Not me, a mate, but eeeuuurrgghhhh nooooo...
Now my mate Nige is prone to the odd incident here and there - there's the cat-rustproofing episode, the brake-fluid-vomiting session, the welding-explosion-and-foot-injury-plus-finger-crush-and-garage-fire combo breaker and regular smaller bouts of misfortune (gear oil bread being the latest).

So, when he recently managed to get a shard of hot metal in his thumb so deep it was stuck in the bone of his thumb, did he take himself off to the doctors to have it sorted?

Of course not - out with the iodine, razor blades and wife's eyelash tweezers and let the pus and blood flow!

As you may imagine, this did not in fact end happily and has become an ongoing saga / burden on the NHS.

I shan't cut-and-paste as quite frankly I am not a fan of stories of home or any other surgery, so I shall post the link and warn you NOT TO CLICK IF YOU ARE EATING YOUR TEA.

Full story from the man:
"my cunning plan was to have sue pull on the string, whilst I held my thumb under water to wash the blood away, and rummage with tweezers"

Yes, we are compiling a book of his exploits. No, really.
(fridgefreezer inserted a topical reference into his sig on, Wed 26 Jan 2011, 0:22, 3 replies)

wonderful
I think if you'd included the warning "caution, contains Landrover owner" then it would have explained all - resourcefulness, masochism and misfortune in a single package.
( SteamedCleaner, Wed 26 Jan 2011, 3:01, closed)

I think this should win!
( Vambo, Wed 26 Jan 2011, 21:05, closed)

Do I dare click?
No I don't, I've just eaten dinner and don't intend to eat it again
(libman, Thu 27 Jan 2011, 14:11, closed)