Bone in my little toe on my right foot is the only bone I have ever broken in my life, but I have broken it twice.
"Dumbest" Accidental Injury
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Bone in my little toe on my right foot is the only bone I have ever broken in my life, but I have broken it twice.
CycloneErik
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Did the right one 17 years ago, and some right hand breaks along the way.
Really, I've injured every one of my toes at some point, whether it's breaks, jams, or the toenails I left somewhere running across Iowa.
The pinky toe has to be the most worthless appendage. I have only broken 1 bone in my life and it's also been my right pinky toe twice.
Opened the coolant reserve tank in the car while it was still hot. DO NOT DO THAT. Thankfully there wasn't much in there and there was no real injury. That could have been horrible.
Just got a PM about the thread being closed. No idea how it got closed, guys, but I reopened it.
CycloneErik
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"No idea......"
Sure. We'll work with that. You'd be better off saying that you stubbed your toe while posting and something happened. That would have fit the thread.
Well, it could be my dumbest accidental injury is closing a thread accidentally and then having a bunch of angry fanatics attack me. But seriously, not sure how that got closed.
I was hammered drunk one night in college (how all good stories start) and I was wrestling with one of my roommates at like 3 in the morning. He was much bigger, probably 6'4 250 and I'm 6'1 180, and we fell to the floor. He landed on my left arm and dislocated my elbow. My arm was pointing the complete wrong way. Fortunately that same roommate was an EMT and he popped it back into place. Fortunately I was so drunk the pain wasn't terrible and I kept drinking.
In high school my friend and I crawled under the wrestling mats while the class was listening to a relaxation soundtrack in the wrestling room. It was really dark and the PE teacher (now retired) was on the other end of the room where there was a little light.
At first we crawled under so only our legs were under the mat, but we dug in deeper. We ended up managing to get seperated and I decided to get back out. Unfortunately, we had both gotten disoriented and thought the other was out. I could hear laughing, which I later found out was from people laughing at my friend who somehow found his way to the MIDDLE OF THE ******* WRESTLING MAT. I was panicking because it was getting hard to breathe (these mats are very heavy when you're under them. I found some light because of the tape that connected two mats together and there was a little hole where I could stick my mouth to get some fresh air.
My friend somehow found his way out (didn't know this) while I just sat there and came to terms with death (I'm not joking). I was picturing the news headlines "Two high school students die from suffocating under wrestling mat mats." My friend got out just as the PE teacher saw what was going on. I didn't even care that people would know I was stupid. My friend ripped the wrestling mat so I could get out and the instructor started yelling at me (I didn't care, I was just happy to be alive). I found out that I was only 3 feet away from where the mat ended.
Looking back I should've followed the tape but I wasn't thinking clearly in my state of panic. It's extremely hard to move once you get deep into those mats. The scariest part was our voices being muffled so no once could hear us call for help.
I'm an idiot.
tl;dr: Thought I was going to die under a wrestling mat
At first we crawled under so only our legs were under the mat, but we dug in deeper. We ended up managing to get seperated and I decided to get back out. Unfortunately, we had both gotten disoriented and thought the other was out. I could hear laughing, which I later found out was from people laughing at my friend who somehow found his way to the MIDDLE OF THE ******* WRESTLING MAT. I was panicking because it was getting hard to breathe (these mats are very heavy when you're under them. I found some light because of the tape that connected two mats together and there was a little hole where I could stick my mouth to get some fresh air.
My friend somehow found his way out (didn't know this) while I just sat there and came to terms with death (I'm not joking). I was picturing the news headlines "Two high school students die from suffocating under wrestling mat mats." My friend got out just as the PE teacher saw what was going on. I didn't even care that people would know I was stupid. My friend ripped the wrestling mat so I could get out and the instructor started yelling at me (I didn't care, I was just happy to be alive). I found out that I was only 3 feet away from where the mat ended.
Looking back I should've followed the tape but I wasn't thinking clearly in my state of panic. It's extremely hard to move once you get deep into those mats. The scariest part was our voices being muffled so no once could hear us call for help.
I'm an idiot.
tl;dr: Thought I was going to die under a wrestling mat
When my dad was dying at the hospital, some people were waiting there for a loved one getting fingers re-attached that he somehow cut off making his kid's Pinewood Derby car.
Not mine, but my brother once chipped his tooth playing with one of those parachute things in 2nd grade. A couple weeks later he chipped the same one again by running straight into a yard waste container when we were racing to a neighbors house.
not me but I used to work at a bank. It had a 2nd floor with carpeted stairwell
A 300 lb female teller was coming downstairs from break, holding a candy bar. With a few more steps left (bottom was common area; teller counter--and a KIOSK straight ahead 10 feet) her WEIGHT got her going forward as she rumbled, bumbled, stumbled down with momentum and ran into the KIOSK, bruising her wrists (while holding candy bar)
~think of "Ox" from the movie STRIPES (John Candy) rumbling down a wooded slope
She was a bully to the other females so nobody was real sympathetic
The branch manager was p#ssed when she later received a worker's comp claim from this blimp.
The funniest thing was a year later, the female branch manager reprised the whole episode herself by re-enacting the whole thing. it was hilarious
[video]https://youtu.be/h3iKjxv89cM?list=PLTZmo5v-mt0k_F-_hFgucNIexNM68cAKb[/video]
A 300 lb female teller was coming downstairs from break, holding a candy bar. With a few more steps left (bottom was common area; teller counter--and a KIOSK straight ahead 10 feet) her WEIGHT got her going forward as she rumbled, bumbled, stumbled down with momentum and ran into the KIOSK, bruising her wrists (while holding candy bar)
~think of "Ox" from the movie STRIPES (John Candy) rumbling down a wooded slope
She was a bully to the other females so nobody was real sympathetic
The branch manager was p#ssed when she later received a worker's comp claim from this blimp.
The funniest thing was a year later, the female branch manager reprised the whole episode herself by re-enacting the whole thing. it was hilarious
[video]https://youtu.be/h3iKjxv89cM?list=PLTZmo5v-mt0k_F-_hFgucNIexNM68cAKb[/video]
I'm not sure why she should be ******. It sounds like it happened on the clock on the work site. Or was there suspicion that she wasn't really injured?
Hit the back of my head on the corner of my dresser in grade school coming up from hiking a nerf football across my room. Bled a lot but only needed the glue sutures.
Cut the knuckle of my left pointer finger on a bagel knife when I opted not to use the plastic holder. Seven stitches.
Cut the skin right next to my left eye on a sharp branch after reaching into some trees for an errant disc in a round of frisbee golf. Three tiny stitches.
Cut the knuckle of my left pointer finger on a bagel knife when I opted not to use the plastic holder. Seven stitches.
Cut the skin right next to my left eye on a sharp branch after reaching into some trees for an errant disc in a round of frisbee golf. Three tiny stitches.
Agreed. Broke one of mine a couple years ago stubbing it on the lower portion of my car door frame.
