Stitches - What's the stupidest injury you've ever inflicted on yourself?

What's the stupidest injury you've ever inflicted on yourself?

I've had some real no brainers - breaking my toe hitting my foot on an armchair while doing a cartwheel, three stitches in my head hitting my head on a different armchair while attempting to jump from one side of the living room to the other, breaking a rib and chipping a tooth diving on a bed, third degree burns on my fingers while cheking the hob was warm, mouse-trapping two fingers (one on each hand) in a folding chair, going diving when the sea was full of jellyfish and getting stung. Having written this (and not including things like breaking my collar bone, getting stung by a ray and stuff that wasn't my fault), I think I'm a bit of a walking disaster area. I'd love to say these all happened whe I was too young to know better, but some of them were quite recent. I couldn't possibly decide, so this one is opened to votes. Stay safe (but keep having fun).

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i hit my baby toe on my hallway wall and broke it... then it did it again TWO MONTHS later!
I can't remember anything quite like that... but once I pulled a muscle between 2 ribs by coughing.....
You sound like a walking disaster area! Ha Ha! We should hang out. I almost killed myself when I jumped a friends ATV off a sand dune and landed flat on my back. I accidentally stabbed myself in the hand with a pen at work. (I dropped it and tried to catch it) I burned all the hair (and some skin) of one of my hands when I set in on fire (to see what would happen). I sprained my ankle jumping off a roof. That is all that comes to mind at present, but I am sure there are alot of others...good times...*sighs*
When i was 11 i went to the toilet one day and took a comic with me. now it was quite a cold day so i thought 'wow that seat is cold, i'll sit on my hands'. so i positioned my comic on the floor and sat on my hands...i'm sure you can see where this is going. moments later, after leaning over to read some small print i fell off the toilet, landed on my face and carpet burned my nose! I was branded 'bogdiver' for several years by friends and family!
burning my head with a curling iron as a teen!
Slamming my elbow in the car door.
I fell over and bit myself.
I went skiing and there was this abrupt hill and at first i was only able to go half way down and then I said to myself if i can go all they way from up there , I'm the best, I wont ask any more of me, and everything went fine, I was kinda scared, but it was all good, and right down at the end i fell, my speed was so low, I tripped somehow, and i hurt my knee pretty bad, I laid there for like a half an hour and then I decided not to tell anyone, I never even saw a doctor! That was like 3 years ago! I turned out just fine :)
Mine are stupid because I did them ON PURPOSE. I stapled my pointer finger, to see what will happen, I jumped from the top of our gate (around 9 ft off the ground) to see how I'll land, I provoked our cats to bite and scratch me if they will and I ran a huge chopping knife on my wet, soft palm to see if I'll get sliced, I also stabbed by nail which bled all over the place and now it looks like frankenstein's nail... and my only 3 accidents are breaking my knee caps, peeling the top of my finger off with a vegetable peeler and my nail getting stuck in the door frame and it had to be "pulled" out. Its all real I swear. I like to live hardcore, thank you. hehe.
ah bless - have you tried bubble wrap - you seem real fragile
Don't know if this counts as an injury because it's probably more self harm and complete stupidity. When i was 13 I loved Bon Jovi and attempted a homemade tattoo with a compass and a pen. I vividly remember my mother catching me and telling me that at some point in my life i may not love Bon Jovi with such passion, and me replying "Don't be stupid. I'll always love Bon Jovi!" Turns out good old Mum was right!! Thank god I didn't succeed. I have inflicted injuries though. Chipped a young man's tooth with an overly exuberant cheers. Not the best way to pull!
You poor girl. Are you really still alive? I'm kidding. My brother and friend are like you. Getting multiple, strange, crazy injures. For me my worst was jumping as far as I could down the stairs. Made it down 14 and fell the rest of the way. It was 17 steps in all. I knew it was stupid and I did it any way. Luckily I didn't break anything. Turns out that I didn't hurt anything really except for my hip where I landed, BIG BRUISE!
My husband broke his ankle on Tuesday when in high school, and when he went back on Wednesday, he slipped coming down the stairs on his crutches and broke the other ankle. 2 broken ankles in 2 days! What a goofball. LOL 3 months in a wheel chair after that. LOL
When I was 20-ish, I was on my way down some rocks trying to get down to the ocean. I must have stepped on some slime or something, because my feet flew out from under me and I did a face plant on the rocks. I ended up breaking my cheek bone, my eye socket, and put a big gash on my finger that took eight stitches to close. My vision is permanently affected because of the fall. D'oh.
And I thought I was clumsy, poor you =)
I think it was probably the time I was helping with the bulletin board in 7th grade and I managed to staple my thumb to the board. (Slick!) It hurt like hell!! Oddly enough no one ever asked for my help with the bulletin board again! Imagine!
broke my leg on a tricycle when i was 3 i didn't know how to stop and that was the only way i could think to do it
I chipped my front tooth on the bottom of a swimming pool showing off doing a handstand - turned out to be a "mouthstand". I tore the ligaments in my elbow when I ran into a wall playing British Bulldog at school (I was using the wall to stop myself). I'm sure there's more but my memory ain't what it used to be.
My friends and I were sliding down the stairs in our sleeping bags and I thought it would be fun to roll up in a ball in my sleeping bag and slide down....I ended up doing numerous somersaults down the stairs in my and I hit my head on the wall! Funny now but it really hurt! lol
breaking my finger trying to catch a baseball. put my finger in the glove before the ball got in
I was eating an ice lolly and when I had finished I had a thought that I could fit the stick into my mouth. Anyway I shoved it in and it got stuck. I was with a group of friends and we were watching a film. I was so embarrassed I couldn't tell them what I had done, then it really started to hurt, so I turned around and garbled out, 'the stick is stuck'. They just cracked up laughing and were unable to help me. Eventually my friend had to get a pair of scissors and cut it in half. It still cracks me up now!!!!!!!! I had two dents in the side of my cheeks for ages afterwards!!
\when I was about 6 yrs old, my best friend broke her arm and had wonderful stories about how nice the doctors and nurses were at the hospital. Her mum spoilt her rotten and she was getting all the attention..... me jealous? Of course I was!!!! I was 6 for godsake!!! so what did I do? I stood on a sewing needle on purpose! It went right up into my foot. No I didn't go to hospital... my mother pulled it out with tweezers.... and told me off, and told everyone what I'd done.... I'll never forget it... especially when she repeats the tale again and again at family get togethers.... ps. I'm now 40 yrs old....
Oh... I burned my ankle by falling asleep with an electric heating pad on my feet. It got infected badly, so I had to go to the doctor... So embarrassing. My mom collapsed a lung by sneezing. She has also hemorrhaged her eye two or three times by sneezing. (You should hear her sneeze, it's scary.)
OMG!! You guys are fantastic!! Thanks for the laughs!! Now, in regards to your question, I think we've all done stupid stuff! I've been stung by jelly fish too, I've chipped a tooth on a can of pop while playing basketball, I've stepped on a sea urchin (that one really hurt!!), I've electrocuted myself, and countless other things too! But I'm alive and well and kinda surprised by that sometimes! Hey, $hit happens! Just read what we've all been through and realize you're not alone!! Stay safe!!
awwww i'm sorry sweetie lol. but you sound like alot of fun!!! couple of days ago i slipped getting out of the shower and smacked my head on the tub.....resulting in a concussion.... when i was in 2nd grade i wanted to see how high i could get by jumping off the swings, off course i forgot i had to come down....resulting in a broken arm in two places.......... i once stood up on my bed while the ceiling fan was going and SMACK!!! it knocked me down immediately. you sound like great fun!!!! cartwheels? jumping in the house? diving into bed?????? wow i love your energy!!! im very much like that too...i once jumped all the way down my stairs ducking my head to narrowly miss smacking it on the declining ceiling..... also once i fell all the way down my stairs..not my fault though i blacked out at the top and lost my balance..... also i love doing the splits for no reason....anywhere...anytime.....between two chairs....between kitchen counters.......i even think of places to do the splits while im out....like in the mall or grocery store....... lol and yes i have a strange fondness for jean claude van damme....and im not gay lol....
getting preggo and slamming my finger in car door
In egypt while snokeling i triped over a slippery rock and landed on my knee on a razor sharp rock. Had 7 sticthes in my knee but didn't get this because i had to swim 1 mile back to shore and this attracted some nasty looking sharks!!!
At school running across a playground in the snow to get help for a girl who had fainted, I slipped and broke my wrist . My car was parked on a slope outside a shop. It was muddy and raining and I leaned on the car over a puddle by the open door whilst putting the shopping in the car and somehow managed to slam the door on my thumb - it didn't hurt whilst the door was shut but I nearly passed out when a passer-by opened the door for me - I broke a bone, lost the thumb nail and have been very careful with car doors since then. This year I trapped my hand in a kitchen drawer, broke my ring finger in two places, snapped a tendon (so that the finger won't bend) and damaged a knuckle so badly I am having a joint replacement next year.
Wow! You must lead a very adventuresome life!!
broke a piece of plastic when removing a seat from a car, and the plastic split and took about 4mm of fleshy skin off the top of my left thumb - it has since grown back and left no scar - a thumb with a flat top looks funny, and hurt like hell about an hour after it happened.
I don't know how i did it but now i can do something like this ,\,,/ with my foot fingers. I think i get this ability while training Aikido. My pals are always laughing about that.
a very minor injury. i was staying at my mate's house at the time. his kettle did not switch off automatically when it boiled. i had some washing to put on and i was trying to get ready for work. the kettle was on top of the washing machine. i had switched it on earlier to make myself a breakfast cuppa. i bent down to put the washing in the machine. the steam from the spout of the kettle hit me right in the centre of my forehead. i had to walk around for the next week with a red circular mark in the middle of my forehead. anyone that asked me what it was got the explanation that i had boiled my head.
ive had loads i walked in to tree and gave my self a black eye and black leg! i feel off my bed once on to a vacume cleaner i fell off a three foot wall and gave my self a whole in the leg i got so drunk i bashed my eye cause i couldnt sit up ive had loads
I think you'd better just be carried around in a string bag - less harm can come to you! Take care! x I did once brush my teeth so vigorously that the toothbrush snapped and the shortened broken end went into my cheek and cause a nasty deep cut (and it hurt ...) Very silly. Got an electric one after that so no need to scrub!!!
i fell asleep with my nose stud in in the morning my nostrils were swollen and one was raw i was in casualty with a clamp up my nostril and exrays to my face chest and stomach boy i felt a fool
was walking thru the house in a power cut (so it was pitch black), smacked into the door, and fell flat on my @rse lol, no to mention hurting my nose lol
i fell from a chilgeren's play house and broke my arm... then i tripped on a crack in the ground and broke my other one.... not fun
Getting a car door slammed on my middle finger. It`s been crooked ever since.
Getting married , three times !
I dropped a cemet mixer on my toe. I pulled away about 2 second too late, so I clipped the nail (but didn't break the toe). Nearly barfed my gUts out from the pain
This happened over 10 years ago. I was out running one day and I slid on something on the ground (a small pebble or rock or something of that sort). Because I was going forward, and I was so afraid of falling on my face, I put my knee out to break the fall. I completely tore my knee apart (I had shorts on) and tore a few muscles. I injured my knee so badly, I can never run again and I still have problems with my knee now. :(
Breaking my own front tooth with my own racket while playing tennis. So busy admiring the "perfect" lob shot I had just hit that I forgot about my follow through & did a complete number on my own tooth. "Pride goeth before a fall " indeed LOL!
Ohhhhh! I can't remember when I've laughed so hard. You guys are great. I never really had any accidents, but my sister was always in the ER. In fact, she said one time, "Wasn't it funny how everyone in the ER knew us on a first-named basis?" I wasn't aware of it. Once she was exercising to an exercise video, and kicked a handle to a dresser. When she turned the lights on, she said it looked like a massacre in her room. Then there was the time she was roller skating and put out her arms to stop, and broke both wrists. (She was in college!) So, I can sympathize with all of you, but thanks for the laugh.
when I used to smoke I put the lit cigaret in my mouth the wrong way and it burned the hell out of me maybe that's why I don't smoke any more
I was 10, I fell out of the car, I was not hurt
Heaven's, Athene, I bet you'd find it hard to get personal injury insurance if you declared all your incidents on the application form! The most stupid thing I did was as a young man, serving in the the air force. One winter's evening I was walking through a semi lit hangar, full of very large aeroplanes. I put my hand in the pocket of my coverall and found a practise golf ball (the lightweight plastic type with holes in them - they bounce beautifully!). Anyway, for some unfathomable reason, I decided to 'dribble' it with my feet across the hangar floor - and ran straight into a main undercarriage door of an aircraft (I didn't see it, edge on, in the dim light). I received a deep gash across the bridge of my nose (I can still feel the little hollow it made!) and also cut my forehead. What an idiot I felt. But the Medical Officer did give me two days off duties in case I had concussion - so it wasn't all bad!!
i broke my glasses and got 2 black eyes playing with my mums dog. she had a round rubber tube thingy and wanted to pull on it with her teeth (the dog not my mum) so i was pulling while she was pulling and then she bloody well let go so i got the full force of my own gravity right in the kisser.
I've hurt my pride on several occasions
It sound's to me like you ought to make yourself a padded suit!!! lol Thankfully, I haven't really had many injuries (hope I haven't just jinxed myself lol) but the worst one was when i was about 6-7 year's old. My brothers had a fold away snooker table and putting it away, i had gone to get the box and pulled it not knowing it was stuck underneath the window's pelmet. The pelmet fell on my head sending one of it's nail's into my forehead causing me to have 4 stitches.
When I was a butcher I tested my knife's sharpness on my finger and got 4 stitches. P.s. what a beautiful name.