stupid injuries

when I was about 7 or 8 I was reenacting the Princess Laya / Jaba the Hut scene from Return of the Jedi with my brother's friend Brian. Brian had a jump rope tied to my ankle and was forcing me to dance on the bed. Well, committed to the role, Brian acted as though he didn't like my dancing and gave the rope a good hard tug, yanking me of the bed and resulting in my falling flat on my ass.

The fall off of the bed and onto the hardwood floor resulted in my breaking my tail bone and having to sit on a squishy toilet seat for the rest of the school year.

God bless role playing...

I also kneed myself in the face/ bit a chunck of my knee... doing a cannon ball into a sandbox we had emptied then filled with water. *Kids, diving into 12 inches of water is not safe.

I fractured my skull skateboarding.

I was at a party and had only just got the hang of skating. After watching some people play tony hawk whatever on the PS@ i decided that I was going to grind the bannister of a really really steep set of stairs outside, that went about 7 ft down to ground level.

Didnt even make it onto the bannister. The psycho next door was watching the drunkeness from her window and she opened the screen door on me. I went through it into the rail of the balcony and over.

I have a big bald patch in the back of my head from the scar where I hit the ground.............


Im an idiot

Sitting at my computer, naked & smoking a cigar. The hot ash fell from the cigar and left a small burn on my thigh -- 3 inches to the right of my wiener.

At a party at my house, my husband was running around outside naked in the rain, i ran out there to try to drag him back in the house, think i fell a few times. The next moring i woke up with like 4 broken toes.

Ive also dislocated my knee on 3 seperate occasions, once time by just walking. How stupid does that sound I didnt even have a good excuse like sports or something, no i was just walking across the room.

And god bless the cocyx ring!

I broke my arm trying to do a back flip.
I once rubbed all the skin off my shin in an innertube on the river.
I once was breaking bobby pins and throwing the pieces on the floor (I was young, :whatever and when I got up, one got stuck in the side of my foot.
The back end of a pin once broke off inside of my heel and was there for a week until it pushed itself out.
I sliced through my thumb with the the serated edge of a package of tape.
And I tried to pierce my hand web... that didn't work. Anyone know how to do that?


I do a lot of stupid stuff.

edited to add that I broke two toes the night I lost my virginity. That is probably the most bizarre story I have.

[Edited on Jan 06, 2005 by iamabondgirl]

when i was about 7 or 8, i was riding my bike around the neighborhood, and i just discovered that some people can ride without hands. I was good at balancing, so i figured i could do it (i can do it now) but at the time: the first time i attempted to ride a bike without hands, i was going down a pretty steep hill. fell off my bike and broke my elbow.

when i was 9, my friend and i were up in his treehouse. i had recently gotten a swiss army knife for xmas, so we decided to go up and trim the annoying fucing little twigs and branches that were growing into the treehouse. When we finished, instead of closing the knife responsibly, i jammed it into the tree. The blade was facing inwards, and it closed right onto my pinky, causing lots of blood, stitches, a metal finger splint, and a scar that remains to this day.

when i was about 19 or 20, i got pissed off over a girl, and like an idiot, i punched a wall, instead of the many numerous cardboard boxes we had at work. Cracked my right hand in several places, and dislocated my pinky. My pinky never healed properly, and probably never will.

When I was about 13 or 14, I was playing with lighters and a 1-liter bottle of gasoline inside of a closed garage, where there were about 7 or 8 other friends. And the top of the bottle of gas lit on fire. And for some stupid reason, that I still don't understand why I did it, I stoomped on the bottle. So the bottle got crushed and gasoline went everywhere, including up my leg. Everyone told me to drop and roll, I guess they didn't notice the floor was covered in gas and on fire. So I ran outside, found the water hose and sprayed my leg until it was out. By that time everyone had ran outside, and someone else pointed out to me that the inside of the garage was on fire. So me and one other person went in there and put out the fire. After that was all done me, a friend, and the friends who house it was cleaned up the garage to where it was not noticable. The whole time I was in so much pain. I looked at my leg and skin was coming off and it was bleeding some. The next day I woke up with bubbles on my leg. I took care of it myself, it was a long painful process but I didn't want to get in trouble.



When I was somewhere between the age of 3 and 5, I was playing in a pool. I couldn't swim, still can't, and I was jumping, from the side of the pool, into the pool and my mom was catching me. One time when I jumped, for some unknown reason, I decided she wasn't going to catch me. So I turned around in the air and tryed not to go. I busted my chin on the side of the pool and blood was everywhere. I had to go get stiches in my chin, I have a scar on my chin and I think it's that's what it's from.


When I at some elementry school age, me and my brother were play fighting and there was a hammer on the floor. He pushed me down onto the hammer and put a big chip in my front tooth. I cryed until I realized it didn't hurt at all. I think a few years later my mom noticed and asked me what happened to my tooth.

I shattered my little toe...while putting together a puzzle...

I was working on a puzzle...the table was a stone pillar with a 4 or 5 foot round glass top...the top was an inch thick and wieghed about 200 pounds...I leaned across the table to put a piece on the top side...when I sat back down I realised that the top was sliding off of the pillar base...I had leaned on it too hard I guess...I moved just before the big sheet of glass landed in my lap...but I failed to get my toe out in time... ...that toe healed funny and it is kinda twisted to the side a bit now...

Tore the ACL in my right knee rolling down a hill. No, I was not drunk. Two operations to fix that puppy.

However, I had a friend who once knocked herself unconscious with a ketchup bottle while trying to shake out some ketchup, so I guess it could be worse.

Edit: Oh yeah, and I've broken several toes while wearing steel cap boots. Also, I've got some good scars on my shoulder and hip from when I leapt off a galloping horse. Yeah, I'm pretty fucking hardcore.

[Edited on Jan 06, 2005 by imagoldfish]

When I was in middle school, I made some nunchukas out of some scrap wood and a piece of rope.

One day, I was playing with them while riding my bike. They got caught in the front wheel and flipped my bike. I split open my eyebrow and had to get a metric assload of stitches.

cut the last 2 digits off my right pinkie finger off while showering in the shower. was reattached

"i sneezed so hard one time i knocked myself out on the kitchen cabinet"

edit: man just remember but i was young young a long time ago once. my family was taking a car vacation and i managed to close the window while sticking my head out, freaked out and couldnt open the window. mad bruises.
didnt happen to me but in high school a kid somehow or other connected themself to bungee cords and the other end to a tree. i dont remember if he grabbed a car, a bike, or just tried to run but either way he was snapped back and knocked himself into a coma
i was 15 or so? we had a tetherball set up. an old tire filled with cement and the pole stuck inside. i figured i could brace my weight and pull the pole down on one side and swing around as itd snap back upright. worked a few times till i swung to teh other side and the pole smacked me in the face as it went upright. i had weird brusies

other injuries resulted from just jumping around

[Edited on Jan 07, 2005 by Testm0nkey]

[Edited on Jan 07, 2005 by Testm0nkey]gah this is fun!

[Edited on Jan 07, 2005 by Testm0nkey]

sorry sorcha but that killed me...

Umm. playing skip-the-knife-on-the-pavement-and-catch-it 30 yards away with a friend, one obviously, ended up in me, right above my eyeball, i still have the scar.

Kids at recess were lifting up those metal soccer goals--the big thick ones--and letting it fall back down---one time instead of ground, myhead stopped it... lots of blood...




[Edited on Jan 07, 2005 by Moosejaw]

Aged about 6 I thought id impress my friends by doing a running jump into a swimming pool but i slipped and split my head open on the side and fell in. I didn't notice straight away cos the water was so cold. Still have a massive bald patch on my head, and while in the hospital getting it stitched my mum nearly passed out because I was screaming so much. apparently.

And on a similar theme, when i was about 9, I was in a little playground with a roundabout merry-go-round thing and me and my brother were making it spin really fast and I bet him I could jump on it while it was moving. I then fell half off again and dragged my leg on the tarmac and gravel floor taking a massive load of skin of my knee and ankle bones. ouch that stings!

I poured boiling water all over me when i was younger. Full story in my journal.

Boooooo shameless journal plug. Okay ignore it, DON'T go to my journal.

I laughed to -- as I applied A&D ointment and a band-aid to the burn. That may not have worked so well on the other place.

I set my shirt on fire from blobs of molten metal from cutting off an exhaust system with an oxy-acetylene torch.

hahah... i've got that beat... i was doing the exact same thing, only i was wearing my old old old greasy, oil soaked coveralls. blob of molten metal landed on fresh oil spot on my pants = almost human fireball... had to spray myself with a fire extinguisher. good thing one was like 2 feet away, otherwise i would have been fucked with a capital K.

when i was about 10 there was a pencil on the floor just below where i was standing and i moved it with my foot towards my left ankle and it went right in. the injury wasn't very painful or sizeable but dumb nonetheless.