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This issue is actually not isolated to just barbecues and barbecue brushes although the fact that it gets into your food does make it worse. A few weeks ago my
by dangero 10y ago
This issue is actually not isolated to just barbecues and barbecue brushes although the fact that it gets into your food does make it worse.
A few weeks ago my friend invited me to their high class HOA pool that had a sand beach. Wading around in about a foot of water I felt something pierce my foot when I took a step. When I pulled my foot out of the water to see what it was I could see it was a thin piece of metal and it had gone in all the way to my bone.
I concluded it probably came off a metal brush they use around the pool. Maybe something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Performance-Tool-W1148-Stainless-3-Piece/dp/B000N3209S/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1472800536&sr=8-2&keywords=metal+brush https://www.amazon.com/Performance-Tool-W1148-Stainless-3-Pi...
That's when I realized that these types of metal brushes are a huge environmental hazard in general. They should probably be illegal in certain settings -- sand beaches being one of them.
- GigabyteCoin 10y agoI reached down to grab a piece of wood to place into my campfire years ago and felt this unbelievably jarring pain go through my thumb (considering how gently I had placed my hand down to grab the piece of wood, the level of pain was immense). There was a very tiny piece of something stuck in my thumb, which I was able to remove but not able to inspect very closely as it was pitch black outside and I was working with a flashlight. I wrote it off as most likely being a splinter of glass from somebody's smashed beer bottle that had gone straight through my skin. Reading this, however... it was much more likely a metal bristle from somebody's cheap camping brush that they used to clean their camping grill.