Miscellaneous: Today, I was helping my friend put up a wooden fence at his new...

By Nissan_David - 18/01/2010 06:09 - United States

Today, I was helping my friend put up a wooden fence at his new house. I was holding the sections of fence up while he nailed them in with an air powered nail gun. The gun malfunctioned and fired twice putting the second nail through my hand and into the wood. We had to pry the nail out. FML

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By Anonymous - 10/12/2018 22:00

Today I had a narrow escape with a nailgun that nailed my workboot to the floor but luckily missed my foot. After I calmed down and changed boots I returned to the nailgun, started working again and barely 30 seconds later I managed to nail my thumb to a piece of wood. Man, I'm bad at my job. FML

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By leprechaun23 - 23/04/2012 04:21 - United States - Cleveland

Today, I taught my friend how to use a staple gun. She taught me how to get staples out of my hand. FML

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By Anonymous - 03/01/2011 11:18 - United States

Today, I was at my friend's house. We were looking at her dad's guns, and I was explaining gun safety and how you should never put your finger on the trigger. I then shot a hole in the floor of her house. FML

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Gun control

By Anonymous - 14/12/2021 20:01

Today, our 9 year-old son managed to shoot himself in the gut with my nail gun. According to my wife, this is completely my fault, because I ONLY kept it in my locked garage, ONLY secured in its box, ONLY completely disconnected from the power, ONLY on the highest shelf near the roof. FML

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By Anonymous - 10/05/2011 05:12

Today, I learned what a nail gun shooting my leg feels like. FML

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By ouch... - 03/03/2010 11:13 - United States

Today, while trying to pull a nail out of some wood with a crowbar in my theatre class, my girlfriend, who was holding down the wood with her foot, thought it would be funny to move her foot and make me lose my balance. Instead, the crowbar flew up and struck me in the nuts. FML

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Driving school dropout

By Rebecca - 16/01/2012 00:36 - Canada

Today, as I was pulling into my driveway, I hit my fence. The same fence that I had repaired last week because I had run into it. FML

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By Anonymous - 30/07/2016 17:45 - Mexico - Saltillo

Today, I now know how it feels to have a splinter of wood hammered a full inch underneath your fingernail. FML

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By jackelking - 25/05/2009 08:33 - United States

Today, I was at my friends' farm and we decided that we wanted to go to their old treehouse. When we got down there, it turned out my friend Cat had forgotten her shoes. Being a gentleman, I lent her my sandals. I then climbed the treehouse, fell out, and got a nail through my foot. FML

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By damngotkik - 20/12/2017 19:00

Today, my friend thought it would be funny to use an electric sander on my arm during our construction class. FML

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nancyngo 0

Monday 18 January 2010 12:11

I'm so sorry, that's extremely painful.

Iwannabetreo 11

Monday 18 January 2010 12:14

Fuuck ... My hand hurts from reading this. D:

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mushoo_fml 0

Monday 18 January 2010 17:35

It is also the correct version of FYL. YLIF indicates that you are concurring on the ****** nature of OP's life. FYL technically means that you're cursing the OP's life even more! EDIT: This was in reply to #21.

davidhasmorefun 0

Monday 18 January 2010 17:36

that sucks. I wouldn't have pulled it out though. you gatta get pictures and freak out your friends first. lol

catatonicsleep 17

Monday 18 January 2010 18:06

Aren't you supposed to leave the nail in until you get to the ER incase you hit an artery and extracting the nail will make you bleed lots....

Darkhumor 0

Tuesday 19 January 2010 4:10

exactly my thoughts! And extracting would probably have caused more damage than necessary...I mean, if he's alive to post this fml he's probably not dead from bleeding out This post must have taken a long time to poke out with his good hand

kallielou 10

Sunday 25 July 2010 22:38

#38- OP's hand was nailed to the fence, so unless they brought the whole fence with them to the ER, I guess I can understand why OP pryed the nail out of their hand :P

Nic_hole 0

Monday 18 January 2010 18:12

Ahhhh the second painful one!!! ouchh dude that suxx I'm sorry 8/

starzchick 0

Monday 18 January 2010 18:42

my husband has had this happen to him a couple times, and it happens to pretty much every carpenter that operates a nail gun.. they misfire all the time and shoot twice. I hope you didn't pull the nail all the way out of your hand- just out of the wood so you could get medical help. You could have hit a nerve and done permanent damage. My husband is a pretty tough guy, but he'd never pull the nail out of his own hand, that's just stupid.

blastvortex 3

Monday 18 January 2010 18:51

Here's a work safety tip - don't leave anything you don't want punctured within the forward range of the nail gun, etc. Accidents of this nature are common enough in the particular field, but they are also mostly avoidable if you use proper procedure.