Man Superglues Phone to his Ear

It was an accident. Gye Gardner of the Northern Territory of Australia keeps his phone headset in his ear all day. Recently the truck driver hit his head against the boom of his truck and broke the earpiece. Gardner repaired it with superglue. Then his boss called him. Without thinking, Gardner put the piece in his ear to answer the call and drove about five minutes before he realized what he had done. The glue had dried, and the headset was firmly glued to his ear.
"Usually it's in my ear all day anyway - friends suggested to leave it in there and just plug my ear into the powerpoint at night to charge it. But I did get a little worried and thought 'This is not good, this is really not good at all'."

Mr Gardner told the Northern Territory News it crossed his mind to use his pocket knife to remove the unwanted gear from his ear.

"I realised I didn't want to see myself going to a doctor to put my ear back on after I chopped it off.

"So I used a spoon."

Some skin came off along with the earpiece. Link -via Arbroath

I glued my foot the the kitchen floor, once. I was making a glider and in the absence of a fuselage jig I was holding the sides straight while I waited for the superglue to set. Since I was standing very still I didn't realised I'd dribbled quite a bit onto the floor until it was too late. About an inch square, it was.
My wife came home just as it was starting to sweat itself free, but it'd taken nearly an hour of feeling stupid to get that damp.
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If this kind of thing should happen to any of you, please don't just try to pull yourself free. Usually, you can use a bit (maybe a lot) of acetone based nail polish remover to break the bonds and free yourself.
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I have glued the superglue container to myself before, I was squeezing the glue out by twisting the container, and before i knew it, the container had ruptured and glued itself to me. I used boiling hot water to get it off =[]
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@ heather
He isn't an idiot because of the reasons you listed. He, in privacy, glued his bluetooth to his head, and then he detached it from his head by himself. He is an idiot because he let the local news find out about it.
Why would you want everyone to know about that?

I personally have accidentally had a glue mishap, but I didn't shout it from the rooftops!
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Any R/C modeler who uses CA glues will tell you that every hobby shop carries CA de-bonder. Can't tell you how much skin I've left on the balsa and plywood guts of my planes.

In a pinch you can use nail polish remover or even model airplane fuel, but the de-bonder will work much better...
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