Woo Woo Woo Woo
I used to work in a warehouse attached to a factory, and we took on some school leavers to perform some basic menial tasks. Because of the noise, we'd had a siren attached to the phone so that we could hear it when it went off.

That's not the dumb bit.

Sitting at the computer doing some records, and my boss wanders over. "Look at Phil - he's going nuts".

Sure enough, every time the siren went off, he'd go very white, glower at the phone, and clearly try to stay calm.

As we watched, the phone rang and the siren kicked in. Phil slammed down the box he was packing, walked over to the siren - and stuck his finger in it.

At first, we were so stunned, we did nothing. The we pissed ourselves laughing. Then we took him to hospital.

Phil learnt an important lesson that day: a siren consists of two metal discs with holes in rotating at different speeds. Put your finger in one, and it tends to slice the top of your finger off. I'm sat here weeping silently as I type this, and this was 13 years ago....

OK, not something I've done to myself, but still very funny.
(Steve The Monkey, Fri 21 Dec 2007, 15:03, Reply)