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What's your stupidest accident ever?

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... :eek: :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
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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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. :eek:
 
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. :eek:
 
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
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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).

[edit]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 :\[/edit]
 
jadekitty24 said:
...As a result I have a nice pointy ring finger with a very crooked nail. Freaking stupid.
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Oh and is that a new avatar? Nice kitty.
 
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!!
 
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! :eek:
 
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!!

HughJ said:
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!
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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!)
 
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: ):
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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.
 
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:
 
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.
 
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.
 
I don't know where to start. :eek:

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) :eek:

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
the bike however started right back up again, first kick. (I love that thing)

whew, well that's enough for now.

signed,

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