When I was five I picked up a bungee cord with the metal hook at the end, and hooked it on a tree. I pulled back as hard as I could and obvioulsy didn't think anything bad would happen. The cord snapped off and went into my lip. I had 5 stitches and plastic surgery. But now I have a cool scar. What's yours?
2007-03-16 04:09:47 · 46 answers · asked by Bernese 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Injuries
These are great I thought I'd share a few more of mine:
I stuck my hand in a pile of wood and was biten quite severly by a chipmunk
I stuck my hand out the window of my dads truck, trying to grab leaves and kept it there as he drove right next to a thorn bush. I took a good handful! Ouch!
I tried to go off a bike jump when it collapsed and the spikey bike pedal went in my knee
Tried to do pull-ups on a home pull up bar that wasn't secured properly and pulled my legs up so they touched the ceiling. That's when it collapsed and I fell back first onto a vaccum cleaner.
While crawling along the floor I had a carpet nail that was stuck up in the air go right thru my leg. I still have a nasty scar.
2007-03-16 04:35:16 · update #1
The inevitable corned beef tin injury.
I shall say no more ! ! !
2007-03-16 05:33:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mine is actually nothing compared to any of these, but when I was 6 or 7 I was playing with this thing in gym class called a scooter. Something small and flat and you rolled around on 4 wheels. Anyway, there's a part in our gym where the tiling stops and a big bump seperates the tiling from the hardwood flooring of the gym. I thought I saw someone running then jumping on their scooter and just going right over the bump, so I thought I'd give it a shot. Turns out, they actually didn't, and I went face first into the floor, chipping my two front teeth. My top two teeth looked like they had an arch missing in them for like 2 months, and I had a hard time eating my Halloween candy that year. Now my teeth look absolutely normal.
2007-03-16 18:06:06 · answer #2 · answered by donaldblake2007 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A year ago when I was twelve I was in my dad's woodworking shop and had to make a flat side on a wooden disk so I could cut it on the jigsaw. I turned on the belt sander and held the disk (3/8 in. thick and 1 1/2in. across) on the belt sander against the guard. The disk slipped underneath the guard and flew across the room. Since I was putting pressure on the disk, the middle and index finger of my right hand hit the sander and were sucked under the guard. I pulled them out right away and went into the house. When I washed them I had a dime sized piece of skin missing from both the tips of my fingers. It took two months to heal and now my finger print are all and don't have ridges in the very center. It was just stupid on my part because the disk was too small to use on that kind of machinery
2007-03-16 04:18:34 · answer #3 · answered by E.B. 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Last week I grabbed a plank of wood from beside my house and put it down on the grass next to my car! I had parked too close to it the night before and had almost slipped over getting out so I thought it would stop be landing on my behind in my work suit!
I didn't see the 2 inch nail sticking up out of the wood and stepped, full weight, on it!
2 Stitches and a tetanus jab required!!
Ive also tried running vertically up a 6 foot wall after a night out with the girls and gave my self concussion when i wasn't successful and landed on the metal barrier at the bottom!
2007-03-17 06:15:33 · answer #4 · answered by freakyfairy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My brother almost cut the fleshy part of his thumb off. He was cutting a piece of wood with a utility knife, and it slipped and cut his thumb (somehow, still don't know how this happened) all the way over the top, from one side of his knucle to the other. We were like, 12-13 at the time, and he comes into the house and blood is dripping down his arm, and all over the floor. I wrapped a couple hand towels around it and had him squeeze and stay calm, and then I called my mom. My mom saw the blood and freaked out, but I was the one who had to clean it up. :( 13 stiches to close it, and it looks gross and funky to this day.
I don't think I've done anything that cool, one time I left the lugnuts loose on my car, and the wheel came off. I went careening off the road and hit a tree, and walked away from the accident. I've still got whiplash from that accident, so does that count?
2007-03-16 04:28:17 · answer #5 · answered by mischieviousenigma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My older brother once thought it was funny to shut me in the back garden when I was about 13 (25 years ago) and in a fit of temper I hammered on the corner of the glass pane in the back door with my fists and my right hand went through. I had a piece of glass embedded for years, and I have two scars that are fading all the time.
Edit: And when I was eight I fell off a swing and broke my right arm.
Another edit: I slipped on an icy step several years ago and flattened a disc in my spine which is still prolapsed.
2007-03-16 04:22:26 · answer #6 · answered by ♥ Divine ♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I leaned on the gate of a truck while talking and didn't notice that the crates in the back were poorly stacked and one fell on my hand and broke almost every bone. However, I got a fast resetting to the bones and a quick cast within an hour along with pain pills and drove my truck into Iraq during Operation Desert Storm. Me and my broken hand for three days! LOL! I get reminded of that at every reunion too!
2007-03-16 04:20:54 · answer #7 · answered by raiderking69 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A few years ago I was using a stanley blade to shave some white metal castings in a model kit. One particular piece had a burr on the side that wouldn't come off however I tried to cut it. I was losing my temper with it and eventually got so annoyed I put it down on the top of my thigh and pushed the blade hard against the offending burr...
...with the somewhat predictable effect that the burr wouldn't cut and the blade slid clean off it and embedded itself in the top of my leg! Had to go to hospital where blade was removed and four stitches put in.
The REALLY daft thing was that I was in the TA at the time and considered myself a hard-nut (despite making model railway kits), so when the nurse asked if I wanted an anaesthetic I said no...!
Bugger me, I quickly came to regret THAT decision!!!!
The whole event is the kind of obvious warning we give 5 year olds, but I was about 28 at the time!
2007-03-16 04:24:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I ride horses, and this is preatty stupid, I ended up braking my tail bone and getting a small cuncusion. When I tacked my horse up, the bit was twisted in the mares mouth. I was scared becuase I had never riden the horse before, and ontop of it all, she was green broke. So we were walking around the ring, so the rains were loose. She spooked when a plastic bag blew across the ring. I slightly pulled the rains, but it was enough the make her buck. I stayed on for the first buck, barely, then fell when she came down from a rear, then she bucked agian, hitting my head. Good thing I had a helmate on, but I still came down hard, an trust, I didn't luagh.
2007-03-16 04:24:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow, you were a strange kid! I once had a tantrum and slammed the door as hard as I could with my finger sitting by the hinge, so I had to go to the hospital with a broken pinkie and three stiches! I don't have a scar there or anything though.
I was about five or six by the way, this wasn't a recent thing!
2007-03-16 04:43:02 · answer #10 · answered by floppity 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was 15 I was skipping school (pretended to be ill) at lunchtime i decided to cook some beefburgers. The beefburgers were frozen together and I used a carving knife point first to try and separate them.
they separated suddenly and I ended up stabbing myself in through the hand. I lost a lot of blood and almost lost consciousness.
2007-03-20 03:55:50 · answer #11 · answered by FBiL 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋