Does it? A mechanic told me one of them doesn't damage your eyes unless you look at it for ages. I took it with a pinch of salt and looked away though. The family is known to be redneck mechanics. Bodge and stolen car parts.
They both do in your eyes, its called arc eye, and its the layer on the outside of your eye that gets damaged, you get an insane itching where that layer is being repaired... Ever got sand in your eye? Its like that but for all day and all night
Didn't know it was that bad. Used to know a family friend that was employed as a welder, never used his protection and ended up damaging his eyes. Don't think he got arc eye, but he did do damage as his vision was 20-20, now he has to wear prescription glasses. His own stupidity, I say.
Funny thing is, my cousin had a off-road DTR (this was back in 2003 or 4 when I was seven or eight) and he had been wearing contact lenses for a couple of days and slept in them, and then was drunk to top that off, and rode this DT and ended up hitting a lamp post with the bikes footrest and his foot. Said he felt his big toe do a full 360 in his shoe. Knew something wasn't right, they dropped him off at one of their houses, went back down to a field with the bike. One of their misses's rang the ambulance, had to cut his shoe and sock off to reveal his toe was wrecked. Had to have it amputated in the end. Again, stupidity not looking after himself.
-- Edited by Luke on Friday 1st of August 2014 10:42:05 AM
