[QUOTE="Nev.."] Sounds a lot like of talk to scare young blokes into compliance. I've heard about the scrubbing brush stories too but never spoken to anyone who has actually had it done to them. Although in the versions i heard the scrubbing brush is supposed to be to get rid of the gravel, not the cotton from jeans. I am not exactly sure how cotton would become such a menace that it would require a stiff bristle brush to remove. I have had road gravel removed from my knee. That took about 15 minutes. There were no scrubbing brushes. It involved a lot of water to clean the wound, a set of tweezers to pick bits of gravel out, a scalpel to remove bits of damaged tissue, and copious amounts of local aneasthetic. I watched the whole thing like it was happening to someone else. I didn't feel a thing. Nev..[/QUOTE] Sideswiped a truck years ago and was carted of to Box Hill hospital they stuck needles all around the hole in my lege/ankle area and scraped the gravel out then sent me away. I went back to work and drove the truck till lunch time then went home feeling a bit sore went back to the hospital the next morning where they x-rayed my ankle and found it had been broken in 5 places but, they did get the gravel out without scraping it with a wire brush