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Clavus, where are your stories???
Although these didn't personally happen to me, I did have the (mis)fortune of witnessing them...
First of all, some friends and I were hanging out at a park near a rock quarry. One of my friends is none to bright... and for whatever reason was ignoring the warning signs and was running around near what I assumed was a small drop. He apparently miscalculated, and fell.
We heard him yell on his way down, and a strange thudding noise as he hit the ground below. We approached the edge - as we were approaching, I realized that we were looking down at the tops of trees. Our friend had fallen over 70 feet and landed on a pile of sharp, jagged rocks. I immediately called 911 and they came and rescued him. He managed to only shatter his leg as far as major injuries, and a of course got a ton of small cuts and bruises. It's amazing that he even survived such a fall.
Another time, in shop class, we were building a mirror, I believe. A girl in my class was using a vertical belt sander(?) to sand down the edges of a small block of wood. The wood slipped, and her fingers were pulled down into the machine by the belt, effectively sanding her flesh off. What made the entire event more horrific was the fact that blood and pieces of flesh were spraying off the belt as it continued to run. I will never, ever, forget the sight of the look of atonishment/horror on her face as she is being speckled with her own blood...
Not sure what the total damage was on that one, but she was out of school for an extended period of time.
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