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Stupidest Ways you have been injured?

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  • Browntoa
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    Playing "dare" with my brothers with a dart , one threw it at the others foot , you couldn't move your foot otherwise you lost points . Ended with one of us with a dart in his shin bone

    Elder brothers played a game one with half a brick by chucking it over a sheet hanging over a washing line . Brick suddenly stopped coming back , my eldest brother was out cold on the floor
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  • theGrinch
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    Resting on the bed in the dark. Decided to change into JimJams. Removing trousers kneed myself in the head/eye.
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  • sammyjammy
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    Mine has got to be tearing my rotator cuff while drying my hair after the shower. I don't to this day know how I managed it.

    I did this a few months back falling down the stairs, its still really painful. I think I must have put my arm back behind me to try and grab hold of the stair, always falling down the stairs...

    Yesterday I banged the bridge of my nose on the side of the living room door, today I have a black eye :(
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  • olgadapolga
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    I've put a garden fork through my foot, slashed my hand open whilst cutting a pumpkin for halloween and been smacked in the face by a loft ladder as I forgot to catch it. The latter two required A&E visits and stitches . . . really stupid and completely preventable accidents.
  • Slipped on spilled fabric conditioner in utility room and jammed my arm inbetween the wall and the radiator on the opposite wall, ended up with a huge bruise and unable to wear my new outfit to daughters graduation ceremony.:mad:
  • pelirocco
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    Must have held on to banister too tightly at work , felt a slight !!!!! so knew I had a splinter.when I looked I had a sliver of wood poking out the top of my thumb in the middle and a lump underneath the skin below the first joint
    2 days in various parts of local hospital as I don't think they believed I had a splinter that big .I had an ultra sound which showed I didht have a splinter but a tree as the consultant said lol
    Needed an operation under a general to remove it .......felt slightly ridiculous
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  • mal4mac
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    edited 22 February 2016 at 12:44AM
    As a lad, I ran down a steep hill far too quickly, tripped up, and smashed my left hand into a gravel path. Lots of stitches! Overheard school nurse telling supervisory teacher it might have to be amputated. Fortunately wasn't that bad, and it got me out of PE for several weeks.

    Slicing loaf, the breadknife slipped, blood spurted up the wall, cycled to A&E with my hand wrapped in a towel and held high in the air. More stitches. My poor left hand!

    Got upset about my pseudo-NHS dental practice for trying to game charges so didn't visit a dentist for four years - two molars about to be surgically extracted at the dental hospital in the near future.
  • umm...

    Where to start - broke all my toes and an ankle falling over my nightie, broke the other ankle and the toes again falling over a suitcase. Broke my big toe on Sunday dropping the cleaner on it. (poor toes)

    Broke three ribs leaning over the dishwasher to take toast out the toaster - cracked them again coughing last winter.

    Broke my finger running away from my niece. Smacked it on the door - ouch.

    Broke my coxcix (sp) being kicked up the !!! by a steel toe capped boot.

    Fractured my skull bending over in front of a horse. Well behind him - he got spooked I went flying.

    And soo many more lol. Its got me thinking now....
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  • Threw a pen at my mate and cut his hand
  • PasturesNew
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    It could be when I was aged about 6 and riding my bike down a short lane I was watching my feet go round on the pedals and hit the lamppost at the end of the lane in the middle of the path ....

    Or it could be 8 years later when I was watching my feet go round on the pedals, on a local road, hit the back of a parked car, went right over the top ... landed on the road ... quickly grabbed my broken bike and carried it home, hoping nobody'd notice. Parents went ape, made me walk back round there with them so they could offer to pay for any damage I'd done :(

    When I am cycling now I do try not to watch my feet going round ... but it is compelling viewing.
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