This
winter storage I wanted to put a little larger tarp over my
boat to help keep the local starling (SP) birds from crapping on the
boat. Doing so meant I could not bungee it to the
lifelines, so I hung 1g
water bottles on the eyelets of the tarp, like I have seen others do.
Wellll, that wasn't such a good idea! With a bigger tarp it caused more
wind resistance & causing the
water bottles to
lift up and onto the
deck. I had the bungee's looped thru the handle of the bottles with the hooks attached to the eyelets
So, in an attempting to readjust the bottles and make it secure I disconnected one of the hooks, which happen to slip out of my hand allowing the water bottle to fall over the side. As a normal reaction to something falling I looked over to see it reach the end of the bungee
and before I could
possibly react it stretched out the bungee as far as it would go and then slipped out of the handle.
That suker came out of there
so fast, came right up and hit me right in the kisser. The blood was almost instant. I thought I had been shot in the mouth.
I managed to
work myself below, after the shock of what I had done, to find a mirror and discovered a nice 10 mm laceration just above my upper lip and a big blood blister on my lower lip.
Man, was I lucky!
If that had been my eye, I'd be hurting, bad! I could have used a couple stitches but I'm just going to keep the scar as a reminder to be aware of the
power of bungee's
Users beware!!!!
I'm not one that usually brags/complains about my stupidity, but this should be a warning to all.