One other quick incident that happened with a set of those scales. I found a set in an old barn when my younger brother and I were kids, and decided to weigh my brother with them. I hung them, shakily, from a joist and proceeded to pick my younger brother up and hang him by his rearmost belt loop of his pants. Just about the time his weight was taken by the contraption I had rigged up something turned loose and the whole affair came down on top of my brother's head, the edge of the beam ripping open his forehead. Well, that was another trip to the doctor to get "sewed up", and another round of punishment for me.

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SRH

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