Suicide By Garbage Disposal?

Is it possible? I reflected earlier that while I really like the scene in which Dr. Herman Pynchot sticks his hand in his garbage disposal (while wearing his wife's undies), I'm not sure a garbage disposal would really create as much damage as King conjures up.
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Now, this brings us to an interesting news article. The CNN reports that NBC is getting sued because its show Hero's shows a woman getting her hand chomped up by the garbage disposal. Who's suing over that? A garbage disposal company!
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The article includes this:
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Dan Callahan, spokesman for Emerson, said the company, of course, does not recommend anybody put their hands in a garbage disposal that is turned on.
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But he also pointed out that, according to data from the government's Consumer Products Safety Commission, you are actually ten times more likely to get injured by your dishwasher than your garbage disposal.
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And I've been told that if you did stick your hand in a garbage disposal (not that I've tried) you would hurt yourself but you would not wind up losing any fingers as was the case with the girl on "Heroes."
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http://money.cnn.com/2006/10/17/commentary/mediabiz/index.htm