I ALWAYS keep a bottle of nail polish remover (i.e. acetone) handy RIGHT
THERE when I am using superglue.
Keeps saving me.
Tom
> Yo,
>
> on Tue, 25 Jul 2000 12:56:37 EDT, DaEyeGuy@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> ><< Worse is when you glue your fingers to the film door!
> > Dave >>
> >
> >Dave,
> >are YOu speaking from experience?? <g>
>
> Reminds me of something I saw very recently on one of those reality TV
shows
> (something like "Germany's Dumbest Drivers"). A guy was using superglue to
> re-attach his rear view mirror to his car's windshield. He applied the
glue
> to the mirror and then attached it to the windscreen with his right hand
and
> held on to the steering wheel with his left, in which he was also holding
> the glue. As he was concentrating on exacly centering and adjusting the
> mirror he didn't notice the glue running onto his hand out of the
still-open
> tube. When the mirror was finally successfully attached to the windshield,
> so was his hand to the steering wheel. He managed to drive to a nearby
> police station where he kept honking until someone came out to see who was
> causing all that commotion. The cops (who were fighting hard to keep from
> laughing) couldn't figure out how to get his hand off the wheel, so they
> called the fire department. The firemen weren't any more successful, so
they
> finally dismantled the wheel from the car and took guy and wheel to a
> hospital where the wheel was eventually removed by carefully injecting
> acetone between the wheel and the skin.
>
>
> MtFbwy,
> Volkhart
>
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