Whoops, I'm an idiot

[WOT?*]

Today is trash day so I was shredding the last little bit of papers to recycle and get to the curb.  As I was feeding them through a couple pieces dropped to the ground beside the shredder.  I reached down to grab them and the shredder caught my hair and shredded it.  Thank goodness my hair is long and layered so you can't really tell but I did get a handful of hair clippings when I pulled it out.  Thank heaven's it's a cross-cut so I could just reverse my hair out. 

That's why I usually keep it pulled back in a ponytail or a bun.  I have a feeling it's going to be in a ponytail a bit more often now.  Oops.

[meggers5]

This sounds terrifying.

[speckledfrog]

Omg! How scary! A little funny, but mostly scary.

[Deleted]

How did you get it out? Don't those automatically "feed" in? How terrifying!

[snickers]

That sounds so scary!

[elleblue]

Oct 3, 2013 12:42:21 GMT -5 @kimberhenry said:

How did you get it out? Don't those automatically "feed" in? How terrifying!

This is what I'm wondering! I'm glad it wasn't any worse and you didn't get stuck or scalped or anything.

[WOT?*]

Normally it has an auto shut-off when there is no paper feeding but I'd just put in some envelopes and receipts so it was operating. Then my hair got caught as I leaned over to grab what I'd dropped, since I was already kneeling close to the shredder. It pulled my hair in about four inches or so before I realized what was going on and could stop it. It has a reverse button so I reversed and it reversed my hair right back out. It's why I said I'm glad it's a cross-cut rather than having a spool type shredder, so instead of wrapping around a spool it just chopped my hair into tiny pieces as it fed through. Some of my hair is probably still in the basket with the papers but I also had a bit come out with my hair and a bit more when I ran my hands through what was pulled in.

I need a hair cut and color anyway. Silver linings.

[SKP82]

OMG this is terrifying. We just bought a new shredder; I need to make sure this one has the reverse option like our old one did.

[adhdfashion]

Omg, that is terrible. Now I am afraid. 0.0

[leancuisine]

A few years ago I was using a paper cutter at work (you know, the one with the big handle you push down to slice things). I was cutting a lot of stuff and kind of on autopilot. I was growing my hair out for the wedding. Well, one chop I looked down and there was my hair on the table. Luckily it wasn't much and I gasped when it happened!

[glassofsyrah]

Gah! Thank goodness you could reverse it. I imagine a paper shredder is not a good stylist.

[Deleted]

This gives me severe anxiety.

[softspot]

Holy crap. I shred stuff several times a day at work & am so worried this will happen.