Comments on: “Bagel-related injuries”

By: Ps

Ps — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:25:19 +0000

For the sake of the children please ban bagels

By: Bill Poser

Bill Poser — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:34:03 +0000

I guess its lucky that the kind of people who use splitting mauls don’t sue manufacturers of non-defective but potentially dangerous goods. A splitting maul is to a hatchet as a howitzer is to a BB gun.

By: John

John — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:24:55 +0000

Bob has a point, I’ve been a victim of both.

I was injured by my Christmas tree this year. Similar to a bagel injury, too. Guess I should have swung the hatchet away from my leg, duh. Nothing serious, but I will find out who is responsible for this and go after them.

Long time ago I was injured by a bagel, too. It was from one of those strip mall places, I bit in and there was a big chunk of metal mixing equipment baked into the bagel. Put a nice chip in my tooth and it hurt like hell, maybe Congress should pass a law?

By: Bob Lipton

Bob Lipton — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:14:32 +0000

I think we should incite gang warfare between bagels and Christmas trees.

Bob

By: Ted Frank

Ted Frank — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:08:50 +0000

This was also a Washington Post front-page story in 1995, and I use this example whenever someone says "But McDonald's knew that people got burns from their coffee." (I still have the bagel-related scar.)

By: VMS

VMS — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:43:42 +0000

Where was the Wall Street Journal for the past 30 years? The number one injury in the Long Island emergency rooms on Sunday mornings was knife wounds from improperly cutting a bagel.

I’m not so sure that the slicing technique stated in the article is the safest. Maybe it is for slicing a bagel supported only with one’s other hand, but using a cutting board on which to rest the bagel on its edge, a sharp knife and keeping one’s fingers behind the blade, seems to me to be the better way.

[This advice doesn’t hold true when ripping lumber with a circular saw. In that instance keeping one’s other hand behind the blade as the saw is pushed forward is extremely dangerous. See why?]