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As per the title, really..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03yykzp
MightyGem
20th Jun 2016, 21:39
Better Link:
BBC Radio 5 live - In Short, Father removes son?s tooth with helicopter (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03yykzp)
The wonderful absurdity of it still makes me laugh. Why not just lightly tap it with a ballpeen hammer, like my (ex mil) dentist?
charliegolf
21st Jun 2016, 07:02
Price of dentistry today- much cheaper, I'm sure!
charliegolf
21st Jun 2016, 07:06
a ballpeen hammer
I don't do speeling nazi-ism, but I do have a genuine query on 'peens'. I was taught by Tom Price, the world's greatest craft teacher (remember when it was 'Craft', not 'Design Technology'?), who told me/us that it was a ball-pein hammer. With an ei, not an ie or ee. Anyone else remember that?
CG
taxydual
21st Jun 2016, 07:10
CG
I spell it pein........but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball-peen_hammer
charliegolf
21st Jun 2016, 07:11
So I WAS paying attention then! Thanks TD.
CG
Fair call, I don't think my metalwork or woodwork teachers could spell. Do they even offer those anymore?
I just hope my ex dentist doesn't read Prune, I have to go back in four weeks.
Tourist
21st Jun 2016, 08:41
I'm not normally one to be risk averse, but is it only me who sees potential for fishing line wrapping around spinning bits?
Scared children doing something stupid?
It is possible/probable that they mitigated these issues, however....
ShyTorque
21st Jun 2016, 08:45
They don't give you a licence unless you can.....and he's been flying for thirteen years.
That's alright then.
Now, I've been flying helicopters for thirty seven years. My son needs a haircut...... I've just thought of a really good idea.......
charliegolf
21st Jun 2016, 12:33
Now, I've been flying helicopters for thirty seven years. My son needs a haircut...... I've just thought of a really good idea.......
It was a bad idea 30 years ago when you tried it on me, and it still is!
CG
ShyTorque
21st Jun 2016, 12:43
Hair never grew back, then, CG? :p
(Or did it grow back, but now, thirty-odd years later ...:rolleyes: oops, where's it gone again?).
;)
Danny42C
21st Jun 2016, 12:52
The common answer in my day was the door knob on an open door. Line was attached to the knob and the infant's tooth. Leave about a foot of slack. Slam door.
Works every time
Danny42C!
ShyTorque
21st Jun 2016, 14:20
If you stand the wrong side of door it can be more effective than you intended!
Thomas coupling
21st Jun 2016, 17:27
Great post Shy :D
Thomas coupling
21st Jun 2016, 17:29
And you know what, my son started running towards my chopper when I lifted and he fell down the river bank behind us and the fishing line got wrapped round his neck and he drowned....teeth and all.........
flydive1
21st Jun 2016, 18:14
And you know what, my son started running towards my chopper when I lifted and he fell down the river bank behind us and the fishing line got wrapped round his neck and he drowned....teeth and all.........
......he almost survived drowning, unfortunately a lightning struck the river and he was electrocuted.
My wife tried to rescue him but just as she was about to grab his arm a meteorite hit her....
Compass Call
21st Jun 2016, 20:28
I always used a Ball-Pein hammer to Peen bolts to stop the nuts coming loose:E
ninja-lewis
22nd Jun 2016, 22:55
SDSR 2020 - RADC to be abolished. All dental work to be carried out by AAC.
eastern wiseguy
22nd Jun 2016, 23:27
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn2.holytaco.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F01%2FREdnecks.jpg&f=1
He may have felt it was safer than the traditional 'Murican method.
tartare
23rd Jun 2016, 09:46
Sorry - but this just has disastrous unintended f*ck up written all over it... cute as it may seem.
Breaking strain of average piece of tooth pulling nylon?
Ability for said nylon to wind itself around something rotating and essential to flight - even for a second or so?
You might have got away with it this time...
gr4techie
23rd Jun 2016, 13:10
Is the cost of dental care now more expensive than helicopter running costs?
NutLoose
23rd Jun 2016, 20:40
He could have done it much cheaper using a squirrel....... I kid you not
Watch this dad use a real squirrel to pull out his daughter's tooth (http://www.msn.com/en-gb/video/headlines/dad-uses-squirrel-to-pull-out-his-daughters-wobbly-tooth/vi-AAhwSSU)
212man
24th Jun 2016, 14:11
The great thing about being rich enough to own a 109 is that you, or your daughter (I assume that's who is in the LHS), don't need to wear shoulder harnesses because only the plebeian masses get injured in accidents.