Hey all, I went and used the usual no touch car wash today
when all of a sudden I leaned forward to help a bug off the
front end as I was using the high pressure wash when I brushed
my inner arm with the stream of water, smarts for a second then,
I realized it ripped about an inch and a quarter of skin off my arm.
OUCH!! It has not stopped hurting, I would post a pic but YUCK.
Be careful, That was the last thing I would have every expected
to happen.
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Getting ready to love life again! Dreams do come true! __________________________________________________ 2006 Mustang GT
i tried to stop it but my small chuckle turned into a booming laugh...i'm very happy that youre alright but you may be the only person ever attacked by a carwash heh heh...but glad youre okay
I saw someone attacked before. They let go and the trigger was stuck on. That thing whipped around like you would't believe until it got wedge under the tire and did some damage to them and their car.
As far as the skin goes. Yea.. they cut metal with high pressure water. Water Jet... or they also form metal with it... Hydro Formed.
So, be a good American and go sue the owner since you just couldn't help but pull a dumb ass move.
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2006 Mustang GT in Torch Red
C&L Intake, Evolution Performance Tune, Borla Axle Backs, Hurst Shifter, 4.10's, JBA Long Tubes, Prothane Engine Mounts, Steeda UDPs, FRPP Charge Motion Delete Plates
Yeah, but seriously, if they didn't have some sort of warning sign up? Sue 'em, you may never have to work again! lol
What am I saying? I think I'm going sue-happy just like the rest of the country!
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1976 Ford Mustang II Ghia: 302 with a 600cfm Edelbrock carb, Edelbrock Performer 289 intake, Dynomax Blackjack headers, 2.5" exhaust with Flowmaster Super 44s. RJS 11-gallon fuel cell, C4 tranny, chrome 16" pony wheels, fuzzy dice, brown vinyl half-top, and painted in the tackiest color ever (harvest gold, that's why I call it "The Goldenrod").
Also have a 2003 Dodge Ram (lightly modded daily driver/tow rig/office/dining room/home away from home/workshop... I call it "The Big Blue Dawg".)
Just happened to me last night. No real harm done, just some stinging. And, of course, it frickin' rained today. A buddy at work told me, today, that he'll never go to the carwash in sandals again...
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1992 Deep Emerald Green Mustang GT Hatch, 5 speed, 2.73s, Mac fenderwell cold air intake, '93 Cobra MAF, Mac 70mm throttle body & spacer, Explorer intakes, Mac unequal headers & offroad pipe, Magnaflow catback, Walbro 110lph fuel pump, Jet adjustable FPR, MSD Blaster coil, Accel 8mm wires, FRPP aluminum quadrant, UPR firewall adjuster, stock cable, Granatelli upper control arms.
Waiting to go on: Granatelli lower control arms, and GT40 Iron heads!
Gee, I wonder why the carwash which I frequent, has a sign which says, "no washing of greasy parts!"
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1992 Deep Emerald Green Mustang GT Hatch, 5 speed, 2.73s, Mac fenderwell cold air intake, '93 Cobra MAF, Mac 70mm throttle body & spacer, Explorer intakes, Mac unequal headers & offroad pipe, Magnaflow catback, Walbro 110lph fuel pump, Jet adjustable FPR, MSD Blaster coil, Accel 8mm wires, FRPP aluminum quadrant, UPR firewall adjuster, stock cable, Granatelli upper control arms.
Waiting to go on: Granatelli lower control arms, and GT40 Iron heads!
Probably because unsuspecting ungraceful guys like me slip and fall in the grease left behind from the greasy parts washers. I'm not one to get lawsuit happy, but there are millions of people out there that would. I saw it just the other day. Some soccer mom climbed out of her monstrous SUV and slipped as she was walking over to put her quarters in the slot and busted her butt. She got up and started running around looking for an employee to yell at and threaten a lawsuit. I just chuckled and asked her if she REALLY needed a 'Slippery when wet' sign at a carwash to remind her that there's water on the ground. She didn't find it nearly as humorous as I did.
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Sometimes I think that government fits that old-fashioned definition of a baby: An alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan
Now it may be just me...but I would sue. I mean if some can successfully sue McDonalds for serving coffee too hot, then youwould certainly have a case for pressurized water being under too much pressure. You were harmed, now you suffer emotional distress for the humilidy of being attacked by a pressure washer, pain and suffering of the injury, loss of companionship with hubby (he is distraught enough to refrain from intimate contact just for knowing his woman was attacked by washing unit), you may have property damage if that pressurized water has harmed the baby, loss of wages for you taking time off to put a band-aide on, loss of future wages when colleagues at work relaise you were attacked by a washing unit, and wrap up with punitive damages so no one else has to suffer at teh negligence of a washing unit owner.
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