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I've been doing FIRST for 3 years with no injuries but today after school I cut my hand peeling an orange and had to get stitches.
I have done that, I have a scare... and it was after school but like not at FIRST
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We occasionally get injuries from the power tools, usually from the older users (our instructor is fairly klutzy. Fortunately, twenty years of construction work have given him the reflexes required to not shred his hands). They were usually relatively minor (drilling of thumbs and burns most often). However, we did destroy two drill bits in 15 minutes last year.

What we were told was angle iron turned out to have some interesting thermal properties. When it got hot, it got hard. One drill bit shattered, and the teacher came over to "show how it should be done." He said the secret was constant, large force while drilling. He attempted it, and the oil smoked, the angle iron turned funny colors, and the drill bit developed a healthy glow. Mr. J. stopped when it was cherry red, and starting to deform. As for the angle iron, it was barely nicked!

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Hmm. This year we thought it would be fun to go riding down the nice ramp. On little carts, you know the ones for mock competitions. I, of course, being the sane one in the group watched carefully to see that no one killed themselves. ANYWAYS, they decided, hmm lets see if we can do spins. Right. So, they turned the ramp so they could have the most room to go flying down it. which happened to be directly into a large steel door. (we were in our schools auto body shop) needless to say, there is now a large dent in this supposedly steel door. *sigh*
I was in no way involved as always such immaturity and reckeless disregard would not have been allowed on my watch
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While assembling the ramp today I smashed my thumb with a hammer, more stitches to add to yesterdays orange incident. Needless to say my lefthand is utterly useless now.
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While assembling the ramp today I smashed my thumb with a hammer, more stitches to add to yesterdays orange incident. Needless to say my lefthand is utterly useless now.
More stitches????? Why would you need stitches for a smashed thumb??

My injurie last year. Putting the robot in a SUV to get it to some presentation. (normal routine) I got into the front of the truck to grab it as it came in and also to guide it along. I got my hand caught under and made a big gash on my wrist. I still have a scare where it happened.
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INJURIES!!!

I have had more injuries accedents broken windows trips stuff falling on me and

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well we where fermicaining (cant spell) and you dont want to do that in a closed enviroment which we were doing so about a hour in we all got a little happy and started chasing each ohter around with power tools on the mechanics chairs that was great
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hmm.... last year at KSC regionals, i ran into a turnstyle and flipped over it, and had a bruise the size of a grapefruit on the side of my knee.... not fun

and at nationals last year, i was running up the bleachers outside after the party on saturday night, to get our t-shirt quilt down with a bunch of other ppl on my team, and what i thought was a step, was only an extension to another step, and i fell and scraped the skin off my palm on the chair, skinned my knee on the next step up, and i cut my chest on the metal bar that held up the chairs

... good times, good times...
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Thats the kind of damage Our Gator launcher causes

(thas when you launch steel bolts out of a tube!!)
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