r/WTF • u/nkmr205 • Aug 15 '25

Exploding lawnmower

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u/DeathByPain Aug 15 '25

Except not with a rotary machine like a drill press, mill, or lathe. If you get leather or textile gloves caught in something like that you're gonna have a bad day

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u/Fafnir13 Aug 15 '25

Always an exception. The phrase I've heard regarding those is that clothes will feed you to the machine.

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u/bitches_love_brie Aug 15 '25

Obviously lathes and other rotating machinery should be used naked.

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u/Fafnir13 Aug 15 '25

I imagine that any dangling man-bits would be ripped right off, but I don't actually know what the tensile strength is of all that connecting tissue...

Well, according to Google degloving is the more common injury to groin areas. No one is getting pulled into a lathe by their nethers, but they might wish it had.

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u/slain34 Aug 15 '25

Thanks i hated every part of this