I Told You Welders Were Stupid

I have a whole page dedicated to welders blowing themselves up on the job, becoming dismembered, or flattened by equipment, or splattered from lengthy plunges from worksites on skyscrapers.  Why do I collect such horrible stories?  To remind myself that I made the right choice and quit welding.  Only a stupid person would do a job that will probably get him killed one day.  And this story is more proof.

From the AFP:

Malaysian man gets nut stuck around penis

A Malaysian welder had to have a nut removed from around his penis after an attempt to lengthen it before he gets engaged next week went embarrassingly wrong.  The nut got stuck on his penis following an erection forcing him to seek help at a hospital.

Staff from the hospital had to drain some blood from the penis and cut away a top layer of skin before the object could be removed.  The fire and rescue department were also involved in trying to remove the nut from the unnamed welder, who is in his 20s and hoped the nut would weigh down his penis to make it longer.

Hell, I’m surprised he didn’t try to cut the nut off with a blowtorch.  And the rest of you are thinking, “Yeah, I knew Malaysians had small weiners.”