Response to iminyourbasement calling me a dirty liar

To clarify things here. The combustion cannon I was using had a 2" diameter combustion chamber, 10" long, and a 3/4" barrel bore. Holding it against my leg with the left hand supporting the barrel by the chamber is how I used to fire it. If it had been one of my bigger shoulder fired ones, it probably would have killed me, by virtue of the razor sharp shards of pvc, that would have lacerated my jugular, carotid artery, and possibly my brachial artery. As it was, the force of the explosion shattered all but the thumb and pinky metacarpals in my hand, resulting in the required debridment and partial amputation of my left hand. If it were not for the efforts of Dr. Bamberger, the orthopedic surgeon that was on call at the time, I wouldn't have anything but a stump left, as the ER doctors wanted to just take it at the metacarpal bones. My original intent was to promote some measure of safety regarding these things, not provoke an attack. Why iminyourbasement (sorry I got your name wrong in the text on the video, I didn't notice it until it was too late) decided to call me a 'dirty liar' is beyond me, but the video speaks for the truth of my injury from my accident.

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[kingofallwhites]

What went wrong with the potato canon? You convinced me to never try using one and I am sending this out to others to warn them. By the way check out iLimb. They can make you a bionic partial prosthesis.

[jiro9cuts0001]

@kingofallwhites I believe that it was a matter of too much thermal cycling of the pvc, it just eventually became brittle from heating and cooling from firing it. I have actually worked on a couple designs for prosthetic partial hands, my only issue is that I lack the memory material I would like to have to actuate it, which is basically an electro-reactive memory rubber. Other than that, the design I have is sound LOL!

[kingofallwhites]

@jiro9cuts0001 Well I admire your strength in moving forward in life. I can imagine that must have been difficult to say the least.

[jiro9cuts0001]

@kingofallwhites The hardest part was actually getting past the people who seem to have a stigma about those who are deformed or have amputations similar to mine, as it happened when I was 23, it was difficult until I found a way to deal with that. Adapting to using it was easy enough, the only thing that really has me messed up now, is the fact that I was accidentally shot in December 05/ January 06 just about 20 minutes before the ball dropped for new years, and the bullet went through my arm

[kingofallwhites]

@jiro9cuts0001 I think that maybe some people see the injury and get scared that it could also happen to then- i.e. it could happen to anyone. Maybe it makes them face their mortality in a certain way. How were you accidentally shot?

[jiro9cuts0001]

@kingofallwhites True about that, that could well be the case. I was hit by an accidental discharge of a handgun that a friend of mine had, somehow he got a .380 round mixed in with 9mm ammo of thesame brand and type, and when he went to eject the round after releasing the mag, it didn't pull the round from the chamber. Later, he went to move the gun and it went off, faulty trigger sear spring, and the slug hit me, went through my left arm, into my abdomen, through to the other side and stopped

[jiro9cuts0001]

@jiro9cuts0001 Had to cut me open from my breast bone to my groin to run my bowel to find the places it was hit, and to get the bullet out. It was a Federal Hydrashock round that hit me. I'm glad I sat up and turned about 10 seconds before it went off, otherwise it would have went straight into my heart since I was facing him right before it happened. As it was I almost died from where it hit me between internal bleeding and shock. What does not kill you makes you stronger they say.

[Spr4ynPr4y]

maybe you shouldn't have been playing with daddy's fireworks...

[TheMapleApple]

E.T. phone home.

[kingofallwhites]

@jiro9cuts0001 You got shot too? Dude maybe you should move on to fishing or a hobby that is a little more safe. I hope that your are one day able to grow everything back with a company like ACell or something and their matrix powder.

[shitydrumer]

i know that i will never feel the pain you do. but i have a plate in my hand and i know a little bit about how shitty plates and skrews can be after a few years. like i said nothing compared to what you must go through but i know cold weather must really suck.