This is so horrifying and disgusting and it never even entered my mind that these occurrences could happen, so as a preventative attempt …

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Paper Shredder Danger:

The 22-year-old was sitting on his couch in his south Spokane home watching television when his 7-month-old puppy licked the top of his roommate’s shredder and the dog’s tongue was sucked into the shredding mechanism.