addition to "Blow Your Mind" 
2003 Reader Submission
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Hello,
{I don't know if I'm stepping out of my league here but I read the "Blow Your Mind" story and I thought I'd add in my 2 cents. If I'm stepping out of my league here I'm sorry.}
I worked with a power washer last summer at my grandparents house, and I can say with a big degree of certainty that this story ("Blow Your Mind") is a fake. Why you ask?
I routinely shot my self in the feet and hands with the power washer and I never once drew one drop of blood or broke one bone. (I've broke my left arm so I know what a broken bone feels like. Just for the record I broke my left arm roller skating NOT w/a power washer. and it was a compound fracture not a simple one.)
As for those who question the power of this power washer I used let me list some of what I cleaned.
*The roof of my grandfather's houseboat, which had at least 2 years of dirt(or at least it looked like dirt.Although how dirt got on the top of the boat I don't know),cobwebs,bird droppings, grime, and stuff I'm not even going to try and ID. (BTW it is a large houseboat or was we sold it.)
*The driveway (This is where I shot myself in the feet the most.) which had not been cleaned since the house was bought roughly 10 years ago.Now the drive way may not seem like much but when you consider that some of the things I cleaned up were soaked in motor oil (10w-30) soaked in dried paint (From spray paint cans.), mold (Green mold), Fungus, decay, and pretty much 10 years of dirt,and various road debris that comes from driving on at least 40 miles of road to get to his house.
*The brick walls on the outside of his house.Which also had not been cleaned in 10 years, and were in relatively poor condition due to what was growing on them.
*The concrete back porch and the roof over the back porch. The porch had various debris on it and liquids soaked into it. I'm not going to even try and ID along what was there. Also whatever fell from the ceiling contributed to the mess.
The roof had among other things, spider webs from at least 3 years on it. Along with several wasps nest which were really fun to shoot at. I tried shooting the wasps one at a time while they came at me but they soon overran my position and I had to retreat indoors. (Think I stung 20 times by 1 nest. After that I learned to just shoot and run.)
*Well I said I would name just a few things so I'll stop my list now. However I should add that at the most I only had to do 1-2 swipes with the power washer and this stuff came off relatively easily. Also I should add my grandfather lives in Houston, Texas so heat and humidity do play major roles in how good this stuff gets (For lack of a better term) 'caked' on.
Then there are some flaws in the story itself. One of them is that the story said that the power washer:
"blew his cheek, lower jaw, and chin clean off his face".
Well since the jaw is the strongest bone in the body so the thought of blowing that "clean off" seems highly unlikely. In fact I'd say dang near impossible.
Then it (the story) went on to say that
"surgeons were able to reattach these useful body parts."
Even if he did blow off his cheek,lower jaw, and chin the thought of re-attaching those to a face so that they all work seems highly unlikely. Mostly you would just get something prostetic. Because the nerve endings would be destroyed along with the pathways the brain uses to tell the body to move those parts so the useage of those parts seems highly unlikely.So why waste the trouble of reattachment?
Well I've thrown in my 2 cents and I hope I've helped in some way.Sorry if I've overstepped my bounds but I don't know of any other way to make sure this information gets to you.
Sincerly,
Tyler
PS
Please let me know if this helps or not. Submitted on 11/07/2003
Submitted by:
Tyler
Reference:
Blow Your Mind story
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