Laugh by all means, but please learn from these mistakes:
A mate reached into his escort engine bay and shorted his metal watch band across the back of the alternator. The watch band was red hot in an instant. He had to pull the hot metal out of his cooked flesh. It took many months to heal and the new skin was still pink a year later.
I was using a slide hammer to pull a dent, the self taper screw pulled through the metal and I fell backwards. As I fell, the slide hammer swung upwards stabbed me hard through the eyelid. The self taper end of the hammer went deep through the gap between my eyeball and the skull. As a reaction I tore it straight back out. What a mess but eyeball untouched....my God that could have been a lot worse. Imagine looking at your eyeball removed from its socket and stuck on the end of a slide hammer...shiver...
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