Once when a wee nipper
I was playing with some wooden toys I had, which you could almost consider Meccano's plywood cousin. One long rectangle piece had several holes in it, designed for the various pegs which came with the kit but also seemingly very suitable for a young boy's fingers. Long story short, I ended up with my pinkie finger trapped in one of these holes and no amount of tugging or crying would free it.

Enter stepdad, who ran my finger under the tap in the kitchen, to no avail. Thinking fast, he ran to the garage, leaving me weeping at the sink. He came back with a hacksaw and, sighing heavily, told me that he was really really sorry, but he was going to have to cut the finger off. It was the only way, he told me, but first he'd have to cut off the excess wood. Of course, he was bullshitting me (shoulda posted last week, damn), but as he sawed through the "excess wood" he kept up the charade in the face of my constant pleading for sanity.

Once he finished getting the wood off me, he cackled like a bastard and I ran away in a huffy. Never fucked with those toys again either, so I've made a note to bust that one out when I'm a parent myself.
(ElGranto, Sun 23 Jan 2011, 21:01, 3 replies)

was it Bilofix?
www.bilofix.com/packs.htm
great stuff, still got mine albeit a little chewed.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sun 23 Jan 2011, 21:21, closed)

If not those
then something very similar. No idea what they were called since this was about ten years ago, but they look the part.
(ElGranto, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 23:26, closed)

...does this extend to making up a board of progressively larger holes designed to ensnare a small child?
Cos I'm so doing this.
( Alex Save a Tree, Eat a Beaver!, Tue 25 Jan 2011, 2:47, closed)