But Blue, I put tape over them!

[tcannizzo]

Not sure where I heard this story, might have been here, but since no one brought it up.

Player tapes earrings. While playing 3B, took a line drive on the ear lobe (must have been protecting her face by turning away).

Earring goes through the tape, through the skin, through the skull and lodges in the eustachian tube. Poison started leaking into her skull almost causing irreperable brain damage, or death.

I have told players this story and then said, "It's your call"...