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Getting injured is, universally, a crappy experience. However, it's an unavoidable part of our lives as we all sometimes simply get into harm's way. However, most of the time, we just happen to have the bad luck of being at the wrong place at the wrong time, but there are also occasions when we put our health and wellbeing in danger by being... Well, not the sharpest tools in the shed, but a great pretender for the Darwin Awards. And if you know that there's something on the internet that you can always find, it's people's epic fails where there's no filter for shame or shyness. Here are some of the dumbest and silliest stories of how people injured themselves in funny accidents. Upside to all this? You might not feel so bad about making some stupid choices in life. So scroll down below, indulge and don't forget to comment and vote on your favorite funny fails!
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#1
At a friend's house out in the country. I was down on the carpet playing with their yellow lab, Boo. I was jumping around and Boo was jumping around and our heads collided. Boo's teeth cut my nose really bad. There was blood everywhere. I still have a small scar. Boo ran out the dog door and didn't come home for two days. He thought he thought he was in trouble. Boo and I remained friends, though. He was a good boy.
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#2
Attempting to adjust my bra, lost my grip, punched myself in the face.
DP von Icecream 6 years ago
That is why it is a good idea to ask a male to assist you in this endeavour! And we are always willing & very happy to assist you! ;-)
Cassie 6 years ago
While putting a sports bra on, I somehow managed to sprain the entire muscle group on one side of my body and couldn't move for a week.
Frozengeckolover 6 years ago
I did this while removing a sports bra. After I was sweaty from working out, when the darn thing wants to stick to you like a supernatural force is keeping it clung to your body.
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crazy_cat_notAlady 6 years ago
been there, done that. i have kneed myself while trying to put on pants while lying in bed. on second thought, my laziness might have to do something with my injuries.
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
I accidentally clocked myself in the face with a clipboard - it left a mark that lasted a couple of days.
#3
One time I tried to fart while playing online poker really late while my girlfriend was asleep. About half of the fart came out before I realized more was on its way out too. I caught that before it was too late and jumped up and started to run to the bathroom. I had headphones on and yanked my head to the left and pulled my tower over as I kicked a 25 lb weight on the floor, broke my toe and then [poop] all over myself.
Blake Leonard 6 years ago
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Tammy Ralph 6 years ago
Should have put this last on the list, because it's going to be hard to top this.
Sasy 6 years ago
Me too, I was fine until the end and then it just burst out.
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#4
Tripped over a cat. Broke my foot. Cat was fine though.
Debra Starr Moon 6 years ago
My cat tripped me as I was going UP the stairs carrying a full laundry basket. I dislocated my thumb and cracked a rib. The cat? Purrrfectly fine of course. And plotting my next ER visit.
Freya the Wanderer 6 years ago
Cats never learn that they shouldn't play "Kitty Be Underfoot"!
Magpie 6 years ago
They have not forgotten they were treated as gods in ancient Egypt. Who ever tripped over a god ?
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María Hermida 6 years ago
You are not dumb. Cats and dogs tend to be in the middle of the way all the time. I'm happy the cat wasn't injured and I hope your foot healed OK.
Jeanne Wessinger 6 years ago
Omg, something I would do. And everyone would only ask if the cat is okay!
Leo Domitrix 6 years ago
I can top that. Broke my left foot in four places, and needed 9 screws and a titanium plate in my right arm... From tripping over a cat. Yeah. I swear the ER doc sniggered...
#5
When I was little I thought plastic bags were parachutes. I jumped off the table and broke my arm. Once it healed I did it again
Shirley Heyn 6 years ago
But you didn't say... did it work the second time??? or you broke your arm again???
Pseudo Puppy 6 years ago
the level of self-aware stupidity makes me wonder how we have survived as a species...
Nicky OldfieldDesciple 6 years ago
A Girl on the housing estate where I grew up stood up on the bonnet (hood) of her dad's car and tried to do a dance (Lord knows why). She fell off and broke her arm. When she came out of hospital we asked her if she would try to do her dance again. We helped her onto the car and she did her dance, fell off again and broke her other arm. Her parents were questioned by the Child Protections Officers but since there were plenty of witnesses to the accident they were let off.
Cassie Street 4 years ago
I dod something similar when i was 6... except i used an umbrella and climbed on top of a 1story roof and aimed for a trampoline... no broken bones but i was bare foot and bruised all the bones in my feet and 2nd degree friction burns on my knees!
#6
Sneezed. Threw my back out. Couldn't work for a week. Could barely walk the first couple days. I was 27.
aurora50 6 years ago
I was struggling to get out of a sweaty compression-fabric tank top...my arms were crossed as I tugged to get it past my bosoms...suddenly a lock of hair went up my nose and I sneezed a Mighty Blast...and cracked a rib! I felt it go...there was just no room for my lungs to expand as my arms were held down by the elastic...it took months to heal up.
Smerv 6 years ago
I'm sorry it happened to you. I'm sorry I laughed to it
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Molly Tallmadge 6 years ago (edited)
I'm going to call BS on this one. Is this scientifically possible? Edit: Please don't downvote, I'm just asking.
Laugh Fan 6 years ago
Not bs at all unfortunately. I have back problems - born with Spina Biffida Occulta which causes me constant pain and problems. Completely dread sneezing as it hurts so much. A sneeze can trigger several days, weeks or even months of back pain or just hurt a lot during the sneeze - never know which it's going to be. Something can just be slightly misaligned and OUCH. I hate it when people downvote questions so have an upvote from me!
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Bob Beltcher 6 years ago
I've sneezed my glasses off a few times, at work in front of colleges.
Jenny King 6 years ago
Having game night with another family and our teenagers. While playing a fabulous game of Balderdash, son #2 sneezes so hard, throwing his head forward, that it slammed into the table and left a spectacular bruise in the center of his forehead.
Sophie Babbitt 6 years ago
once, when my sister was little, she sneezed at dinner and smacked her forehead on the table.
#7
Walked head first into a mind your head sign once. Not my finest moment.
Molly Tallmadge 6 years ago (edited)
You did "mind your head". It's just that you didn't do it well.
Stay Tooned 3 years ago
Bought a gadget that holds a cell phone to watch tv. When I was adjusting it, it twisted the wrong way and bonked me hard in the forehead. Got a lump and a huge bruise across my forehead. lucky it didn't put my eye out. So stupid.
#8
Climbed a tree when I was about 12, fell out, broke my left arm. A week or so later,my friends dared me to climb the same tree with my left arm in a cast to my elbow. Got a branch higher than the first time, fell out, broke my right arm. Mum wasn't happy about having to take me back to hospital to get the other arm put in a cast too!
Carol Emory 6 years ago
And a week later, dad was out with the chainsaw cutting the tree down probably....lol
María Hermida 6 years ago
Because we are very, very lucky. Without the "luck factor" we wouldn't have had a chance in hell.
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Ben Steinberg 6 years ago
So both your arms were in casts? Yeah, I BET your mum was unhappy...all those years later and she was back to having to wipe your bum again...
#9
I was trying to kill a cockroach by squishing it on my carpet with a paper towel but it would not die. So I picked it up with the paper towel but for some reason I didn't crush it and it started to get on my hand, so I started sprinting to throw it in the toilet. I slipped and fell on one of those big candles with three wicks in a glass jar. Lots of blood and 10 stitches later, there is now a 2.5-inch scar on my leg and I didn't even kill the roach. I got my ass beat by a cockroach.
Audrey Martin 1 year ago
Cockroaches, one of the few insects that I loathe. The others being slugs, house flies and mosquitoes.
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Shari H 6 years ago
My rule is that if roaches move in I move out. I like bugs and do not kill any living thing, but roaches freak me out!
Magpie 6 years ago
So long as you don't feed them by carelessly leaving food accessible to them you should not have a problem. ..... sometimes plastic is good. Totally seal-able containers for example. * just be careful about disposing of them correctly.
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Parmeisan 6 years ago
A cockroach beat my husband, too. He was leaning over the couch trying to kill it and he strained some internal muscle or something, I can't remember how the doctor described it, but he was in a fair bit of pain and had trouble breathing for about two weeks. The cockroach got away.
Kamryn McNamara 6 years ago
Kill it with fire. So what if you burn the house down accidentally-on-purpose? You got the roach right where you want him...
#10
Gave myself two black eyes when I was a kid by walking around my house looking through binoculars backwards so I couldn't judge the distance.
MantisKeeper 5 years ago
well, i did. now they belong to my little sister.
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Michelle Dodson 6 years ago
I want those jammies! They never make fun stuff like that for grown-ups (note: I did not say adults).
#11
Tried to kick a balloon lying on the floor at a party.
Attack angle way too steep, kicked the floor and broke my toe, barely moved the balloon.
FortnitePlayerGirl 6 years ago (edited)
This happened with me but I was kicking a soccer ball barefoot at 11 years old. Shattered my foot and kicked the soccer ball a fraction of an inch.
Lazar 6 years ago
Ouch!! Not gonna lie, I honestly feel rlly bad for you there
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Claire Armstrong 6 years ago
Lol, this reminds me of something that happened to me. I was getting changed one day and was shaking my leg back and forward to get my pj trousers off (like I always do!), misjudged it and kicked the floor on my forward swing with my right foot. Luckily, nothing was broken but I did have some interesting bruises on my toes lol! I've been extremely careful since then lol.
#12
Went to the gym with some friends on my lunch break - they challenged me to do a pushup with a clap behind my back before I landed. Challenge accepted and accomplished. That day after work (while in a suit) I went to my girlfriend's house and told her about my newfound pushup skills. I tried to re-live the glory, couldn't reach my hands behind my back to clap because the suit was restricting my motion, and landed chin-first on her hardwood floor. I ended up in the E.R. to get 5 stitches under my chin and at the dentist the next day to fix a chipped molar. Shouts to my E.R. doctor for not judging me too harshly.
Kiahna 6 years ago
Just wanted to say, thanks for being a nurse. I couldn’t have gotten through the last couple of years without people like you. :)
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Molly Tallmadge 6 years ago
I thought I had appendicitus- went to the ER. It was period cramps
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jenjie.newt 6 years ago
I had a supervisor who was admitted to the ER for "breakdancing while intoxicated". Somehow he needed eight stitches in his forehead for trying to do the worm
Michelle Dodson 6 years ago
Oh, Honey. That's about the tamest thing those nurses have seen in a while! (Guess where you can fit a flashlight?)
#13
I hit myself in the face with my glass Starbucks frapaccino bottle because I freaked out about a butterfly that flew near me. I know this entire sentence is dumb
Tammy Ralph 6 years ago
Glad someone else is freaked by butterflies, I'm petrified of them, their basically glorified moths.
Kate Ten Pas 6 years ago
Butterflies creep me out! If a monarch should fly past me at a distance of at least 5 feet, fine. It comes flying at me (even if it's 5 feet away) I will screech and run away. Which I have done and was made fun of by my brother and my Mom.
Load More Replies... FortnitePlayerGirl 6 years ago (edited)
I once tried to run out of the bathroom with my pants down when I was 6 because I was scared of a fat hairy wolf spider in the corner. Tripped, fell, and knocked out my loose front tooth.
Cammy 6 years ago
Ouch I slapoed myself in my sleep. I feel asleep with my arm over my head and when I moved it I slapped myself awake
Audrey Martin 1 year ago
I'm not scared of any insects or amphibians. But cows outside of their field make me a bit nervous.. It's only happened a couple of times. The first time it happened I was chased down an embankment. The second time I just slowly backed away and took a detour.
Cassie Street 4 years ago
Dont feel bad im terrified of frogs but one time i saw a little rain frog stuck to the side of a car in august(98°f) i felt bad for it and sprinkled some water from a water bottle on it to help and the dang thing immediately unstuck and jumped on me! I screamed so loud my mom ran outside thinking i saw a snake. All she saw was a 26yro woman running in circles with a frog stuck to her neck... i didnt stop til fainted from fear and knocked out a tooth...
#14
Putting a knife in a toaster in an attempt to get toast out of it.
Shirley Heyn 6 years ago
Why are we being shown a toaster oven when the "tale" is about a toaster??? They are totally 2 different appliances. Am I the only one questioning these "tales"???
karen snyder 6 years ago
Well, Sherlock, I guess you cracked that whole, "not actual photo" case. Good thing you were so vigilant in your suspicions that #19 would fabricate a "tale" about sticking a knife in a toaster. Just because everyone thinks you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not all lying to you. They're all lying Shirley... All of them.
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Parmeisan 6 years ago
No, not everyone. Some of us were lucky enough to hear the tales of those who came before.
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Eden-Rose Huntsman 6 years ago
My brother put a paper towel in a toaster and almost lit our house on fire...
Audrey Martin 1 year ago (edited)
The element in a toaster can burn you but it's not " live" so it won't electrocute you. You shouldn't put a knife in one though. If you lift the "lowering" k n o b up as far as it will go, it should lift the toast up above the slot ( if it's a normal sized slice)
#15
Age 6 or 7, the neighbor kid invited me to ride bikes or something. Don't remember. Went inside my house to ask permission. Mom said yes, and I ran through the house and out the front door. And missed the storm door handle. My hand and arm went through the glass. And to the ER we went. I've got scars from the stitches and the scars ache when the weather changes or when I'm exposed to any itch anywhere else. Literally every day, I'm reminded of that business with the storm door. But I can top that! I bought a mandolin food slicer. Yes. Yes it's bad. And one evening I was using the brand new gadget to slice some Jalapenos. It was a very fast machine and sliced much faster than my ability to get my hand out of the way. So I sliced off the top of a finger between the nail and the knuckle. Perfect slice of skin about the size of a nickel coin. Not having any access to medical care at the time, I grabbed the first aid kit out of my truck and went to work with the other hand trying to stop the bleeding. Eventually got the idea of sticking the sliced finger part back where it came from. This worked. But there was no easy way to tell which way was what. And the finger slice went on backwards. Luckily it didn't get infected thanks to that damn useful first aid kit bag of tricks. Healed up fine. Aside from being backwards. I'll never own another mandolin slicer.
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
Me too - I can just feel it! This is why I keep a first-aid kit.
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Debra Starr Moon 6 years ago
That had to burn so bad from the jalapeño juice! Makes my eyes water just thinking about it.
Audrey Martin 1 year ago
My brother once drove his car over an ornamental rock, set In concrete. The rock was torn out of the concrete and tipped partly on its side. The car was stuck. Stupid me put my hands under the rock to turn it over further. Stupid brother drove the car forwards. I pulled my hands out super quick, but not quick enough. I ripped the top off my pinky finger including the nail. Trip to A&E and 4 stitches? Long time ago, I was 22 and a nurse for goodness sake.
#16
Cutting a cake for a friends birthday, accidentally drop knife, attempt to catch it with foot.
Jessica Crowder 6 years ago
I too caught a knife with my foot. Making chili... ended up changing my life as I met my husband at medical.
L.j. Bus 6 years ago (edited)
I’ve catched a hobby exacto knife with my leg once when it fell of my table. Still have the scar but never bothered to get it stitched up. Those really heavy sports tape is handy with deep cuts, so just taped it together since it was just a (deep but small) cut of about a small centimeter. My dad and I have used up a lot of such tape with numerous accidents and injuries. I was shocked a few years back when I followed a first aid class at how much my dad and I risked with our ‘just tape it together’ mentality lol
Audrey Martin 1 year ago
I had a patient once ,who kicked a jambed lawn mower with her almost bare foot. She now has only three and a half toes on her R foot. The bonus for me is that my patient and I became friends and I took her place in her ten pin bowling team.. She recovered enough to re-join the team and I got to stay too.... Happy days!
#17
I wanted to touch a bee. I was really young, don't judge me.
Susann Campbell 6 years ago
I won't. I wanted to pet a bee because the fuzzy fur beckoned me to do it. I was six.
Crouching_Penn_Hidden_Teller@yahoo.com 6 years ago
I scoop bees out of my swimming pool. Never been stung once doing that.
the Lemon Queen 6 years ago
I did this. Was 7, saw the bee on the ground, thought it was hurt so I picked it up. Somehow the stinger scratched the entire top of my thumb and mum couldn't tell where it was. Got it out eventually though.
Hailey Crawford 6 years ago
I've been stung four times by a wasp, and none of the times doesn't even make sense. 1st: I was 12 and helping set up for a trunk or treat for church, wasp came up and stung me right between the eyes. The Jerk. 2nd: Girls camp, last morning. I woke up early and pressed my face into my blanket, and there was a wasp. I was stung on my eyelid, exactly one millimeter from my eyeball. The last two times aren't important.
Ildiko Okido 6 years ago
My cousin told me to put a bumble bee in both closed hands and then shake them. “It’s a funny feeling”, she said. It wasne’t, the bumble bee stung my hand. We were about six years old, I think. Poor bumble bee must have been dizzy.
Sam Petter 6 years ago
First beesting of my life was when my dumb a*s though, "huh, this bee is really annoying me right now. Better swat at it repeatedly until it goes away. Totally won't make it feel threatened enough to sting."
Tricia Flynn 6 years ago
I grew up in the tropics bush bees dont sting went interstate tried to catch a bee i was 7
Alan Ma 6 years ago
when my girlfriend was 12 she thought the bees were looking sad as it was raining so decided to take them a spoonful of honey....she was overwhelmed and the bites were so massive that the nose and face was of same level from swelling and eyes became just slits ...lucky she was not allergic to bee's venom!!
#18
I was heating up a curry in the microwave, which was very safely placed on top of an extremely high fridge. Being very small and not being able to locate my special step, I try to reach up and remove the curry. Lo and behold, half of the curry spills down me, completely coating my arm. It burnt me so severely that it damaged the nerves so I didn't have anyyyyy idea how serious it was. I was so busy eating the rest of the curry and mourning the lost half, it wasn't until I realised my whole arm was one big blister that I finally went to hospital. Took months to heal and the curry was only average
Pretty Pangolin 6 years ago
Love the last sentence - it would have all been worthwhile if the curry was better!
Mark Kelly 6 years ago
A lifetime scar and pain for curry? a bad deal. Last time I had indian food it felt like my a*****e was on fire
DP von Icecream 6 years ago
The words Curry + Microwave DO NOT go together! This should be made punishable by the full extend of the law! ;-)
Louise Brigance 6 years ago
Being short I sympathize with your plight...it usually takes a couple of disasters to realize we just are not 6 ft. tall and to use some common sense before reaching over our heads to get something.
#19
I tried squeezing out a fart and got a hernia
🏳️🌈👻EmoExtreemo👻🏳️🌈 6 years ago
Did anyone look up what that is? Omg this made me laugh so hard
#20
Fractured both my wrists tripping over a blanket. Two casts
🏳️🌈👻EmoExtreemo👻🏳️🌈 6 years ago
Sounds like something I would do. In school while exiting the cafeteria I once tripped on a flat doormat, fell on my face, exploded my pencil case, and shattered my computer case. Good side of the story? i get to tell it to other people to make them feel good about themselves.
Nancy Baldauf 6 years ago
Yikes. It's posts like this that made me learn to keep my hands out of the way if I fall forwards. My head is much harder, it should hit first. Or my chest...
#21
My brother swallowed a bell metal turtle while my parents were on a trip. That was 10 years ago. Best vacations ever.
Eagle Girl 6 years ago
Is This The ACTUAL Photo?? All the rest say they are not. I mean, could there be a stock photo of a turtle in someone's throat? hahahahaaa.
juice 6 years ago
not an actual turtle. a metal bell shaped like a turtle.
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#22
I was vacuuming, and thought the vacuum might not be working well. So I put my hand up to feel if the suction was weak. I forgot about the beater bar and it pulled my middle finger into the vacuum. The beater bar was going fast enough that it took off all the skin on my finger down to the tendon. It actually bled very little, and hurt much less than what one would expect, because both the blood vessels and nerves were torn off. I was also incredibly lucky because I should have needed a skin graft, but my finger managed to heal on its own. The scar tissue was painful to deal with and it took a long time to regain full flexibility and use of my finger.
Nadja Lambacher 6 years ago
there are men who had this happen to another body part..... *shudder*
Janine Randall 6 years ago
Friend of mine used to work at a Worker's Comp insurance agency. Had to deal with a guy who stuck his "manhood" in to a doughnut maker.
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Ohio Hands 6 years ago
Its called avlusion or "degloving" when this unfortunate phenomenon happens.
Brandon Ruiz 6 years ago
What the hell kind of vacuum was this? The only thing I can think of is that it had to be one made in the 50s before everything was made with plastic
Monika Soffronow 6 years ago
It is the attachment that you use for cleaning carpets, with a rotating brush, I guess.
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Hamlets twin 6 years ago
The word 'degloved' comes to mind. For your own sake don't google that...
#23
Scratched the cornea and broke the lens in my eye during an unfortunate encounter with a cactus plant.
Shirley Heyn 6 years ago
Forget the scratch... I'd be a lot more concerned with your "green eye". lol
Harleen 6 years ago
One of my high school science teachers has a story that he always told before going to the botanical gardens - NEVER pet a cactus that looks fuzzy. The fuzz is thousands of micro-needles. His best friend did pet the fuzzy cactus when they were kids. Of course, when a part of your body gets hurt, one immediate reaction is to grab it... so when one hand got full of needles, his other hand automatically grabbed at it. Needles in both hands. While waiting in the ER the pain was so bad that his nerves shut down and he didn't feel it any more. Forgetting that his hands were full of needles, he yawned and rubbed his eyes........... yeah. Never. Pet. The. Fuzzy. Cactus.
Anna Phoenix 6 years ago
Nice one! I have long-term damaged my eye by accidentally rinsing an eyelash out of my eye with my guinea-pig's cataract drops... couldn't see for days and my prescription on that eye doubled for the next 5 years. Clever me :-D
Sam Petter 6 years ago
How... how does one's face... get in that kind of proximity... with a cactus?????
Kelly Mallon 6 years ago
The green in the eye is the fluoroscene dye. It's an opthalmalogical photo.
#24
I popped my kneecap 90 degree to the left by wearing socks on a slippery floor. I was just walking and somehow lost control and POP. So, walking.
Lauren Caswell 6 years ago
Hah I've done that! Ripped a chunk off my femur, my surgeon had never heard of such a thing (from socks, not in general)
PickleRick 6 years ago
I stumbled and lost my footing while walking across my office and fell over. Ended in breaking both bones in my right lower leg and fracturing the ankle joint. I know have a metal plate and 9 pins holding everything together.....
Lynne Thom 6 years ago
My dear, I sympathize. I have had two babies with no meds, and the knee popping out was the most painful thing I have ever experienced.
Dogs_are_cool 6 years ago
My friend was twirling on tile floor in socks and fell. She broke her fibula, which is really hard to break, and is now in a wheelchair.
Michelle Smiles 6 years ago
Yep we are all a bit clumsy. I walked down the stairs and fell then required stitches. My ankles gave out on me and fell behind a mini van who didn't see me. But every turned out fine
the Lemon Queen 6 years ago
I did that once as well! Slipped over, off to the dentist I go due to a good half my tooth (and practically my nerve) snapped off. Shout outs to my sister for helping distract me from the pain :)
Lauren Caswell 6 years ago
I think just a commentary that walking is surprisingly risky :D
Load More Replies... Magpie 6 years ago
Yeah I'm clumsy and wear just socks a lot inside for the warmth. And yeah my house is old and needs some repairs.
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I was walking across the living room floor, and I stepped on a toothpick. The toothpick did not go through the skin, instead, I lurched in fear that it might go through my skin and somehow twisted my own ankle as I crashed to the floor. Went to the ER and I broke it.
Shirley Heyn 6 years ago
Why would you go to the ER to break your foot? Ha ha ha ha !!! What happened to the toothpick!?? Why was it in the floor in the first place??? These "tales" have too many unanswered questions.
Frozengeckolover 6 years ago
Omg! My husband would leave used toothpicks all over. Sometimes, they would end up on the carpet. The second time I got one stuck in my foot, I couldn't get it out. I told him to help me to the car. He said, "I'll drive you to the ER" and I said, "Ok, but I'm going to the lawyers office afterward. I'm filing for divorce." He started throwing them away after that.
Trash Panda 6 years ago
As a kid, I stepped on a toothpick sticking up similarly to the one pictured. It went into my foot between my big toe and the one next to it. Buried that sucker about half the length of the toothpick. It wouldn't come out no matter what me or my big brother did. Had to go to the ER to have it removed.
Michelle Smiles 6 years ago
I sat down in the driver seat of my car. Didnt know a toothpick was there and it went through my jeans and actually slightly pierced my a*s cheek poked. I let out a huge scream and had to pull it out still. Not as bad as twisting or breaking anything
Ocean Eevee 6 years ago
This happened to me, except with a needle, but I was lucky. It barely went through my skin. This happened about 10 times.
#26
Broke my left ankle by tripping over my right foot while running in the house. I also once got a black eye from throwing a snowball up in the air and catching it...and then missing it once
Caroline Holland 6 years ago
lol one-time my brother threw a rock straight up in the air and lost it in the sun, and so he looked up and it hit him square in the forehead. he was ok, but definitely not one of his finest accomplishments.
Jaiden 6 years ago
I trip on my feet all the time. Also one time I bruised my knee so bad I actually couldn’t bend it by walking into a table. And then falling on the stairs and hitting the same knee the next day. 🤦🏻♀️
#27
Looked down at my phone for too long at 10:00 at night and walked face first into a goddamn telephone pole. This was 2 years ago.
BusLady 6 years ago
Looking at their phones, or trying to run into telephone poles?
Load More Replies... Night Owl 6 years ago
I bet there are many video compilations of people walking into things while looking at their phones
Louise Brigance 6 years ago
You mean that pole just jumped right in front of you! How horrible (I hope you have changed your dangerous telephone habits)
Aileen 6 years ago
Some schools’ hallways are separated by double doors that are propped open during the day, but there was a pole in the middle where the doorway was. Several times I remember not paying attention and running into them. I found a stock photo to show you what I mean. door_prop_1.jpg 
Gracie Mae 6 years ago
once walked to the restroom at a fast food place when they used to be outside/around the back of the building. Steady looking at the ground to make sure I didn't trip over the rain gutter that I knew was there. Banged my head on an electric meter that was forehead-high; saw stars
#28
At age 9 I jumped down a full flight of stairs for the hell of it. Landed on my feet and broke both my growth plates in my heels. Insanely painful. Insanely stupid.
the Lemon Queen 6 years ago
I permanently gave myself ankle problems from... *inhales*... I was dancing while cooking. This was two years ago. Im smart.
Jamie Sue Koop 6 years ago
I did this and 40 years later I still cannot sleep on my back because my heels hurt
Stacie Sterling 6 years ago
When I was a toddler I used to fall down the 12 stairs from 2nd to 1rst floor, routinely. That was before toddler gates, yes, but I still wonder why no one in the family came up with a deterrent.
Christine M Quigley 6 years ago
Yes, calcaneus fractures are insanely painful. Heel bones are very thick! Another hard bone to fracture.
#29
I was out drinking and I tried to jump over a parking meter. Not realizing it was a single pole with two meter heads on it. I got hung up on the second head, fell and broke my elbow. Slept all night on my broken elbow and then walked to the hospital hungover and hurt the next morning by myself. Felt bad.
Magpie 6 years ago
?? deserve and honorable mention at the Darwin Awards ?? For taking ones' self out of the gene pool , but not dieing.
Suzanne Haigh 4 years ago
My daughter fell down some concrete stairs, drove herself home and said "Mum, my arm hurts", she had broken her elbow.
Louise Brigance 6 years ago
When I worked in the ER we use to see people like this...just a sad sack with an injury that sometimes they can't recall how they got hit. OMG the stories we'd hear!!
#30
Picked up a water bottle off the floor and threw out my back. It wasn't like a 5-gallon, it was a 16 oz water bottle. I didn't even know people could really throw out their back randomly and without reason like that. It was three days before I could even walk right.
John Seidel 6 years ago
I take it you are still young. When you become older, you will find that you can injure your back just getting out of bed.
KCN 6 years ago
Someone here at work threw his back out when he sneezed. He's in his 30s.
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Jill 6 years ago
Was playing tag and didn't realize that i was standing with my back to the metal tetherball pole. The person who was it ran in front of me, so I turned around and ran full force into the pole...grabbed the pole with both hands and passed out while listening to the pole ring not unlike a bell.
Gracie Mae 6 years ago
Sitting on the couch, leaned forward to grab my drink off the coffee table...back went out--I was in my late 20s! Yes, it does get worse
William Afton 3 years ago
I was working at cheese e cheese and I slipped on some cake on the floor and broke my leg
Trash Panda 6 years ago
I threw out my back simply bending over to get my shoes. Never even touched the shoes.
Michelle Dodson 6 years ago
Woke up with a knee the size of a cantelope a few days ago. It feels like I hyper-extended it. Didn't fall, didn't run into anything or twist weird. According to my husband I must be having some really "racy" dreams. Yeah, thanks for that. Bring me the Ibuprofen and go f**k yourself.
Frozengeckolover 6 years ago
I used to get "mysterious" injuries. Or so I thought. My doctor suggested I mark on a calendar anytime I potentially hurt myself; even if I didn't consider it a serious injury. Turns out I was dismissing, and immediately forgetting, accidents because it actually didn't hurt at the time. It would swell, or hurt, a day or two later. By the time it started to hurt, due to a busy schedule and no previous pain, I had forgotten about tripping over the dirty laundry or whacking my hand on the porch rail while trimming some shrubbery.
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Carol Emory 6 years ago
At 17, was working the Saturday morning shift at McDonalds. A solitary hashbrown falls out of the fry rack into the oil. I grab tongs to retrieve the hashbrown and end up putting the first two fingers of my right hand in the oil of the fry vat. There was cussing for a brief moment until I realized there was an elderly woman standing at the counter. I apologized for swearing. She said "That's ok honey..I'd cuss too if I'd done that."
FortnitePlayerGirl 6 years ago
How nice! It's rare that you run into random people that are accepting of your faults.
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John Leriel 6 years ago
At 7, i tried to save a wasp drowning in a inflatable pool with my bare hands. The b!tch wasn't grateful.
FortnitePlayerGirl 6 years ago (edited)
I cut my thumb on a pill cutter because I wanted to see how sharp it was. A slight brush gave me a scar I carry to this day. I was a kid don't judge me.
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Kiss Army 6 years ago (edited)
Begged my Dad to show me some moves he learned at Police Academy. So I snuck up behind him and wrapped my arm around his neck. He executed a flawless flip-like maneuver to throw me over his shoulder but he didn't realize how tall I had gotten compared to him and accidentally elbowed me right in the eye, giving me a horrible black eye. I thought it was hilarious but my dad felt terrible and he wanted to hide every time I proudly proclaimed "My dad gave it to me!" when someone would ask what happened.
Mark 6 years ago
Went to school with someone who stood on a needle when they were little. The needle was in the carpet so the stood on what technically was the blunt end and it went in the bottom of their foot with just a fraction of the tip sticking out.
Carol Emory 6 years ago
My brother in law (when he was about 10) was running through a field next to the apartment where my inlaws used lived. He stepped on a rusty nail that went through his shoe, sock and foot. A trip to the hospital resulted in him being kept for a couple of days to make sure there wasn't any further complications from fungal infections or allergic reactions to the medications. He ended up on the poster for Children's Hospital in the area...sitting in a wheelchair..foot bandaged up and IV bag hanging on the pole next to him...
Load More Replies... Kateri 6 years ago
It was really icy outside and me and my brother were leaving a friend's house. He was told that the steps leading down to the driveway were slippery, so he thought it would be a great idea to avoid the steps all together and jump over them. Turned out the driveway was icy too... Ended up with an arm fracture.
Geoffrey Holland 6 years ago
I was taking a shower once and I tried to drown a spider that was in the bathtub. I slipped and I brilliantly thought that if I tried to sit on the edge of the tub I would save myself. It didn't work. I went through the shower curtain banged my head off the sink and then off the toilet. Eventually I needed neck surgery for a herniated disc.
Geri Stevens 6 years ago
Common house spiders are harmless to humans. You're not. Hope the spider was laughing all the way to arachnid heaven =D =D =D
Load More Replies... Dani 6 years ago
In primary school my friend and I (who is still my best friend actually) and I were obsessed with sharpening rocks to make them "knives." We were weird children looking back on it. Well one day my friend told me that her rock was really sharp and I told her she needed to test it by cutting me. It worked and I bled everywhere and have a giant scar on my knee even now. I was like 6, okay?
diane a 6 years ago
Glad to know I was not the only one experimenting with Mohs age 8.
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Zori the degu 6 years ago (edited)
I've sprained my ankle 5 times! The last time was the most ridiculous: I tripped over my dog's tug-off-war rope. I had to go catch my bus for school in 10 minutes, so I simply put some cream on it and I was off, I have gotten so used to it! It was a couple of hours later that I realised I could barely walk properly. Mum took me to the doctor and it turned out I had a bone fragment in my foot. He couldn't really do anything, so I still have it and my ankle is extremely wimpy and twists at the feeblest thing. I also had a neighbour who put round cereal chocolate balls in her nostrils. Her parents couldn't pull them out, so they took her to the hospital. The first thing she did when she got back home was to put new cereals in her nose. Again me(7 years old) ran head first into a wall because I wasn't paying attention. Yup, that's why I don't want kids.
BusLady 6 years ago
My oldest son shoved a balloon up his nose! He was about 3.
Load More Replies... Carol Emory 6 years ago
At 17, was working the Saturday morning shift at McDonalds. A solitary hashbrown falls out of the fry rack into the oil. I grab tongs to retrieve the hashbrown and end up putting the first two fingers of my right hand in the oil of the fry vat. There was cussing for a brief moment until I realized there was an elderly woman standing at the counter. I apologized for swearing. She said "That's ok honey..I'd cuss too if I'd done that."
FortnitePlayerGirl 6 years ago
How nice! It's rare that you run into random people that are accepting of your faults.
Load More Replies... John Leriel 6 years ago
At 7, i tried to save a wasp drowning in a inflatable pool with my bare hands. The b!tch wasn't grateful.
FortnitePlayerGirl 6 years ago (edited)
I cut my thumb on a pill cutter because I wanted to see how sharp it was. A slight brush gave me a scar I carry to this day. I was a kid don't judge me.
Load More Replies... Kiss Army 6 years ago (edited)
Begged my Dad to show me some moves he learned at Police Academy. So I snuck up behind him and wrapped my arm around his neck. He executed a flawless flip-like maneuver to throw me over his shoulder but he didn't realize how tall I had gotten compared to him and accidentally elbowed me right in the eye, giving me a horrible black eye. I thought it was hilarious but my dad felt terrible and he wanted to hide every time I proudly proclaimed "My dad gave it to me!" when someone would ask what happened.
Mark 6 years ago
Went to school with someone who stood on a needle when they were little. The needle was in the carpet so the stood on what technically was the blunt end and it went in the bottom of their foot with just a fraction of the tip sticking out.
Carol Emory 6 years ago
My brother in law (when he was about 10) was running through a field next to the apartment where my inlaws used lived. He stepped on a rusty nail that went through his shoe, sock and foot. A trip to the hospital resulted in him being kept for a couple of days to make sure there wasn't any further complications from fungal infections or allergic reactions to the medications. He ended up on the poster for Children's Hospital in the area...sitting in a wheelchair..foot bandaged up and IV bag hanging on the pole next to him...
Load More Replies... Kateri 6 years ago
It was really icy outside and me and my brother were leaving a friend's house. He was told that the steps leading down to the driveway were slippery, so he thought it would be a great idea to avoid the steps all together and jump over them. Turned out the driveway was icy too... Ended up with an arm fracture.
Geoffrey Holland 6 years ago
I was taking a shower once and I tried to drown a spider that was in the bathtub. I slipped and I brilliantly thought that if I tried to sit on the edge of the tub I would save myself. It didn't work. I went through the shower curtain banged my head off the sink and then off the toilet. Eventually I needed neck surgery for a herniated disc.
Geri Stevens 6 years ago
Common house spiders are harmless to humans. You're not. Hope the spider was laughing all the way to arachnid heaven =D =D =D
Load More Replies... Dani 6 years ago
In primary school my friend and I (who is still my best friend actually) and I were obsessed with sharpening rocks to make them "knives." We were weird children looking back on it. Well one day my friend told me that her rock was really sharp and I told her she needed to test it by cutting me. It worked and I bled everywhere and have a giant scar on my knee even now. I was like 6, okay?
diane a 6 years ago
Glad to know I was not the only one experimenting with Mohs age 8.
Load More Replies... Zori the degu 6 years ago (edited)
I've sprained my ankle 5 times! The last time was the most ridiculous: I tripped over my dog's tug-off-war rope. I had to go catch my bus for school in 10 minutes, so I simply put some cream on it and I was off, I have gotten so used to it! It was a couple of hours later that I realised I could barely walk properly. Mum took me to the doctor and it turned out I had a bone fragment in my foot. He couldn't really do anything, so I still have it and my ankle is extremely wimpy and twists at the feeblest thing. I also had a neighbour who put round cereal chocolate balls in her nostrils. Her parents couldn't pull them out, so they took her to the hospital. The first thing she did when she got back home was to put new cereals in her nose. Again me(7 years old) ran head first into a wall because I wasn't paying attention. Yup, that's why I don't want kids.
BusLady 6 years ago
My oldest son shoved a balloon up his nose! He was about 3.
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