What's the stupidest/dumbest injury you have had?
So for context, I've trumped what I originally dubbed as my most dumbest injury today. π
Without going into too much detail, I was trying to undo the cap off of a sealant-type glue.
I remembered after a while of frustration that you could use a knife to open it. Not knowing that you HAD to use a knife specially made for opening these things with, I grabbed my UK legal folding blade to get the job done.
You can tell where this is going...
Ahem. Upon applying direct downward pressure to the hard plastic bit I was trying to open at a 90 degree angle, the blade automatically sprang back onto my finger.
Bloody Fantastic.
A quick Google search and that could have been avoided.
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So after my own personal rant at my own rather unique level of stupidity; my question to you is this:
What do you personally consider to be your dumbest injury, to date?
Personal anecdotes and cautionary tales welcome - but please no actual gore images or anything too descriptive. I don't want this getting taken down.
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Edit: For those worried, the cut is only a centimetre long and will only be needing a couple of stitches at most.
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Oh, and my second dumbest injury was when I didn't realise that the active ingredient in super glue (cyanoacrylate), reacted strongly with cotton.
Let's just say that it can create enough heat to burn you.
I only had a small blister luckily, but you can imagine my surprise when the cotton fabric I was gluing down onto my sketchbook stuck to me instead.
(After looking at the product packaging for any warnings, I can say that I found none, for U.K products anyway - so please just be aware of this.)
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I hope that you can all take light of my silly incidents and giggle at my small misfortunes.
But if there's anything I want you folks to take away from this, then it's just to never EVER mix super glue with cotton and be extra careful with folding blades.
Here's to hoping that a lot of us here have a dark sense of humour.
Fingers crossed, well on one hand anyway π€
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As always, do enjoy your games today in the fog.
Stay safe folks. π
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P.S: If the forum rules allow, then maybe I can post a follow-up healed scar, but it's never gonna be nowhere near as badass as this dude's.
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Oh I've have a number of dumb ways I've injured myself I'll list a few:
1. Broke my ribs after doing a swanton bomb from a second floor window on to someone lying in a dinky backyard wrestling ring, me and my mates rigged up.
2. Broke my ankle because i wasn't paying attention and missed the step at my front door and my foot went from point in one direction to point the other direction where it shouldn't have been able to point
3. And this to me was the dumbest because its more or less ruined my life..
I was at work on day, and i had to go up a ladder to retrieve something and instead of getting someone to help with it, i just stupidly climbed a 10 foot ladder with nobody around. While i was up 10ft a co-worker came round the corner on a forklift and just tapped the ladder with it (not knowing i was there and not on purpose).
Well that tap was enough to knock the ladder away and i fell the 10ft hitting my head of the metal racking and hit the concrete floor whilst my leg got hooked into the laΔder somehow ripping it slightly open..
To this day i still get regular migraines and will black out from time to time.
So yeah if you're ever gonna climb a 10ft ladder tell someone you are there or have someone with you.. i made the dumb choice and did it by myself.
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My dumbest injury was probably when I decided to race my friend (who's on our schools track team) in a parking lot.
Very surprisingly, I actually won, but it came at the cost of me having to come to a sudden halt because of a fence, which in turn caused me to fall and scrape my hands and knees.
What made it even worse was, on our way back home, I randomly threw up for no reason.
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I sprained my hand by not doing #########
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I'm accident prone (ready clumsy!)...so I always have minor accidents, the last one was a couple of months back when I jammed my hand in the car door and broke my fingers, then on the weekend I walked into the handrail on my stairs and cracked a bone in my elbow.
On the glue story (glad the cut is not too bad btw), I forgot that superglue was pretty strong and managed to glue my fingers to my leg - I'm not even sure how it happened. :)
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I got hit near the eye when I was playing Baseball and I accidentally stood too close to the batter and got hit with the baseball bat.
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A cat scratched me before and it's the biggest injury that I ever had and I still have a scar from it from my hand and i'm like 4 or 3 year olds a long time ago and I still have it at 17 years of age. That's the reason I named him scratchy from the simpsons.
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Once I was biking and my bike fell over for literally no reason and I hurt my hands and knees
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I'm pretty prone to getting injured, But these two instances were probably the most dumbest injuries I've ever gotten:
One time, I ended up spraining my wrist and ankle because I wasn't paying attention to where I was going and walked off the staircase connected to my porch.
Another time I broke a stick near my face and scratched my eye.
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I have a ridiculous amount of dumb injury stories. I so accident prone it's not even funny.
When I was in college went to a concert that was 3+ hours away. We arrived at like 1pm to wait outside since it was general admission and we wanted to be upfront. Friends I was with kept complaining about me walking across streets instead of running because "it's rude to the drivers." So finally I'm like "fine, I'll run" and halfway across I manage to step in the only pothole in the street. Felt my ankle pop, tore my favorite jeans in the knee and skinned it pretty good. So I limped rest of the way to the venue, sat on the ground by the entrance and waited for the doors to open. When they opened I sucked up the pain to run up the stairs in the venue, stood up front against the barricades for the concert dealing with the push and pull of the mosh pit. After concert limped back to the car and took my shoe off, ankle was super swollen - look like a tennis ball was where the bump in my ankle was supposed to be. Next day ankle was pretty colors, I wrapped and iced it. Luckily it healed up fine, no lasting damage or hospital visits needed.
When I was a kid I was playing a game in my front yard with bunch of other kids from my street. I had decided to play barefoot because more often than not in the summer I avoided wearing shoes. During one of the times running around I somehow managed to have my big toe roll under my foot. This would be one of many times I've injured that big toe.
As a kid in early 90s and with family of smokers I wasn't paying attention to my surroundings, adults standing around smoking weren't paying attention to kids running around, I ran right into a lit cigarette that was in someone's hand hanging at their side. Luckily was just my eyelid and quick burn but it hurt a ton and wasn't fun to heal. I definitely paid more attention after that when running around the adults.
As a kid I was playing with an old rusty Swiss army knife trying to shave bark off a branch. Cut my thumb and it was bleeding a ton. I didn't say anything, just tried to take care of it on my own by using styptic pencils we had and bandaids. Pretty sure my dad figured out what I did since I 1. usually didn't use bandaids on cuts/scrapes and 2. had recently told me to not use that rusty knife when I had been checking it out before. He didn't say anything but the rusty knife disappeared, I was given a new not rusty Swiss army knife and given a talk about how to safely use it not long after. π
One time I when I was home from college I had my long standing mirror leaning against a wall in my room which was in basement. It being one of those cheap ones every store sells around time kids are getting ready for college the trim on bottom and one side had pealed away. I was running by it one time barefoot and managed to catch side of my foot on it. It tore off chunk of corner of my pinky toe (including bit of nail) and sliced into bit just below nail on toe next to pinky.
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@bm33 omg some of those could have turned out really nastily! Glad you've got no major lasting effects from them, especially the burn to the eye!
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I'm definitely lucky that I've avoided serious injury between being accident prone and all the dumb stuff I've done. Nothing lasting or severe enough for a hospital visit. Pretty sure it's genetic because my dad was ridiculously accident prone and my siblings also have a variety of dumb injury stories. Funny enough my dumb injuries are nothing compared to my siblings. They have some pretty bad ones being 70s/80s kids, but like me managed to be nothing lasting or hospital worthy.
Brothers with cousins were building forts with old wood boards way back in woods behind my grandparents house - brother when he tells story says it was 2 miles away from house but my dad said it was more like 200 ft, just far enough to not have house in view but not actually THAT far. Brother managed to get nail in his head with board attached because no one noticed a nail was in one of the boards they used on the roof and was sticking out enough that when he stood up while someone was standing on roof the nail was able to go in far enough to stick. It wasn't in deep, just enough to freak him and rest out to go have an adult take care of it instead of being injury where they act like nothing happened. He ended up walking through the woods trying to avoid trees back up to the house for my grandmother the nurse to remove and clean up. π
Other brother decided he wanted to try a bike trick by spinning the handles on bike he had. One side of the handle bars had protective rubber covering missing so was just nice sharp metal. He pedaled full speed, barely lifted front up when he went to spin handle so it only spun like half way. Bike abruptly stopped because wheel was sideways, metal handle went into my brother's stomach enough to leave nice red circle, and then he flipped over the handle bars. We have pics in old photo albums of him holding his shirt up to show off the handle bar mark with a bloody nose, smile, and holding a thumb up. This was also when you only had like maybe 30 pictures on a roll of film and had to get it developed so weren't as likely to waste pictures since you were limited to how many you could take and cost to develop them - dumb injury in my family was considered a Kodak moment and worth one of the few pics on the roll of film. π
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Wow, this thread really blew up while I was gone π
Many thanks for sharing all your moments.
Got a couple more that I remembered here:
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Back in Primary school (I think I was aged 7-9 at the time), we had a little garden area with tyres, wildflowers and some small trees.
Anyway, there was this random paving slab sitting face down on the dirt; we liked to jump on it because it wobbled a bit.
I decided to try and lift the slab, while two of my friends were playing on it.
In my defense, I did manage to lift it a bit - at the cost of half my finger nail falling off and a big scrape and bruise on the same finger too.
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Also another one at a similar age, happened when I was walking with my mother to go swimming at the local outdoor pool.
We were walking down an alleyway, flanked either side by bright green leafy hedges that always seemed to attract a lot of wasps at that time of year.
Basically a wasp flew right into my eyelid.
Like RIGHT at it, kamikaze style.
We couldn't even find the rest of its body. There was just its abdomen hanging off my eyelid with the stinger stuck to me.
Anyway, mum plucked it out and we went swimming. Lol.
God knows what speed or direction it was going in to end up crashing into my eye like that though...
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I'll always remember that as the day a wasp's arse got stuck in my eyelid... π
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Oh...oh my goodness... as someone that lives around bees, wasps, and hornets... getting one in my eye is extremely scary!
The best one I can recall that highlights my momentary lapse in judgement was several years ago when we were working on costume commissions. I was in charge of making a Sauron costume using Worbla, the first time working with it too. I was using the heat gun to shape it, and at one point I set it down in a spot I knew I shouldn't set it, but it was only going to be for a second, I told myself. A friend that was over at the house helping out accidentally tugged on the extension cord it was attached to, and it fell...metal nozzle first...onto my bare leg. It HURT, and left a mark that looked like a round cooking grill on my leg for a year.
After that, learned my lesson, and got a hair dryer hanger to holster the heat gun when not in use.
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Oh man, I wasn't even thinking of times I've been stung. I have so many stories to the point I actually freak out if I'm around bees terrified of being stung yet again.
When I was probably in 2nd grade my aunt and uncle were visiting from out of state with my cousins. My aunt and uncle decided they'd go to church while they were up and had convinced me to go by saying we'd go to beach after since church they were going to was by it. Was just myself, aunt, uncle, and one of my cousins.
End of church walking out I was stung by a yellow jacket on my middle finger on the inside by middle knuckle. I start crying because I'm a kid and it hurt wicked bad. My cousin makes fun of me for crying saying it's because I'm a girl and we get in argument with me saying my being a girl isn't why I'm crying, bee stings hurt and he'd be crying too if he was stung, that if boys are so tough he should go get stung and prove he won't cry.
My aunt and uncle decide we should skip beach and head home instead to take care of the sting. So now I'm crying because my finger hurts and I'm pissed I'm missing the beach - the thing that convinced me to go and I had I not been convinced to go I wouldn't have been stung. After that anytime my aunt/uncle were visiting or I visited them it was a big nope to going to church, I learned my lesson. π
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Oh you know, the good ol step on a rake = bash to the forehead
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Aw, yeah. I still love bees though.
Wasps are still interesting to look at too - though I wouldn't stick around one for too long. π
Here's a screenshot of something interesting I found out online.
And yes, you did read the title correctly:
For context, the Giant Hornet the article refers to - also known affectionately as the Murder Hornet, is named so for thier effectiveness at wiping out bee colonies (not people).
So please don't have any bad dreams about these. I just love sharing odd things like this whenever I get the chance. π
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Dont get me wrong, I like what bees do for the environment I just don't trust them near me because I've been stung way too many times. Growing up we had a pool and any time I saw a honey bee or bumble bee in it I'd grab a net to save it, would pull it out and run. π Yellow jackets/wasps could drown though, screw those guys. π
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I think my dumbest where I actually got hurt was when I was much younger than I am now. My family and I were at a hotel with a pool. Right outside the pool they had this hallway that had ceramic tile and a bunch of rugs in it. For whatever reason there was about an 8 foot gap between two of the rugs. I was one of those kids who seem to always be running no matter what and... well... I'm not sure if the tiles were wet or my feet were wet... but I had my feet fly out from under me as I attempted to run across that 8 ft. patch of tile. Hit my head pretty good. No lasting effects thankfully.
Honestly, thinking back to my childhood, there were a lot of instances where I should have gotten hurt pretty bad but just didn't.
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My Freshman year during PE I was running backwards and I tripped and instinctively put my hand out to catch myself and I twisted my wrist. When I went to the doctor they told me nothing was wrong, but that sonofabitch hurt for like a whole week straight.
There was also another instance when I was even younger (like 11 or 12) where I jumped off a set of stairs at my uncle's house (yea I'm a dumbass) and hurt my foot. I never told anyone cause I felt too embarrassed I guess so I never went to the doctor. My foot hurt for months with a sharp pain and I remember trying my best to hide it all the time at school all the way till the end of the year. I think that's why I immediately told my mom about my wrist during my Freshman year because I didn't wanna deal with that ######### again.
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I stubbed my toe.
Many times.
Yeah, that's all I can really think of. I've had many dumb injuries but I can't think of any. I guess the closest thing to a dumb injury I can really think of at the moment is that one time I sprained my ankle when I was younger. I fought another kid in jiu jitsu training and my ankle got stuck while we were fighting. It twisted and I ######### it up for a couple weeks. But hey, at least it was a good fight for the both of us. Sort of.
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One day I decided to cut my nails on legs little further than usual. So I cut all nails normally but after several days nail on my right toe has grown into the skin. It become very painful, it caused inflammation, so it only was cured with little surgery.
I never cut nails too deep since then.
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I stepped on a tree root and broke my foot. Ironically enough, I was climbing sharp stones with no problems, even climbed up the Sedona canyon a bit with sneakers (don't recommend) without hurting myself, but that tree root was my demise and I ended up walking around on it for 9 weeks (3 of those were on vacation in Phoenix, AZ) before it got diagnosed.
Another personal track record I have is how many times I've got hit by cars and two buses. I think I was hit by about 4 cars (nothing major luckily) and one bus when I was waiting for a bus on the train stations bus stop and the driver decided to drive in a bit too close where people are standing and it struck my arm. The other one was when I was walking home and I was walking past a bus stop in that moment, the bus driver did not honk, which was unfortunate, because some buses have low mirrors that are perfect to target my height. Luzi, meet window side mirror. Window side mirror, meet Luzi. It was pain and confusion. There wasn't much space for me to walk somewhere else and I was a bit further too, on that day the bus decided to stop a bit further in the bus stop too.
I'm not sure if this does not possibly imply that I might have been cursed. But on the regular I almost get hit by cars.
This sounds painful!! It's one of my worries when cutting them or my fingernails, agh... Ouch!
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