would a chopped off finger pump blood...?

[joko]

i thought blood only pumped if you cut an artery?

thanks

[McMouse]

Hang on..........I'll go and try it.

[Androcles]

Hurry up McMouse, chop chop! Did it work?

[Sqad]

Yes, there are arteries in your finger, you know.

[joko]

thanks, but would it spurt out a few feet in the air, or just bleed heavily?

its for film sfx...thankx

[society]

The blood would be oozing, not pumping.

[carmalee]

am probably thick but thought the heart pumped blood therefore only limbs/appendages connected to it could pump blood.

[Sqad]

It would pump for about 10secs, then ooze, then almost certainly stop bleeding.

[craft1948]

now if it was your arm you'd chopped off that would be interesting......

[SlackAlice]

well McMouse never came back, so where do we send the flowers??

[Eve]

I chopped the end of one of my fingers off when I was little and although bleeding I can't remember any spectacular spurting going on.

My dad also lost spookily the same little finger in an incident with a hedge strimmer and believe he was the same.

My mum also damaged a few fingers very badly after falling off a chair while hoovering the top of a wardrobe (!).

I keep telling my brother he's next!

[McMouse]

The knife is blunt..................I'm still sawing away.

[Androcles]

Well when you've finished give us a High 4 1/2!

[Androcles]

Man rings home "I'm in the Hospital, Love, but I'm OK"

"What's happened?"

"There was an accident at work and I lost a finger"

"What!" she screams "The whole finger?"

"No" he says "The one next to it!"

[McMouse]

Japanese Yakusa have a ritual called yubitsume which entails cutting off part of the pinkie as a sign of apology if they have insulted some big cheese. Maybe I'll insult the ED and do this.

[Eve]

Isn't it some kind of triad thing as well, sure my dad got some mileage out of that after his accident when he was at work (teacher).

[cherrychapstick]

Mcmouse ,you done it yet was trying it myself but i am just a big wimp lol

[ummmm]

Didn't read all the answers....

It pumps... believe me. I once put my hand in the cutlery draw and hit a sharp knife. I felt the knife hit the bone...yuk. Pulled my hand out instantly..as you do. The blood hit the ceiling and I had droplets of blood all over me. I was shouting to the kids to get me a cloth because it was pumping out of my finger. The amount of blood for the small cut was shocking. Makes me laugh now remembering the kids running round in a panic. I still haven't got any feeling in the end of my finger....