Author Topic: Crazy near injury. (Read 3804 times)

Warren · « **on:** December 29, 2006, 10:13:09 PM »

While filling an ice tray that still had some cubes in it, a piece of ice snapped off a cube and the chunk jetted at my face and bounced off the bottom of my glasses.

I canot say for sure that had I not been wearing glasses it would have hit my eye, but it would have been close.

That would have been a wacky way to injure an eye.

brimic · « **Reply #1 on:** December 29, 2006, 10:26:43 PM »

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That would have been a wacky way to injure an eye.

There is nothing wacky about a lacerated cornea. Ask me how I know. undecided

Warren · « **Reply #2 on:** December 30, 2006, 04:45:32 PM »

All right. How did you do it?

209 · « **Reply #3 on:** May 21, 2009, 02:43:34 AM »

Quote from: brimic on December 29, 2006, 10:26:43 PM

There is nothing wacky about a lacerated cornea. Ask me how I know.

I used to work for a large helicopter manufacturer. One day I was "tie-wrapping" a wire harness in the overhead area in the cabin. I had run down the entire length putting the tie-wraps on and then grabbed a tie-wrap gun to tension them all and trim them. I started working my way back along the harness. At one point, I happened to turn around and one of the tie-wrap tails went in under my glasses and the end scratched across my eye. Serious scratch. It hurt like hell. I was out of work for four days with bandages on both eyes. It sucked.

Ex-MA Hole · « **Reply #4 on:** May 21, 2009, 07:08:39 AM »

You do realize you just bumped a two plus year old thread, right?

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #5 on:** May 21, 2009, 07:10:25 AM »

One day I was browsing through my favorite internet forum, when a rusty old thread suddenly came back to life and went right into my eyes.

mtnbkr · « **Reply #6 on:** May 21, 2009, 07:22:01 AM »

209 didn't bump the thread, a spammer did. I deleted his post, which is why it appears 209 bumped it.

Chris

K Frame · « **Reply #7 on:** May 21, 2009, 07:53:43 AM »

Yep. Spammers are discovering us, folks.

Strings · « **Reply #8 on:** May 21, 2009, 07:58:32 AM »

Spammers? Oh, I don't envy the mods at all...

K Frame · « **Reply #9 on:** May 21, 2009, 08:13:44 AM »

It's not been bad. We have such a small board and a low profile that we skirt under the radar for many of the spammers.

Where I really have my work cut out for me some days is over on The Firing Line. It's such a big website that spammers just salivate when they find it.

It's a slow day if we don't have to ban anywhere from 2 to 5 "SHOES! YOU BUY SHOES AT DISCOUNT PRICE NOW, ROUND EYE DEVIL!" posts.

Or the ones that have phones for sale. I tried to order 20 unlocked Iphones some months ago, and the company rep. got really pissed with me when I said that he should just ship me the phones and I'd pay him when I got the money from my people, probably a couple of weeks. :D

Strings · « **Reply #10 on:** May 21, 2009, 09:03:33 AM »

YOu're lucky. Part of the reason the Timerift forums shut down was due to the massive number of bots we had hitting us. Towards the end, a normal day was "deleted/banned 250+ bots". Kinda sucked...

MechAg94 · « **Reply #11 on:** May 21, 2009, 09:51:13 AM »

I could use some new steel toe boots. :)

K Frame · « **Reply #12 on:** May 21, 2009, 10:05:52 AM »

Quote from: Strings on May 21, 2009, 09:03:33 AM

YOu're lucky. Part of the reason the Timerift forums shut down was due to the massive number of bots we had hitting us. Towards the end, a normal day was "deleted/banned 250+ bots". Kinda sucked...

Fortunately we can ban on specific IP ranges, and since most of the bot attacks come from China, one of the South Pacific islands, or Belorussia, and we have 0 members from there, it's a very doable thing to just wipe out whole ranges of IPs.

mtnbkr · « **Reply #13 on:** May 21, 2009, 10:28:20 AM »

Quote from: Mike Irwin on May 21, 2009, 10:05:52 AM

Fortunately we can ban on specific IP ranges, and since most of the bot attacks come from China, one of the South Pacific islands, or Belorussia, and we have 0 members from there, it's a very doable thing to just wipe out whole ranges of IPs.

I was doing the same thing on my server at home till I got wise and just told iptables to block certain types of traffic or traffic volume over what I'd consider valid for my little box. No, I should not get more than 1-2 SSH attempts per minute since I'm the only valid ssh user, nor should I get more than 100 http requests per minute since only friends and family know the url.

No, you can't do that with a forum, but it does illustrate the problems coming out of China and Eastern Europe. :rolleyes:

Chris

CNYCacher · « **Reply #14 on:** May 21, 2009, 10:42:12 AM »

I used to work in a shop that fabricated all kinds of displays, cabinetry, signage, etc. One day a few of us were talking around a workbench and suddenly there was a loud sound "SPWRAAAANG!" from across the shop. Easily 50 feet away, one of the guys was cutting extruded aluminum F-Channel

on the table saw with a 45-degree. Instead of cutting a length off, he basically just cut a triangle off the very end. I don't remember the specifics of how he had the saw setup, but the general consensus later was that it wasn't a good move.

So anyway, the "SPWRAAAANG" was immediately followed by an angry buzzing of an incoming projectile and a dull thud, then a yelp from the guy standing next to me. He had his hands resting on the workbench as we all were, and that triangular piece thrown from the saw had come it at scary speed to embed its prongs between the guy's knuckles.

Bogie · « **Reply #15 on:** May 21, 2009, 11:44:31 AM »

Gnarly...

I had some gnarsty problems with a group of porno merchants from Amsterdam, Germany, and the former Soviet bloc...

Some of 'em aren't too bright either - I've basically instituted an "I don't register you until I get an email from an identifiable human" policy. And I don't care how many stories I've heard about emergency room obstetrics, if you put your name down as "Levitra," I'm hitting the big trapdoor button...

BrokenPaw · « **Reply #16 on:** May 21, 2009, 12:05:23 PM »

There are various and sundry options for upgrading the CAPTCHA for SMF, that may help keep out the spambots.

Or are you getting human spambots?

-BP

MicroBalrog · « **Reply #17 on:** May 21, 2009, 01:01:54 PM »

Human spambots exist. They're people who get paid by the hour to look up various forums and post in them, while leaving a link to whatever it is they're advertising in their sig, so the client gets more traffic and search engine hits. No joke - I used to work as one.

slugcatcher · « **Reply #18 on:** May 21, 2009, 01:27:50 PM »

Quote from: MicroBalrog on May 21, 2009, 01:01:54 PM

Human spambots exist. They're people who get paid by the hour to look up various forums and post in them, while leaving a link to whatever it is they're advertising in their sig, so the client gets more traffic and search engine hits. No joke - I used to work as one.

I always deep down you were evil.

Paragon · « **Reply #19 on:** May 21, 2009, 02:33:57 PM »

Quote from: MicroBalrog on May 21, 2009, 01:01:54 PM

Human spambots exist. They're people who get paid by the hour to look up various forums and post in them, while leaving a link to whatever it is they're advertising in their sig, so the client gets more traffic and search engine hits. No joke - I used to work as one.

Hmm...how was the pay?

brimic · « **Reply #20 on:** May 21, 2009, 02:52:11 PM »

Wow, zombie thread.

Kinda feel bad that I never answere the OP.

makattak · « **Reply #21 on:** May 21, 2009, 02:59:56 PM »

Quote from: brimic on May 21, 2009, 02:52:11 PM

Wow, zombie thread.

Kinda feel bad that I never answere the OP.

Never too late...

Scout26 · « **Reply #22 on:** May 21, 2009, 07:02:03 PM »

Quote from: brimic on May 21, 2009, 02:52:11 PM

Wow, zombie thread.

Kinda feel bad that I never answere the OP.

Yep, caused him to quit the forum....murderer.....

lupinus · « **Reply #23 on:** May 21, 2009, 08:00:51 PM »

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So anyway, the "SPWRAAAANG" was immediately followed by an angry buzzing of an incoming projectile and a dull thud, then a yelp from the guy standing next to me. He had his hands resting on the workbench as we all were, and that triangular piece thrown from the saw had come it at scary speed to embed its prongs between the guy's knuckles.

Pffft, just a flesh wound

MicroBalrog · « **Reply #24 on:** May 21, 2009, 08:34:10 PM »

Quote from: Paragon on May 21, 2009, 02:33:57 PM

Hmm...how was the pay?

I don't actually remember - I think it was about $10 per hour.

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Author Topic: Crazy near injury. (Read 3804 times)

Warren

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