Was your shop teacher missing any appendages?

[chezuki]

Due to my recent acquisition of a radial arm saw from the INGO classifieds, my wife has done her duty by suggesting that I "be careful" and "not cut my hand off". I am inclined to oblige her request.

After assuring her that I would be safe, I felt the need to tell her about my middle-school shop teacher (you know, the one tasked with teaching shop safety) and how he was missing a finger. He would never tell us exactly what happened, only remind us that power tools must be respected. She proceeded to tell me that her shop teacher was missing THREE fingers!!

Anybody else have shop teachers missing anything?

 

[Trigger Time]

Mine almost cut his hand of. He also smoked a lot if weed and sold it to the students! Heres to you "hooter bill"

 

[RedneckReject]

My shop teacher wasn't missing anything as far as I could tell. But his name was Steve McQueen. That's pretty rad in itself. Those two things are totally unrelated but I said it anyway

 

[rgrimm01]

A large number of people who uses power tools regularly end up missing something or has had some really close calls where they should have. The mistakes come from learning a new tool/technique or becoming too confident in one's power tool prowess and complacent in safety.

 

[.452browning]

One of my shop teachers had his big toe as a replacement for his thumb. Another was missing his left ring finger at first knuckle. Many stories surround it's disappearance including nose picking to "other things".

I still can't open a can with my right index finger since I cut the tip of it off with a knife. And I have slight paralysis in left wrist due to a knife accident. When you try to make a fake gas mask from a 2L coke bottle the knife can slip and get you.

With a firearm I am the safest person ever, hand me a blade and someone or something is getting cut. I am not good with blades...

 

[Birds Away]

I didn't know him that well.

 

[Snapdragon]

Not my shop teacher, but years ago my uncle took off his thumb and forefinger with a buzzsaw. He was feeding wood into it and it somehow pulled his hand in. He was alone and out in the country and almost bled out before he got to civilization.

 

[jamil]

First day of class my shop teacher started off his safety lecture by stating that after 25 years of teaching metal shop, he never lost any body parts.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

His hearing.

He refused to wear ear and eye protection. I wonder what his screen name on INGO is?

 

[MTN]

My shop teacher had all digits. But we had a kid in class that put his hand a table saw blade and went thru 4 fingers. They were able to save his finger and attach them back on.

 

[cubbetm]

Funny story. My shop teacher cut off his finger with a kitchen knife at home. Never had any missing parts from 20 years at the school

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

No, Phil Shirk and Larry Bartlett still had all their digits when I was in school.

 

[CathyInBlue]

No, but my gym teacher was fat as a house.

 

[calcot7]

A large number of people who uses power tools regularly end up missing something or has had some really close calls where they should have. The mistakes come from learning a new tool/technique or becoming too confident in one's power tool prowess and complacent in safety.

Or from a tool malfunction.

 

[marv]

My shop teacher was missing a finger and one of the guys in my class trimmed a fingernail a bit too close on the jointer.

 

[warthog]

The two at my HS were both missing fingers. Four all together, one was missing three. His right ring finger and little finger and his left first finger while the other one was missing his right first finger.

 

[femurphy77]

Our instructor always seemed to be intact. The students on the other hand seemed to have an issue; in 7th grade shop class a classmate was using a table saw and had his thumb extended in such a way so that the spinning saw blade intersected his extended thumb right where it attached to his hand. Needless to say the thumb was severed. The student calmly shut off the saw, applied the brake and then climb up on top of the table saw where he retrieved his thumb which was now firmly embedded in the ceiling. After climbing down off the table he held the thumb up to his hand and walked over to the teacher. He said "look what I can do" and pulled his thumb away from his hand, the teacher promptly passed out cold.

We all thought it was pretty cool!

 

[Sullivan_pbr]

My shop teacher lost a finger working on a project in class. Never heard of any students getting hurt thankfully.

 

[kalboy]

None of my shop teachers were missing any parts, but as Kirk mentioned also, one of mine couldn't hear it thunder either.
However, in those days our town had several wood working industries, Tell City Chair being the largest.
They had a full hour , open campus noon hour and there were several bars and liquor stores near the plants.
A s*** pot full of those folks were nicknamed, " Stubby" ," Stubs" , "the Stub" etc, as missing digits were pretty common.

 

[Hoosier Cowboy]

Mine was all there as far as limbs but had a major speech impediment due to several strokes. Great guy and one of my favs in HS!