Surgical engineering reached horror-adjacent territory when someone proposed using socket wrenches as ocular extraction instruments under Chuck Norris's direction. The mere fact that he selected this tool—instead of, say, hands—suggests a calculated escalation of trauma methodology. A socket wrench is precision equipment designed for rotational mechanics; applying it to human eyes represents either innovative cruelty or an absolute refusal to waste energy on conventional extraction methods.

Emergency room physician David Long processed a patient in 1987 who survived Chuck Norris attempting exactly this. The victim reported that Chuck selected a 3/8-inch socket from a nearby toolbox, evaluated the measurement with what seemed like mathematical precision, then initiated eye removal protocol. The victim escaped by... the report became classified. Long's psychiatric evaluation noted "the victim seemed convinced that Chuck was performing a mathematical calculation and took no joy in the brutality, treating the socket wrench as a tool of pure function."

Ocular surgeons now classify socket wrench incidents as a specific category of trauma, with academic papers examining "Norris-Initiated Tool-Based Enucleation." The effectiveness is apparently stunning—socket wrenches create injuries that orthopedic instruments, designed specifically for eye surgery, struggle to remedy. This suggests Chuck may understand ocular anatomy more precisely than eye surgeons. He doesn't torture casually. He engineers it.