Mangled..
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I don't know of I'll be able to describe this well enough so you get the full horror but I'll give it a shot. It doesn't involve blood but it does end up with someone with mangled limbs.

As I've mentioned before, I was once in the Army and this is a tale from Basic Training. It was our first time over the assault course. The first time is actually pretty easy as you run to each obstacle as a group and are taught how to tackle each one.

So we get to the final obstacle. The scramble nets. Imagine a the skeleton of a box with all sides covered in strong rope netting. That's what it is. For this one, you had to climb up the net, crawl across the roof of the box and then grab a rope and somersault over the edge and then hand over hand down the rope.

I'll say that again. You have to grab a rope and *somersault*, a kind of forward roll, over the edge.

The way you do this is to be lying on your belly facing the edge. Then you grab the rope dangling below you and pull it up towards you. Then you grab the rope with both hands and *making sure that your thumbs are pointing towards your body and upwards towards the frame of structure* forward roll over the edge.

If you do it right, and almost everyone does, you end up with your body hanging down, you hands gripping the rope with your thumbs pointing up, and it's easy then to hand over hand down the rope.

If you do it wrong, and one bloke managed this then this happens.

The guy crawled across the cargo net, grabbed the rope with his thumbs pointing the wrong way, and rolled over the edge. As he had grabbed the rope wrong, his arms tried to unfold in ways that they're not designed to, and there were two horribly rubbery pops as both his shoulders dislocated then a scream cut off by a thump.

He looked like a rag doll that had been chewed by a pit bull.

Hope you get the idea.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 2:37, 1 reply)

That
....has just made my teeth go funny and my arms feel weak, and I' aint squeamish apparently. click.
(Oil Slick, Fri 8 Aug 2008, 16:09, closed)