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Yachting team uses staple-gun to fix up slashed sailor, completes race
Nat sez, "You're on a racing yacht, 650 miles from the finish line of the fifth leg of an around-the-world race. Your mast breaks, you send a team member up to cut free the sail. He slashes at the rigging but also himself, and blood drips down the mast. He comes down white with blood loss and with a massive wound. What do you do? 'After talking to our team doctor we decided to staple him together. We took out the staple gun and put five staples in him and now he's as good as new, I think.' Nope, that's not what I would have reached for either. I wonder whether the team doctor is also the ship's carpenter?"
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Yachting team uses staple-gun to fix up slashed sailor, completes race (Original Post)
MindMover
Apr 2012
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Ian David
(69,059 posts)1. #FirstWorldProblems n/t
cbayer
(146,218 posts)2. Not a bad idea at all. Staples are routinely used in surgery.
Journeyman
(15,038 posts)3. I think I would have reached for the duct tape first . . .
and I suspect my team mate would have been appreciate of my help.
I mean, if you reach for the toolbox first instead of the first aid kit, at least go for the least invasive solution.
ManiacJoe
(10,136 posts)5. The staples might be better than duct tape.
Duct tape is going to cause problems during removal later.
bongbong
(5,436 posts)4. Been done before
The repairs made to human bodies during a blue water yacht race run the gamut from The Unthinkable to Horror Movie Deluxe.