Insect in the eye-injury - My Eyes!

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Motorcycle, south of France, very hot, leather jacket, no gloves, wasp/bee/something straight up jacket sleeve at 70+mph, stinging its way (wasp?) up my arm as far as my armpit.

Amazing how quickly a bike can stop, be on the side stand, and the rider stripped.

Those wasps love motorcyclists. I had one in my helmet which stung me on the back of the head when I put it on, and another one got me on the shin after flying down the top of my boot.

I'll be rocking a pair of these from now on:

ebay link

(I can't get this link to work! I don't know why)

I think that might be a good investment :)

^ what in ebay, im confused

Ive found that specs usually creates some sort of swirling air currents around them which channel and direct crap into the eyes.

fuck yeah.

especially those old 1950's glasses, somehow I got more crap in my eyes than riding without them.

I'll be rocking a pair of these from now on:

ebay linkhttp://rover.ebay.com/roverimp/1/710-53481-19255-0/1?pub=5574889051&toolid=10001&campid=5336525415&mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]http://rover.ebay.com/roverimp/1/710-53481-19255-0/1?pub=5574889051&toolid=10001&campid=5336525415&mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]http://rover.ebay.com/roverimp/1/710-53481-19255-0/1?pub=5574889051&toolid=10001&campid=5336525415&mpt=[CACHEBUSTER]

(I can't get this link to work! I don't know why)

These?

http://i21.ebayimg.com/02/i/001/5b/d8/f9e4_1_b.JPG

it looks like soperiva is not a real person, but a kit that can be bought

I had a bit of rusty metal get lodged in my eye whilst out on the roads. At the A&E, watching the needle the doctor used, as it approached my eye, and as she picked away at my eye with it, was 'interesting' .

I had the exact same experience - what turned out to be a tiny flake of rusty steel embedded in my eye. Off to the eye hospital, where they gripped my head in a special frame so that I couldn't accidently jerk forwards when the needle was probing away at the surface of my eyeball...
I also had a terrible experience years ago when I was riding down a very long, very steep, twisty road - the Mendips somewhere - and a big fucking insect whacked into my eye at what might have been 40 or 50mph relative (my 30-35 plus its 10-15). A half-blind emergency stop left me halfway through a hedge. Only minor injuries, but my bike shorts were ripped, leaving me facing a long ride back into Bristol with my knob in severe danger of popping out. I had to hold them together while I went into a little village shop which luckily had one of those needle and thread kits - Spar Essentials or somesuch. I found a stile and climbed into a field; stripped off and did emergency repair work on the shorts, and just about got away with it...

my friend was cycling along once and a bee flew up his nose and stung him. amazingly he didn't crash but his face was the size of a football for about 3 days afterwards

That's the funniest thing I've read this morning! Hope he was okey though...

I hate Bee's. I was stung on the top of the head as a child, and I've had a 2mm bold patch ever since :-(

I've had a 2mm bold patch ever since :-(

Lamest.Superpower.Ever.

Maybe you meant bald...

i was hacking along the grand union canal once, and got a bumble bee wedged up my nose, had to stop and snort it out, was worrying at the time but he didn't sting me

bumble bees don't sting, they're like kittens with wings.

they still can if threatened

I've never threatened a kitten. Can't see it'd take too much work though.

my friend was cycling along once and a bee flew up his nose and stung him. amazingly he didn't crash but his face was the size of a football for about 3 days afterwards

my god. that sounds fucking horrific. ahhhhh... I think I now have a totally new phobia

I was gently rolling along yesterday afternoon when I noticed a hover fly a couple of cm in front of my arm. It was flying sideways and backwards, and if I slowed down or sped up it kept the same distance from my arm. Thinking about the complexities of doing that made the next hour or so pass quickly.

bumble bees don't sting, they're like kittens with wings.

one stung my sister when she was a toddler - it was in the car with her on the back seat and cos they're furry she tried to pet it...

huh. major dredge.

^ le fail

Wow, you must have actually typed in the URI to make the errors you did.

Yes, I've never posted photo before. What did I do wrong?

Right click on image, "copy image location", paste image location

Grateful to the OP a year ago for giving me something new to worry about this morning.