I've given myself not one, but two black eyes with my hairdryer. That takes talent.
What's the wierdest injury you've had?
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Not trying to brag but I got some good ones.
1) While framing crawling up a ladder. nail gun fell as i grabbed I hit the trigger. The other end of the gun(the end the nail comes out)was firmly on my knee. It didnt hurt so much going in but coming out hurt like hell. Cool x-ray though.
2) While out one night walking down the street with my keys in my hand my buddy walking next to me slipped and fell on the ice. On the way down trying to grab me he grabbed my hand with the keys in them. The longest key on the ring went clear through the palm of my hand. and was sticking out the other side. I may have not been sober so it didnt hurt to bad coming out.
3) While in my younger days i was dirt biking when i saw some antelope in the distance. Not being to smart i gave chase. As i was starting to catch up to them they all of a sudden disappeared. Oh crap i thought. I hit the revine 5th gear pinned. i came to a short while later in the bottom of the revine with a slight concusion and a broken tailbone. Worst pain I ever felt.
1) While framing crawling up a ladder. nail gun fell as i grabbed I hit the trigger. The other end of the gun(the end the nail comes out)was firmly on my knee. It didnt hurt so much going in but coming out hurt like hell. Cool x-ray though.
2) While out one night walking down the street with my keys in my hand my buddy walking next to me slipped and fell on the ice. On the way down trying to grab me he grabbed my hand with the keys in them. The longest key on the ring went clear through the palm of my hand. and was sticking out the other side. I may have not been sober so it didnt hurt to bad coming out.
3) While in my younger days i was dirt biking when i saw some antelope in the distance. Not being to smart i gave chase. As i was starting to catch up to them they all of a sudden disappeared. Oh crap i thought. I hit the revine 5th gear pinned. i came to a short while later in the bottom of the revine with a slight concusion and a broken tailbone. Worst pain I ever felt.
I could here the bones breaking
running down a dock in bare feet and hooked a cleat inbetween my small and next big toes..lotsa blood too.
running down a dock in bare feet and hooked a cleat inbetween my small and next big toes..lotsa blood too.
Heres a few,when i was 5 i was watching tv and my brother says "Hey Mark look" and shoots me in the eye with a bb gun. OUCH! it didnt pop it but went behind it.had to have surgery to take it out,6 months with an eye patch.
About 13 years old i was riding an old riding lawnmower and went to check chain tension, I had a winter glove on and reached down just as i dumped the clutch. Finger went around the sproket. The tip of my index finger was still in the glove when i pulled it off. My dad made me drive myself to the docs office to get it fixed. Ya i drove when i was 13.
Atv footpeg took a chunk of meat out of my *** .That was a "Hey hold my beer and watch this" moment.
About 13 years old i was riding an old riding lawnmower and went to check chain tension, I had a winter glove on and reached down just as i dumped the clutch. Finger went around the sproket. The tip of my index finger was still in the glove when i pulled it off. My dad made me drive myself to the docs office to get it fixed. Ya i drove when i was 13.
Atv footpeg took a chunk of meat out of my *** .That was a "Hey hold my beer and watch this" moment.
Ran MYSELF over with a dumptruck once. I was hauling snow and got out for a second without setting the brake to see if I was full. I slipped and fell onto the ground and the front wheel rolled over my foot from heel to toe. SUCKED and couldnt pull away.
Another time I was highmarking and lost my sled, slid down the hill on my azz and busted my tailbone. Sucked too.
Another time I was highmarking and lost my sled, slid down the hill on my azz and busted my tailbone. Sucked too.
grasshopper...please elaborate.
Much more than talent my dear... in all the universe across time and space it defies the mercy of the Gods. More please!
Much more than talent my dear... in all the universe across time and space it defies the mercy of the Gods. More please!
OK, I got to pull out the big one......
I joined an outdoor adventure club and had spent the day kyaking the North Fork of the Payette river. We were all camped and the usual innitiations were going on. I was one of four people who were being indoctrinated into the group. Now these people are a bunch of good guys and gals who archery hunt, sky dive, kyak, ski, snowmobile, basically everything outdoors. Our innitiation was simply to stand in front of a tree and let one of the "professional" archers shoot a can off of our heads. I was the last in line and to be honest didn't even question what was happening with this group of thrill seakers. after watching the cans get pinned to the tree from the other three recruits I stepped forward and stood as still as could be, bud light on my head. 30 days later I wake up to hear about how the arrow had entered just above my left temple and exited my right and then stuck firmly into the tree. My legs instantly whent limp and I hung pinned to the tree infront of 25 or so family and friends. Their thoughts were that I was dead. Had it not been a target arrow I most certainly would have been but...... missed my optic nerves by a hair and didn't leave anything but two bad a ss scars just in my hair line above my temples. They had me sawed from the tree and life flighted to the hospital with the arrow still in my head.
It was a pretty big deal. I was in all the news, even on Paul Harvey.
I joined an outdoor adventure club and had spent the day kyaking the North Fork of the Payette river. We were all camped and the usual innitiations were going on. I was one of four people who were being indoctrinated into the group. Now these people are a bunch of good guys and gals who archery hunt, sky dive, kyak, ski, snowmobile, basically everything outdoors. Our innitiation was simply to stand in front of a tree and let one of the "professional" archers shoot a can off of our heads. I was the last in line and to be honest didn't even question what was happening with this group of thrill seakers. after watching the cans get pinned to the tree from the other three recruits I stepped forward and stood as still as could be, bud light on my head. 30 days later I wake up to hear about how the arrow had entered just above my left temple and exited my right and then stuck firmly into the tree. My legs instantly whent limp and I hung pinned to the tree infront of 25 or so family and friends. Their thoughts were that I was dead. Had it not been a target arrow I most certainly would have been but...... missed my optic nerves by a hair and didn't leave anything but two bad a ss scars just in my hair line above my temples. They had me sawed from the tree and life flighted to the hospital with the arrow still in my head.
It was a pretty big deal. I was in all the news, even on Paul Harvey.
I pulled a muscle in the shower -- it felt so good that i pulled it 5oo times more!!
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RMK7SledHead
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You fuggin' WIN! Who wants to buy this guy a beer?! I'm first!
I don't have any good accident stories. BUT, who has ever had the feeling of wanting to do something stupid and stopped themselves? I run a gantry mill at work sometimes and it has a 20HP 10,000 RPM DC motor on it. For some reason, on occasion, I want to reach out and grab the tool while it's spinning 10,000 RPM with a carbide 1" end mill in it. Can't even imagine what that would do to my poor dick beater...
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Nothing as wow as some of the stories....
Um once was modifing a mounting plate for a GFI plug, and the drill bit broke, went straight though my hand in the meat between the thumb and index finger, still have the scar...
Umm many times cut some part of my hand down to the bone, one thumb when a shingle blade in a utility knife broke, last week ripping a metal plate out of a computer, it has a bend in it that tore my right thumb down to the bone, installing a big 5ft high by 8ft long window, I was holding it with a suction cup and on the bottom for extra support... buddy ont he other end moved it funny... cut right along the life line down to the bone.
Ummm was building a deck, I was working on the second story part.. went to get off it, I steped onto the ladder, one leg on the ladder buckled and I came crashing down onto the joists on the first level, head first, I was told I didn't scream going down, I was out for a few minutes.. I couldn't speak for about 30min or so.. after 45min I drove myself to Emerg 5 miles down the highway... I walk in had to tell the story 5 times because they couldn't comprehend me.. then asked "Oh wow, do you think you'd be able to move from that chair into a wheel chair?" My relpy was, "I walked in the door didn't I?"
Umm when I was 17 in the army we did some log fortification exercises... shot all sorts of weapons at the fortified targets.. then had to put the logs away... while putting the logs away we where aranging ourself by hieght as we where going up hill with 1200lbs logs, 8 people per log.. well I was in back being 6'3" the other two tall guys where in front arangining people when a Master corperal walked up yelled at us to pick up the log so we did.. 2 tall people in front, 5 short people in the middle, me in back, going up hill... with the log shouldered... so middle people aren't helping much, first step my back went crunch.. I kept working.. moved a number more logs.. then has to do a 1mile ruck march back to camp with 120lbs in my ruck... normally wouldn't be an issue... 3-4days later I get back to civilization first thing i do, hot shower, then to the doctors... they did and x-ray, then a couple months later a MRi or CT(can't remember)... turns out I had compressed my spine so much while moving the log, I got roto-scoliosis, 2 buldging disks, and 2 fractures on my L5, actually broke that little nub you can feel right off... to top it off, before I knew how bad it was I was a moron.. lower ball joint when on my car.. so I tried and tried to fix it... some what in the bush.. I tried to fix it so I could drive it a couple hundred feet to a drive way... anyhow cops told me I had x time to move it or they be towing it.. the now wife had to go some where and wanted me to go with... I wanted my new jackstand back that was under the car, incase they did tow, and the jack mount on the car broke.. so what do I do.. I grabbed the bumper lifted the front drivers corner off the jack stand rolled the car back far enough to clear the jack stand and i dropped the car. soo umm yeah... a spinal fusion and decompression and 10years later I still have cronic back pain, somedays can't even get out of bed.. I've been stuck on the floor a couple times.. shoot couldn't get off an x-ray table once....
I've done some other stupid stuff that end with just a bump and a bruise like look down at my bicycle chain while trying to figure out what's wrong with it, one time I rode intot he back of a parked car, once into a street sign....
Ummmm once i was walking along the top of a wooden fence.. a friend shook the fence, i fell off.. landed sitting with my legs crossed, dislocated my left knee.. took me 30min to figure out how to pop it back in without major major pain....
Um once was modifing a mounting plate for a GFI plug, and the drill bit broke, went straight though my hand in the meat between the thumb and index finger, still have the scar...
Umm many times cut some part of my hand down to the bone, one thumb when a shingle blade in a utility knife broke, last week ripping a metal plate out of a computer, it has a bend in it that tore my right thumb down to the bone, installing a big 5ft high by 8ft long window, I was holding it with a suction cup and on the bottom for extra support... buddy ont he other end moved it funny... cut right along the life line down to the bone.
Ummm was building a deck, I was working on the second story part.. went to get off it, I steped onto the ladder, one leg on the ladder buckled and I came crashing down onto the joists on the first level, head first, I was told I didn't scream going down, I was out for a few minutes.. I couldn't speak for about 30min or so.. after 45min I drove myself to Emerg 5 miles down the highway... I walk in had to tell the story 5 times because they couldn't comprehend me.. then asked "Oh wow, do you think you'd be able to move from that chair into a wheel chair?" My relpy was, "I walked in the door didn't I?"
Umm when I was 17 in the army we did some log fortification exercises... shot all sorts of weapons at the fortified targets.. then had to put the logs away... while putting the logs away we where aranging ourself by hieght as we where going up hill with 1200lbs logs, 8 people per log.. well I was in back being 6'3" the other two tall guys where in front arangining people when a Master corperal walked up yelled at us to pick up the log so we did.. 2 tall people in front, 5 short people in the middle, me in back, going up hill... with the log shouldered... so middle people aren't helping much, first step my back went crunch.. I kept working.. moved a number more logs.. then has to do a 1mile ruck march back to camp with 120lbs in my ruck... normally wouldn't be an issue... 3-4days later I get back to civilization first thing i do, hot shower, then to the doctors... they did and x-ray, then a couple months later a MRi or CT(can't remember)... turns out I had compressed my spine so much while moving the log, I got roto-scoliosis, 2 buldging disks, and 2 fractures on my L5, actually broke that little nub you can feel right off... to top it off, before I knew how bad it was I was a moron.. lower ball joint when on my car.. so I tried and tried to fix it... some what in the bush.. I tried to fix it so I could drive it a couple hundred feet to a drive way... anyhow cops told me I had x time to move it or they be towing it.. the now wife had to go some where and wanted me to go with... I wanted my new jackstand back that was under the car, incase they did tow, and the jack mount on the car broke.. so what do I do.. I grabbed the bumper lifted the front drivers corner off the jack stand rolled the car back far enough to clear the jack stand and i dropped the car. soo umm yeah... a spinal fusion and decompression and 10years later I still have cronic back pain, somedays can't even get out of bed.. I've been stuck on the floor a couple times.. shoot couldn't get off an x-ray table once....
I've done some other stupid stuff that end with just a bump and a bruise like look down at my bicycle chain while trying to figure out what's wrong with it, one time I rode intot he back of a parked car, once into a street sign....
Ummmm once i was walking along the top of a wooden fence.. a friend shook the fence, i fell off.. landed sitting with my legs crossed, dislocated my left knee.. took me 30min to figure out how to pop it back in without major major pain....
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