What's your stupidest accident ever?

[Spanky Deluxe]

Like the title says, what's the most idiotic way you've ever hurt yourself?

I have two which could easily qualify:

1) Breaking my wrist while trying to demolish a paper bridge.

2) Piercing my tongue with a Playmobil ship.

[katie ta achoo]

I tore open my ear at McDonalds when I was 4. I was swinging between 2 tables and I fell. Stitches and blood loss later, I have a scar on my ear.

I RAN into a door. I fell. I couldn't move my arms for about a week. (tendinitis)

I nearly killed my wrists by playing viola and violin too much. It hurt and I just kept playing. This is by far the stupidest way I hurt myself.

Also, I managed to grow a 2 CM kidney stone in my one kidney. Aww yea. that's my crown jewel of dumb injuries.

[PlaceofDis]

when i was younger i sat down in a patch of grass right onto a thorn. painful. and stupid.

[thedude110]

Probably the time I got pushed into a light pole and ripped open my palm.

Or the time I put my Nissan Sentra into the back of a minivan.

The body is wonderfully fragile and resilient, eh?

[rickvanr]

There are so many I can't pick just one. Umm, last week at work I closed my two middle fingers in between two garage door panels. That hurt pretty good, but in ten minutes I'm sure I'll think of something worse.

[Glenn Wolsey]

Rode my bike downhill, into a tree, and knocked myself out. Lose a few teeth (lucky it was my first set..)

[calebjohnston]

At my fourth grade dance, I was doing a cartwheel and got pushed over. Broke my thumb twice, wrist, and arm. 12 weeks made up of 3 casts. My thumb still cracks when I bend it.

FYI, I did the macarena anyway after it happened.

[jimN]

A couple of months back I was cycling home from work when i decided that I really need to pull my shorts up - i was slightly worried that if they continued their descent I'd be showing a half moon to the following traffic. So I stood up on the pedals, took one hand off the handle bars and started trying to tug my shorts up. Next thing I know I face first on the ground, bleeding from my mouth and with a really painful wrist.

Xrays the next day were inconclusive as far as the wrist went and I refused a cast as it would have stopped me working but my pride was definitely damaged.

[thedude110]

At my fourth grade dance, I was doing a cartwheel and got pushed over. Broke my thumb twice, wrist, and arm. 12 weeks made up of 3 casts. My thumb still cracks when I bend it.

FYI, I did the macarena anyway after it happened.

Really? A fourth grade dance?

Do tell more.

[Unorthodox]

I got a paper cut because I was reading to fast.:(
And yes, yes it hurt. :(
I also broke my collarbone trying to tackle someone in a football game. (I did bring him down)
But those aren't really stupid things.

Taking a pan of French-Fries out of the oven without mitts.
And then running out of the house barefoot to bury my hands in the snow.
Without realizing that the I have those doors that locks behind you.
So after scurrying (barefoot) around to the back door to dig through 12 inches of snow for the spare key hid under the fake dog-doo.

Frozen feet and toasted hands. That was stupid.

[xsedrinam]

8th grade.
Missed bus.
Had to walk home.
4 miles.
15° F
No gloves.
Hands freezing.
Had to pee.....increasingly.
Couldn't "negociate" the cold.
So I went for it to make the
Last half mile. Desperate.
Half a block, started all out sprint.
Tripped in alley. Fell hard.
All pee broke loose.
Totally frozen pants, I crinkled in to house.
"Dad, don't you dare say a word."

[Doctor Q]

We needed a new screen door on the front door. I went to the hardware store and had an aluminum one framed to the right dimensions. I strapped it to the top of the car and brought it home. Once at home, I removed the straps, stood behind the car, and slid the screen door down off the car, guiding it to the ground with my hands.

Then I realized I had just slid two long pieces of thin metal (the outer edges of the door) across my wrists. I looked at them and, sure enough, I had two thin cuts that they were starting to bleed! :eek:

I ran in the house and patched myself up. It scared Mrs. Q as much as it scared me. Dumb dumb dumb!

[killuminati]

I went to sit down in a chair, I uhhh...missed the chair, I stuck my arm out to break my fall and snapped it in half. I could hear the bone crunching.

And if that's not bad enough the next year I went to sit down in that same chair again and the same thing happened! I'm very cautious when I sit down now.

[Doctor Q]

And if that's not bad enough the next year I went to sit down in that same chair again and the same thing happened! I'm very cautious when I sit down now.If I were you, I'd just stay standing from now on.

I thought of another dumb thing I did to my hands: the time I picked up a food skewer not realizing that it had just come out of the oven. I had a nice burn mark across my palm and thumb, on a diagonal. And I dropped the food too. What a waste of a good kabob!

[devilot]

I was eight years old. And I still thought the world of my father. I was running to catch up with him... his elbow met my eye. I had a black eye for a week or two.

[Unorthodox]

I ran in the house and patched myself up. It scared Mrs. Q as much as it scared me. Dumb dumb dumb!
So there is a Mrs. Q!
You broke allot of hearts today. :p

[calebjohnston]

Really? A fourth grade dance?

Do tell more.

Mmm, yes. Every year my elementary school would have a "dance" in which everyone would stand around and giggle and dance the macarena and two other stupid things. I was doing a cartwheel, and BAM... got hit by a kid behind me by accident. Fell over, and snap, crackle, pop.

[Phat_Pat]

poured gas into a grill cause we were impatient


yeah...... lets just say i didnt have facial hair for a while.... ahh summer

[2nyRiggz]

Playing superman when i was 7yrs.....jumped off the shed and onto a barbwire fence......12 stiches behind my ears...damn that hurt.

When i was 8yrs....jump off my parents washer maching playing:rolleyes: kung fu man......broke both bones in my hand...started laughing after it broke.

10yrs...playing:rolleyes: bat n ball with a bat with rusty nails in it...bamm! right in the knee cap!

Bless

[jakochampolska]

when I use to play soccer, I was the goalie at one game and when I was kicking the ball back I kicked my hand instead and broke all 5 fingers.
I still to this day try to replay how I did it, and I cant figure out how my foot hit my hand :(

I also know a girl who was making out with her boyfriend on her front porch in the middle of the night and she pressed up against the railing and fell over and broke her neck :( She cant walk anymore :(

[Flynnstone]

I girl I knew many yeas ago was working at Macdonalds. She was making fries. She accidentally drop the fry scoop thing into the oil. The natural reaction ... is to grab it !!!
She put her hand in 360 F oil !

ouch :eek:

[Leareth]

I have a few:

Walked off road into ditch while saluting officer on base and broke right ankle... officer laughed face off and helped me to the MIR...

Tripped and fell in brand new high heeled boots (3") and broke both wrists...

jumped into glass door at night and broke nose...

got my hair , its down to mid thigh in length, caught in automatic closing doors at mall whikle running through it and got yanked backwards till I fell over...
Vote for your favorite:rolleyes:

[yg17]

I girl I knew many yeas ago was working at Macdonalds. She was making fries. She accidentally drop the fry scoop thing into the oil. The natural reaction ... is to grab it !!!
She put her hand in 360 F oil !

ouch :eek:

And that is why she works at McDonalds :D


Back in middle school PE class, we were playing hockey, and I was goalie and completely forgot to put on a face mask (why didn't anyone tell me about it?) Well, I paid for my stupidity because I got nailed right in the eye with a puck going at a high rate of speed :eek: Amazingly, I had no injuries whatsoever, not even a black eye. Just a ton of pain right after it happened.

[jefhatfield]

dropped my cell phone in the toilet the day i got it

top that for stupidity and bad luck

[yg17]

dropped my cell phone in the toilet the day i got it

top that for stupidity and bad luck

How do you manage that? Were you talking and crapping at the same time? :D

[puckhead193]

i skidd the side of a pole in a parking garage when parking (Atrium mall in MA; now u just use valet parking)

When i was younger i was playing basketball, went to shoot the ball, hit the rim came back right at me. Put my hands up to block it and broke my middle finger. Sad thing is i did it the exact same thing 2 years later only the other hand... :o :rolleyes:

In HS i had a dell laptop, forgot to zip up the case, lifted up the case, out came the laptop, onto my title floor. broke the corner of the laptop...opps, it was a POS anyway

[Boggle]

Age 15, walking with my teammates @ Wrestling's New England Championchips, hands in pockets, tripped walking OFF the sidewalk, cracked face open, big bloody mess, chipped tooth, busted lip, and black eye. Priceless. Even my coach laughed when he saw me.

[jamesi]

last year i was backing up out of the drive way trying to go to school and i backed into the car directly across the street. at the time, i was thinking about this girl i was thinking of asking out, haha it really did suck to back up into a car and have to tell my mom that

[blackfox]

I used to live at the bottom of a big hill in suburbia. We had a large (oak iirc) tree in our front lawn, just off the sidewalk. I decided that if I gathered enough speed coming down the hill on my big-wheels, that I could ride up the side of the tree to the top.

I was four. Needless to say, after gathering warp speed, I made it a fair way up the tree trunk, then gravity brought my journey back to earth. I had six stiches in my chin.

[mpw]

Went for a BBQ with some friends on the sand dunes.

The fire wouldn’t get going so some bright-spark had the great idea to get a plastic petrol can and add some accelerant. This worked a charm and the fire got going.

I was standing by the fire and realised that some sparks and embers where spitting out and that the bright-spark had left the fuel can with the cap off right below the fire.

Just as I realised this some of the spilt fuel ignited and started burning its way along the floor toward the can.

I reacted quick enough to think that as long as the fuel IN the can didn’t light the stuff on the floor and on the outside of the can wouldn’t cause too much of a problem……..so I put my foot over the neck of the can to seal it, genius.

So now I’m stood with my foot sealing a 5lt petrol can in a small puddle of burning fuel. At this point I decided my initial plan was flawed, and indeed finding out how flawed might only take a couple more seconds and might not be the easiest lesson to learn……Plan 2.

Plan 2 formed quite quickly and consisted of 3 elements.
1) I needed to remove my foot (and self) from the danger area.
2) I needed to remove the petrol can from the source of ignition.
3) I needed to warn those people around me.
The answer was simple, all I needed to do was in one quick movement kick the, open, petrol can away from the BBQ area while yelling a warning.

Now they say that the simple plans are the best……hmmm.

Imagine if you will a warm summer evening sitting on the sand dunes having a quiet BBQ with friends lit only by moonlight and an open fire, when suddenly a fireball explodes in an arc across the sky and your friend is engulfed in flames stating the obvious “Fire!”

Luckily the only injury was scorched jeans and no hair from ankle to crotch on my kicking leg, One hairy leg-one not is not a good look on the beach in summer at 17years old.

[UKnjb]

Um ---

10 years old and riding my bike in the Summer down by the river (a very quiet road). And wondered if a blind person would be able to ride a bike OK. So I shut my eyes and pedalled on, trying to locate things by hearing. I lasted about 30 seconds and then crashed into a ditch; sprained wrist, cuts, buckled wheels etc. You did say stupid, yes? A real Darwin Award. :o

[sunfast]

Tried to open a beer, whilst pissed, on a moving train, with a super sharp rescue knife. Thanks to A&E, I still have a thumb. Idiot. :o

[HughJ]

where do i start:

1) when i was younger i was travelling to school (i had to go by train) as the train came into the station i swung the door open, which caught by the rushing air got pushed back onto the rubber door stop, it then bounced back to close unfortunatly my hand was in the way and i trapped a finger it in...never seen so much blood.

2) when i was 16 i had a zippo lighter, whcih i overfilled with fluid (accidentally) so i decided to light it to burn some of it off, as the flint was drenched in fluid it didnt want to spark, so i sat there for a minute or so just flicking it, then suddenly it lit, which set fire to my hands (as i had sooo much fuel on them) as i was concentrating on getting the damned thing to spark it was fairly close to my face...that coupled wih i must have wiped my face at some point and so i set my face on fire too, i was extremely lucky, i had skin all over my shirt, and it was black/charred under my chin, my lips where so badly blistered the top lip was touching my nose, i saw a plastic surgeon who said just let nature take its course.......i have no scaring at all!!!!

3) i used to have a little hot hatch (many years ago now) just had the brakes done, driving out of my drive onto a main orad, i was moving at about 30mph, then suddenly three horses ran out in front of me, as my brakes where new they just locked (didnt have ABS) i ploughed into one of the horses which bounced onto the bonnet, through the windscreen and its hind quaters slightly rode up onto the roof, the horse then proceeded to crap itself (understandable really) anyway it rolled off and ran into a field, any way the car went away to be fixed, and came back all shiney and new looking (well newer looking) anyway for about a year after that every time i turned on the heaters all i could smell was horse pooh!

4) when i was really young i was riding on my push bike, for some reason i put my leg back, which subsequently got caught in the rear wheel, all i remember was rolling head over heals with this bloody bike hugging my leg.


there are many many and not enough space here :) despite all the accidents I've had i have never broken a bone

[janey]

Snowboarding. Got off the chair lift, forgot about strapping in my other foot and went off. (I really don't like the step-in bindings) Teetered around for a bit and then fell flat on my face. Felt stupid for the rest of the day.

My stupidest mistakes are the ones I know are just going to happen. Once I was doing some jump kick thing in taekwondo, the moment I was about to jump I knew I shouldn't cause something wasn't right but it was too late to stop, and the whole slipping-and-falling-and-landing-on-my-elbow thing practically played out in slo-mo, after which I was bawling until I got some painkillers at the ER. Nothing broken, but lots of pain. And if I stopped it wouldn't have happened. Sigh.

[Qoxiivi]

I set fire to my own face in an A level biology practical exam... that was being marked solely on how safely we conducted the experiment.

I didn't get a very good mark.

[jadekitty24]

At one of the molding presses at work there is a job I ran that required the operator to hold the ejector plate forward, for the parts had the be ratcheted off the mold and if the plate drifted back it would screw up the insides of the part. So here's the cycle-the mold opens. Knock-outs rods come forward to push the ejector plate forward, then they retract and I have to place my fingers in the space on the plate where the knock-outs rods fit into the plate. So I'm trying to figure out a way to run it the quickest. While the mold is closed I open the door and it comes to me. I'll just put my fingers in that space so I'll be ready and waiting. Not thinking that once the mold opens the knock-out rods will come forward with, oh I don't know, TONS of pressure, which it did. And when it comes forward it is quick. Like a second quick. So the mold opens, quick as lightning I feel a "pinch" and I yank my finger out. I look down at it expecting to see a nasty cut and the tip of my finger is gone. A chunk was missing and the rest of the tip was flat. I can see part of my bone and all that icky crap. It was amazing, I felt no pain until about an hour later. My boyfriend at the time was the head foreman, and after I was taken to the hospital he went over to the machine and pulled out the box under the mold, and sitting there smiling up at him was my knock-out rod-indented fingertip. As a result I have a nice pointy ring finger with a very crooked nail. Freaking stupid.

[link92]

I'll just say one from when I was 13: Basically, a party of everyone in my year/class (15 people) at school, I went to the edge of a trampoline to get off, and got bounced off, and landed on my chin. Lay on the ground half laughing, half crying. Inevitably, the only person who actually saw was the girl on the trampoline (everyone else had been getting off).

I could also have doing the worst catch of a rugby ball ever: it pulled by right pinky back and fractured it. It didn't heal for months :\

[mpw]

...As a result I have a nice pointy ring finger with a very crooked nail. Freaking stupid.
Photo please!


Oh and is that a new avatar? Nice kitty.

[dobbin]

In a chemistry class at school I spilt some ethanol (alcohol) onto my notebook and it started to make the ink run so I couldn't read my results. I tried to evaporate the alcohol and dry the book by holding it close to a bunsen burner flame. It caught fire straight away so I dropped it on the floor. I tried to stamp it out but my shoe caught on fire. Stupid.

When I was much younger, I needed to cut a cork from a wine bottle in half to make something (I can't remember what I was making). It wasn't cutting very easily so I put the cork in the palm of my hand, stuck a penknife into it, and pushed really hard. Obviously the knife went into my hand after going through the cork. Ouch.

I cycled into the curb on a perfectly straight bit of road, fell offf and broke my arm. Doh.

I cut my thumb open on a glass while washing up and had to have it superglued back together in hospital. Arrggghhh.

More recently, I drank 12 pints of Stella and got a really bad headache!!

[AndyR]

Where do I start! :rolleyes:

1. When I was 4 I thought I would be clever to stick my little finger in the spring of the garage door. Must have been fate that the wind then blew the door which trapped my finger! Fire brigade had to cut the door of while my dad held the spring so I didn't loose my finger!

2. When I was 7 I spent 3 days in hospital with concussion after hitting a lampost with my bike handlebars trying to show of to a girl, which threw me head first into a parked car!

3. Aged 7 again, ran through the patio door and put a nice big gash on my face.

4. Aged 10, broke my shoulder by tripping on my shoe lace running out of school. See thats why they tell you tie them up!

5. Aged 12, dislocated my shoulder after falling down stairs.

6. Aged 14, burnt my leg riding a mini 50cc motorbike while wearing shorts and having the bike fall on me (that hurt!)

7. Aged 18, breaking my shoulder in 3 places after falling of one of the those zip line things.

8. Aged 20, broke 2 ribs when I crashed my racing car at Thruxton, UK and not having my belts chrushingly tight!

Now I'm embarrased! :o

[Spanky Deluxe]

I've just read through this whole thread laughing my ass off. This has to be the funniest one, I was literally in hysterics whilst I read the whole thing, imagining it all!!

3) i used to have a little hot hatch (many years ago now) just had the brakes done, driving out of my drive onto a main orad, i was moving at about 30mph, then suddenly three horses ran out in front of me, as my brakes where new they just locked (didnt have ABS) i ploughed into one of the horses which bounced onto the bonnet, through the windscreen and its hind quaters slightly rode up onto the roof, the horse then proceeded to crap itself (understandable really) anyway it rolled off and ran into a field, any way the car went away to be fixed, and came back all shiney and new looking (well newer looking) anyway for about a year after that every time i turned on the heaters all i could smell was horse pooh!

[hcuar]

I was trying to move a washer / dryer into our house and had an appliance dolley on the truck. I pulled the dolley off the truck not realizing how heavy they actually were and it dropped right on top of my foot.

I broke one of my toes, but never went to the doctor. (Needless to say, by toe has a slight curve to it now!)

[floyde]

When I was a kid, I was pretending to be Ryu from StreetFighter and I was fighting against a wet vest (is that how they're called?). I thought it'd be fun to try the dragon punch (a jumping upper cut that involves mid-air spinning :eek: ):
http://image.jeuxvideo.com/images/ga/s/s/ssf2ga005.jpg

I missed the wet vest for about a mile...:D When I stopped spinning my forehead landed on the very sharp corner of a nightstand. Blood was coming out of it like on a Quentin Tarantino film. I needed a few stitches and I felt really stupid.

[Queso]

Pulling jumps on my brother's Raleigh Striker, pretending it was a BMX. I was showing off and went over a manhole cover sticking up several inches from a new road that hadn't been surfaced yet. Straight over the handlebars, landed on my chin, and cut a hole nearly all the way up into my mouth. Several stitches required and I still have the scar.

And yes, I blubbered in front of everybody. So much for my cool :cool:

[adk]

A few years ago, while camping I was whittling a stick and (like the genius I am) started cutting towards myself. Stabbed myself nice and deep in the heel of my right hand, then had to paddle a canoe for 3 more days.

But the really stupid part is I did the exact same thing to my other hand with a razorblade at work a year later.

[Motley]

1: In high school playing kickball indoors. Jumped up and caught the ball and then landed on the side of my foot with all my weight. This pulled a tendon which tore a piece of bone out of the side of my foot. After looking at the X-Ray the doctor's statement was "I've never seen a break like this one"

2: Walking a few miles in a blizzard without a hat. Finally got home and got inside. Didn't notice how frost bitten my ears were. A few minutes later it was like my ears were on fire. I had about 20 minutes of terrible pain while my ears thawed.

[iBlue]

I don't know where to start. :o

I was on a date and walked into a closed glass door with a martini glass in my hand and seriously injured my ego.

On a camping trip with several of my closest adrenaline junkies circling a fire, I tipped my chair back real slick like and fell over. I broke the chair and totally spilled my drink and never lived it down. (bastards still ask if I'm sure I can handle the chair and drink at the same time) I won't even tell you the dumb crap I've seen them do. boys. :p

I tried to impress some guy with my mad skills on a dirtbike. I kick started it and had the bike in the wrong gear. I stalled the engine and fell over. I impressed him alright. :rolleyes:

I started an avalanche while "high marking" on a snowmobile. (I wish that were funnier) when it started gaining on me I jumped off the sled and scrambled up a tree. We spent 1-2 hours digging my snowmobile out of hard packed snow. It was lucky I jumped.

I took a jump on my dirtbike too fast and overshot the next jump, I knew I was going to land in the trough... 15 or 20 feet below me. Rather than break my clavicle from the impact and fall over anyway, I let go of the bike and took a horrible impact alone. I broke 2 ribs and my wrist and had bruises from hell to breakfast.

(way too many accidents on dirtbikes) :o

Went down a hill too fast on my dirtbike and hit a rut in the dirt and the bike flipped me over its handle bars and proceeded to keep its cartwheel like fall going and smacked me on my back. (I have a perfect tread mark on the shirt from it) I slid down the rest of the hill on my back and landed right on my ass.
I broke a rib, my metacarpal (sprained the wrist too) and suffered a road rash across my back. Tire treaded shirt here (http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/2471/biketreads8gm.jpg)
the bike however started right back up again, first kick. (I love that thing)

whew, well that's enough for now.

signed,

accident prone.

[cb911]

8th grade.
...
All pee broke loose.
Totally frozen pants, I crinkled in to house.
"Dad, don't you dare say a word."

LOL. sorry that just made me laugh. :D

nice story mpw - sounds crazy. :eek:

we've only ever used diesel on fires, and that was before they were lit. :p

stupid accidents... most recent was at ice skating lessons. was in the last 5 minutes and a few of us decided to race. I thought I was going okay but on a corner my skates just slipped out from under me. Didn't even have any time to react. Next thing I know I'm getting up from the ice and my lip/top of my mouth feels numb. I thought it must have been from touching the ice. Then the blood pours out, and I see something on the ice that looks like a tooth. "hrm, someone lost a tooth" i though? Looking coser I saw it was only part of a tooth - right then I was really mad with myself for doing something so stupid. Upon closer inspection of my skates we saw that the left blade was actaully curved along it's length, which would explain them sliding out. I landed head first onto the ice, top front tooth went through my bottom lip before snapping off. Good thing it was only one tooth. They stuck the piece back on, but I can't chew on it. I'll get a crown when I'm 25.

oh - picture (http://file003.bebo.com/large/2006/01/09/02/20206367a178250561b585986830l.jpg).

[Doctor Q]

oh - picture (http://file003.bebo.com/large/2006/01/09/02/20206367a178250561b585986830l.jpg).Ulp! That was pretty bad. I think we should omit that one from the MacRumors Members Photo Directory.

[barneygumble]

All i can say is never ride a bike home with 24 cans of pepsi perched on the handlebars i stil have no idea why i tried to do that, you'd think an engineer would know better:rolleyes:

[Sun Baked]

All i can say is never ride a bike home with 24 cans of pepsi perched on the handlebars i stil have no idea why i tried to do that, you'd think an engineer would know better:rolleyes:Yes, an engineer would know that only beer is worth the potential risk. :p

Plus, the accident is soo much easier to explain when beer is involved. :D

[barneygumble]

Yes, an engineer would know that only beer is worth the potential risk. :p

Plus, the accident is soo much easier to explain when beer is involved. :D

At the time beer was way to expensive, and they were on special, you understand:)

[Doctor Q]

All i can say is never ride a bike home with 24 cans of pepsi perched on the handlebarsAnd never do what my dad did either.

As part of my continuing efforts to torture my hands, I hurt myself again last night. It was a MacRumors-related accident, in fact.

I was at home posting in the forums when somebody in the house said something suddenly. I whirled around in my swivel chair to answer, but managed to slide it sideways at the same time so that my left index finger got pinched between the arm of the chair and the edge of my desk. It wasn't a serious injury, just one that scraped off enough skin right below the nail to let my insides leak out. I had to clean up blood on the desk and floor.

It's a little harder for me to type today. Instead of my usual 100 words per minute, I'm afraid I'm down to only 98 or 99. :(

[UKnjb]

---- I'm afraid I'm down to only 98 or 99. :(

And, as usual, every one a gem. :)

[Boggle]

Second story. In the summer of 92 I was mountain biking in Scotland w/ my uncle Alesdair and a bunch of guys from the north shore oil rigs. After making it most of the way down we all decided to race to the "car park." This was done down a rather steep straight-away @ high speed. Unfortunately, I'm American and had forgot that the handbrakes on bikes are reversed in the UK, and of course I made this minor error @ somewhere around 35 mph. I lost total control of the bike & went ass-over-teakettle and even more unluckily, I just missed a white Ford Cortina. Not hitting the car was bad b/c there was a big ditch behind it, into which I flew, or rather crashed. I rolled to a stop, jumped up & turned to shout, "I"m O---" but never got to finish b/c the bike caught up w/ me and took its revenge on my face.

However, this was not the end of my humiliation. While my uncle was riding and I was walking my bike back through the outskirts of Aberdeen we came across a man passed out drunk on the sidewalk. This being 1992, we had no cell phone to call for an ambulance. The man had soiled himself, and vomited. There were traces of blood. So my uncle and I do rock / paper / scissors to see who will have to clear this guys throat and I lost (godsdamn useless rock). So there I am, a bloody tire-marked mess, kneeling over a drunken scotsman & clearing his throat of vomit w/ my finger while my uncle stands in the road trying to flag down a car, and get someone to call for an ambulance.

Of course repeatedly sticking my finger down the drunk's throat eventually made him gag and wake up. At which time he promptly vomited all over my hand as I tried to sit him up and turn him away from me. We waited an hour b4 the ambulance showed up. The EMTs (or whatever scotland used then) were pretty disinterested and not at all gentle as they picked the guy up & practically threw him into the ambulance. And b/c this is July in Aberdeen, yes it was raining the whole time.

Needless to say, I've had better days.

[w_parietti22]

Just today I was trying to go upstairs at school and I turned around to talk to someone and then I walked into the railing which was kinda on the side of the stairs and there's like a hole next to it. lol. Yeah. Hard to explain. But it was really embarrassing.

[Sun Baked]

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It's a little harder for me to type today. Instead of my usual 100 words per minute, I'm afraid I'm down to only 98 or 99. :(http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=20417&stc=1

OMG, the trauma from having your ability to post impaired must be more painful than the injury.

[Doctor Q]

Second story...

Needless to say, I've had better days.I admire you for what you did. You helped that man and maybe saved his life. Sounds like an awful experience, but perhaps in hindsight it was actually a day to feel good about.

I saw a drunk fall out of his car door into the street while I was walking near school one day, and I helped him get to the sidewalk (we then called the police for help, since he clearly shouldn't have been left alone or gotten back into his car), but I don't know that I could/would have done all that you did for that stranger.

[erickkoch]

When I was 12 I got the bright idea of stuffing bits of wax into my air rifle so I could shoot indoors when I was home alone and not worry about breaking anything.

Then I got bored and thought, "I wonder what would happen if I shot my finger with this?".

I did, and the tip of my finger looked like a red cherry tomato. I got the biggest blood blister I've ever seen. I was hopping around and cursing more than any 12 year-old has a right to. It was quite painful.

[Boggle]

I admire you for what you did. You helped that man and maybe saved his life. Sounds like an awful experience, but perhaps in hindsight it was actually a day to feel good about.

I saw a drunk fall out of his car door into the street while I was walking near school one day, and I helped him get to the sidewalk (we then called the police for help, since he clearly shouldn't have been left alone or gotten back into his car), but I don't know that I could/would have done all that you did for that stranger.

Thanks! That was really nice of you to say, I appreciate it. In all fairness though, I can be a real arrogant bastard most of time.

[crackpip]

I was in the temporary weight room at my university, which was a room that normally housed several basketball courts. This is before spring break so it's really crowded with people trying to get a six pack before going to the beach. I had been lifting consistently for a year or two, and I decided to switch up my routine a little bit, and add powercleans, which involves holding the bar down by your hips and jerking it up to shoulder level with your elbows below it, pointing down. First time I do it, I lose my balance and fall backwards. Somehow I had the presence of mind to push the bar away from me so when I fell, it didn't fall on top of me; it probably would have broken my pelvis. But of course, the bar did fall. 135 pounds crashed to the floor, echoing all around the room. It took me a while to get my credibility back with the regulars.

My other really embarrassing moment, was when I was teaching martial arts last October. I've been a practitioner for about 15 years, and had my own school at the university for 10. So I'm leading the advanced class through spin and jump spin kicks, while there is a large group of students from one of the rival styles outside the room watching. They're waiting for us to finish, so they can use the room. Wouldn't it be great to the see the instructor fall on his ass? Yup, exactly what I did. Experimenting with body positioning and bam, supporting leg slips. What made matters worse, is that in the fall, I cracked the ring finger on my left hand. <shakes head>

crackpip

[Nanda Devi]

A few years ago, while camping I was whittling a stick and (like the genius I am) started cutting towards myself. Stabbed myself nice and deep in the heel of my right hand, then had to paddle a canoe for 3 more days.

Did almost the exact same thing on a backpacking trip in Colorado two years ago... only I was cutting into a brick of Gruyere, towards myself, stupidly.

My boyfriend said, "be careful with that knife..." and a half-second later I had sliced it through a 2-inch flap of skin over the knuckle of my thumb. Didn't sever the flap entirely though.

It bled like crazy but we were already 6 miles out with two miles more to go to our destination (a hot spring at 11,000 feet) and I didn't want to turn back so I wrapped the thumb up in a wad of gauze and bandaids and pressed on.

Next day, hiked out and tried to take the bandages off. They were all stuck to the wound and I couldn't get them off. Went to the ER and got 6 stiches. Still have quite a scar, probably because I waited so long to get it sewn up.

ND

[jadekitty24]

Photo please!


Oh and is that a new avatar? Nice kitty.
Yes, that's my cat. She was my first avatar and I've decided to go back to my roots.
As for the photo...it was pretty gruesome, and the few photos I took at the time are barf-worthy.

[mpw]

Well I just got back from A&E (that's like an ER for those in the US but of course it's FREE:eek: :cool: waiting time before treatment was just 10mins too.).
I was trying to load the dishwasher and got one of those foil wrapped dishwasher tablets out of the cupboard but dropped it and it obviously got all broken up into power/granuals.

So I picked it up and tore at the foil when it burst open and I got an eyeful of powered dishwasher detergant/salt/rinse-aid (funny it's a 4-in-1 tablet but I don't know what the 4th element is?). Stung and burnt like hell and even after flushing it immediately with water it felt like my eye was on fire and full of grit. Ouch!

Anyway, no lasting damage although my eye is scarred and due to the dyes they put in it looks like I've got a black eye today.

...Next thing I know I'm getting up from the ice and my lip/top of my mouth feels numb.... ...ice... ...tooth... ...I landed head first onto the ice, top front tooth went through my bottom lip before snapping off...
I think MR member Peyton had a similar experience...
http://simonc.f2o.org/south/gallery/berkner/02_broken_ice.jpg:D*

*some, or all, of this story has been made-up.

[CoMpX]

When I was about 4, I was walking over to the toy box and I tripped on something and I hit my chin on the edge of the toy box. My upper teeth went through my bottom lip. Nasty. No scars though. ;)

When I was like 10, I was riding my bike and I saw this girl that I liked. I went to wave and my tire got stuck in between the grass and the sidewalk. I flipped the handlebars and that was the end of my ego.

[Doctor Q]

When I was like 10, I was riding my bike and I saw this girl that I liked. I went to wave and my tire got stuck in between the grass and the sidewalk. I flipped the handlebars and that was the end of my ego.I have similar proof that girls are a bike riding hazard. I was once riding with my girlfriend, and I was leading, when we came to some tracks from a former rail car line. They were indented strips, not raised. I wanted to warn her to cross them at a steep angle so her tire wouldn't fall into the slot, so I turned my head around back toward her while still riding, but I couldn't steer as well that way, and my own tire fell into the slot. In an instant, I felt my head hit the pavement. I reportedly survived.

[MarkCollette]

When I was a little boy I was jumping up onto a concrete ledge over and over. I tripped and smashed my face on the corner, and chipped my tooth.

I was on a city bus, and was showing someone how high I could kick, when the bus stopped abruptly, and I found myself on my back pretty quick.

Once, when I was bicycling without my hands, because I was eating a Wendy's frosty, I biked up onto the sidewalk, and when the sidewalk ended, I jumped the curb without my hands, and my front tire went into a fissure in the road, causing me to wipe and and spill frosty everywhere. My legs were caught in the bike, so I couldn't even get up for a while.

When I was 15, I got hit by a mini van in a driveway.

I was bicycling down a hill, passing a bunch of school busses (from my school) on the right hand side, when one of them started to turn right at the intersection. I slammed on my brakes and slid on some gravel, rolled onto the road, and had a car run over my foot. Luckily, my foot wasn't hurt, and the bus didn't run me over too.

A couple weeks ago, I had this chick over, and we were really getting into it, and I had her on the edge of the bed, and I broke both the box spring frame, and the mattress itself. I also cut my foot on some metal part of the bed and bled on the floor. It took me a while to realise that it was me who was bleeding.

The other night me and some friends were at a pub, and one of the said she had taken Taekwondo, so I drunkenly suggested she prove it. I just played defence, doing blocks, or holding her, but it started rachetting up, and she started getting some of those punches in. Eventually we made out a little ;) The next morning (yesterday) I woke up, hung over, and found that parts of my face were sore, my head ached, and I had a wierd bruise on my shoulder. I think that next time I'll just take someone's word if they claim to have martial arts skills :)

[vniow]

When I was about 7 or so I had a rabbit and a hutch to put him in. one day I was climbing on top of it for some reason (I think I threw something up there) and I fell. The webbing inbetween my thumb and forefinger got sliced upen by fencing that was pointing upward. It was the first time I actually saw real muscle :o

I don't remember this one but around 4 I think, I was in my mom's car at a friend or hers' house and I reached out the window to pet her dog. The dog didn't take kindly to it and bit me in the back of my head, taking a decent sized chunk out of it. My mom rushed me to the hospital and my dad met us there and he was freaking out. It got all healed up but apparently the dog bit out the section of my brain that was supposed to remember it so its all a blank. :confused:

I still have the scar from that one, left me with a wee bit of a bald spot in the back of my head.

[mpw]

When I was about 7 or so I had a rabbit ...
:eek: ...oh it continues, ah that makes more sense for a 7year old.

[d_and_n5000]

I used to be really good at riding my bike with no hands on the handlebars when I was about 11. I could even go about halfway up a 45 degree hill without holding on and almost make turns. Then, one day, I suddenly lost my balance in front ofthe American Legion post near my house. I hit the handlebar to my chest, which left about a 1 cm diameter scrape there, then I actually fell off, and scraped up the entire left side of my face. Not to mention my glasses, which flew off and were run over:o . Then, I walked home bawling, and my dad took me to the ER to makie sure I didn't screw up my head. Since then I've had some issues with paying attention;)

Not to mention one of my classmates - she was at volleyball practice, and another girl dived, took her feet out from under her, and she broke her right ankle. Fast-forward 9 months. She tries jumping into a jumprope in Phys. Ed., falls, and herts her ankle. At first they think that she just "severely sprained" her left ankle, but it turns out she chipped the bone:D. She's currently in a cast for that one.

[virividox]

when i was 3 i put my hand on the top of the ricecooker, took all my skin off

[Blue Velvet]

I thought of another dumb thing I did to my hands: the time I picked up a food skewer not realizing that it had just come out of the oven.


Ow. Reminds me of my own stupidity when I was a design student and in the 3D workshop. Came up behind a fellow student and grabbed a brass rod they were holding... except only seconds before they had been applying a brazing torch to it and were holding it in a mitt.

As I touched it, there was a sizzle and my skin stuck onto it. Strangely, after the first split-second of pain it felt cold... probably the nerves in my hand being traumatised. Spent the next 2 weeks with my right arm in a sling and was unable to grasp objects properly for a month or so.

Right at this very moment, the big toe on my left foot is throbbing due to walking into the back of someone while wearing open-toed sandals yesterday. Caught on the back of their shoes, lifted the nail up, much blood, sinking to my knees in the middle of rush-hour Kings Cross station concourse, stifling the urge to scream.

[Doctor Q]

I wonder when this thread will be made into a horror movie? Will we all get residuals?

[MarkCollette]

I was in inudstrial arts in junior high school, messing about with bits of wood and the disk sander. I was trying to sand away the last of a piece of wood, when my finger slipped, and I sanded away a chunk of my thumb, including some of the nail. Luckily it all grew back ok.

I was doing framing with my brother one summer. I was precariously balanced high on a ladder, trying to nail a block of wood to the wall with a nail gun, when I swayed on the ladder, and shot a nail into my chest, barely avoiding puncturing my lung. I didn't have to wait long to see a doctor, with all the blood staining my white t-shirt :)

[Plymouthbreezer]

The stupidest thing I've done that could have killed me probably were on my ride-on garden tractor.

A few winters ago I decided it would be fun to drive down a hill in neutral in the middle of a snow storm (aka to see how fast it could go). Mind you, this is a small tractor - 15 horse, not too heavy, and coupled with a snow plow up front. The street I started driving down is awfully long and awfully steep. Right after I start going down the grade, I throw the stick shift into neutral (from 6th, so I was going fast already). Within seconds, I'm going at least 30 MPH down a snow covered street with cars parked on both sides on a tractor with a large metal object attached to the front. Freaking out, I slam the clutch to slow down, but this locks up the tires and induces a skid. The tractor is now spinning - still going extremely fast - and passing close to the parked cars. To avoid a SUV that was nearly striaght ahead, I turn the wheel which causes the tractor to lift up on two wheels, and make an 180 degree turn which sends me straight into a small stone wall after jumping the curb. Aside from bending the plow blade, and popping a front tire, the tractor was fine - I was still pretty freaked out. :eek:

The other time I was just being stupid, and drove the tractor into my deck because I wasn't looking forward. I fell off the tractor, and twisted my ankle.:o

[2nyRiggz]

Last night i stub my pinky toe running to the phone...oh boy the pain....then four times later that night i bump it into objects in the dark.

This morning my friend stepped on my toe TWICE:eek: ....she went to get me something to put on it and BAM! once more she did it.

My toe is RED with pain now.:(


Bless

[virividox]

so just curious is it hard to drive a tractor?

[belair]

I had quite my share of stupid accidents.

When I as about 8 years old, I was in my Rocky, Ninja kickass phase, I played "avoid the rocks" with my older brother and a friend.:rolleyes:

So it started out pretty good. I had some quick moves and avoided the stones they were throwing down at me while I was running uphill towards the top of the hill where they were standing.

Needles to say, the closer I got, the shorter the time got I had to react and avoid the stones. Badabing!! A big 20 cm rock hit me on my head.

I was bleeding all over the place, my mom had to take me to hospital to get me stiched back togehter.

Sometimes I wonder how I even made it trough childhood…

[Plymouthbreezer]

so just curious is it hard to drive a tractor?
Not hard at all.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v455/300hemic/tractor.jpg

[virividox]

ooo that looks like a lawnmower, i always thought tractors were giant. haha guess thats what i get for being a city slicker

[Plymouthbreezer]

ooo that looks like a lawnmower, i always thought tractors were giant. haha guess thats what i get for being a city slicker
Haha, yeah, most people call 'em "Garden Tractors..."

[virividox]

exactly how fast can one of those things go, on a flat even surface? (a little of topics sorry)

so to get back on topic, i tried juggling 3 knives once. unfortunately (for this thread), but fortunately for me i didnt drop any and i didnt catch any blade side :) so i guess it was a near-stupid accident albeit self induced

[cleanup]

In third grade I got a new bike.

I was a careless rapscallion so I rode it to school as fast as I could. When the day was over, I was so excited to ride it home.

I cut across this sort of dirt path that intersects with a street. Coming out of the dirt path, I had to cross the street, but instead of stopping and looking both ways like a good citizen, I just sped across at high speed (maybe 20 km/h) and ended up looking down the street (backwards) while crossing it. When I turned back around I was unconscious.

What happened was the front wheel of my bike clipped the corner of a parked car, and the rubber on the tire stopped, but the rest of the bike swung around nearly 360º and my face struck the back windshield and cracked it. I was knocked unconscious, broke my jaw in three places and shattered four teeth.

I lay unconscious in a small pool of my own blood until my friend Melissa came out of the dirt path, screamed, and ran to get help.

Two of the teeth were permanent, so right now I have a Marrion implant where my two front teeth should be. It looks completely real, but when I turn eighteen I have to get permanent implants drilled into my jawbone.

I had to go into surgery to get the teeth pulled out and had to have my mouth sewn up. I spent a week in the hospital and paid for my mistake with years and years of in-mouth retainers and trips to the orthodontist.

Look both ways.

And wear a helmet. It saved my life.

[Boggle]

In third grade I got a new bike.

I was a careless rapscallion so I rode it to school as fast as I could. When the day was over, I was so excited to ride it home.

I cut across this sort of dirt path that intersects with a street. Coming out of the dirt path, I had to cross the street, but instead of stopping and looking both ways like a good citizen, I just sped across at high speed (maybe 20 km/h) and ended up looking down the street (backwards) while crossing it. When I turned back around I was unconscious.

What happened was the front wheel of my bike clipped the corner of a parked car, and the rubber on the tire stopped, but the rest of the bike swung around nearly 360º and my face struck the back windshield and cracked it. I was knocked unconscious, broke my jaw in three places and shattered four teeth.


Look both ways.

And wear a helmet. It saved my life.

Ouch! Glad you survived it. & Chicks dig scars.

[cleanup]

Ouch! Glad you survived it. & Chicks dig scars.

Not really. =) I have three large horizontal scars on my back from when I lost my virginity (she had sharp nails)... one time my friends Katrina and Tiziana saw them and all they were was concerned. ;)

I'm kidding about getting them from sex. Heh. A guy swiped me in the back with a rake at a party.

[virividox]

Not really. =) I have three large horizontal scars on my back from when I lost my virginity (she had sharp nails)... one time my friends Katrina and Tiziana saw them and all they were was concerned. ;)

I'm kidding about getting them from sex. Heh. A guy swiped me in the back with a rake at a party.
some party!!!

[Apple Hobo]

Once I was riding my bike in a grass field while holding a basketball with one hand. I was holding on to the the handle bars with the other free hand. Then I hit a large clump of weeds with the front tire and I flew over the handle bars. My left knee hit the bars and I lost a nice chunk. I was a little worried when I saw some white stuff in the bloody gash (probably wasn't bone). I then rode home with one leg peddling...the other leg dripping with blood. I still have a big scar from that incident.

I've sliced myself several times with knives and X-Acto (http://www.joedevenney.com/pictures/Studio13b.jpg) knives.

When I was really young, I touched a hot outdoor decorative garden light that was outside a restaurant. Got a big blister after much pain and suffering.

[virividox]

i got into an accident a couple weeks ago, i was making dinner, and was in such a hectic rush to remove the stuff from the oven because the guests were arriving, i forgot to put on the oven mittens. lets just say i dropped whatever it was i was cooking down really fast after realizing both my hands were in extreme pain!!! luckily the food didnt spill it just clanked back to the baking tray. i ran to the sink and doused my hands with cold water!!!

[Plymouthbreezer]

exactly how fast can one of those things go, on a flat even surface? (a little of topics sorry)
Depends - that one goes about 7 MPH.

Some larger ones can go around 10 MPH.

[virividox]

thats not that slow, kinda like the golf cart i used to drive before i progressed to a real car. we used to have golf cart races in our village, about 20 or so kids with their dads carts racing around the village late at night. this went on for a couple of years, till a kid crashed into a parked car and the local security rent a cops would stop kids from driving carts without adult supervision.

[macEfan]

Was working on My powermac 9500... couldn't get the stupid hard drive out.. Got finger stuck between powersuppy and metal chassies:
The result a big cut...

[bigandy]

Age 4. Visiting Tesco. Refused to cooperate with mother unless I could stand in the front of the trolley. Mother stopped. Let go of handle. Trolley toppled. Chin hit tiled floor at quite a speed. 10 stitches. Pulled them out on way home from hospital. 10 more stitches. Pulled them out too. Mother fainted while driving. Luckily father took wheel and landed on verge without killing us. Third time back in hospital doctors just bandaged my face up and, from what I'm told (I can't remember it happening), tied my hands up. I am still affected by the ripping of the stitches - I can't shave properly because of the scar... :rolleyes:

I've got loads more, mainly skiing ones, but I could fill up another 10 pages with them... ...so i won't... ;)

[Unorthodox]

so just curious is it hard to drive a tractor?
Yes. Very, very dangerous. It's safer to play blind mans bluff on the highway.

http://cummingssci.com/images/car-animation/3/Tractor_fall_an2.gif http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40927000/jpg/_40927690_tractor203.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v295/Hance1976/TractorCrash5.jpg
http://www.bugbitten.com/photogallery/data/093f65e080a295f8076b1c5722a46aa2/tb_624_p18173.jpeg

[Tanglewood]

Hmmm...

Well I had to get stitches for running into a brick wall, I was 3 at the time.

Though recently, about a month ago I went flying off my bike when I attempted to signal a lefthand turn.

EDIT - oh yeah I've been handcuffed by a Ball Python.

[Mord]

i once stapled my hand to my butt, and then managed to set my hair on fire, i'll let you think about how that couple happen before i tell you.

[Josh]

Stood behind my older brother while he was swinging a (metal) baseball bat as hard as he could.

It could not have landed any more perfectly centered between my eyes.

The amount of blood coming from the top and out of my nose was absurd (it was practically hanging off, split in two between my eyes).

Beauty of a scar though :)

[ham_man]

Haha, yeah, most people call 'em "Garden Tractors..."
Not anyone who uses 'em. We call ours the "lawn mower"...a tractor on the other hand, is much bigger, and much funner... :D

The stupidest thing I have ever done is try to pet the dog when the owner said not to pet the dog. Still have a scar on my middle finger. Always show it to people I hate... :rolleyes:

[Doctor Q]

i once stapled my hand to my butt, and then managed to set my hair on fire, i'll let you think about how that couple happen before i tell you.I'll guess that you sat on a stapler, felt the pain, reached down to see what it was, and got stapled again. Then, since you needed to get everyone's attention to ask for medical help, you used your other hand to set your hair on fire to make sure you'd get noticed. That's certainly what I always do when it happens to me. :rolleyes: