I'm laughing my butt off at some of those. Here's my favorite so far:
(from the site)
"My father had his engine on a engine hoist supported by a lift plate on the intake. For some dumb reason he decided to take the intake off. He took all the bolts out and the motor crashed to the floor just missing smashing his feet. I showed up at his house and the intake was still hanging on the hoist."
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I've done plenty of stupid stuff around cars, but a welding bench in the machine shop I worked in really brought out the dumb in me. There was a 10 lb block of steel sitting on the bench with a smaller cylinder of steel resting on top. No problem, just slide the junk out of the way so I can fixture up my job.
The steel looked kind of dirty so I slipped the welding gloves on and grabbed it. That's when I discovered that the temperature of the steel block was about 1,000 F. A buddy had just finished brazing the smaller piece on and the block had barely cooled below red temperature... I was too preoccupied to even consider that it MIGHT BE HOT. It was, after all, sitting on a friggin' welding bench.
The gloves fused into a clenched shape and just kept getting HOTTER and HOTTER. I was tearing around the shop like a madman until I reached the sink. Thank God for the Americans with Disabilities Act! The sink had big paddle levers for the faucet - just perfect to hit with my nose to send water pouring into the cursed gloves. Took a while to get them off because, like OJ's, they had shrunk. Needlees to say I had tender hands for the next week.
If I didn't have the gloves on, I probably would have felt the heat before I even touched the thing...
