[hbk4894]

remember hearing a story about a footballer who dropped a can of links on his foot and ruled him out for several weeks so just wondering what are the strangest/funniest ways you have been injured

for me it has to be either getting stabbed with a pencil in high school causing a blood stain to my shirt or when i rtried to walk under a big road sign and i hit my head and caused a cut to my head.

[Smithy]

Sneezed and kneed myself in the nose

[MTVN]

Cut my head open running through a WWI trench in Belgium

[Kizzy]

I fell through a chair painting a ceiling.

[AnnieK]

Fell through a bus station window trying to be cool and leaning back (no glass)
Stomping off in a huff and tripping over a curb resulting in a ripped skirt and shredded knee.
Trying to leap frog a bollard in a skirt which got caught a catapulted me face first into said bollard.

Common sense is not my forte

[Lee.]

Fell out of bed and broke my eye socket.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Fell off a church

[Mokka]

Walking the dog in sandles...a short pointy,yet kinda thick stick some how managed to stab me directly between my big and second toe... It went in really deep, and damaged nerves and everything...limped around for weeks afterwards

[Denver]

Walking up the stairs min the dark thinking their was a extra step when there wasnt tripped and face planted the wall

[Amy Jade]

My cousin stabbed me in the leg with a pair of scissors when we were about 7

I ran into a sideboard and split my head open when I was 12

Put my finger into a blender in school, no idea why I did it but yeah. I was 14.

[Denver]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

I fell through a chair painting a ceiling.

I know I shouldn't laugh but

[GiRTh]

I was drunk so I decided to inspect a hole in my garage roof. As you do. I slipped, fell off the roof and ruptured a main tendon in my leg. I couldnt stand up; my leg buckled under the pressure. I had to crawl on my backside back into the house call an ambulance then wait 4 hours, unable to stand, for it to come.

[smudgie]

Stood on a scorpion running a race on the road in front of the house, barefoot of course. Had to have the whole of my heel lanced off due to the poison.

Running through the bush with just flip-flops on and getting bitten by a snake...very painful but thankfully not lethal.

My sister throwing a dart and it going into my shin..to the bone.

The normal falling off chairs, falling over and making a show of myself.

[Black Dagger]

Cut my head open when I was 10 playing crocodiles. I whacked my head off the arm rest.

[LaLaLand]

My sister closing the car window on my fingers was a bit daft, we laugh about it now but boy did it hurt.

She pressed the button to close them and I screamed in pain and the panic made her press it more repeatedly thus crushing my index and middle fingers in the window! That was about 6 months ago now and it still hurts to press my knuckle sometimes!!

OH and when I was about 4 I thought it'd be a good idea to jump head first from the bottom stair onto a plug socket, I cracked the socket wide open along with my eyebrow!

[Ammi]

..lots and lots of things/I have brothers, I was a tomboy...I climbed on top of a garage roof and fell off it...

[Niamh.]

Jumped off a wall and over a washing line in a friends garden and when I landed my knee hit my mouth and my tooth went through my lip

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Adam.

I know I shouldn't laugh but

Yes, the kids laughed too....come to think of it every time it's brought up they laugh uncontrollably for ages :/

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Fell off a church

Metaphorically?

[Daniel-X]

The stupidest way was probably about two years ago when I was running and my foot got caught in a grid and I tripped and smashed my elbow into the ground, It was so badly broke I had to have a five hour operation while the doctors put some metal plates in.

[Kazanne]

My brother tripped me over while I was carrying a bottle of pop,I gashed my arm quite badly,still have the scars , also tripped and cut my knee open when skipping (as a kid) and tore my hamstring when I was flicking someone with a towel ,I slipped and did the splits,I still have trouble with that leg now.I also fell INTO a saucepan of boiling water and scalded my hands badly.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Lee.

Fell out of bed and broke my eye socket.

Ouch Eye injuries are the ones that make me wince more than any other, I have a fear of all things eye related

[rubymoo]

When i were a about 10 years old i nicked off on a friends bike, i turned around to see him chasing me and as i faced forward......WHAM.....i hit my head on a low bar and knocked myself unconscious as well as cutting my head wide open

I also stood on a chair when i were unwell to get paracetamol from a high shelf, i promptly passed out hitting my head on the way down, i awoke to find myself with my husband standing over me asking what i were doing lying on the floor, and when i sat up i realised i were lying in a pool of blood (i'd hit my head again!)

I also got inspiration from a cartoon where you make a seesaw from a plank of wood and a brick, i put an old slate on one side and jumped on the other, i looked up to see where it were and i couldn't see it, so i walked back about 10 meters to my back door and it came down and hit me on the head...... i got hit on the head a lot!

[kirklancaster]

I once fell head over heels in love and hurt myself badly. My ego was bruised, my pride wounded, and my heart was broken.

More seriously; I had a fractured skull when I fought off on an idiot who attacked me with a claw hammer - that was pretty stupid in hindsight.

I once jumped from a high rock in the cliffs down onto a boulder some 6' below whilst on holiday. The problem was; the boulder was covered in slimy moss, there was a 30' to 40' sheer drop to the sea, and I was wearing 'Flip-Flops'.

When I jumped, I slid TOWARDS the edge of the boulder towards the sheer drop and had to 'flick' my back to stop myself from going over the edge.

I slipped a couple of discs and have problems (and immense pain) to this day - though fortunately, it only becomes 'unbearable' infrequently.

I have had lots of injuries but I think those two are the 'Standout' most stupid ones which could have been avoided.

Still; 'C'est La Vie'

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Metaphorically?

- No, Niamh, he was probably stripping the slates and lead flashings so that when it rained all those religious people got piss wet through.