Headbutt /this./

Salvation122 · Post by **Salvation122** » Thu May 06, 2004 1:59 am

As hardcore as the guy who cut off his own arm? You decide.

MooCow · Post by **MooCow** » Thu May 06, 2004 2:05 am

I'm gonna say no. The guy who cut off his own arm didn't just lose an arm.... He intentionally cut it off.... by himself.

All this guy did was not read the operators manual on his nailgun and manage not to die.

3278 · Post by **3278** » Thu May 06, 2004 2:12 am

This guy's still pretty hardcore, though. Although no one beats the chick who did her own C-section, in my book.

ak404 · Post by **ak404** » Thu May 06, 2004 2:16 am

I dunno, 32. If the Bible can be considered at least partly true, the hardcore award of eternity goes to Abraham, who had to circumcise himself.

And even if he didn't, somebody had to.

Cazmonster · Post by **Cazmonster** » Thu May 06, 2004 2:33 am

My uterus hurts again. That woman so wins the hardcore award for all time.

Abraham spent too damn long in the sun.

FlakJacket · Post by **FlakJacket** » Thu May 06, 2004 2:51 am

Either that's Thorn logged in wrong, or Caz has some things he hasn't been telling us.

Thorn · Post by **Thorn** » Thu May 06, 2004 3:20 am

Nope, that was Caz. And, you know, him saying that is no different from me saying that really hot car we saw earlier tonight gave me wood. (Though, thank heaven it's only metaphorical wood - I'd hate to have to deliver the twins through any more plumbing that I'm already gonna have to.)

MooCow · Post by **MooCow** » Thu May 06, 2004 3:23 am

This guy's still pretty hardcore, though.

See I disagree. To me Hardcore is a measure of what you're /willing/ to do. I will grant you that this guy is tough as all fuck, but he isn't /hardcore/.

3278 · Post by **3278** » Thu May 06, 2004 3:25 am

So...you're saying Bishop isn't hardcore? :cyber

FlameBlade · Post by **FlameBlade** » Thu May 06, 2004 3:25 am

Afterall, the fucking man crawled away from the wreckage...with everything broken. That's hardcore.

Thorn · Post by **Thorn** » Thu May 06, 2004 3:26 am

Hmm. See, I think that surviving serious shit is pretty hardcore. However, /choosing/ that serious shit gives you extra hardcore points.

3278 · Post by **3278** » Thu May 06, 2004 3:35 am

Absolutely.

MissTeja · Post by **MissTeja** » Thu May 06, 2004 4:16 am

Oooh. Ouch!

mrmooky · Post by **mrmooky** » Thu May 06, 2004 4:34 am

Probably actually wouldn't hurt that much. Lots of neurons in there, but not much in the way of pain sensors.

Arm guy wins.

ak404 · Post by **ak404** » Thu May 06, 2004 4:38 am

I'm just thinking. What the fuck would I need with a nail gun that fires at full-auto?

FlakJacket · Post by **FlakJacket** » Thu May 06, 2004 4:44 am

3278 wrote:So...you're saying Bishop isn't hardcore? :cyber

Bish still qualifies under Moo's definition. Maybe not for crashing into the tree, but he chose to crawl out of the truck whilst all fucked up. Hence hardcore.

MissTeja · Post by **MissTeja** » Thu May 06, 2004 5:05 am

I almost have to give the surgeon's some mediocre-hardcore-props, too. 120 hours, round-the-clock? I mean, obviously they must've switched on and off and stuff, but I bet you're not expecting that when you go into work at night. ...Which makes me think...y'know, surgeons must actually get quite the laugh sometimes from the dumbass things people do.

"Hey honey. Anything exciting at work tonight?"

"Nothing spectacular. A teenager drank some motor oil, a woman inserted and lost a candle in her vagina and a man shot himself in the head with his nailgun. Maybe tommorrow."

Raygun · Post by **Raygun** » Thu May 06, 2004 5:40 am

How the fuck do you slip and accidentally shoot yourself in the back of the head with a nailgun six times? Doesn't that seem odd to anyone else?

Cazmonster · Post by **Cazmonster** » Thu May 06, 2004 6:17 am

I guess you could slip and not be smart enough to let the damn pneumatic auto lobotomizer go.

FlakJacket · Post by **FlakJacket** » Thu May 06, 2004 6:19 am

Well it said he fell. So he probably just fell flat turning his head off to the side whilst the nailgun fell the other side facing towards the back of his head and the fall triggered it off. That or he really pissed someone off at work.

Threadbare · Post by **Threadbare** » Thu May 06, 2004 6:41 am

I wonder if he'll have any sort of wonky Phineas Gage-style personality change as a result from having metal shot through his brain. Though since the nails hit the back of the head, probably not.

Thorn · Post by **Thorn** » Thu May 06, 2004 6:42 am

Them nail guns are serious shit, yo. We had a specimen come through a couple years ago - chunk of pectoral muscle, plus skin, with a bit of fabric nailed to it. The thing that got me was there was a name embroidered on the fabric. It was in the first few months I was there and I made some comment because I could not figure out what wackjob was going to nail some girl's hankie to his chest. I mean, dude, just stalk the girl like the rest of the freaks, you know?

One of my coworkers pointed out that it was probably a nail gun accident - her husband works construction so nail gun accidents were like, an actual thing in her life. Needless to say, I felt just a wee bit dumb at that point.

lorg · Post by **lorg** » Thu May 06, 2004 8:35 am

I'm with Moo on this, that guy ain't hardcore. That is if he didn't shot himself by choice in the back of the skull with the nailgun. Hardcore in this case would be if you know you just have to do something that is going to hurt and yet you do it.

Perhaps we could give this guy the Jr Darwin award instead for not knowing how to handle a nailgun properly.

MooCow · Post by **MooCow** » Thu May 06, 2004 10:42 am

So...you're saying Bishop isn't hardcore?

Oh Bishop is Hard Core, just not simply for surviving the accident. He gets the Hard Core award from me for getting punched by Paul and then going "*shrug* eh... it happens".

Instant Cash · Post by **Instant Cash** » Thu May 06, 2004 1:45 pm

I worked with nailguns for a bit, they where not full auto though, you had to depress the saftey in order for it to work.

Worked with a guy who shot one in his knee though.

Daki · Post by **Daki** » Thu May 06, 2004 4:16 pm

ak404 wrote:I'm just thinking. What the fuck would I need with a nail gun that fires at full-auto?

Damn kids keep running on your lawn?

I said the same thing when I saw that. Just how fast do they need to get these projects built that they need to autofire nails into the walls.

Crazy Elf · Post by **Crazy Elf** » Thu May 06, 2004 5:04 pm

Seems sort of odd to me, too:

"How did you get six nails in the back of your head?"

"I fell over."

Sound to me like:

"How did you get that black eye, mummy?"

"I walked into a door, kids."

Harley667 · Post by **Harley667** » Thu May 06, 2004 7:29 pm

I'm just thinking. What the fuck would I need with a nail gun that fires at full-auto?

Jehovahs Witnesses? Double-glazing salesmen? Home defence? Wait, those *are* issues of home defence.

Cazmonster · Post by **Cazmonster** » Thu May 06, 2004 8:18 pm

Puts a whole new spin on "Get off m'damn lawn!" now doesn't it?

3278 · Post by **3278** » Thu May 06, 2004 8:26 pm

ak404 wrote:I'm just thinking. What the fuck would I need with a nail gun that fires at full-auto?

It's not like a submachine gun; it's automatic, not "full-auto."

Harley667 · Post by **Harley667** » Thu May 06, 2004 8:43 pm

Aw, crush our macho fantasies why don't you 32.

Still...being on the receiving end would be less than pleasant.

Crazy Elf · Post by **Crazy Elf** » Fri May 07, 2004 2:26 am

3278 wrote:It's not like a submachine gun; it's automatic, not "full-auto."

Still, how do you get six into the back of your head accidentally? Now it sounds even more unlikely than before.

TLM · Post by **TLM** » Fri May 07, 2004 2:27 am

Yeah, there's somthing wrong here, but it's kinda hard to nail down exactly what...

Just Pete · Post by **Just Pete** » Fri May 07, 2004 3:04 am

I don't know anything about this particular model of nail gun - but all the ones I've ever used have a safety function that prevents them from firing unless they're pushed against something - even the automatic ones.

Raygun · Post by **Raygun** » Fri May 07, 2004 3:13 am

For some reason, after that horrendous pun, a scene from American Psycho is popping into my head...

Yeah. The goofy part is that pretty much all nail guns (especially the pneumatic kind that big-ass nails like the kind in that guy's head) have a safety plunger on the muzzle that has to be pressed in pretty hard before the gun will fire through a pull of the trigger.

Lots of shit would have to go horribly awry for this kind of thing to happen by accident, IMO.

How Nailguns Work

DarkMage · Post by **DarkMage** » Fri May 07, 2004 3:14 am

*dances up and down* ow ow ow ow ow ow

Moonwolf · Post by **Moonwolf** » Fri May 07, 2004 3:30 am

Sorry, the only way that's going to happen is if your work "collegues" try to off you. Nailguns shouldn't do that, ever.

Bishop · Post by **Bishop** » Fri May 07, 2004 3:32 am

Not unless they completely removed all the safties off it, somehow rigged it to be fully automatic, and then threw him on it.

That, or he's got my luck.

Moonwolf · Post by **Moonwolf** » Fri May 07, 2004 3:35 am

No, no disrespect, your accident is possible withing "normal operating parameters" with any atuomobile. All internal combustion engine vehicles are hideously dangerous. That thing shouldn't be settable to "randomly fire 6 nails into air for no good reason". Either the device failed bigtime, and weirdly failed, or someone else shot him with it.

Bishop · Post by **Bishop** » Fri May 07, 2004 3:37 am

Take my above previous post as tongue in cheek..it wasn't serious. I do believe somebody deliberately shot him with it.

Moonwolf · Post by **Moonwolf** » Fri May 07, 2004 3:40 am

Sorry, been dealing with completely serious posts all night. Although, the full series of events, including "and then threw him on it" might just work.

Bishop · Post by **Bishop** » Fri May 07, 2004 3:43 am

Completely understandable, bud.

Moonwolf · Post by **Moonwolf** » Fri May 07, 2004 3:45 am

How in hell are they realisticly treating this as an accident? The only way that that is going to happen is if a major power group is wanting it that way, so either the government or organised crime.

mrmooky · Post by **mrmooky** » Fri May 07, 2004 4:32 am

Or those pesky Zionists again.

Cazmonster · Post by **Cazmonster** » Fri May 07, 2004 4:33 am

Crazy Elf wrote:
3278 wrote:It's not like a submachine gun; it's automatic, not "full-auto."
Still, how do you get six into the back of your head accidentally? Now it sounds even more unlikely than before.

The only plausible answer I got is from a co-worker.

TenPennyHead and the Nailgun Operator were both on the roof, TPH took a stumble, backed into N O who also lost his balance. As they fell, TPH's head knocked against N O's nailgun while N O reflexively held the safety in. A rumble down off of a roof and onto the ground could concievably get enough contacts between TPH and N O to get the gun to trigger that many times.

Moonwolf · Post by **Moonwolf** » Fri May 07, 2004 4:34 am

Lesss likey for Zionists to want to off a construction worker than the others, but maybe.

Cazmonster · Post by **Cazmonster** » Fri May 07, 2004 4:38 am

Damn the zionists, let's nail them to something...

Wait, no, that didn't work out real well the last time we did it.

Moonwolf · Post by **Moonwolf** » Fri May 07, 2004 4:52 am

Jesus wasn't a Zionist by any stretch of the imagination.

ratlaw · Post by **ratlaw** » Fri May 07, 2004 6:54 am

Nailgunning yourself in the back of the head is possible, albeit not likely. Full-auto nailguns fire a nail whenever the muzzle is impacted against something, no need to hold the trigger or even have the nailgun in your hand. All he had to do was fall onto the nailgun and bounce his head against it 6 times. Those are framing nails, judging by the size, and framing guns have a heck of a kick, so just the impact of the nail would probably pop his head forward enough to trigger the gun again when it came back down. Only question is how the nailgun came to be propped up in such a way that his head could bounce against the muzzle w/o knocking the gun over. Perhaps he had it resting partly in a bucket or something. Anyway, I'm saying not hardcore. Just unlucky and probably stupid

Thunderchild · Post by **Thunderchild** » Fri May 07, 2004 7:26 am

ratlaw wrote:Nailgunning yourself in the back of the head is possible, albeit not likely. Full-auto nailguns fire a nail whenever the muzzle is impacted against something, no need to hold the trigger or even have the nailgun in your hand. All he had to do was fall onto the nailgun and bounce his head against it 6 times. Those are framing nails, judging by the size, and framing guns have a heck of a kick, so just the impact of the nail would probably pop his head forward enough to trigger the gun again when it came back down. Only question is how the nailgun came to be propped up in such a way that his head could bounce against the muzzle w/o knocking the gun over. Perhaps he had it resting partly in a bucket or something. Anyway, I'm saying not hardcore. Just unlucky and probably stupid

stranger shit has happened.