What's the stupidest injury you've ever inflicted on yourself?

Question

I've had some real no brainers - breaking my toe hitting my foot on an armchair while doing a cartwheel, three stitches in my head hitting my head on a different armchair while attempting to jump from one side of the living room to the other, breaking a rib and chipping a tooth diving on a bed, third degree burns on my fingers while cheking the hob was warm, mouse-trapping two fingers (one on each hand) in a folding chair, going diving when the sea was full of jellyfish and getting stung.
Having written this (and not including things like breaking my collar bone, getting stung by a ray and stuff that wasn't my fault), I think I'm a bit of a walking disaster area. I'd love to say these all happened whe I was too young to know better, but some of them were quite recent.

I couldn't possibly decide, so this one is opened to votes.
Stay safe (but keep having fun).

Answer 1

i hit my baby toe on my hallway wall and broke it... then it did it again TWO MONTHS later!

Answer 2

You need to get in a padded room and stay there!!

I've done some stupid things too - knocked out my 2 front teeth jumping off the shed roof with an umbrella - I was convinced I could fly. Unfortunately I couldn't! (No I wasn't on drugs, I was 6). I broke my fingers by pulling the trigger on an air gun while the cocking arm was down - it snapped back on my fingers so hard I nearly threw up with the pain, but I felt like such an idiot, I jumped on top off a football while running down a hill just to see what would happen - got a nose full of grit for that one.

The best one though, I was chasing a haggis (a woman dressed up in a sack) when I fell down a massive embankment, cracking 2 ribs, knocked out my 2 front teeth - again - rolled through a giant patch of nettles and got stung all over, landed at the bottom on an adder which (understandably) bit my foot.

Answer 3

The people that i have just read about are so lucky, I am probably the stupidest guy when it comes to dangerous situations and i have listed only some of my most recent injuries. These are all true, and i have photos to back them up (cause i cant beleive some of them right now)

Currently i am in a wheelchair because atempted to break a ceiling fan through kicking it. I shattered the ankle that i landed on and got a hairline fracture in my other.

In March i received my initiation from older boys. I allowed them to give me a hot shave. A hot shave is when you spray deo on a part of your body (in my case my legs) and then lighting it on fire. Unfortunately, they made a mistake. They lit the match first and then sprayed the deo. Can anyone say "flamethrower"?

Last year, I decided to short arm (pull down) a scrum. I did this because i did not like the other guy, and i ended up receiving the force of 15 large rugby players on my neck. Luckily i only broke my collar bone.

After i broke my collar bone, I let my friends punch my injury (convinced that it wont hurt as much). It set back my recovery date even further.

While watching a rugby game towards the end of last year (South Africa - France), I got caught up in the moment a little too much, and ran into a large cement pillar. I was concussed and my forhead was cut open.

Two years ago, i broke my left arm after it got hit by a golf cart.

Two months later, a friend of mine body slammed me while we were wrestling (i know it was stupid cause i still had a broken left arm) and my wrist somehow ended up beneath me. Now i had a broken arm and a broken wrist.

I have also broken two ribs due to an angry rugby player.

In 2003 i tried to avoid saying a speech by jumping off a stack of chairs and purposely breaking my ankle. But i could not really get myself to do it and instead of breaking my ankle I hit my mouth on a desk, i almost ended up with a broken jaw.

A friend of mine grated my forearm and I bled buckets.

In 2000 i fell out of a tree and landed face down on some rocks. I cracked my skull just above my left eye. Luckily there was no brain damage. I was in ICU for 2 weeks.

The scary thing is that there are more and that i am only 16.

P.S. i havent been in for any Serious operations due to my injuries.

Answer 4

I think this one is great (though I didn't at the time!)

I am in Korea (this will be important later). One night I slipped on my kitchen floor and hit my head on the fridge/freezer.

When I tried to move back, I couldn't! I was in some kind of shock and not thinking clearly, so thought maybe I'd opened the freezer door and got my hair stuck.

So, I opened and closed the door. Was still stuck. In a panic I pulled my head free and blood spurted everywhere!!!

I had managed to hit the corner of the freezer door handle and impaled my head!!!!

My friend managed to get me to hospital where I had 12 stitches. But when they took the stitches out, some of my skin had died so they had to operate and cut out the dead skin and pull my scalp back together: I almost had a face lift!!

The being in Korea part is funny: a new girl from Canada came whilst I was still sick and all the other Westerners had said about an English girl with a head injury.

I met this girl on the street and had never seen her before. At the time I still had a huge bandage on my head, and she was like, "Ah, you must be Sam! You're the fridge girl!"

Not what I wanted to be famous for.....

Answer 5

At school running across a playground in the snow to get help for a girl who had fainted, I slipped and broke my wrist . My car was parked on a slope outside a shop. It was muddy and raining and I leaned on the car over a puddle by the open door whilst putting the shopping in the car and somehow managed to slam the door on my thumb - it didn't hurt whilst the door was shut but I nearly passed out when a passer-by opened the door for me - I broke a bone, lost the thumb nail and have been very careful with car doors since then. This year I trapped my hand in a kitchen drawer, broke my ring finger in two places, snapped a tendon (so that the finger won't bend) and damaged a knuckle so badly I am having a joint replacement next year.

Answer 6

Wow, it sounds like you and the cosmos are at odds. That's an amazing record of injuries. About the worst thing I've done is getting thrown off a horse and cracking some ribs.

Other than that, I've busted up my ankle a couple times (same one - the right) & the 1st time it was because I slipped on ice and fell down the porch stairs. I lived in Michigan at the time & it was winter.

Broke it again in gymnastics, at work, & then had a collision with my cat in the hallway & screwed it up again, that time breaking my left big toe in the process.

Answer 7

Don't know if this counts as an injury because it's probably more self harm and complete stupidity.

When i was 13 I loved Bon Jovi and attempted a homemade tattoo with a compass and a pen.

I vividly remember my mother catching me and telling me that at some point in my life i may not love Bon Jovi with such passion, and me replying "Don't be stupid. I'll always love Bon Jovi!"

Turns out good old Mum was right!!

Thank god I didn't succeed.

I have inflicted injuries though. Chipped a young man's tooth with an overly exuberant cheers. Not the best way to pull!

Answer 8

Heaven's, Athene, I bet you'd find it hard to get personal injury insurance if you declared all your incidents on the application form!

The most stupid thing I did was as a young man, serving in the the air force. One winter's evening I was walking through a semi lit hangar, full of very large aeroplanes. I put my hand in the pocket of my coverall and found a practise golf ball (the lightweight plastic type with holes in them - they bounce beautifully!). Anyway, for some unfathomable reason, I decided to 'dribble' it with my feet across the hangar floor - and ran straight into a main undercarriage door of an aircraft (I didn't see it, edge on, in the dim light). I received a deep gash across the bridge of my nose (I can still feel the little hollow it made!) and also cut my forehead. What an idiot I felt. But the Medical Officer did give me two days off duties in case I had concussion - so it wasn't all bad!!

Answer 9

When I was about 8 I fell in a toilet, hit the toilet with my left arm and broke both my arm and the toilet seat, as I landed on the floor I broke my right leg and hit my head on the wall, cutting my head open!

Or....when I was 17 I was wheelchair racing, left braking at a corner too late, hit the edge of the path, became airborne until I hit a tree, and again broke my arm. Whilst I was lying there waiting for a friend to get help, an old man with a dog came along and the dog p****d on me!

Answer 10

I have the same problem. But the one that comes to mind is that I was trying to start the lawn mower to clean up the yard for a party that I was hosting. Well I guess the lawn mower and I had a fight....and the lawn mower won! I pulled and pulled on the stupid cord to get the damn thing to start and it wouldn't. I kept trying, and getting more and more upset. Well the last time I jerked it pretty hard and it pulled me and my arm right out of it's socket. I totally dislocated my shoulder while trying to mow the lawn!!!!!!! To this day I still haven't tried again. That was a painful experience. Hope you enjoyed the laugh. Now looking back I can laugh, but at the time it sucked. Baking a cake with one arm is no fun :)

Answer 11

I went skiing and there was this abrupt hill and at first i was only able to go half way down and then I said to myself if i can go all they way from up there , I'm the best, I wont ask any more of me, and everything went fine, I was kinda scared, but it was all good, and right down at the end i fell, my speed was so low, I tripped somehow, and i hurt my knee pretty bad, I laid there for like a half an hour and then I decided not to tell anyone, I never even saw a doctor! That was like 3 years ago! I turned out just fine :)