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GITT with the dumbest serious injury...
Oct 28, 2021, 2:57 PM
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You've ever suffered due to your own stupid actions. Tell the story. I'm talking it has to be like something broken or required real medical attention. Not just some scrapes and bruises.
Mine surprisingly doesn't involve booze.
Mine was during a pick-up basketball game in my late 20s. I wasn't in very good shape then, nor had I played basketball in a while. Also, a key factor--I have sucked ### at basketball all my life. Like had some church league years where I was just getting the required playing time the coach was supposed to give us.
One guy on the other team was a beast. We're talking like 350 lbs and like probably 6'4" or 6'5". I got the ball at the free throw line and had nothing but him and Jesus in my path for the basket. Did I pull up for a jumper? No. Did I try to go around him for a layup? No. Did I pass it like I should have cause I suck? Nope.
I actually think I'm going to try to sky over this guy for a shot because I THINK he's trying to draw a charge. Not like jump over him but, you know, just get the ball up over his arms.
This sumbitch puts me on the ground, and not even a for a foul. He packed my shot clean and just brute forced my ### into the paint by shoving the ball down. I hit the floor so hard, everyone there thought we were going to have to end the game. Just complete body slam to the floor.
I broke two ribs and shattered my pride. And if you've ever broken ribs, you know how much that hurts. He was super apologetic, but I think even he knew I asked for it. As you can imagine, I packed it up for the day and took my broken ### home.
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I jammed my bonehammer on some aggressive cowgirl once
Oct 28, 2021, 3:00 PM
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Other than that broke my thumb by closing it in a car door in college. Closed all the way and locked to. Had to get my friend to turn around and come unlock his car for me to remove said thumb. Pretty lame and redfern was closed for the weekend so I medicated with potent ganja and alcohol.
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I've done that too
Oct 28, 2021, 3:15 PM
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Not the bonehammer thing, but slammed my finger in a car door that was locked immediately afterwards.
Had to get the person who locked the door to come over and unlock it to get my finger out--then she dropped the keys, making my attempt at removing my finger from the door take even longer. I almost passed out when my finger was released from its death trap.
Went to the doctor and he takes an x-ray and says "yep, its broke" and puts a splint on it that I hit on everything for the next two weeks.
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And now we know this story is a lie.***
Oct 28, 2021, 3:29 PM
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It was wet, and I slipped out
Oct 28, 2021, 4:04 PM
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I hit an un wet spot and bonerhurt ensued.
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Finish ?***
Oct 28, 2021, 4:05 PM
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lol
Oct 29, 2021, 9:05 AM
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of course
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MY MAN ! ! ! !***
Oct 29, 2021, 9:16 AM
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2011
Oct 28, 2021, 3:02 PM
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I got so drunk and upped up on adderall that I had something of a psychotic episode. I had punched an acquaintance of ours in the mouth and everyone made a big thing about it (he was making fun of how drunk I was). To prove that I wasn't doing any REAL damage, I proceeded to punch myself in the face multiple times, as hard as I could ("seeeeeeee, this doesn't hurt"). That ended with a broken nose that still bleeds every once in a while do this day. That same night after everything had calmed down and I had passed out, I woke up again and had weird hallucinations or some sort of pseudo-schizo thing where I thought people were in the woods and coming to get me. So I threw myself down a flight of stairs and scraped my self all up.
No logic. No reason. Pure chaos. Some people shouldn't drink.
Several broken hands (refrigerators, walls, attempts at swinging at people that missed), and I have plenty of scar tissue in my left hand to know that I'm gonna be arthritic by age 40 if I'm not already. Here what looks like scar tissue, a cyst, something that's come from breaking my hand 4-5 times and it not healing properly
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Re: 2011
Oct 28, 2021, 3:13 PM
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- Trying to hold a lemon up in the air and slice it to impress some people I was cooking for. #### near took my finger off. I don't know why I thought that cutting a lemon without a cutting board would impress anyone, but whatever.
- Drunken junior year at CofC. Roommate was leaving to go to a new college. We wanted to be "blood brothers" so we both burned the #### out of our wrists with a lit cigarette at the same time. He destroyed a tattoo, I've just got a mild scar to show for it. It was much worse 10 years ago, obvi
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Ew***
Oct 28, 2021, 3:40 PM
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Re: 2011
Oct 28, 2021, 3:48 PM
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So... you got effed up and kicked your own as s? First I've heard of anything like that.
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That was the first and last time.
Oct 28, 2021, 4:02 PM
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Also, that was the first time I was ever told that I probably shouldn't drink alchohol. Turned out to be 100% true. I'm effed in the head enough without adding that fuel to the fire.
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not entirely, but I can say this to MANY
Oct 28, 2021, 3:56 PM
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things in that story.....
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Torn meniscus squatting down to take apart a kid's
Oct 28, 2021, 3:04 PM
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playset fort. Heard that sucker "pop" and my day was over.
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Nope, that is not the stupidist, Papa, don't you remember
Oct 28, 2021, 3:07 PM
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using a long extension ladder to try to cut a limb about 7 feet up? the ladder was too long, so it was propped at a low angle, and when I got up about three steps, it slid down the tree trunk and my elbow hit concrete. POP.
Knocked the wind outta me, I got up slowly, went to sit down in the house and when I grabbed the doorknob, I could not turn it. LOL. Elbow not connected. Still got a screw in there.
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playing basketball with a ring on
Oct 28, 2021, 3:10 PM
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went up to block a shot under the basket, hand caught net, and......8 stitches in ring finger. Doc said finger would have been severed if ring wasn't a 1/2 size too big.
8 stitches isn't exactly "serious", but it surely qualifies for dumb.
Pro tip: DO NOT play sports with jewelry on.
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Amputated digit with table saw.
Oct 28, 2021, 3:13 PM
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Took my eye off the blade causing me to shift the board into the blade at bad angle. Grabbed, kicked back and dragged my hand through the blade. Digit went flying out the door into the shrubs. Bled like the Black Knight.
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Can no longer properly road rage as part of free bird flew
Oct 29, 2021, 3:31 PM
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high.
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Ha! We had a high school science teacher who
Oct 29, 2021, 3:57 PM
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had lost the tip of hid middle finger tying off a boat in high school.
We called him half-bird.
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My secretary calls me Frodo***
Oct 30, 2021, 8:18 AM
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I accepted my rugby coach's coaching on being a more
Oct 28, 2021, 3:16 PM
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aggressive tackler. He spent a whole week working with me. He also broke his neck playing rugby. 2 weeks later I get knocked TF out b/c I ran bawls to the wall into a kid's knee.
I forgot everything that happened that weekend, apologized to the nurse for "being so hairy", had a cat scan and a $1,000 medical bill.
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Re: I accepted my rugby coach's coaching on being a more
Oct 28, 2021, 3:53 PM
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I was in the game that your coach broke his neck. He was a tough sum bish.
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Re: I accepted my rugby coach's coaching on being a more
Oct 28, 2021, 3:57 PM
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Re: I accepted my rugby coach's coaching on being a more
Oct 28, 2021, 3:58 PM
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Full speed on a kick off against UGA, I tried to go low on a guy who was about 4 feet tall and 4 feet wide (hooke r of course). Dude's head felt like it went straight through my chin. Got knocked the eff out.
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Whoa, so you wuz serious...Mine was at UGA also
Oct 28, 2021, 4:00 PM
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What I heard was the runner cut into me as I was going low on the tackle and his knee got me under the chin.
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Re: Whoa, so you wuz serious...Mine was at UGA also
Oct 28, 2021, 4:08 PM
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Chin shot will definitely joggle the brain
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Farted on my sister and as she chased me down the hall
Oct 28, 2021, 3:22 PM
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I smacked the top of my hand against the bathroom door handle (lever style).
Ended up fracturing 3 bones in my hand. That was weird to explain to people in high school.
The same year I also got bored at work and stopped paying attention as I was cutting down boxes. Cut the tip of my ring finger mostly off, just hanging on by a little piece. It took 7 stitches to reconnect.
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Daughter broker her collarbone a week and a half ago
Oct 28, 2021, 3:24 PM
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crawling on the ground acting like a dog with the dogs. She went to stand and one of them knocked her back down...onto her shoulder.
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I've got two, one close to yours
Oct 28, 2021, 3:26 PM
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playing basketball in high school, thought I was Chris Corchiani taking a charge on this dude
https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/jason-scott-3.html
6'8" prolly 210 lbs, dudes knee knocked my face and I got up seeing stars, looking back, clearly was a concussion, but this was back before the modern age when you coach told you to suck it up buttercup.
Second one was this past January, at soccer training, I was short a player, and being that I am 50, out of shape and didn't bother to stretch on a cold night, step in an played, for about 4 minutes until I pulled my hamstring. GD felt like I'd been shot. Was pure #### for a few days
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Learned not to mess with the torsion springs on a garage
Oct 28, 2021, 3:26 PM
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door.
Had to get a new spring installed when the old one mysteriously broke at about 3 am one night. Sounded like a shot gun going off in my garage.
Bought a new spring on line, went to install it but only had on old tire iron to wind it up. Wind it a little, brace it with a small punch, then wind it some more. Simple, right?
Except the punch wasn't an exact fit in the hole used to put the brace in. It slipped out of the hole right when I was putting the tire iron in the next hole. Tire iron came back and struck me in the head, knocking me out for a second as I fell off the 4th step of the ladder I was on. I landed flat backed on the floor. Woke up a few minutes later with a sore, bloody forehead wondering WT F had happened. I was really lucky it didn't take my eye out.
I called someone the next day to come finish the spring installation. I'm never messing with one of those things again.
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Garage door springs can kill you.
Oct 28, 2021, 3:41 PM
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You were lucky.
The rest of us - not so much.
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"He packed my shot"
Oct 28, 2021, 3:28 PM
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this phrase has only been uttered by white dudes who played basketball from 1979 until 1996
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Well...
Oct 28, 2021, 3:30 PM
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You outted this white bench-ridin' Spartanburg church league veteran, sir.
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I was getting packed in '02 when they had me
Oct 28, 2021, 3:31 PM
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playing the 5 as a skinny white boy who happened to have a growth spurt in 8th grade.
I do know that I haven't heard "packed" referring to getting rejected in years.
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WHALE SON LEMME TELL YOU
Oct 28, 2021, 3:35 PM
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MauldinT® is 5'11". Well 5'10.5'. MauldinT was 5'10.5" when he was ten years old. My youth basketball coach,a black dude, called me "White Jabbar" because I had a smooth hook shot, later revise to a jump hook, ala JR Reid.
It was awesome being the tallest kid in the league for all of 5 months.
Pretty sure Springsteen's Glory Days was in refence to my budding basketball career at ten.
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Quick on the swallow.
Oct 28, 2021, 3:30 PM
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I had just made this beautiful Beef Wellington (literally googled "Complicated Meat Meal" because I forgot the name) which is no small feat. Sit down with lady ot to enjoy it. Two bites in I swallow too quickly and get a lump lodged in my throat. Now, this is like around 7:00PM on a Friday. Lady Ot is strongly suggestive we hit up the ER because, well, I have steak lodged in my throat. But me being horrified at an ER visit for what has to be one of the stupidest ways to go to the ER, is convinced I can dislodge it without enough fizzy cola and attempts yacking (dumb, because nothing was going down, and nothing was going up). Hours pass. It is now close to 10PM. The meat is stuck in there like a kiestered gerbil in the dead of winter. Finally decide it is time to go to the ER. Now, this is at Atrium Main, which is the primary hospital for Charlotte, and this being about the time most people who are getting drunk are now drunk, meant this was no in-and-out affair. We wait in admissions for close to an hour and change. Then finally get admitted to the triage station, where I am required to give this beast of a male nurse (probably the size of Cata's dominatrix but more muscle) the reason why I am there. He probably fights grizzlies after his shift. I'm in there because I have meat in my throat. He gives me a shot of something that is supposed to relax my throat muscles and let the meat finally slide down (or up). Nada. So now it's time to go to the Big Show -- full on admittance to the ER. Attending is this cute little number who I also have to explain why I'm there. They don't even stick me in a room. I'm on a bed in the hall as people come in from car accidents, heart attacks, the works -- and there is me -- Mr. Can't Swallow Real Good -- on display as a trophy of wasting everybody's good #### time. Dr. Hawtsuff has me do jumping jacks to see if that can dislodge it. No dice (remember Siberian gerbil). So she says she's got to consult the specialist. More time passes and she comes back -- he's not coming in until the morning. I mean, who can blame him. I'd let me die. So it's coming on 2AM, I'm drained. Lady Ot is equal mix of concerned and "I told you we should have come earlier you idiot." So I take a snooze. Wake up about an hour later and have to puke. GEISER TIME. In a plastic bag they had with me, fortunately. Dr. Oogleherlaylays comes over and has to check the bag for my meat lump before I can get the discharge. On our way home.
Wife still casts me concerned slash secretly furious look every time I cough at dinner.
Never really got into trying that Wellington, nor shall I ever make it again.
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I stopped at googled "Complicated Meat Meal"
Oct 28, 2021, 3:39 PM
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and gave you a thumbs up, what a turn of a phrase.
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Well, lets see. I hope you have some time and some popcorn:
Oct 28, 2021, 3:46 PM
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Around age 5 or 6, I was playing in the back yard with my brother. It was our parents wedding anniversary so they were taking us to the grandparents to spend the night so they could go out. Mom yells at us from the back door to get our ##### inside and get cleaned up. We race each other back to the house and i jumped over a hippity hop (you know the big rubber ball with a ring on top) except my foot catches the ring. I go ### over elbows and hit the ground hard. I thought it was hilarious but i couldn't move my leg which was weird. Femur was broken. So instead of going out to dinner or whatever, my parents spent the night in the ER with me. I spent like 8 weeks in traction and another couple months in a hard cast from the waist down. Missed Halloween, Thanksgiving, my birthday and Christmas that year in the hospital.
Age 7 i was late one morning and running to catch the school bus. Tripped over the neighbors garden hose and fell face first into the edge of their patio. Split my forehead open and it took 10 stitches to close, but i got to miss school that day.
Age 8 me and some neighborhood friends were seeing how high we could stack milk crates. When they got too high to add to the top, i started picking the whole stack up from the bottom so someone else could add crates to the bottom. As you would expect, eventually it got so tall i couldn't balance it, probably 12-15 crates. The tumbled over and one hit me in the top of the head opening a huge gash. i believe that was 12 stitches to close.
Same year, i was home by myself after school and was pestering the #### out of our springer spaniel. Got in his face and he bit me and split my lip open. Had to have a plastic surgeon close that one vs just a regular ER doc since it was through my lip. Fun times.
Age 10 we were at a beach house for a week and my dad and his friends were playing half rubber. I was shagging balls for them and was up near the dunes on hands and knees crawling around collecting them. The bat slips out of one of their hands and is spinning towards me. Someone yell's "Ayejoe, lookout!!" So of course I stand up, turn towards them and it catches me right across the face. Split one eyelid, broke my nose and split open the opposite eyebrow. Stiches for both. If they hadn't said anything it would have went right over me. I did get a nintendo out of that one though.
Age 12, a friend and me built a dirt track out of the dirt piles from some company digging retention ponds behind my house for some new neighborhood. I flipped my dirtbike and went over the handlebars. Split my chin open but that was only like 6 stiches.
My parents were separated and questioned on multiple occasions by hospital and DSS officials because they thought i was being abused.
Plenty more that were not ER visits. By my teens I got very proficient with super glue in lieu of stiches.
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Speaking for parents everywhere, I woulda just
Oct 28, 2021, 4:06 PM
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killed you.
Prison seems easier than getting you to legal.
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I think I might be why I don't have kids.***
Oct 28, 2021, 4:10 PM
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so far so good, but
Oct 28, 2021, 4:16 PM
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sometimes I probably should have kept that course of action. My daughter is going to be the death of me when she gets older. I can already see the sign of the devil in her eye.
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She's female - so she is AT LEAST 70% certifiable.
Oct 28, 2021, 5:23 PM
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T's & P's . . . . T's & P's
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Oh, I forgot, I fell out of a moving car once
Oct 28, 2021, 4:20 PM
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going about 20mph in a neighborhood leaving a relative's house while my mom was driving. Door wasn't closed all the way and it was old school mechanical locks in our Monte Carlo. Messed up my knee pretty bad. Stitches and a brace for that one.
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Dangit man, I played high school football and basketball,
Oct 28, 2021, 4:24 PM
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rugby in college, owned an atv from age 10-36, wakeboarding, grabbling, lots of outdoor stuffs and never had no stitches. I guess I will get some next week now but your skills at getting injured are 11.
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once I was on a pickup tailgate
Oct 28, 2021, 4:29 PM
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with friends going down a dirt road. I sincerely thought I could just ease out the back in a treadmill-like running motion and be stable enough to keep going along behind the truck.
Nope. We were going WAY too fast. I spun off in the ditch hard like an out-of-control human drill bit. Thankfully the dirt road was soft enough to absorb most of the impact, so I was only beaten to a pulp over every square inch of my body, no broken bones.
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5th grade, I don't even remember exactly what the kid did to
Oct 28, 2021, 3:50 PM
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me, probably jabbed me in the ribs or something. He was small and quick, and apparently, quicker than me. Whatever it was, I had a split second of rage and took a big looping swing at his head. He ducked, and I whiffed on his head but made great contact with the brick wall at his right shoulder. My thumb, just below the wrist, was what absorbed the blow. Hurt like HELL.
Didn't tell any teachers since I would have been the most culpable, I assume, so just grinded my teeth until we got out, rode the bus home, and told my mom what happened. She took me to the Navy doctor, quick x-ray, shattered bone between the wrist and thumb. They put a cast on it that went up to my elbow.
Honorable Mention: St. Paddy's in Savannah in '97ish, went to take a leak in an alley. People on the street could see me...unless I climbed up on this lil 2.5-3' ledge against the building, and huddled close to the building. So, I did that, prolly whizzed all over my shoes, and proceeded to slip off the ledge. My left shin broke my fall on the edge of the concrete ledge, scraped a couple layers of skin off through jeans, and I ended up on my back in a puddle of piss in the alley. Shook it off, went back to partying. Made it to Panama City the next day, and at that point, my left foot, from the shin injury down, started developing purple tiger stripes--legit bruising all the way through my foot/leg. Nothing broken, but walked with a nice limp for a couple weeks and still have the scar.
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CU Medallion [60033]
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Broke my leg in February
Oct 28, 2021, 3:53 PM
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while snow sledding with my kids. Stepped on my daughters sled to keep it from going down the hill and snapped my leg in two places and dropped my ankle.
Just got hardware out 3 weeks ago.
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All-In [47750]
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Backed out of a closet. Stepped sideways of a stairwell.
Oct 28, 2021, 4:02 PM
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fell down 6 steps. Hit my head on the front of my car then on the concrete garage floor. Had 25 staples in the scalp, broke the left wrist with a compound fracture and broke C1, C2 and C3. My spinal cord did 2 45 degree turns.
I now have 9 screws and a plate in my wrist and 12 screws and a plate in my neck.
But I am back to 98% of functionality (limited neck turn)
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All-In [49031]
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Friend and I were shooting at a campbell's soup can with...
Oct 28, 2021, 4:26 PM
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a bb gun. Probably somewhere between 8 and 12 years old. We had hung it from a tree in a way that it would hit the tree if we missed. But we were running out of bb's. Realizing that the bb's were bouncing off the can anyway, I have this idea. Let's move the hanging can closer to the trunk, carve a notch in the trunk and then shoot into the angled can, which will catch at least a few of the bb's and we can reuse them. I probably would have invented reduce, reuse recycle at that point if I hadn't had my hand inexplicably underneath the notch I was carving in the tree. Knife slipped and #### near cut my pinky finger to the bone about a quarter inch above the edge of my hand.
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Oculus Spirit [81048]
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Plot twist!
Oct 28, 2021, 4:35 PM
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I KNEW this was going to be about a ricocheting BB taking an eye out.
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Rock Defender [53]
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I had one bounce back from a tree and hit me on the bridge
Oct 29, 2021, 9:18 AM
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of my nose. Never shot at trees after that.
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Oculus Spirit [97703]
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Never really had one.
Oct 28, 2021, 5:02 PM
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Skate boarding I hit a pine cone and did a face plant once. Built a bike ramp and hit a brick wall once. Got drunk and wrecked once, but wasn't hurt. Walked out on some coral at low tide in Barbados near Sam Lord's Castle, slipped and got a concussion. Guess walking on the slimy coral was probably the dumbest thing. I slept like a day. They took me to the local Barbadian witch doctor and he said I'd be fine and let me sleep off the concussion.
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All-In [40925]
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cig burn on my arm playing chicken at age 14***
Oct 28, 2021, 5:31 PM
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110%er [7733]
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Trimming the hedges
Oct 28, 2021, 7:23 PM
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The trimmer got caught on a limb and kicked back. Like an idiot I reached out to grab it with one hand while the other didn't release the trigger.
Overheard at the emergency room later:
Cute little nurse: Let's see if we can get these two fingers stitched up for you. Why are they wrapped with paper towels and duck tape?
Me: The hedges weren't going to finish trimming themselves.
Cute little nurse: Soooo...you finished the trimming before coming in?
Me: I poured some peroxide on them first.
She starts the mending process and then says
Cute little nurse: Hmm, these next few are going to be tricky. Sorry, but I'm going to have to put my junk in your face.
Me: That's OK. It's the closest I've been to sex since 7 this morning.
Poor thing had to sit down for a minute to stop laughing.
Cute little nurse: You ain't right old man.
Me: I blame the blood loss.
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All-In [46816]
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Deep road rash by riding a bike as fast as I could
Oct 29, 2021, 9:18 AM
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on the road, make a left into the landing, then crashing into the water multiple times.
Except rubber gets slippery when wet. So about the third time I make the left to the landing but the bike kept going straight.
Ended up with huge road rash on my hands and feet from deciding, midfall, either road rash, or roll and get broken bones.
Also cut the tips of my fingers 90% of the way off by playing around with my dad's new knife on the way to the beach for vacation.
Sliced my finger tips. Dad of took me into the gas station bathroom and put my fingers under the water. I was good until he flipped my fingertips back like a pez dispenser of blood. I went down hard.
Had to get my fingertips superglued back on before heading to vacation.
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All-In [46816]
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Also decided that it would be a great idea to fight
Oct 29, 2021, 9:28 AM
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a state champion wrestler from Fort Dorchester my sophomore year of college.
We were coming back from square dancing and he was ####### with my seatbelt from the back seat (I was shotgun).
He gets out, I get out. He gets in front of me, I grab him in a massive bear hug (I was pretty muscular then). He spins 2 times and then WE fall on MY shoulder. Separated it. Go into the bathroom to look at it. Pass out on the floor. Wake up a few minutes later. Drive home.
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Hall of Famer [20571]
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I was drunk and...
Oct 29, 2021, 9:26 AM
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Tried to dive through the opening between rooms in a hotel suite with a football in my hand. I had to dive over the TV, through the hole. While I was successful, I did bang my football arm on the bottom of the opening hard enough to require stitches.
When I was 16, I was parked with a girl I worked with at a baseball field drinking Everclear. Needless to say, I got really drunk. I thought it would be a good idea to climb up to the top of the chain link backstop, and let go "because I thought it would be fun to slide down." Needless to say it tore my clothes and my skin up. Then I passed out.
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Lot o points [155796]
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The day my mom, got out of prison***
Oct 29, 2021, 9:27 AM
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