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• Klinotaxis

  2017-10-09 11:26:30

  kill living beings
  

  don't see anything on pubmed

  
  

  this mentions a fan belt injury, but i think in a 47 year old, whereas the boy was cut by a bottle
• Klinotaxis

  2017-10-09 11:36:46

  kill living beings
  

  i mostly see head injuries

  • maxillofacial
  • dunno
  • face
  • head, children
  • head, child
  • India, an agriculture-based country
  • head, children
  • foot, adult, industrial

  given how usually easy it is to find reports of horrific injuries my inclination is to think that hand fan injuries are rare

  
  

  for one i'm not really clear on how that would happen, i mean, the blades are just plastic and don't have much torque
• Princess Alice

  2017-10-09 12:36:27

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  As a child I would always stick a pencil (or some other slender object) into the fan...and I was always disappointed at how easily the blades just stopped moving.

  
  I guess I could experiment, if Naney really wants me to, by sticking my hand in a fan. :P
• Obā-san

  2017-10-09 15:01:18

  
  

  i feel as though ive been lied to, all my (early) life id been told the dangers of sticking my hand into fans and had never bothered to question anything....
  
• Fossilmaiden

  2017-10-09 15:37:55

  Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
  

  I brushed my hand against my computer fan once by accident, and I still have all my fingers.
  
• Obā-san

  2017-10-09 15:49:25

  
  

  MY ENTIRE UNIVERSE WAS BUILT UPON A VEIL OF LIES, AND NOW I GAZE, SHRIEKING HYSTERICAL WOE INTO THE FATHOMLESS, TURBULENT ABYSS
  
• Tachyon

  2017-10-09 16:17:21

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  i'm pretty sure mythbusters did a thing on this?

  
  

  i know you're looking at more rigorous studies but

  
  

  iirc they determined that a powerful industrial-strength fan with metal blades would be sufficient to kill a person, but insufficient to decapitate a human being

  
  

  i realize that doesn't answer your question but it's more data
• Klinotaxis

  2017-10-09 16:43:48

  kill living beings
  

  these are just case studies though

  
  

  which is a doctor going "you won't believe the shit i just saw", so there's not a lot of "rigor" except in just reporting accurately

  
  

  e.g.

  
  

  
  
• Tachyon

  2017-10-09 16:47:18

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  "there's air where it shouldn't be, wtf"
• Bee

  2017-10-09 21:26:20

  "the motorcycle and coyotes may or may not be relevant but are worth mentioning"
• Imipolex G

  2017-10-09 23:38:59

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  as a little calf I was convinced that ceiling fans would fucking cut you up if you dared somehow get near them
  
  years later I had a ceiling fan in my room, so I stuck my hand up into it and it immediately stopped. Didn't even hurt or anything. I'm not sure why I did this, though.
  
• Klinotaxis

  2017-10-09 23:42:16

  kill living beings
  

  death drive
  
• Imipolex G

  2017-10-09 23:42:50

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  probably
• vtk

  2017-10-11 21:21:43

  embrace the confusion
  

  cancel
• Yarrun XIX

  2017-10-11 21:37:39

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  I used to stick things in fans so very, very often. Usually not fingers though. Usually.

  
  

  They do not cut, but they do sting a little.