Being an older body man / painter, about 35 years ago we didn't have light air buffers/grinders or miniature anything. We hand rubbed lacquer or used electric buffers. The buffers of that era were usually very big and very heavy (like 10-15 lbs ) or it sure seemed that way. I had a 50 foot extention cord on my grinder/buffer with the connection tied in a knot so it wouldn't pull apart. While buffing, the only way to avoid having the cord scrape across the freshly buffed area was to sling the cord up over your neck and down the trigger arm. We usually locked the trigger on because the machine is way heavy and your trigger finger tires very quickly. All of the afore mentioned is a big no-no. While I'm buffing away, the cord dangled a little to close to the paint and got caught in the buffing wheel. Needless to say this 15 amp 15 lb buffer grabbed that cord and made a very fast climb up that cord and trapped my hand against my neck with the cord wrapped around it and the machine barely turning and getting tighter by the second. This thing is literally choking me, I can't utter a sound and I can't shut the ***** off! And let me tell you, that motor is strong! So here I am stuck, I'm connected to a machine trying to choke me to death, and I can't shut it off so I start running to pull the cord out of the wall. Did I mention that I had a 50 foot cord attached? I couldn't exacly remember which socket I was plugged into (shop full of cars) and couldn't see where it was. So here I am, all tied in a knot with this thing sucking the life out of me, Im glad it's summer because the bay doors are open and I make a mad dash for the door. I'm running like hell hoping it un plugs before this sucker chokes me out. I barely made it....the plug pulls out of the wall just after it took me off my feet. I'm laying on the ground, still choking! One of the other body men sees whats going on and was already running in my direction with a pair of side cutters...I not only got choked to half to death by this damned machine, but I had all these little cuts and blood blister pinch marks all over my neck from my co-worker trying to cut the damned cord. I sat there in a daze for quite a while after. We made little metal tabs for our belt loops to hold the cord after that...no more of that damn neck choke thing......****! I got lucky that day for sure....
So I'm out 1 work uniform shirt 1 t-shirt and a little hide off my gut other than that no big deal.http://s1077.photobucket.com/albums/w474/scottc785/
inches shorter 
Damn lucky for me that all that material was enough to stall a DeWalt grinder; I still got a bit of a rash across my protruding gut. 