Scars Are Tattoos With A Story

DrPhudd said:
Table saw, circa 1986
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I came dern close 20 years ago while making kitchen cabinets. A piece lifted, in the blink of an eye it rotated pulling my hand into the blade, then hit me in the stomachs hard enough to knock me on my keester.
The blade teeth only punctured the ends of 3 fingers. Scared the crap out of me, and made a bloody mess of the shop.
Thanks for sparing us the other pic.
 
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Bullets do funny things.
I was training a guy yesterday that had a bullet scar below his left collar bone. He caught 3 m rounds. That one entered at an angle towards his heart, arched over it, then exited his back. A second one entered his right stomach, grazed his spine, missed all major arteries/veins and lodged in his opposite buttock. The third above his left knee. He said he didn’t feel any pain at the time. The Dr’s told him there’s no reason he should be alive, it turned his life around,
 
VA_GENTLEMAN said:
Alright... Let's see if I can get them all:
1. Right Thigh 12 Deep Scars from a BMX into a blackberry patch... They are light and look like White Lion scratches
2. Ass Raw Scars from wheelie gone wrong shifting gears on road with swim trunks and flip flops... 20 ft blood trail on the road...
3. Right Rib Cage broken from sternum to floaters... Motorcycle pinned... Endo'd a jump and landed on the double
4. Scar over right eye... yep... Scope Bit... 8 stitches
5. Scar on hairline left side... Fell off monkey bars in Kindergarden... 3 Stitches.
6. Road Rash on Right shoulder complete with pebbles and gravels still in there... motorcycle...
7. Dislocated Right hip still stiff from Line number 6
8. We have seen the finger from the Wreck above
9. Left Hip Scar from hitting a tree on a reclaimed strip mine on a 45 degree slope at 300 yards on a plastic sled with 2 feet of iced powder
10. Chin Scar from Freshman Year of college, drunk... Lee Hall 1990, dared to put my head on the elevator door crack with feet back on the rail.
11. Right Forearm.. Sophmore Year of college... Cigar Challenge during the drinking game Asshole..... I won...
12. Right Rib Area - High Velocity Pellet Gun Wound.... Went through a screen door, into my side, hit the rib and slid down the rib to my side... Dug it out with tweasers.
13. Left Index Finger... Knife wound... a little playing around with my uncle on disarming a knife tactics (6 Stitches)
14. Right Thumb Banding Scar from pulling 24' Trusses.... 9 Stitches.. that one hit an artery... wrote my name on the fork truck and even dotted the eye
15. Discussed the torn Scrotum above from a loose toilet seat ... wife glued back up after the competition
16. All Fingers have been broken at least 2 times... the middle one above is 4 for that one.
17. Right Forearm inner side.... Muffler Burn from yep... Motorcyle ... also one on the left side as well...
18. Still swollen left ankle from Sophomore year in JV Basketball (College).. Dude name Djokivic from Slovakia (whom I was schooling) fell on my ankle from above the rim... poof.. no more sports for me.
19. Rice Burns from playing war with 12 and 20 gauges loaded with Rice instead of lead shot.... but you can barely see those now....
20. I ... I ... think that about covers it....

If scars are the tattoo's of my life.. I can surmise it in one sentence: "Either my balls are way bigger than my brain or my brain is smaller than my balls."(Toilet seat incident had no size effect in 2015... see number 15)
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Me thinks you're the winner (or is that loser?) so far. Many owchies.
 
Left a chunk of my left arm under home plate at Brookford ball field. I was safe. Big scar just below my elbow. Got the bleeding under control in time to go back on the field.

Scar over my left thumb from using a knife to open a can of corn to trout fish.


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July 1990, Grafenwöhr Training Area in Germany. As a 18C Special Forces Engineer/Demolition Sgt was making an IED, set the gasoline and M118 sheet explosive behind me. Had the electric blasting cap blow up in my hands/face. Put me in the hospital in Augsburg for two weeks. Still have a large scar on my upper chest that keeps growing. While in the hospital, Iraq invaded Kuwait to start the First Gulf War.

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Combat Diver said:
July 1990, Grafenwöhr Training Area in Germany. As a 18C Special Forces Engineer/Demolition Sgt was making an IED, set the gasoline and M118 sheet explosive behind me. Had the electric blasting cap blow up in my hands/face. Put me in the hospital in Augsburg for two weeks. Still have a large scar on my upper chest that keeps growing. While in the hospital, Iraq invaded Kuwait to start the First Gulf War.
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OW. Good thing you got to keep you fingers and vision!
What set it off?
 
Combat Diver said:
Either static electricity or I hit the hot wire when work inside the cigarette box. Did blow open two finger tips on left hand and had fragments in the face/eyes for awhile.

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Never dealt with one, I do remember the many warnings on TV and the classroom if we ever see one, never touch it as a kid.
 
Only interesting ones are a matching pair on my right foot, jumped off a friend’s roof and landed on a nail pointing up, knew I was in trouble when I saw an inch of nail sticking out of my tennis shoe.

Oh and a small one from a stab on my right shoulder, girl on the opposing team in kickball got me after the game, in 6th grade,in private school. Also stabbed in the right butt cheek at the same time, puncture wound and no scar.

Right hand from putting a hand through glass window in HS.

One developing on my left thumb, whacked it with a machete a couple weeks ago.

Been in a handful of car accidents, both in and out of cars, but never any serious injuries.

I live a quiet life.
 
My hands are covered in small scars from working in a restaurant for most of my life.

I have three scars that are equally spaced across three of my knuckles. My hand slipped off the handle of a tomatoe slicer and my fist went straight into the blades. Probably should have had stiches but was patched up with band-aids. Did this when I was 16.

There were other cuts and scrapes and the occasional burn. The thing I hated was when you got dinged, several more were to follow and you looked like the band-aid kid.
The last one was a burn on the top o8f my wrist. I was reaching for something and stuck it to the heat pad above.


Only stiches I have were where a boil was lanced on my neck and a wart removed. I had the chicken pox and a hair got turned and was growing in. Took a doc to lance it to clear it up. I had a wart that popped up on my elbow. I kept then damn thing bleeding all the time by bumping it on those 50's school desk that had the arm rest on. Mom took the stiches out early and the thing busted open so it had to be sown up again. We call the scar Tick as it looks like a tick with 6 legs.

And then there is the divit in my calf. Accidentally shot my calf point blank with a plastic bullet powered by a rifle primer. Made a nasty bruise an broke the skin. When the scab finally flaked off, there was a nice divit and scar.

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The only scar I have other than small nicks is where a motorcycle lick starter was embedded in my calf.
Riding a dirt bike in the '70s in Alabama, I when over a berm and the bike ended up on top of me.
Road back to my apartment and washed it out in the tub, poured peroxide in it and wrapped it up.
Went to the doctor the next day, he said nothing I can do now, said I did OK, but next time come get it stitched up.
 
I have a scar on a tattoo. Went walking into my shed one night, it was dark, walked right into one of the 5" exhausts I have on my Valkyrie. I have my Paramedic tattoo on my calf, the doc did a great job of lining it up and 10 stitches later I have a nice 6" crescent scar running through my tattoo.
 
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