Can a Shop Vac really pull an eye out of its socket?

[GatorFarmer]

This warning seems to have been repeated many times over the years. It was a stated reason not to play around in shop classes in schools. In college it was mentioned as an example of government mandated product safety in economics classes (I.e. a modification to prevent eye removal, but which reduced efficiency). At many a Home Depot it is a stated selling point of the contractor grade models..."So powerful it will suck your eye out"... It is even a warning I repeat to my old children to get them to not play near or with the Shop Vac.

As it becomes time to purchase a new one, I find myself thinking back on that warning. Is it actually true?

 

[PatriotX]

Only one way to find out.



















Have Mythbusters run some tests !

 

[jlrhiner]

I thought you were gonna...........nevermind.

 

[427mach1]

Only one way to find out.

Have Mythbusters run some tests !

You say that jokingly, but they probably could test that myth using one of their favorites, a pig carcass. Might actually be worth contacting them... Really....

 

[Malpasowildlifer]

A friend who retired from San Diego PD said a good friend of his responded to a call about a guy who went into a store and tried to pleasure himself with a shop vac and it took off a testicle. He tried to sue by saying there was no warning on the shop vac to not use it as a...umm....adult toy. He lost but I'm surprised, being in CA.

 

[H Richard]

Well, my shop vac won't pick up flattened .177 pellets from the floor. Occasionally they will bounce out of my pellet trap and when it comes time to clean up they have to be "picked up". I vote for more suction.

 

[LoadedRound]

Can a Shop Vac really pull an eye out of its socket?

Go ask the last guy who tried to date my Daughter.

 

[A10]

It don't take much to get an eye out of its socket. Had one guy at a lunch tent at one of the sites I worked at had it happen while he was laughing. I didn't want to hear the joke......

 

[NCTexan]

I guess that it depends on the shop vac and it depends on the eye.

 

[skrazo]

A friend who retired from San Diego PD said a good friend of his responded to a call about a guy who went into a store and tried to pleasure himself with a shop vac and it took off a testicle. He tried to sue by saying there was no warning on the shop vac to not use it as a...umm....adult toy. He lost but I'm surprised, being in CA.

Fact is often more humorous than fiction!

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

I'm sure Bobby Munson would have preferred the Shop Vac method.

 

[VM]

The worst part of this is the Goober who tries and looses the eye.
He will now have to hunt for it in the debris (with only one eye) and you know when he finds it, there will be a bunch of sawdust and other waste stuck to it

 

[Hillbilly77]

The worst part of this is the Goober who tries and looses the eye.
He will now have to hunt for it in the debris (with only one eye) and you know when he finds it, there will be a bunch of sawdust and other waste stuck to it

Nah.
The type of idiot that's stupid enough to suck out his eye with a shop-vac (just to see if it works) isn't bright enough to be doing anything useful enough to create sawdust.

 

[kozmic]

Let's nominate someone to try it out. All those in favor....wait for it....


.....say "EYE"!

 

[SmokeStack Lightning]

Eye Carumba!

 

[Hillbilly77]

Let's nominate someone to try it out. All those in favor....wait for it....


.....say "EYE"!

I'll keep an eye out for you.

 

[litenlarry]

My "shop vac" can easily take the chrome off a trailer hitch, suck a bowling ball thru a I.V. tube....Oh wait, you are talking about that kind of 'shop vac"...

 

[NYlakesider]

I'll keep an eye out for you.

aye aye, sir!





I do remember a little from my time in the navy!

 

[shouldazagged]

Let's nominate someone to try it out. All those in favor....wait for it....


.....say "EYE"!

Go to JAIL. Go directly to JAIL. Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200.

By the way, you forgot the ancient rule: he who suggests an action invariably is picked to do it.

 

[Jessie]

A friend who retired from San Diego PD said a good friend of his responded to a call about a guy who went into a store and tried to pleasure himself with a shop vac and it took off a testicle. He tried to sue by saying there was no warning on the shop vac to not use it as a...umm....adult toy. He lost but I'm surprised, being in CA.

It didn't work for him but the shop vac got a nut.