Cutting off your own, well you can just read it.....

probably a skilsaw ,
brought it back to his lap ,
after a cut .
some guys also
open the guard
with a shim .

doesn’t sound like much fun ,
and your project splashed with blood .

think of all the sanding !

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

Maybe he was on the table saw using “it” for a push stick?

At any rate, the only combination worse than drinking and driving is nudity and woodworking. :-)

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

I am glad there were no pictures, and I hope he is not a member of LJs.

-- Smitty!!!

HOLY Crap…............... OUCH. I can’t imagine doing that. Losing fingers is bad enough.

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

OMG, that is not right. i have done alot of stupid things over the years but that one takes the cake. i hope his boys are o.k.

-- Roper - Master of sawdust-

look ma no hands, look ma no…........

-- Duane,matt_megan@twlakes.net

OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon

After using a hand-held circular saw he placed it on the floor, the guard blade was stuck and saw became airborne.
OUCH indeed.

-- Fred

He may have seen those pics of Nancy Pelosi and vowed to never use “it” again!

-- Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines! Mike D.

“This was an unfortunate accident but these things happen all the time to people in his profession.”

So is this why it’s hard to find a second generation carpenter?

-- a little bit of stupid goes a long way

Maybe his mind was on other things… thus distracting his attention and also prepping the appendage for cutting.

-- The smell of wood, coffee in the cup, the wife let's me do my thing, the lake is peaceful. http://web.me.com/deceiver6/Deceiver/Craftsman_on_the_lake/Craftsman_on_the_lake.html

it could have been a kick back of a skil saw. and as Craftsman said, prepping for cutting

-- Smitty!!!

Maybe he misunderstood…....”Measure it twice, cut it once

-- John @ Myrtle Beach

i still don’t understand how this could happen ,

i’ve been sitting in the bathtub ,
cutting boards in my lap for years !

doesn’t everyone ?

-- david ,new mexico ,allheart

Unfortunately, where I grew up, something like this would not be unheard of. Usually when you heard of something like this, just before it happened you would here “Hey yall, hold my beer and watch this!”

Like the old song says, some days you’re the windshield, some days your the bug!

-- -- Rob Hix, King George, VA

I knew a guy who did this. A roofer, right handed, placed a 24” long shake over his left thigh , saw kick back has only one place to go, cut his nut off.

-- Ron Central, CA

HMMMM—-Saw Stop perhaps?

-- Kent Shepherd * The goal is-----More Tools!

”...thanks MOM for telling the press about it…”

-- Check out my new website! http://www.blakeweberwoodworking.com

All I can say is when a man reaches the mature age of 54 and still needs his mother to act as spokesperson for him over such delicate matters he probably doesn’t need a penis anyway,sounds like it was surplus to requirements .And also if I cut my penis off I wouldn’t go off right away and have a bath would you?? Alistair

-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease

This kind of story proves Darwin wrong in my opinion. This type of ignorance should have been out of the genepool a loooong time ago if his theory was right. Why on Earth would anyone have a saw close enough there crotch to even allow kick-back to slice it off?

I have heard about this type of thing happening to lumber jacks – chainsaw gets tangled in the guys jeans and off with it’s head!

-- James - What's your excuse this time??

Walnut Weasel. I have that figured out. Darwin was basically correct in his theory of natural selection, but he failed to factor in one important element: Stupid people reproduce at a much higher rate than smart people!

-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"

Apparently it’s in for guys to trim the hair down there but for pete’s sake buy a razor. LOL

-- If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail!

On the plus side, he’ll never have to worry about performance anxiety.

-- Chuck, Washington D.C.

I was a apprentice carpenter upon a scaffold in the early 70’s with this old carpenter who cut a 2×12 on his leg…(no saw horse up there)...and he yelled “OH S—T”! I was right next to him and he cut his femeral artery,
he was gone in 5 min. You never know, you kiss the wife goodbye and an hour or so later you are toast.

-- WoodyG

The guy lives with his mother at the age of 54. No need for it – assuming he is not living there to actually care for her.

WoodyG – that’s a sad story.

A number of years ago a guy came into the MD’s office where my Mother worked with a towel wrapped around his leg that was dripping blood. He was up in a tree with a circular saw, had the guard tied back and was trimming branches. The saw bound, he jerked it back and cut across the top of his leg down to the bone. One moment of stupidity and a life time of regret.

-- Roger1

Great… now I got to add a cup to my list.