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Pilot removes 7 year old son’s tooth with his helicopter.

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Old 20th Jun 2016, 18:17
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Pilot removes 7 year old son’s tooth with his helicopter.

As per the title, really..

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03yykzp
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BBC Radio 5 live - In Short, Father removes son?s tooth with helicopter
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The wonderful absurdity of it still makes me laugh. Why not just lightly tap it with a ballpeen hammer, like my (ex mil) dentist?
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Price of dentistry today- much cheaper, I'm sure!
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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?

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I spell it pein........but

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball-peen_hammer
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So I WAS paying attention then! Thanks TD.

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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.
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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....
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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.......
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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!

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Hair never grew back, then, CG?

(Or did it grow back, but now, thirty-odd years later ... oops, where's it gone again?).

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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

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If you stand the wrong side of door it can be more effective than you intended!
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Great post Shy
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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.........
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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....
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I always used a Ball-Pein hammer to Peen bolts to stop the nuts coming loose
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SDSR 2020 - RADC to be abolished. All dental work to be carried out by AAC.
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