Accidents and injuries can happen in the strangest places and the most peculiar ways. And most of us can agree that they occur most often when we least expect them. Plenty of us have hurt ourselves pretty badly doing mundane, routine, everyday tasks. While we might brag about the huge scar on our faces having come from rabid velociraptors that we fought off with only our bare fists, only our closest friends know that we really slipped on a banana peel and crashed into our fridge handle.
When the Super 70s Sports account asked Twitter users what the dumbest freak injury in their lives was, people rushed to share their experiences. As it turns out, people can be really fragile.
Scroll down to read through our list of hilarious and dumb injuries, and be sure to upvote the stories you enjoyed. If the stories made you smile or laugh, why not share them with a few buddies to improve their mood while they wait for the weekend? And if you have any experience with dumb injuries yourselves, share what happened with everybody in the comments! After all, grief (or in this case pain and shame) shared is halved. And joy shared is doubled. Be sure to scroll down for Bored Panda’s in-depth interview with Ricky Cobb, the founder of Super 70s Sports.
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Ricky Cobb of Super 70s Sports told Bored Panda that the list of injuries in the Twitter thread “is so random and hilarious [that] it is almost impossible to single out” just one best answer.
“But I have a special place in my heart for the guy who said he threw out his back reaching for a french fry on his dashboard. There is something beautifully relatable about that story — or at least there is for me!”
“I think the only way to avoid freak injuries is to stop living life, so we’ve gotta get out of bed every morning knowing there's a chance, ever how small, some unpredictable misfortune may befall,” Ricky mused. “Thankfully it doesn’t happen that often. And it’s nice that, on the rare occasions we fall victim to the improbable, we can at least share a laugh about it. To think that amazing thread was inspired by my own broken finger from doing what would seem the most innocuous of tasks — walking out of a bathroom.”
I want to down vote because I felt the pain through my phone, but that would defeat the purpose.
Ricky also talked about the inspiration for his popular Twitter thread, as well as what motivated him to create Super 70s Sports.
“I started the Twitter feed about five years ago just as a hobby. Figured I’d try to entertain my friends and make some new ones. It has been an incredible experience. I’ve always loved comedy, sports, and nostalgia. I thought some other folks might too. But I never would’ve thought over 300,000 followers was realistic.”
Ok, that's skill. I'd put this photo on my living room wall if I did that.
real heros dont wear capes. they break both legs by falling down the stairs helping a kid
“I wanted to blend my love of sports, pop culture, comedy, and nostalgia into a place where people can share some laughs, interact, and enjoy a sense of community,” he explained to Bored Panda. “One of the best things about this tweet is it showcases the cleverness and wit of my audience which I believe is a big part of the appeal of my feed. Often they are funnier than me and this is a perfect example.”
I do like the fact that somewhere out there might be 50yo dudes playing hackey sack at Black Sabbath concerts.
Bored Panda also talked to Jon Gerardi about an injury that befell one of his friends in high school: "We were taping book covers on (the plain ones we all had to do back in school, I'm sure you and others remember). It appeared that he was trying to pull tape from a dispenser and his hand slipped and he hit his hand off the bottom of his desk and ended up breaking his thumb by doing so."
"I think we don't think we can be injured at home or during daily routines because we do them so frequently, it's almost like second nature," Jon said. "One thing to prevent major injuries I'd say is to just be more aware of what we're doing and not rush through things."
Nobody wants to think that they’re not safe in their homes. But the truth is, plenty of accidents happen at home (just like lots of car accidents can occur near where you live because you may relax too much when thinking you’re completely safe).
For example, in 2007, 2.7 million people in England were injured in a home accident. While in the United States, almost half of the accidents that lead to the deaths of young adults and children happen at home.
My jaw got stuck whilst eating an apple, hurt like hell. Don't know what caused it but I have had issues with my jaw for as long as I can remember. It often makes clicking noises and also pops and has a jarring feeling on certain movements.
Get a referral for a jaw MRI. I was screwed around by so many doctors until someone finally suggested that. Diagnosed immediately after the MRI with a TMJ disorder.
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I did that and had to go to the ER to put the jawbone back in its socket. Wasn't as much fun as it sounds.
I get that a lot. Or while eating. My jaw pretty much decides whether I’m granted food or not. When getting it checked out I got this brace to wear only at nights but the problem only got worse because I would be chewing on that brace all night long with more complaints each following day. Expensive braces don’t always work
Not unheard of if you have TMJ. I learned how to yawn with my mouth closed with clenched teeth.
This! I had this too.. First time I had to go to ER in the middle of the night, nobody there except a pregnant woman. Waited for 2 hours. Started crying, which is very sad when you can't close yiur jaw. Then nurses asked around and a doctor came with a few others to teach them. And put my jaw back in 10 secs. Showed my husband how to do it as muscles are stretched and it happens easier again. I can now do it myself...
I do this regularly... the first time I was a child and my parents didn't believe me as I'd manage yo get it back into place, the second t8me it wouldn't go back into place. I was diagnosed with EDS but it can happen with hyper mobility too.
Temperomandibular joint dysfunction. The temperomandibular joints are the name of the joints that connect the lower jaw to the skull. If they're not aligned correctly, they can click and pop. They can also get stuck when the jaw opens too widely (as in a yawn) and the mandibula notch "jumps" over the temporal protrusion and gets stuck. This as happened to me several times. Wikipedia has a good photo of the joint with the names of the bones listed. You can see exactly how opening too wide can pop the jaw out of place when you have a dysfunctional joint.
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You've only yawned twice ever? That's amazing, I've done it thousands of times, but I'm a tired guy. O:-)
how.....i cant even yawn cuz i bit huge chunk of my cheek out of my mouth
Yeah, that's obviously an euphemism for "trying to eat a much too large sandwich"
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Things that can seriously harm us are usually small: failing to put up a carbon monoxide detector, having a leaky hot water heater, an untucked carpet on the stairs, a slippery bathtub, a greasy kitchen or a malfunctioning garbage disposal unit. These are all things that can be the difference between life and death.
Statistically speaking, the kitchen and the bathroom are the two rooms in your home that you’re most likely to get injured. Now, it doesn’t mean that you should curl up into a ball and hide under your bed for the rest of your life. But it does mean that you should be aware of sharp knives and wet floors. And if you’re working outside your home, be wary when you’re mowing the lawn or cleaning the gutter: you’re most likely to hurt yourself while doing those two things. If you want to keep your kids safe, give them some other chores to do than mowing the lawn.
Whoa! I hope this marked the last moment Sister Leonardo was ever allowed around children.
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This is true. Despite what happened to me (see above) my dad when he was 20 fell off a roof 3 storeys up skidded off the garage roof and landed on his feet unscathed. I think back then he was part cat. I fall 3 feet out of a window and destroy my arm. : /
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Went to stroke my friends dog who jumped up and gave me a black eye. Fell over by being a wuss about crossing some ice and broke my arm - husband went first and just calmly walked across but I kept testing it and being ultra careful. Lost my balance getting up off the loo and head-butted the handbasin. 🤕 Large lump and bruising that lasted for a good couple of weeks. I have so many of these - I'm an exceptionally clumsy person.
so relatable. Thats why am super slow when doing anything, everyone always tell me to be quick. If I ever hasten, my clumsiness steps in :S
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Y’know how some kids’ bikes have a chain guard to stop feet from getting caught in the chain? I got mine caught in the guard and sliced the top of my big toe down to the bone when I was about seven years old. I also got severely bruised in my girly bits trying to beam walk on a flat top picket fence. Mum brought the neighbours over to check out the bruises.
Putting Christmas decor up while standing on a folding chair. Stepped back, chair collapsed and i fell backwards, butt first through my glass and iron coffee table. The sound of the glass shattering was like a Hollywood action movie. Natural instinct cause me to turn mid flight and try to catch myself. The glass shattered and i immediately knelt to check my arms. Thankfully no severed wrists. Move on all fours to stand up and my daughter says "uh mom dont move." "Why ". I asked as i looked over my shoulder. There was a pretty good sized shard of glass sticking out. Yes, i had been deeply stabbed in the butt!! I reached around and pulled the large shard out. Blood started pouring out. My husband comes running and he yanks my pants down while im still on all floors and say im going to the ER asap. I started to look and he stops me. I dont like blood. My daughter is fasinated by all this and bends down close to the wound and says "whats that white bubbly stuff?". It was my a*s fat. We throw a down over it and head off to the hospital. Towel was soaked by the time we got there. My pants had a 1" hole but the the triangular sharrd had went so deep it took 27 stitches! At one point while getting sewn up my lovely daughter pointed out a spot i missed while shaving my leg and went on and on about how much a*s_fat she could see. Post Note: if you ever Have to be stabbed the butt is the best place. The pain was minimum but having to wear sweats to the office because i had thick padded bandages was great. Now the best part...My A*s Itched for 6 months! I would leave meetings just to go stratch and i getting really good at rubbing on desk and wall corners. And finally, since i did it the Monday before Thanksgiving that i was hosting for about 40 people they all had a good laugh.
Mine are: 1. Missed a step while running up the stairs and landed on my shin, hitting the sharp concrete edge and cutting it to the bone. Hurt like a b***h. 2. Jumped out of bed and didn't realise my leg had fallen asleep. Proceeded to fall backwards onto the desk corner and got a nasty bruise from my shoulder to my lower back. Almost broke a rib.
Oh my! I hope you're all OK now :O
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Impaled my hand on an oily knife that slipped as soon as I pressed down, tore tendons in my arm rolling pizza dough, walk through a glass panel because I didn't see it and had to get stitches, slammed a door and got a concussion from knocking a bunch ice ice off the roof. Slipped a disc tying my boots.
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With a rather big collection of kitchen accidents (two resulted in multiple stiches), last time I tried to crack a cinnamon stick in half and managed to impale one if my fingers with it as it broke :'D
Loved these. Made me feel half way coordinated. Or maybe just lucky.
I sprained my ankle once taking off my sock. Doctor laughed for a good ten minutes.
We were swinging our legs as high as we can in Tae Kwon Do class as a method of stretching. With my anatomy and overzealousness: my knee cap got me right in the eye. Mild black eye for a week.
You know how - SPOILER ALERT - the last one was a prequel? I'd like to see one that's set 100 years ago - crazy ways to get hurt that we don't even think of today. Tony Todd could still be in it because his character is supernatural - or he could play his own ancestor. I'd like to see a horse-drawn hearse with black horses wearing plumes.
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Wearing socks, slipped on a roll of paper towels on the carpet while I was cleaning. Rolled over my big toe, dislocated and chipped. There's almost nothing you can do after set, just suffer for weeks and weeks. Every time you move the toe it hurts.
I stepped off a curb and broke my left ankle. 8 weeks later, did the exact same thing to my right ankle.
Oh dear! My Mom stepped off a curb and ruptured her Achilles' tendon, just like that.
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Jumped of our porch railing when I was ten. Was supposed to hit the trampoline but missed. Landed on the ground with my chin on my kneecap and ended up with six stitches. The same year I fell off a big gym ball and broke my tailbone.
Not me but a friend: she was eating a steak and somehow the fork got stuck in the steak. She pulled it out with such force that the blunt end of the fork went straight into her eyeball, puncturing it. She still has a red scar there.
Wow, she must have been re? (hence, that force)
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i hope all these people got well soon after all of these accidents.. but OMG i laughed way too hard to often :D i am so sorry
I injured BOTH of my ankles at once on a school trip, when I tried to carry my luggage and several bags down the stairs all at once with sunburned shoulders. Tripped and ended up kneeling on the starirs; the impact forced both of my ankles firmly onto the corner of one of the steps. It was the most impractical injury I ever had. I was able to stand on my feet (with the help of crutches) and therefore theoretically able to walk... but it was with the tiniest steps. Walking even small distances took forever.
When my sister was 4 yrs old, she and my mother were at some place and my mom let her go for a second and she went straight for the automatic door, slid her finder in while it was open and got it stuck for about 10 seconds until it opened again.
She had to go to surgery for her finger but luckily she broke no bones.
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Got an ugly purple scar on my knee from slipping on a pair of pajama pants that were lying on the ground, therefore slamming into an unfinished door frame and tearing my knee open on a nail sticking out.
A few things you need to know before I tell you my story. 1) I can't see 5 inches in front of my face when I have my glasses off, 2) it was in the middle of the night, 3) I'm anemic, 4) I'm female and 5) my dog was dark brown. One night, probably around 1am, I had to go to the bathroom. I didn't put my glasses on and I walked out of my room and into the hallway. It was pitch black and I didn't see my dog lying in the middle of the hallway. I tripped over her and landed sideways on my leg. A few days later there's a big bruise on my leg and I had to go to the grocery store. Did I mention that this happened in the summer. Someone from the Women's Resource Center approached me, gave me her card, and told me to call her if I needed any help.
I was reading number 46 on my computer while doing the dishes started laughing hit the computer of the counter it then fell on my foot then when I bent down to pick it up I hit my head on the counter and bit my tongue
I was walking in from recess in about 4th grade when I saw a plane and got distracted, then tripped over an uneven bit of the concrete and hyper-extended both of my writs. My brother never let me hear the end of that.
I can't read those without cringing. I'm thinking about all the stuff I do all the time and how close I am to injure myself, because of sheer clumsiness.
I've been waking up with vertigo lately; it's a contest between shutting off my alarm clock and falling on my face. Cross your fingers, haven't fallen yet!
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I think I win..... When I was younger my elbow would just like, pop out of its socket, like just fall out. Idk how. My mom who is a doctor doesn't know how or why, it just happened. 5 FREAKING times!
Two come to mind. 1. The night before my 12th bday my sister had to go to the ER because a door fell on her and broke her arm. We were there until 5 am and I was asleep. Mom woke me up to go home, I took one step on the floor and ended up just faceplanting, breaking my ankle that wouldn't heal for a year. People always look at me funny when I say I broke my ankle at the hospital on my birthday, which happened to be a Monday. 2. Was on a high school band trip to Minneapolis and we got to use those coach buses. Well my phone was dying and there was a plug in against the side of the seat. Went to bend down to plug it in and bashed my head on the cupholder on the back of the seat in front of me. Ended up concussed and dizzy the entire trip, but u didn't know that so I went on a bunch of rollercoasters and then I told my mom on Monday when we got back that I didn't feel good and she took me to the doc. She was so mad. she kept yelling that I should have told somebody & I could have died 😅
Sprained my left middle finger helping someone up who had tripped and fallen while watching a dance at a pow wow.
I was maybe 6 and decided I was going sledding. I grabbed my little home-made wagon I created out of those old Home-Depot kid-built crafts things, climbed to the top of the tallest armchair, and slid down. It was fun for about 0.8 seconds. Then my face smashed into the glass table and my front teeth ripped through my bottom lip. Somehow, though, the table was unharmed and still survives unscathed to this day.
My dad (49-year's old) broke his rib doing a wheely in an attempt to impress a VSCO girl. It hurts when he sneezes now.
I once broke 3 metatarsals dropping a pint glass (the thick tankard ones with handle) it landed on top of my foot on its rim giving me a nice smile bruise. I believe i only dropped it because was hobbling after one of kids tiahed in and pushed door onlo my other foot breaking 2 toes just a couple of days previously
My husband broke his leg in both tibia and fibula from sitting on a table... me I knocked myself out on a bathroom door k**b and frame after shutting my thumb in the door and passing out from pain... had raccoon eyes for the whole week in Paris.
I got out of my shower and bent over to get my towel off the floor. The edge of my shower curtain went into my butt crack. I didn't even notice until I walked away from it. It scared me so bad, I lurched forward, slipped on the tile, smacked my head on the counter and split the skin open. I don't know what I told people as to how I got that injury, but obviously I wasn't about to tell them it was a shower curtain to the a*s.
When I was 12, I slipped off a bottom step that was wet from the rain and broke my left ankle. 26 years later, I slipped off a 1 inch step on my BFF's porch while it was raining (while wearing rain boots), and broke my left leg, plus dislocated my left ankle. Needed surgery, a steel plate w 7 pins and couldn't walk on it for 4 months. The same BFF tripped over her own left foot while running in gym class and broke her own right foot.
i once broke my foot after getting dizzy from standing up from using the toilet...passed out & spun around on the way down, spiral fracture.
I was using my arms to lift myself out of the pool (as a kid) slipped and broke one of my front teeth on the concrete. A few weeks later, slid into the back door face first and broke the other. But I think my coup de grace was bruising the absolute s**t out of both kneecaps in my late 30's. Got irrationally frightened going back to bed in the middle of the night from the bathroom. Decided to leap into bed to avoid the wiley boogeyman waiting for me. I leapt too short and whacked both knees on the footboard.
Broke my toe after I hit it on the corner of our wood bed frame. It had finally healed, until our 130 lb shepradore stepped on my bare foot and re-broke it.
My oldest daughter had the strangest accidents, between the ages of 2-5, she hung herself upside down by her clothes climbing a chain link fence, needed steri strips for the cuts, threw a laundry basket down the basement stairs, but forgot to let go, got a concussion, rocked too hard in a little kids chair, flipped it, broke her nose, climbed the pole of a swing set in a public park, didn't know how to get back down, so she let go, needed surgery to reattach her broken foot to her broken ankle, didn't know how to stop on her scooter, so she deliberately ran it into a tree, had to have upper and lower lip as well as front teeth sewn back in place, I think she could probably share a bubble with the fella that says he deserves one.
Was watering the plants in the yard and when i went to coil up the hose I leaned over too far and hit the shark edge of the hanger that you put the hose on (didn't think I had bent down that far) with my forehead. Came down on it so hard that I saw stars and thought I was going to pass out. Checked in the mirror, wasn't bleeding too badly but I had just missed putting my eye out by about a 1/4 of an inch (the brow bone). Have a scar and indent for life :) That's just one of the many and I have the scars to prove it!
In school in 2001, went to a health exhibit. My then husband showed me a game of virtual soccer. Pulled a Charlie’s Angels kick and dropped to the floor. “No, no. I’m fine.” Went to the hospital; torn ACL. Post-surgery, PT retore it. Still not fixed
Playing on the monkey bars as a kid, fell, dislocated my elbow, snapped off my funny bone & now I have nerve damage down my left arm, had surgery a few years ago to correct the nerve damage, it made it worse 😞
I love working Trauma as an RN!! First question- "How did you do this?" Answer- "Doing something stupid" was the most common one...but people hurt themselves in very creative ways. Sometimes, though, it really is a freak accident..can't make this stuff up..
So I kept my toilet rolls on top of a cupboard and buy 9 packs for economy. So I reached with a handy grabber (Im disablled) and they fell down on to my nose and broke it. Then couple months later broke my arm slipping in snow then my toe few months later. I asked Doctor for bone scan as I had cancer/chemo/menopause at 26/27 but he said I was on HRT so couldnt have osteoporosis , they were wrong I did and I do despite other treatments and i can laugh about it now!
Gave myself chemical burns and rubbed off a layer of skin or 2 with a magic eraser whole trying to scrub hair dye off my face, neck and arm. I havent even touched a magic eraser since then 😂😂
I ended up with tendonitis in my lower left arm and a big bad bruise on the inside of the left wrist from clapping my hands too much and too loudly trying to get the audience to show more enthusiasm when the winners were going towards the end of the race when I was volunteering at a night half marathon.
i was 5 when i stepped on a sewing needle and it went half way up my big toe
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One of my distant relatives was dubbed the most accident prone person in Scotland in 2010. My family tree dates back to the Middle Ages and I’m part of the branch of Clan Crozier that went to North America. I have this in my blood. http://www.thinkscotland.org/this-week-legend.html?read_full=10672&article=www.thinkscotland.org
I shattered my knee and ripped a chunk off my femur walking across the kitchen to warm the baby bottle. My mum was holding him(baby) at the time thank God. I remember saying "get him out of the room, then letting my scream out when she shut the door
Cut my wrist badly enough to leave a scar while wrestling the hard drive out of a computer so we could Freecycle it.
Slipped and fell on the ice on New Year's Day. Not a good time to go to the ER - everybody who's been doing something foolish ends up there. Also, hit my head on an antique metal coal scoop.
I was preheating my oven (425°) went to put the chicken in the oven and realized I had stored a large pot in there. Reached in an grabbed both handles. Unfortunately I for hot to use oven mitts. Second degree burns on both hands. Both hand were wrapped like boxing gloves. I couldn't do anything for myself and I mean ANYTHING! So had to be hospitalized for two weeks.
The shower curtain rod fell on my face when i was in the shower. I broke my nose
My boyfriend fractured 2 ribs while coughing a few years ago. He was just standing there, right next to me, and coughed a little. The next second he's yelling in pain. Scared the s**t out of me! XD
Mine would have to be a tie between fracturing my toe after dropping a can of corn on it and giving myself a black eye with the car door
I honestly cut myself in funny ways, I don't wash knives separately so I put then in the sink with the other silverware, I have never been injured because of it. Yet within two months, I cut myself with two different sponges, a dishrag, a cup, and a marker. I am the clumsiest person in my family.
Picking up my daughter in kindergarten, a young boy came out of her classroom and threw his schoolbag up and right into my mouth - it was the kind with wheels and hence hard plastic bits. Tore my lips which were so swollen I couldn't go to work the next day
When wringing out a rag, start with your arms bent and straighten them. I started with my arms straight and bent them up toward my face, my hand slipped off the soapy rag, and I punched myself in the face.
Oh! I hit myself in the nose with a clipboard hard enough to get a bruise, but didn't break it.
Load More Replies... When I was approx 7 or 8 years old (many many moons ago), I went sledding with the rest of the boys from Sunday school. At the bottom of the hill was a brick wall and we had to roll off in order to avoid hitting it. It came my turn, I started going down the hill and fear set in. I found myself scared of rolling off and I gripped the sled for dear life. WHAM !!! right into the brick wall. I was taken to the ER by the church leader and ended up with a concussion.
Dislocated my thumb moving a sofa and broke my hand when a fire extinguisher fell off of the wall into it... happens to us all.
Mine are: 1. I got a really big cut into my hand by a pizza slice. 2. Broke my leg while dancing with my friend in kindergarten when I was 3 years old. 3. I was at a sleepover with my 2 friends and we had ordered pizza. When the pizza delivery guy rang the doorbell, it scared me and I fell down, dislocating my knee and screaming. My friend got the pizzas and the delivery guy ran away.
Bruised 2 ribs while trying to hook the freezer reachtruck on the charger... while trying to squeeze the plugs on eachother it slipped from 1 hand and i pushed it with full force in my own chest. Certainly didn't enjoyed that hasty stupid mistake for a few weeks...
In 6th grade I got a laceration on my temple when I was riding my bike against an excavator shovel When I was 16, I broke my toe when I climbed down the ladder into the pool when I fled from my brother while romping around I have already had 4 or 5 times knives in my hand and in my foot, because I always try to catch them when they fall down.
Oh dear - you need to practice just letting the knife fall, LOL.
Load More Replies... When I was 11 I leaned too far forward and fell out of the living room window while shouting for my dog to come in. I broke my arm in 2 places, dislocated my elbow and shoulder and tore several ligaments. I had to wear a plaster that covered my entire arm for 2 months.
I once cut the corner of my mouth by shoveling Tostitos inside it too enthusiastically.
I made staging with 2 saw horses and a 2×12 so that I could paint the eaves. I was walking backwards, looking up. And you know what happened. I walked off the staging and landed square on my tailbone. I thought I was dead. I wanted to be dead. The only reason I knew I wasn't dead is because of the pain. The massive pain. I am cringing now thinking about it. This happened in 2006
I got my hand stuck in ironically a hand mixer, broke a brick with my knee falling after dog tripped me, oh and pulled hot metal baking pan out of countertop oven and burned my neck....it looked like a Hickey and found out paper tape causes me to break out in rash by sporting a big red square around hickey burn
Broke my nose and split my head open waterskiing, went swimming later that night stitches loosened up and had too have them redone. Only one of my many stupid injuries .
I tried to be like one of those pole-vaulters when I was little - picked up a stick on the side of the trail we were walking on, ran, tried to jump as high as I could with the stick, and dug the top of the branch into my stomach and left a scar for many years.
I sneezed at the exact moment I opened my car door, smacked my forehead directly on the edge of the door. Thankfully didn't knock my self out but had a pretty good lump for a while.
I was 17. Walked into my parents bedroom while they were gone. My sister was going through Dad's desk and I hurried to see what she was doing. Did not notice a rolled up carpet, I slammed chest-first to concrete floor. I'd never been winded before, thought I was dead but still seeing. Sister was laughing hysterically. I never forgave her. Never.
Was messing with one of those springs from a mechanical pencil. It goes through my thumb. I take it out. Soon, my thumb is covered in blood. HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN? It wasn't sharp, and I don't have opposable thumbs. I'm a DOG!
I threw my neck out blow drying my hair. I had to take 3 days off work. In another incident I cut open my thumb washing a pot.
I once nearly stabbed myself in the chest making a microwave meal. I still had the knife in my hand from poking holes in the film and went to shut the microwave door, the latch caught me on the inside of my wrist and made me have a crazy reflex where my hand (still holding the knife) flicked back and hit me hard in the chest. It didn't cut me or anything but I've never forgot it
I managed to break my meniscus while bowling... I did a strike and it made me so happy that I jumped... and I heard a huge cracking sound. The doctors did not believe me I was bowling after they saw my knee :D
In HS I was on the cross country team and we went on a group run. The field hockeycteam was running the other direction across the street. I was paying attention to the girls running and looked ahead just in time to smack the stop sign and knock myself out while cutting my shoulder. Everybody saw that
I was 8 months pregnant, I crouched to cuddle my mom's dog, he ran to me and threw me backwards. the shirt came out of my trousers and I hit the pellet stove that was behind me with my lower back, I had the factory plaque tattooed on my backside for weeks after delivery
I tripped over a towel I had laying on the floor and landed on the corner of my night stand. It looked like I was punched in the face. It’s been months and my cheek is still sore
My friend's friend broke her arm tripping over a soccer ball. A couple days ago I got scratched by a cat, A football player at my school was climbing something and a brick fell on his head, I tripped over my freaking euphonium when I was looking for it (pissed me off, but I was fine)...
I have so many..... cut my thumb damn near off working in a restaurant and trying to get a lid off a juice container with a straight blade. My first black eye was in church..... Vacation Bible School we were cleaning up and I had to fold the metal chairs. I'd fold one jump over one, fold the next repeat. Got to almost the last one when I slipped and landed face first on the corner of the next metal chair. smh.
Years ago, whilst playing badminton, I thought that I'd do an underhanded power serve. I hit myself in the calf so hard that I ended up with a goose egg sized bruise. That bruise did not go away for weeks. And, another time, I crashed on the futon to watch television. I was wondering why my outer thigh was sticky. I was bleeding because I had somehow managed to land on my thumb, with my thumbnail piercing the skin of my thigh. I was already an adult in both cases.
This week alone I have cut my hand on the "silver" plating peeling off of the toilet paper holder and scratched the side of my face removing my sleep mask. There are more serious injuries including one I am currently dealing with (sprained my hand when I fell going UP a hill). It is safe to say...I AM A MESS!!
I broke my two front teeth playing hide and seek. Hiding in the back of a pickup truck and I peeked out and say the person looking for us. Ducked back down and hit my front teeth on the tail gate.
I cut up the inside of my mouth in grade school. We were having a footrace and I plowed straight into a picket fence.
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I was using an electric hedge trimmer when a small branch stopped it. Without turning it off, I pushed the branch out with my pinky finger. Cut through the bottom of my nail, cut the skin and broke the bone. They were able to reattach it, with only a scar going through the nail, and the nail grows curved. I was working in word processing, but quickly learned to use my ring finger to compensate.
Not long ago I was in the toilet stall at work, pulling up my pants. My hand slipped and I punched myself in the face. No permanent damage, but I had a bruise on my forehead that I had to explain.
Best one for me. I'm a CNA and threw my back out pulling up a resident's pants. Within 5 minutes of my shift starting
ok and heres my dumbass injury. i was on my way to my room (which is in the basement and yes the lights were off when i was down there) and to my F*****G LUCK, I stepped on a moltres pokemon pin. with the sharp part facing UP! now i have a giant f*****g whole in my toe. yes there was blood all over. it hurt like a b***h.
my mom broke her tooth biting into a skittle
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Fell out of the bed onto the edge of my dresser with my elbow while trying to turn off the lights. Ended in hospital and couldn't work for weeks. And once I was washing the dishes. A glass broke in my hand and got stuck up to the bone. Also ended in hospital.
A friend of ours who's elderly had bruises that looked like he lost a fight - he had jumped out of bed while having a particularly realistic dream.
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This is me. I’m constantly breaking my toes. I’d say every other month I end up accidentally kicking the edge of a piece of furniture and breaking some toe. I went to the ER for a foot X-ray and the doctor asked if I KNEW about all my broken toes. He could see all the healed fractures on the X-ray. My response... Yup, I’m clumsy.
I have several dumb injuries. Sprained my ankle after jumping on gigantic gym mat. Stabbed myself in the left index finger with an exacto knife in math class. Got a black eye from my cat while retrieving her from outside, did get her in the house. Recently, broke a molar with saltwater taffy and moreso later with a tortilla chip. Had it extracted today for an implant later.
I broke a molar tooth eating Subway sandwich. Never worked out why that happened.
I dropped a bowling ball on my foot and had a tiny hairline fracture on my big toe
I have to say--at least after you've made sure the person in question is ok other than a bump to the head--witnessing someone knocking themselves out cold is possibly the funniest thing I have ever seen.
Last month I was using an apple slicer, pushed down too hard, and sliced about halfway through my thumb.
My friend's friend broke her arm tripping over a soccer ball. A couple days ago I got scratched by a cat, A football player at my school was climbing something and a brick fell on his head, I tripped over my freaking euphonium when I was looking for it (pissed me off, but I was fine).
falls into a ravine completely unscathed.... stubs toe and steps on a lego at the same time, and is immediately rushed to the E.R
Working in an amusement park I was helping at the boats. There was a family of 4 entering the boat when the father lost his Birkenstock shoe in the water. I reacted really quickly, reached over and captured his shoe before it went down. Getting back up, I lost my reading glasses, they drowned even quicker than the shoe. The man was apologising, and I said: o don't worry, they were only 2€ glasses. He reached in his pocket and gave me a 2€ coin. In reality, I paid much more for the glasses. But hey, I rescued a Birkenstock shoe!
This is true. Despite what happened to me (see above) my dad when he was 20 fell off a roof 3 storeys up skidded off the garage roof and landed on his feet unscathed. I think back then he was part cat. I fall 3 feet out of a window and destroy my arm. : /
Load More Replies... Went to stroke my friends dog who jumped up and gave me a black eye. Fell over by being a wuss about crossing some ice and broke my arm - husband went first and just calmly walked across but I kept testing it and being ultra careful. Lost my balance getting up off the loo and head-butted the handbasin. 🤕 Large lump and bruising that lasted for a good couple of weeks. I have so many of these - I'm an exceptionally clumsy person.
so relatable. Thats why am super slow when doing anything, everyone always tell me to be quick. If I ever hasten, my clumsiness steps in :S
Load More Replies... Y’know how some kids’ bikes have a chain guard to stop feet from getting caught in the chain? I got mine caught in the guard and sliced the top of my big toe down to the bone when I was about seven years old. I also got severely bruised in my girly bits trying to beam walk on a flat top picket fence. Mum brought the neighbours over to check out the bruises.
Putting Christmas decor up while standing on a folding chair. Stepped back, chair collapsed and i fell backwards, butt first through my glass and iron coffee table. The sound of the glass shattering was like a Hollywood action movie. Natural instinct cause me to turn mid flight and try to catch myself. The glass shattered and i immediately knelt to check my arms. Thankfully no severed wrists. Move on all fours to stand up and my daughter says "uh mom dont move." "Why ". I asked as i looked over my shoulder. There was a pretty good sized shard of glass sticking out. Yes, i had been deeply stabbed in the butt!! I reached around and pulled the large shard out. Blood started pouring out. My husband comes running and he yanks my pants down while im still on all floors and say im going to the ER asap. I started to look and he stops me. I dont like blood. My daughter is fasinated by all this and bends down close to the wound and says "whats that white bubbly stuff?". It was my a*s fat. We throw a down over it and head off to the hospital. Towel was soaked by the time we got there. My pants had a 1" hole but the the triangular sharrd had went so deep it took 27 stitches! At one point while getting sewn up my lovely daughter pointed out a spot i missed while shaving my leg and went on and on about how much a*s_fat she could see. Post Note: if you ever Have to be stabbed the butt is the best place. The pain was minimum but having to wear sweats to the office because i had thick padded bandages was great. Now the best part...My A*s Itched for 6 months! I would leave meetings just to go stratch and i getting really good at rubbing on desk and wall corners. And finally, since i did it the Monday before Thanksgiving that i was hosting for about 40 people they all had a good laugh.
Mine are: 1. Missed a step while running up the stairs and landed on my shin, hitting the sharp concrete edge and cutting it to the bone. Hurt like a b***h. 2. Jumped out of bed and didn't realise my leg had fallen asleep. Proceeded to fall backwards onto the desk corner and got a nasty bruise from my shoulder to my lower back. Almost broke a rib.
Oh my! I hope you're all OK now :O
Load More Replies... Impaled my hand on an oily knife that slipped as soon as I pressed down, tore tendons in my arm rolling pizza dough, walk through a glass panel because I didn't see it and had to get stitches, slammed a door and got a concussion from knocking a bunch ice ice off the roof. Slipped a disc tying my boots.
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With a rather big collection of kitchen accidents (two resulted in multiple stiches), last time I tried to crack a cinnamon stick in half and managed to impale one if my fingers with it as it broke :'D
Loved these. Made me feel half way coordinated. Or maybe just lucky.
I sprained my ankle once taking off my sock. Doctor laughed for a good ten minutes.
We were swinging our legs as high as we can in Tae Kwon Do class as a method of stretching. With my anatomy and overzealousness: my knee cap got me right in the eye. Mild black eye for a week.
You know how - SPOILER ALERT - the last one was a prequel? I'd like to see one that's set 100 years ago - crazy ways to get hurt that we don't even think of today. Tony Todd could still be in it because his character is supernatural - or he could play his own ancestor. I'd like to see a horse-drawn hearse with black horses wearing plumes.
Load More Replies... Wearing socks, slipped on a roll of paper towels on the carpet while I was cleaning. Rolled over my big toe, dislocated and chipped. There's almost nothing you can do after set, just suffer for weeks and weeks. Every time you move the toe it hurts.
I stepped off a curb and broke my left ankle. 8 weeks later, did the exact same thing to my right ankle.
Oh dear! My Mom stepped off a curb and ruptured her Achilles' tendon, just like that.
Load More Replies... Jumped of our porch railing when I was ten. Was supposed to hit the trampoline but missed. Landed on the ground with my chin on my kneecap and ended up with six stitches. The same year I fell off a big gym ball and broke my tailbone.
Not me but a friend: she was eating a steak and somehow the fork got stuck in the steak. She pulled it out with such force that the blunt end of the fork went straight into her eyeball, puncturing it. She still has a red scar there.
Wow, she must have been re? (hence, that force)
Load More Replies... i hope all these people got well soon after all of these accidents.. but OMG i laughed way too hard to often :D i am so sorry
I injured BOTH of my ankles at once on a school trip, when I tried to carry my luggage and several bags down the stairs all at once with sunburned shoulders. Tripped and ended up kneeling on the starirs; the impact forced both of my ankles firmly onto the corner of one of the steps. It was the most impractical injury I ever had. I was able to stand on my feet (with the help of crutches) and therefore theoretically able to walk... but it was with the tiniest steps. Walking even small distances took forever.
When my sister was 4 yrs old, she and my mother were at some place and my mom let her go for a second and she went straight for the automatic door, slid her finder in while it was open and got it stuck for about 10 seconds until it opened again.
She had to go to surgery for her finger but luckily she broke no bones.
Load More Replies... Got an ugly purple scar on my knee from slipping on a pair of pajama pants that were lying on the ground, therefore slamming into an unfinished door frame and tearing my knee open on a nail sticking out.
A few things you need to know before I tell you my story. 1) I can't see 5 inches in front of my face when I have my glasses off, 2) it was in the middle of the night, 3) I'm anemic, 4) I'm female and 5) my dog was dark brown. One night, probably around 1am, I had to go to the bathroom. I didn't put my glasses on and I walked out of my room and into the hallway. It was pitch black and I didn't see my dog lying in the middle of the hallway. I tripped over her and landed sideways on my leg. A few days later there's a big bruise on my leg and I had to go to the grocery store. Did I mention that this happened in the summer. Someone from the Women's Resource Center approached me, gave me her card, and told me to call her if I needed any help.
I was reading number 46 on my computer while doing the dishes started laughing hit the computer of the counter it then fell on my foot then when I bent down to pick it up I hit my head on the counter and bit my tongue
I was walking in from recess in about 4th grade when I saw a plane and got distracted, then tripped over an uneven bit of the concrete and hyper-extended both of my writs. My brother never let me hear the end of that.
I can't read those without cringing. I'm thinking about all the stuff I do all the time and how close I am to injure myself, because of sheer clumsiness.
I've been waking up with vertigo lately; it's a contest between shutting off my alarm clock and falling on my face. Cross your fingers, haven't fallen yet!
Load More Replies... I think I win..... When I was younger my elbow would just like, pop out of its socket, like just fall out. Idk how. My mom who is a doctor doesn't know how or why, it just happened. 5 FREAKING times!
Two come to mind. 1. The night before my 12th bday my sister had to go to the ER because a door fell on her and broke her arm. We were there until 5 am and I was asleep. Mom woke me up to go home, I took one step on the floor and ended up just faceplanting, breaking my ankle that wouldn't heal for a year. People always look at me funny when I say I broke my ankle at the hospital on my birthday, which happened to be a Monday. 2. Was on a high school band trip to Minneapolis and we got to use those coach buses. Well my phone was dying and there was a plug in against the side of the seat. Went to bend down to plug it in and bashed my head on the cupholder on the back of the seat in front of me. Ended up concussed and dizzy the entire trip, but u didn't know that so I went on a bunch of rollercoasters and then I told my mom on Monday when we got back that I didn't feel good and she took me to the doc. She was so mad. she kept yelling that I should have told somebody & I could have died 😅
Sprained my left middle finger helping someone up who had tripped and fallen while watching a dance at a pow wow.
I was maybe 6 and decided I was going sledding. I grabbed my little home-made wagon I created out of those old Home-Depot kid-built crafts things, climbed to the top of the tallest armchair, and slid down. It was fun for about 0.8 seconds. Then my face smashed into the glass table and my front teeth ripped through my bottom lip. Somehow, though, the table was unharmed and still survives unscathed to this day.
My dad (49-year's old) broke his rib doing a wheely in an attempt to impress a VSCO girl. It hurts when he sneezes now.
I once broke 3 metatarsals dropping a pint glass (the thick tankard ones with handle) it landed on top of my foot on its rim giving me a nice smile bruise. I believe i only dropped it because was hobbling after one of kids tiahed in and pushed door onlo my other foot breaking 2 toes just a couple of days previously
My husband broke his leg in both tibia and fibula from sitting on a table... me I knocked myself out on a bathroom door k**b and frame after shutting my thumb in the door and passing out from pain... had raccoon eyes for the whole week in Paris.
I got out of my shower and bent over to get my towel off the floor. The edge of my shower curtain went into my butt crack. I didn't even notice until I walked away from it. It scared me so bad, I lurched forward, slipped on the tile, smacked my head on the counter and split the skin open. I don't know what I told people as to how I got that injury, but obviously I wasn't about to tell them it was a shower curtain to the a*s.
When I was 12, I slipped off a bottom step that was wet from the rain and broke my left ankle. 26 years later, I slipped off a 1 inch step on my BFF's porch while it was raining (while wearing rain boots), and broke my left leg, plus dislocated my left ankle. Needed surgery, a steel plate w 7 pins and couldn't walk on it for 4 months. The same BFF tripped over her own left foot while running in gym class and broke her own right foot.
i once broke my foot after getting dizzy from standing up from using the toilet...passed out & spun around on the way down, spiral fracture.
I was using my arms to lift myself out of the pool (as a kid) slipped and broke one of my front teeth on the concrete. A few weeks later, slid into the back door face first and broke the other. But I think my coup de grace was bruising the absolute s**t out of both kneecaps in my late 30's. Got irrationally frightened going back to bed in the middle of the night from the bathroom. Decided to leap into bed to avoid the wiley boogeyman waiting for me. I leapt too short and whacked both knees on the footboard.
Broke my toe after I hit it on the corner of our wood bed frame. It had finally healed, until our 130 lb shepradore stepped on my bare foot and re-broke it.
My oldest daughter had the strangest accidents, between the ages of 2-5, she hung herself upside down by her clothes climbing a chain link fence, needed steri strips for the cuts, threw a laundry basket down the basement stairs, but forgot to let go, got a concussion, rocked too hard in a little kids chair, flipped it, broke her nose, climbed the pole of a swing set in a public park, didn't know how to get back down, so she let go, needed surgery to reattach her broken foot to her broken ankle, didn't know how to stop on her scooter, so she deliberately ran it into a tree, had to have upper and lower lip as well as front teeth sewn back in place, I think she could probably share a bubble with the fella that says he deserves one.
Was watering the plants in the yard and when i went to coil up the hose I leaned over too far and hit the shark edge of the hanger that you put the hose on (didn't think I had bent down that far) with my forehead. Came down on it so hard that I saw stars and thought I was going to pass out. Checked in the mirror, wasn't bleeding too badly but I had just missed putting my eye out by about a 1/4 of an inch (the brow bone). Have a scar and indent for life :) That's just one of the many and I have the scars to prove it!
In school in 2001, went to a health exhibit. My then husband showed me a game of virtual soccer. Pulled a Charlie’s Angels kick and dropped to the floor. “No, no. I’m fine.” Went to the hospital; torn ACL. Post-surgery, PT retore it. Still not fixed
Playing on the monkey bars as a kid, fell, dislocated my elbow, snapped off my funny bone & now I have nerve damage down my left arm, had surgery a few years ago to correct the nerve damage, it made it worse 😞
I love working Trauma as an RN!! First question- "How did you do this?" Answer- "Doing something stupid" was the most common one...but people hurt themselves in very creative ways. Sometimes, though, it really is a freak accident..can't make this stuff up..
So I kept my toilet rolls on top of a cupboard and buy 9 packs for economy. So I reached with a handy grabber (Im disablled) and they fell down on to my nose and broke it. Then couple months later broke my arm slipping in snow then my toe few months later. I asked Doctor for bone scan as I had cancer/chemo/menopause at 26/27 but he said I was on HRT so couldnt have osteoporosis , they were wrong I did and I do despite other treatments and i can laugh about it now!
Gave myself chemical burns and rubbed off a layer of skin or 2 with a magic eraser whole trying to scrub hair dye off my face, neck and arm. I havent even touched a magic eraser since then 😂😂
I ended up with tendonitis in my lower left arm and a big bad bruise on the inside of the left wrist from clapping my hands too much and too loudly trying to get the audience to show more enthusiasm when the winners were going towards the end of the race when I was volunteering at a night half marathon.
i was 5 when i stepped on a sewing needle and it went half way up my big toe
Load More Replies... One of my distant relatives was dubbed the most accident prone person in Scotland in 2010. My family tree dates back to the Middle Ages and I’m part of the branch of Clan Crozier that went to North America. I have this in my blood. http://www.thinkscotland.org/this-week-legend.html?read_full=10672&article=www.thinkscotland.org
I shattered my knee and ripped a chunk off my femur walking across the kitchen to warm the baby bottle. My mum was holding him(baby) at the time thank God. I remember saying "get him out of the room, then letting my scream out when she shut the door
Cut my wrist badly enough to leave a scar while wrestling the hard drive out of a computer so we could Freecycle it.
Slipped and fell on the ice on New Year's Day. Not a good time to go to the ER - everybody who's been doing something foolish ends up there. Also, hit my head on an antique metal coal scoop.
I was preheating my oven (425°) went to put the chicken in the oven and realized I had stored a large pot in there. Reached in an grabbed both handles. Unfortunately I for hot to use oven mitts. Second degree burns on both hands. Both hand were wrapped like boxing gloves. I couldn't do anything for myself and I mean ANYTHING! So had to be hospitalized for two weeks.
The shower curtain rod fell on my face when i was in the shower. I broke my nose
My boyfriend fractured 2 ribs while coughing a few years ago. He was just standing there, right next to me, and coughed a little. The next second he's yelling in pain. Scared the s**t out of me! XD
Mine would have to be a tie between fracturing my toe after dropping a can of corn on it and giving myself a black eye with the car door
I honestly cut myself in funny ways, I don't wash knives separately so I put then in the sink with the other silverware, I have never been injured because of it. Yet within two months, I cut myself with two different sponges, a dishrag, a cup, and a marker. I am the clumsiest person in my family.
Picking up my daughter in kindergarten, a young boy came out of her classroom and threw his schoolbag up and right into my mouth - it was the kind with wheels and hence hard plastic bits. Tore my lips which were so swollen I couldn't go to work the next day
When wringing out a rag, start with your arms bent and straighten them. I started with my arms straight and bent them up toward my face, my hand slipped off the soapy rag, and I punched myself in the face.
Oh! I hit myself in the nose with a clipboard hard enough to get a bruise, but didn't break it.
Load More Replies... When I was approx 7 or 8 years old (many many moons ago), I went sledding with the rest of the boys from Sunday school. At the bottom of the hill was a brick wall and we had to roll off in order to avoid hitting it. It came my turn, I started going down the hill and fear set in. I found myself scared of rolling off and I gripped the sled for dear life. WHAM !!! right into the brick wall. I was taken to the ER by the church leader and ended up with a concussion.
Dislocated my thumb moving a sofa and broke my hand when a fire extinguisher fell off of the wall into it... happens to us all.
Mine are: 1. I got a really big cut into my hand by a pizza slice. 2. Broke my leg while dancing with my friend in kindergarten when I was 3 years old. 3. I was at a sleepover with my 2 friends and we had ordered pizza. When the pizza delivery guy rang the doorbell, it scared me and I fell down, dislocating my knee and screaming. My friend got the pizzas and the delivery guy ran away.
Bruised 2 ribs while trying to hook the freezer reachtruck on the charger... while trying to squeeze the plugs on eachother it slipped from 1 hand and i pushed it with full force in my own chest. Certainly didn't enjoyed that hasty stupid mistake for a few weeks...
In 6th grade I got a laceration on my temple when I was riding my bike against an excavator shovel When I was 16, I broke my toe when I climbed down the ladder into the pool when I fled from my brother while romping around I have already had 4 or 5 times knives in my hand and in my foot, because I always try to catch them when they fall down.
Oh dear - you need to practice just letting the knife fall, LOL.
Load More Replies... When I was 11 I leaned too far forward and fell out of the living room window while shouting for my dog to come in. I broke my arm in 2 places, dislocated my elbow and shoulder and tore several ligaments. I had to wear a plaster that covered my entire arm for 2 months.
I once cut the corner of my mouth by shoveling Tostitos inside it too enthusiastically.
I made staging with 2 saw horses and a 2×12 so that I could paint the eaves. I was walking backwards, looking up. And you know what happened. I walked off the staging and landed square on my tailbone. I thought I was dead. I wanted to be dead. The only reason I knew I wasn't dead is because of the pain. The massive pain. I am cringing now thinking about it. This happened in 2006
I got my hand stuck in ironically a hand mixer, broke a brick with my knee falling after dog tripped me, oh and pulled hot metal baking pan out of countertop oven and burned my neck....it looked like a Hickey and found out paper tape causes me to break out in rash by sporting a big red square around hickey burn
Broke my nose and split my head open waterskiing, went swimming later that night stitches loosened up and had too have them redone. Only one of my many stupid injuries .
I tried to be like one of those pole-vaulters when I was little - picked up a stick on the side of the trail we were walking on, ran, tried to jump as high as I could with the stick, and dug the top of the branch into my stomach and left a scar for many years.
I sneezed at the exact moment I opened my car door, smacked my forehead directly on the edge of the door. Thankfully didn't knock my self out but had a pretty good lump for a while.
I was 17. Walked into my parents bedroom while they were gone. My sister was going through Dad's desk and I hurried to see what she was doing. Did not notice a rolled up carpet, I slammed chest-first to concrete floor. I'd never been winded before, thought I was dead but still seeing. Sister was laughing hysterically. I never forgave her. Never.
Was messing with one of those springs from a mechanical pencil. It goes through my thumb. I take it out. Soon, my thumb is covered in blood. HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN? It wasn't sharp, and I don't have opposable thumbs. I'm a DOG!
I threw my neck out blow drying my hair. I had to take 3 days off work. In another incident I cut open my thumb washing a pot.
I once nearly stabbed myself in the chest making a microwave meal. I still had the knife in my hand from poking holes in the film and went to shut the microwave door, the latch caught me on the inside of my wrist and made me have a crazy reflex where my hand (still holding the knife) flicked back and hit me hard in the chest. It didn't cut me or anything but I've never forgot it
I managed to break my meniscus while bowling... I did a strike and it made me so happy that I jumped... and I heard a huge cracking sound. The doctors did not believe me I was bowling after they saw my knee :D
In HS I was on the cross country team and we went on a group run. The field hockeycteam was running the other direction across the street. I was paying attention to the girls running and looked ahead just in time to smack the stop sign and knock myself out while cutting my shoulder. Everybody saw that
I was 8 months pregnant, I crouched to cuddle my mom's dog, he ran to me and threw me backwards. the shirt came out of my trousers and I hit the pellet stove that was behind me with my lower back, I had the factory plaque tattooed on my backside for weeks after delivery
I tripped over a towel I had laying on the floor and landed on the corner of my night stand. It looked like I was punched in the face. It’s been months and my cheek is still sore
My friend's friend broke her arm tripping over a soccer ball. A couple days ago I got scratched by a cat, A football player at my school was climbing something and a brick fell on his head, I tripped over my freaking euphonium when I was looking for it (pissed me off, but I was fine)...
I have so many..... cut my thumb damn near off working in a restaurant and trying to get a lid off a juice container with a straight blade. My first black eye was in church..... Vacation Bible School we were cleaning up and I had to fold the metal chairs. I'd fold one jump over one, fold the next repeat. Got to almost the last one when I slipped and landed face first on the corner of the next metal chair. smh.
Years ago, whilst playing badminton, I thought that I'd do an underhanded power serve. I hit myself in the calf so hard that I ended up with a goose egg sized bruise. That bruise did not go away for weeks. And, another time, I crashed on the futon to watch television. I was wondering why my outer thigh was sticky. I was bleeding because I had somehow managed to land on my thumb, with my thumbnail piercing the skin of my thigh. I was already an adult in both cases.
This week alone I have cut my hand on the "silver" plating peeling off of the toilet paper holder and scratched the side of my face removing my sleep mask. There are more serious injuries including one I am currently dealing with (sprained my hand when I fell going UP a hill). It is safe to say...I AM A MESS!!
I broke my two front teeth playing hide and seek. Hiding in the back of a pickup truck and I peeked out and say the person looking for us. Ducked back down and hit my front teeth on the tail gate.
I cut up the inside of my mouth in grade school. We were having a footrace and I plowed straight into a picket fence.
Load More Replies... I was using an electric hedge trimmer when a small branch stopped it. Without turning it off, I pushed the branch out with my pinky finger. Cut through the bottom of my nail, cut the skin and broke the bone. They were able to reattach it, with only a scar going through the nail, and the nail grows curved. I was working in word processing, but quickly learned to use my ring finger to compensate.
Not long ago I was in the toilet stall at work, pulling up my pants. My hand slipped and I punched myself in the face. No permanent damage, but I had a bruise on my forehead that I had to explain.
Best one for me. I'm a CNA and threw my back out pulling up a resident's pants. Within 5 minutes of my shift starting
ok and heres my dumbass injury. i was on my way to my room (which is in the basement and yes the lights were off when i was down there) and to my F*****G LUCK, I stepped on a moltres pokemon pin. with the sharp part facing UP! now i have a giant f*****g whole in my toe. yes there was blood all over. it hurt like a b***h.
my mom broke her tooth biting into a skittle
Load More Replies... Fell out of the bed onto the edge of my dresser with my elbow while trying to turn off the lights. Ended in hospital and couldn't work for weeks. And once I was washing the dishes. A glass broke in my hand and got stuck up to the bone. Also ended in hospital.
A friend of ours who's elderly had bruises that looked like he lost a fight - he had jumped out of bed while having a particularly realistic dream.
Load More Replies... This is me. I’m constantly breaking my toes. I’d say every other month I end up accidentally kicking the edge of a piece of furniture and breaking some toe. I went to the ER for a foot X-ray and the doctor asked if I KNEW about all my broken toes. He could see all the healed fractures on the X-ray. My response... Yup, I’m clumsy.
I have several dumb injuries. Sprained my ankle after jumping on gigantic gym mat. Stabbed myself in the left index finger with an exacto knife in math class. Got a black eye from my cat while retrieving her from outside, did get her in the house. Recently, broke a molar with saltwater taffy and moreso later with a tortilla chip. Had it extracted today for an implant later.
I broke a molar tooth eating Subway sandwich. Never worked out why that happened.
I dropped a bowling ball on my foot and had a tiny hairline fracture on my big toe
I have to say--at least after you've made sure the person in question is ok other than a bump to the head--witnessing someone knocking themselves out cold is possibly the funniest thing I have ever seen.
Last month I was using an apple slicer, pushed down too hard, and sliced about halfway through my thumb.
My friend's friend broke her arm tripping over a soccer ball. A couple days ago I got scratched by a cat, A football player at my school was climbing something and a brick fell on his head, I tripped over my freaking euphonium when I was looking for it (pissed me off, but I was fine).
falls into a ravine completely unscathed.... stubs toe and steps on a lego at the same time, and is immediately rushed to the E.R
Working in an amusement park I was helping at the boats. There was a family of 4 entering the boat when the father lost his Birkenstock shoe in the water. I reacted really quickly, reached over and captured his shoe before it went down. Getting back up, I lost my reading glasses, they drowned even quicker than the shoe. The man was apologising, and I said: o don't worry, they were only 2€ glasses. He reached in his pocket and gave me a 2€ coin. In reality, I paid much more for the glasses. But hey, I rescued a Birkenstock shoe!
