That'll teach you to give someone the finger.

"CANDChelp" wrote in message
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I always tell the Alien Girls to remove their rings and other jewlery
before we
sail.

http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/med...mages/hand.jpg

Capt RB

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Capt RB

Has happened to two friends of mine....I don't wear a ring

You know TWO people that this happened to? I guess it's a more common injury
than I thought.

RB

"CANDChelp" wrote in message

Has happened to two friends of mine....I don't wear a ring

You know TWO people that this happened to? I guess it's a more
common injury than I thought.

I don't know how common it is, but rings were all but banned when I worked
for a phone company years ago - the scenario there was that, when climbing
telephone poles, the ring could catch on a step if one slipped, resulting in
precisely the sort of injury you linked to. Those who continued to wear
rings were admonished to wrap insulating tape around them to minimise the
chance of the 'hook' effect. (Those who didn't wear gloves, anyway.)


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Wally
I demand rigidly-defined areas of uncertainty!
www.art-gallery.myby.co.uk

"Wally" wrote:
"CANDChelp" wrote in message

Has happened to two friends of mine....I don't wear a ring

You know TWO people that this happened to? I guess it's a more
common injury than I thought.

I don't know how common it is, but rings were all but banned when I worked
for a phone company years ago - the scenario there was that, when climbing
telephone poles, the ring could catch on a step if one slipped, resulting in
precisely the sort of injury you linked to. Those who continued to wear
rings were admonished to wrap insulating tape around them to minimise the
chance of the 'hook' effect. (Those who didn't wear gloves, anyway.)

I was a gymnast in college. My coach broke his ring finger when it got
wrapped in my sweatshirt while he was spotting me on a sommersalt.
They had to cut it (the ring!) off in the ER. That taught me never to
wear jewelry when doing anything active.

Frank

"Frank and Ronnie Maier" wrote in message

I was a gymnast in college. My coach broke his ring finger when it got
wrapped in my sweatshirt while he was spotting me on a sommersalt.
They had to cut it (the ring!) off in the ER. That taught me never to
wear jewelry when doing anything active.

Depending on the sorts of things one gets up to, jewelry can be a danger or
hindrance in other, less active, ways too. I play guitar and rings distract
me, if not actually get in the way. I've also been known to mess around
inside valve (tube) amplifiers, where the voltages can be high enough to
give you fright - leaning over into an amp chassis while wearing rings,
bracelets, neckchains, is a recipe for a change of underwear, if not actual
injury.

I never wear jewelry.


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Wally
I demand rigidly-defined areas of uncertainty!
www.art-gallery.myby.co.uk