I've done it too many times to count, but one in particular: I removed the guard screen from a fan and tried to put it back on while it was ON... the screen slipped down when I was trying to fit it in the clip that held it on, and in my attempt to keep the thing from falling, my thumb was almost lopped off by the fanblades.
Yeah... thats a Darwin award waiting to happen...
But anyways.. I'm trying to come up with saftey topics, and I need some good examples.
2006-08-26 08:42:42 · 15 answers · asked by cynthetiq 6 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Injuries
I was working at a golf course. I was a young teen.
I was given all the lousy jobs...push mowing in 90 degree heat...telling golfers to put their shirts back on, picking up golf balls on the driving range in a caged contraption...washing the german shepards when they were sprayed by skunks..
and finally driving supplies and water etc. to the shelter on the course. On one particular hot windy day I was told to burn the garbage at each shelter. I did and watched in horror as the shelter caught fire from the barrel...I ran to the lake with my 5 gallon bucket...I was the same size as now and jerked the bucket out of the water and I flipped into the water and hurt my neck...I got up ran to the fire threw water on the fire and it singed my eyebrows...
To this day NO ONE KNOWS it was me. my co-workers thought a smoker caused the fire
2006-08-26 09:42:43 · answer #1 · answered by Tabor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My entire gym class of about 60-80 students was playing some sort of kickball game. I had run all the bases three times or so, so I was pretty confident. I was on second base, and feeling pretty cool that I hadn't gotten tagged. So I started off the base, then saw that it was a bad idea. My foot had just left the square, so I thought it would be no big deal if I discreetly went back. But no, the super-athletic jock dude makes eye contact, and says, "Nope, you gotta run now." I cursed under my breath and tried to find a way to avoid getting hit badly, because he already saw me and I was going to get hit anyway. I looked across the gym and made a weird face at the direction and pretended to gasp to redirect his attention. It worked for a split second, and then he looked back. It was two paces from the third base, when BOOM!
He chucked the ball full-power at my left ankle, sending me up in the air, legs flailing crazily, arms in a very strange accute angle, and running my knee really roughly against the floor. It was a flailing, moronic nosedive and I looked like I was ambushing the floor. I sat with my face down, in the same weird position for a moment. Then I slowly got up to an uncomfortable sitting position. The entire gym was staring at me, smirking and laughing. From across the gym I hear, "Miss Johnson, are you okay?" I raise my thumb in the air, "Yep, I guess so!" And tried to laugh at myself. I got up (luckily I didn't hurt my leg that bad, I was wearing pants) and fake-chuckled and said, "I know, I'm so graceful." They "agreed" and we talked about it for a minute. Then I hear, "Whoa, you left a skid mark on the ground!". And I did. A big, charcoal-colored skid mark on the ground, a foot long. Before I knew it, half the school knew. That was in January, and I still have the scar on my knee.
2006-08-26 10:00:32 · answer #2 · answered by Rachel the Atheist 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was a kid, maybe 10 or 12, my family got a car with a cigarette lighter in it and I was fascinated by how it worked. I pushed it in and a minute later it popped out. I took it out and looked at the coils, not believing it could actually be hot. My mother, being the devious trickster that she is, said "smell it"... ... and I did! :( Burned a perfect letter "C" into the tip of my nose. It was there for weeks!
Amazingly, that same year at school, I was passing time by opening and closing my scissors really fast in front of my face (stupid enough in and of itself). Then I brought them just the tiniest bit too close, and sure enough... Now I had either a letter "U" or "V" on the tip of my nose!
People started asking me what I was trying to spell...
2006-08-26 08:59:52 · answer #3 · answered by Ed H 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was in class, and the teacher asked me to go fetch something outside. I was next to the door when the teacher said something else. I turned around to listen, said 'no problem' and turned to leave- and smacked right into the doorframe, knocking myself down and breaking my nose in front of everybody!
2006-08-26 08:50:25 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
climbing up a long ladder,on the top rung the step broke.falling down i have 2 deep scars on my arm from a rusty nail that just happened to be in the wrong place.i am going to have cosmetics to make my arm look better,i`ll never climb another ladder.from mikhal in israel.
2006-08-26 08:49:56 · answer #5 · answered by mikhal k 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A frozen chicken fell on my toe. Standing barefoot on a concrete garage floor it fell from the top shelf of a very large freezer.
Your safety tip...wear shoes.
2006-08-26 08:46:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have done SOOOOO many dumb things in my life.. but I will only give you 2.
Last winter.. I had trouble getting the woodstove to catch on... to get going..
So brilliant me.. I spashed lighter fluid on it!
Well, I got it going!!! I aslo got my hand going, got the carpet going.. thought I was going to loose my house..
God was sooo with us that day.
Then a few months ago, in May, my husband I and were cutting wood with the chain saw.. I tried to loosen the wood for him.. and I reached OVER the chain saw.. (I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS)
I got a 6 in cut from the thumb to the palm of my hand. I had to go to the hosp and get stitches!
2006-08-26 08:48:14 · answer #7 · answered by helpme1 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
My son was once trying to tighten the tiny little screw on his sunglasses with his pocket knife while wearing them. Needless to say, he poked the knife in his eye and ended up at the eye doctor.
The stupidest thing I've ever done? Getting in the car with a drunk driver and ending up in a headon collision. stupid, stupid, stupid........
2006-08-26 09:05:28 · answer #8 · answered by Kate 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a friend was making a joke sitting opposite me in a subway...i was downloading the 2litre gatorade and was half way...she mentions "shemale" and something about it made me laugh out loud and splashed gatorade all over the floor and her blouse. what a trip!
2006-08-26 08:51:13 · answer #9 · answered by savio 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
DONT KEEP THE SLIDING WINDOW DOORS TOO CLEAN....... our window door was so clean that i thought it was open. as i jumped over that small litlle ledge i hit the window door knocking myself down and leaving a print on the window door.
2006-08-26 08:55:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋