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

That'll teach you to give someone the finger.

"CANDChelp" wrote in message
...
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

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

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.)


--
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.


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

Then they don't listen to you. There were necklaces (good for
strangulation) and bracelets (great for amputation) on at least
one fo your more recent floozy pics.

--
Flying Tadpole

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CANDChelp wrote:

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

I'm sorry, I just realised that you might have thought this was a
joke of some sort?

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Flying Tadpole

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CANDChelp wrote:

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

At gun point?????

CM

"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

I had a J24 spin halyard run through my hand 2 weeks before my wedding and
pulled the flesh off my ring finger. Finger is now molded around the ring.
Guess I won't be getting divorced.

Nearly lost a finger 20 years ago when my wedding ring snagged. I
don't even wear a wris****ch when working on the trawl deck. Too
dangerous. Ditto working on lathes and milling machines.