"At the time I wished that I'd used "quick set" plaster, though as I understand that this gets hot enough to cook with, so in retrospect I got lucky there."
I'll say:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/8303246.stm
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 18 May 2012, 15:31, 2 replies)

Yeah, I've seen that
Though I can't really understand how she couldn't get it off. I know the real heat comes in after it's initially hardened, so I can see why she couldn't simply withdraw (in my case panic-shinkage would have solved that problem!) but personally if I couldn't get my rapidly-cooking hands out of a lump of plaster, I'd have "politely suggested" that someone fetch an 8lb lump hammer and smash the damn thing open...
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 18 May 2012, 15:43, closed)

Well yeah
she didn't seem like the sharpest tool in the box though - the teacher told her to make a mould of her hands out of clay and then fill the mould with plaster, so she plunged her hands into the bucket of plaster and kept them there until her fingers burned off
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 18 May 2012, 16:15, closed)

ouch

(justin(e), Sat 19 May 2012, 18:10, closed)