Share your story of personal injury and embarrassment here. What's the dumbest way you or someone around you got injured?

Here's mine:

I was 16 years old, dragging a ten-foot 6x6 inch wooden pole across the yard to get it out of the way. There was a 1-inch diameter iron pole in the yard whose original purpose I don't know but we used to use to set up a volleyball net. The pole was freestanding on a three foot or so diameter base that looked roughly like a big metal wagon wheel. I dragged the heavy wooden pole right up to it and dropped it onto this wagon wheel, not really paying attention to the fact that the wagon wheel was on uneven ground and the part I just dropped it on had a gap underneath. The wood pole forced the wagon wheel edge down, and the upright iron towards me. I think I heard a "ponggg" as the iron hit me in the head. I staggered around, never losing my feet, thinking someone had hit me until I pushed through the tunnel vision and realized I'd done it to myself.

Hi All,
The funniest injury I must admit was not my own but that of my beloved. She can laugh now but not then. About 22 years ago, we lived in a mobile home off base. I had been cutting firewood for about 2 months and we had about 25 cords of wood making a fence around our place.We had had problems with people in the neighborhood stealing our wood, so my wife got in the habit of listening for the dog to start barking. One afternoon I had moved the steps away from the back door of the mobile home so I could use them as a step ladder to work on the Fuel Oil tank. I failed to put them back.
The dog started going off about 1AM and my wife jumped up out of bed,threw open the back door and fell right in the yard. Unfortunatly for her she broke a bone in her foot, unfortunatly for me she held it againest me for the whole time she was in the cast.
It did not help that I could not stop laughing. Still laughing while typing this out.

Regards,

Rocky

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> Share your story of personal injury and embarrassment here. What's the
> dumbest way you or someone around you got injured?
>

Let me count the scars on my accident prone body and think...

Among many possible candidates for this topic, this comes to mind. When I was much younger, I was riding my disaster of a Huffy bike and lost the brakes going down a hill. I flew through a rather busy intersection without incident and started up a hill on the opposite side and thought I would be fine as the bike was slowing down. No such luck though. Out of nowhere a car backed out of a driveway, I hit it and it was like the old Artie Johnson skit on Laugh-In where he rode the tricycle and fell over after hitting something. I hit the car probably doing about 10 mph still and was still upright even after the abrupt stop. I stayed upright and balanced on the bike that barely made a dent in the old Chevy for about 5 seconds without moving from the shock of the stop and then just fell over, bike and all.

All I got out of that was some minor scrapes and a cracked wrist and the doctor said it was from the falling over after the fact and not the actual initial impact. I'm just glad video cameras didn't exist in those days.

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> Hi All,
> The funniest injury I must admit was not my own but that of my beloved. She
> can laugh now but not then. About 22 years ago, we lived in a mobile home off
> base. I had been cutting firewood for about 2 months and we had about 25 cords
> of wood making a fence around our place.We had had problems with people in the
> neighborhood stealing our wood, so my wife got in the habit of listening for
> the dog to start barking. One afternoon I had moved the steps away from the
> back door of the mobile home so I could use them as a step ladder to work on
> the Fuel Oil tank. I failed to put them back.
> The dog started going off about 1AM and my wife jumped up out of bed,threw
> open the back door and fell right in the yard. Unfortunatly for her she broke
> a bone in her foot, unfortunatly for me she held it againest me for the whole
> time she was in the cast.
> It did not help that I could not stop laughing. Still laughing while typing
> this out.
>
> Regards,
>
> Rocky
>

Rocky you are sick person.. You really need to see a shrink... ohhhh wait never mind hahahaha

Ya'll don't want to get me started on this thread.. 22 years working EMS I can tell you about some pretty stupid injuries

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I'd rather speak my mind because it hurts too much to bite my tongue.

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> Rocky you are sick person.. You really need to see a shrink... ohhhh wait
> never mind hahahaha
>
> Ya'll don't want to get me started on this thread.. 22 years working EMS I can
> tell you about some pretty stupid injuries
>
CW,
Your right, I have not been able to successfully analyze myself yet! :-)

I bet you do have stories to tell.....

I forgot one story I did to myself. In the same Mobile Home I was speaking of before, we had gotten water damage inside that made the floor weak. I had decided to replace the pressboard with 3/4 inch plywood. I pulled up the old carpet, used a sawsall to cut the beginning of the floor, attempted to walk across the weak spot (not realizing how weak it was) and fell through the floor.
The bad part was I was straddling a floor joist! OUCCCCCCHHHHHH! My buddies that were there to help were rolling on the floor. My feet could not touch the ground so I was in agony. After a few minutes, the guy's were still laughing, my wife and her girlfriends helped me out of the hole. I truly has a severe case of BLUE BALLS!


Respectfully,

Rocky

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> The bad part was I was straddling a floor joist! OUCCCCCCHHHHHH! My buddies
> that were there to help were rolling on the floor. My feet could not touch the
> ground so I was in agony. After a few minutes, the guy's were still laughing,
> my wife and her girlfriends helped me out of the hole. I truly has a severe
> case of BLUE BALLS!
>

Serves you right for moving them steps!!!

I remember one winter a man who was clearing snow with a snow blower. It got clogged and he cleared it out with a crowbar. Only he left the engine running.. The snow blower repaid his kindness by embedding the crowbar in his skull..

Beleive it of not he lived..

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> Share your story of personal injury and embarrassment here. What's the
> dumbest way you or someone around you got injured?
>
Friend of mine was building a deck using his brand new air nailer...he tripped over the hose and nailed his foot to the deck! His partner, not me, cut the deck board off and they both went to the hospital with his foot still attached to the board.

Me, I was swinging a dead blow hammer as hard as I could, I was a firefighter for 24 years and I was using a "Rabbit Tool" a kind of hydraulic jack you force into a door jam and pump to open the door, and hit my hand full force. Made a round bone smooshed. Didn't really hurt until about 5 minutes afterwards. I now have a huge calcium lump in my left hand between the thumb and first finger.

I had one while in the USNavy years ago, was cutting some old metal brackets off the side of the ship, using an oxy-acetylene torch, sitting in a Bosun's Chair, and some slag fell into my boot! No place to go and nothing I could do! Hurt ALOT, I HATE the smell of burning flesh, ESPECIALLY MINE, and the scar is STILL there some 25 years later!!

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This happened to a co-worker when I was working construction. No real injury. His boots had come apart at the toe, so he asked one of the carpenters if he could borrow the nail gun for a minute. The carpenter was cutting some braces, so said OK, but I need it back in 2 minutes. The guy with the boots then took the nail gun and used it to nail the toe of the boots together. Fortunately, he missed his toes, unfortunately, he nailed his boots to the subfloor. He looked so silly while he was falling over.

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The dumbest injury has got to be that woman who squeezed a hot cup of McDonald's coffee between her fat thunder theighs and sued them to boot.
Call if a java douche.

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> The dumbest injury has got to be that woman who squeezed a hot cup of
> McDonald's coffee between her fat thunder theighs and sued them to boot.
> Call if a java douche.
>
>

Yeah, but didn't she get a fortune in the lawsuit??? I don't remember?

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

> > The dumbest injury has got to be that woman who squeezed a hot cup of
> > McDonald's coffee between her fat thunder theighs and sued them to boot.
> > Call if a java douche.
> >
> >
>
> Yeah, but didn't she get a fortune in the lawsuit??? I don't remember?
>

yes she did and Mikey D's and all other fast food restuarants get to print on the coffee cup.. WARNING: Contents are HOT!!!!

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> > Yeah, but didn't she get a fortune in the lawsuit??? I don't remember?
> >
>
> yes she did and Mikey D's and all other fast food restuarants get to print on
> the coffee cup.. WARNING: Contents are HOT!!!!
>

Then it wasn't a dumb injure! It was a smart injure!

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A chicken pot pie is the hottest substance in the universe..... I know that only too well.

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> A chicken pot pie is the hottest substance in the universe..... I know that
> only too well.
>


Did you drop one in your lap Paul?

Sue Swanson's for not marking the package "Pie may be hot after baking in the oven for 40 minutes"..

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I'd rather speak my mind because it hurts too much to bite my tongue.

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> The dumbest injury has got to be that woman who squeezed a hot cup of
> McDonald's coffee between her fat thunder theighs and sued them to boot.
> Call if a java douche.
>
Heh, if I was the judge, I woulda said: b**ch please!

> Did you drop one in your lap Paul?

Nope, deliciously home-made and a slight miscalculation on my part,

(er, .....I should say, ........all of my mouth 'parts'......)

I'm over it......

and in case you wondered..... the next time I saw a chicken pot pie.... I had no qualms about venturing another taste.... got right back in that saddle and rode.

mmmmmmmm, ......I've made myself hungry again.

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> > Did you drop one in your lap Paul?
>
> Nope, deliciously home-made and a slight miscalculation on my part,
>
> (er, .....I should say, ........all of my mouth 'parts'......)
>
> I'm over it......
>
> and in case you wondered..... the next time I saw a chicken pot pie.... I had
> no qualms about venturing another taste.... got right back in that saddle and
> rode.
>
> mmmmmmmm, ......I've made myself hungry again.
>

Hmmmm wonder if I could make a low-carb chicken pot pie :)

But this is off-topic :)

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I'd rather speak my mind because it hurts too much to bite my tongue.

American Spirit BBQ Proudly Serving those that courageously defend freedom.

> and in case you wondered..... the next time I saw a chicken pot pie.... I had
> no qualms about venturing another taste.... got right back in that saddle and
> rode.
>
> mmmmmmmm, ......I've made myself hungry again.

Hope that isn't like a "pitbull shock". You know, a dog bites into a power cord and gets shocked, so it gets mad and bites into the cord again.

nope, but in the dark once, I did get my finger between the posts while trying to connect an extension plug......

zizizzzizizzzizzizzzizzzizzzzizguguguuguguuguguuguuguguugug (after what seemed an eternity) ...snap went the breaker.

I also got across the poles on a Tesla coil I was building once... was lying on the floor and I'm told it appeared that I levitated..... mega voltage, no amperage behind it.

Neither of those instances have spurred any inclination to try it again.

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