So last night, at 2:00 AM, I was awoken by one of my roommates yelling for us to come to the kitchen. I woke up and initially thought that this was just another drunken rant, so I staggered out to go yell at him to keep it down. Upon entering the kitchen I noticed that there is blood all over the floor and the wall, a pineapple on the ground, and my roommate standing over the sink. He turned to me and said in a horrified voice, "I cut my finger off."
Now keep in mind, this is at 2 in the morning, so this took a moment to sink in. After the shock of being woken up so early and blood all over the kitchen wore off, we scrambled to find medical supplies to stop the bleeding and get the rest of the finger on ice. After several hours at the hospital, it turns out that they were unable to reattach the finger, so now he has a nub just after the 3rd knuckle of his index finger.

IndecisivePenguin

United States771 Posts

July 03 2010 19:59 GMT

So he was trying to cut the pineapple and cut his finger off instead?

Weasel-

Canada1556 Posts

July 03 2010 20:04 GMT

On July 04 2010 04:59 IndecisivePenguin wrote:
So he was trying to cut the pineapple and cut his finger off instead?

I think the pineapple was trying to attack him and he had to use the knife to defend himself. Seems he managed to slay the pineapple but it's rather unfortunate that it cost him the use of his finger.

pikaaarrr :3

United States593 Posts

July 03 2010 20:09 GMT

On July 04 2010 05:04 Weasel- wrote:

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a little inconsiderate, dont you think?

theshin2007

United States133 Posts

July 03 2010 20:10 GMT

lol, actually in his words he was trying to "Shave the pineapple." Anyone have any good nick names for him?

anderoo

Canada1876 Posts

July 03 2010 20:14 GMT

cutting off my own finger is one of my first fears, what kind of knife was he using that he took his whole finger off just cutting a pineapple?

saritenite

Singapore1680 Posts

July 03 2010 20:19 GMT

On July 04 2010 05:10 theshin2007 wrote:
lol, actually in his words he was trying to "Shave the pineapple." Anyone have any good nick names for him?

uh, peel it?

theshin2007

United States133 Posts

July 03 2010 20:20 GMT

Let me clarify, it wasn't the entire finger, just the tip right above the first knuckle of the index finger. As for the knife, I dont know what it is called, but its about 10 inches and looks like a boning knife.

ella_guru

Canada1741 Posts

July 03 2010 20:39 GMT

Least he can kick has habit of picking his nose.

endy

Switzerland8970 Posts

July 03 2010 20:43 GMT

#10

That sucks for him, but using a 10inches knife to peel a pineapple is probably not the best option.

Anyway, it coincides with SC2 release, you could play this game with an arm off.

Thanks for sharing, it was an interesting story. And I just realized, but WTF was he doing with a pineapple at 2am ? T_T

hifriend

China7935 Posts

July 03 2010 20:46 GMT

#11

That sucks hard. Does he play video games, guitar or piano?

Even if he does, learning to be gosu at any of those things or any other activity that sort of requires 10 fingers with only 9 would be characteristic and awesome.

BloodyC0bbler

Canada7876 Posts

July 03 2010 20:46 GMT

#12

On July 04 2010 05:19 sArite_nite wrote:

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uh, peel it?

You have to cut off at least one if not both ends to peel it easily.

I am more surprised at how he took off part of his finger. I have had many run ins with knives and done a few reallllly nasty cuts to myself, but seriously never close to that bad. It takes alllot of pressure usually, as well as a really sharp knife to cut through anything more than the tip of a finger.

suffice to say, sucks for this guy.

Divinek

Canada4045 Posts

July 03 2010 20:49 GMT

#13

im having a hard time even picturing how you would be cutting a pineapple to put your finger in that position, without noticing the blatant hazard to your finger.

But i suppose if you're drunk at 2am you'd be holding things strangely to begin with

like god damn you gotta be cutting that pineapple with some force

BloodyC0bbler

Canada7876 Posts

July 03 2010 20:53 GMT

#14

On July 04 2010 05:20 theshin2007 wrote:
Let me clarify, it wasn't the entire finger, just the tip right above the first knuckle of the index finger. As for the knife, I dont know what it is called, but its about 10 inches and looks like a boning knife.

He took that much off with a boning knife? ffs, problem 1 was using the wrong knife for the job. Then not knowing how to use it.

sucks for him though, that is a very very shitty life lesson on knife use.

Reason

United Kingdom2770 Posts

July 03 2010 22:34 GMT

#15

Peely McPeelerson

SageFantasma

United States383 Posts

July 03 2010 22:55 GMT

#16

On July 04 2010 05:43 endy wrote:

Thanks for sharing, it was an interesting story. And I just realized, but WTF was he doing with a pineapple at 2am ? T_T

I was thinking the same thing. I guess when you're tired/drunk? when you've got a craving, you gotta submit.

Anyways, semi-sad story. I feel bad for your buddy, but at least it wasn't too major. Granted chicks won't be attracted to that, but at least he will still be able to function normally(for the most part).

Issor

United States870 Posts

July 03 2010 23:01 GMT

#17

I have a feeling the knife got bound up in the pineapple (having cut many pineapples in my time, i can say this is not all that uncommon, particularly if you try to cut in half lengthwise, or any-wise really). Drunk, 2am... I can imagine he thought the best solution was to just hold the pineapple and jam the knife down as hard as possible. If it's sharp enough and his senses were dulled enough I could see this happening.

I feel sorry for your friend, hope he didn't play guitar or anything :x

Romantic

United States1844 Posts

July 03 2010 23:06 GMT

#18

Ouch! I always awkwardly hold things to make sure I don't slice my fingers off when I cut them. How bad did it hurt?

Tazza

Korea (South)1678 Posts

July 03 2010 23:23 GMT

#19

Maybe he lost his finger because he lost in gambling or tried to cheat in sutda. It was probably a 타짜 that got him.

E-Coffee

Canada519 Posts

July 04 2010 00:16 GMT

#20

I think I heard somewhere that putting it on ice is bad? Something about killing it... Not too sure... Does anyone know the procedure for stuff like this? o_O

Loanshark

China3094 Posts

July 04 2010 00:25 GMT

#21

On July 04 2010 09:16 E-Coffee wrote:
I think I heard somewhere that putting it on ice is bad? Something about killing it... Not too sure... Does anyone know the procedure for stuff like this? o_O

Only if you keep the ice on for too long, like maybe over 20 minutes.

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