Stupidity!!

ExeterSimon

I used to work with someone who used to spread his hand out on the work surface and drop scalpels and other bladed intruments from about 2 feet aiming them between his fingers.

It was only a matter of time.....

Uncle Peter

Best advice I ever had was "Never put your finger where you wouldn't put your dick"

Sounds like everyone knows someone who wishes thye'd been told that when younger.

Steve_b77

I've had my fair share of "Darwin" esque balls ups

1 - when at school wathcing a catara operation in Biology, I felt faint (can't stand eye operations) went out side the class, passed out and knocked myself out on the steps by the class.

2 - at about 12 I was on a great big slide in the local park, clipped my head on the side of the eye socket, split it, blood poured down into my eye, literally seeing red passed out again :oops:

3 - While on my apprenticeship was cutting down bolts and decided to catch the heads under the vice, hack saw promptly cut right into two fingers on my left hand "to the bone" guess what, I passed out again :?

4 - on my stag do, sttod up at the end of the night, hands in pockets and procceded to fall face first onto the board outside revolution in manchester, split my eye again (4th time in total now) my best man to be cleaned it up, in the morning off i went to hospital, nurse wasn't overly nice, ragged the now part gelled gash open, guess what yup I passed out right there adn came round about 15 minutes later :P :shock: :oops:

allthegearnoidea

Uncle Peter wrote:

Best advice I ever had was "Never put your finger where you wouldn't put your dick"

Sounds like everyone knows someone who wishes thye'd been told that when younger.

Great advice!!!

OwenB

Working on a building site when I was younger, I was ripping up some rafters that had been nailed into the wrong positions, I managed to get my hands under one and really gave it a good heave, to find blood pouring through my fingers.

I'd only managed to put my palm over the head of the nail before I went to lift it and it went right the way through. A few days later after not looking after the wound I got blood poisoning and almost had to have my hand amputated, (un)fortunately it was my left hand and as I'm a left pegger they decided to try and save it first which was sucessful (phew).

supersonic

When I was a kid, I threw a brick in the air (as you do). Lost sight of it, and it landed on my head, knocking me to the floor.

Not that I learned. Next door neighbours kid was firing at me with a pea shooter through the fence, so I tossed a breeze block over. Straight through the greenhouse.

Anonymous

I remember when I ws really young, I was smashing plastic army men into the lawn with a claw hammer (as you do), splattering them into the nud.
Unfortunately, the claw hammer got a bit stuck, so I yanked hard at it to pull it out, and managed to hit myself in the back of my head with the claw when it came out. I needed sticthes to fix the massive gash in my head! I've been told there's still a scar on the back of my head underneath all my hair

howsmyriding27

Uncle Peter wrote:

Best advice I ever had was "Never put your finger where you wouldn't put your dick"

haaaaahahaha that made me laugh...

good advice nevertheless.

cunning-stunt

Split my happy sack through landing a jump wrong.
Rode through a sign with two posts that was about 2 inches narrower than my bars and rammed the levers into my fingers at 30mph.
Got a chainring in the head - that hurt.
Fell on the back wheel and sanded my happy sack.
Got my foot caught in the front spokes causing a massive endo at top speed,faceplant was impressive.
Cut a cable tie towards me and introduced my hand to a stanley knife,very intimately.
Got DOT 4 in my eye - that really hurts.
Managed to impale my hand on big chainring.
Got whacked in the gob by V12s when I spun cranks to check BB bearings.

Don't even get me started on non bike related..

redvee

Done the foot in front wheel endo but i was on my cousin's drop handlebarred bike hace also hit a big traffic cone, 1m+ tall, the bike stopped, I didn't and put my elbow into my ribs but not hurt as I have inbuilt padding :oops: , pride was hurt though. Luckily the one person who did stop was a PE tutor at the local academy.

Uncle Peter

cunning-stunt wrote:

Split my happy sack through landing a jump wrong.
Rode through a sign with two posts that was about 2 inches narrower than my bars and rammed the levers into my fingers at 30mph.
Got a chainring in the head - that hurt.
Fell on the back wheel and sanded my happy sack.
Got my foot caught in the front spokes causing a massive endo at top speed,faceplant was impressive.
Cut a cable tie towards me and introduced my hand to a stanley knife,very intimately.
Got DOT 4 in my eye - that really hurts.
Managed to impale my hand on big chainring.
Got whacked in the gob by V12s when I spun cranks to check BB bearings.

Don't even get me started on non bike related..

I'd go and live in a cardboard box if I was that accident prone, you must be just one great big lump of scare tissue.

The worst I've ever done is when i came off andcut my right hand open, cut the tendon to my first two fingers and partially severed my palmal artery, did a cracking impression of spiderman with my own blood in hospital, I made the nurse barf. Spent 4 weeks in hospital and 8 months of physiotherapy.

cee

yeehaamcgee wrote:

I remember when I ws really young, I was smashing plastic army men into the lawn with a claw hammer (as you do), splattering them into the nud.
Unfortunately, the claw hammer got a bit stuck, so I yanked hard at it to pull it out, and managed to hit myself in the back of my head with the claw when it came out. I needed sticthes to fix the massive gash in my head! I've been told there's still a scar on the back of my head underneath all my hair

haha i have done that as well. It sucked

xcmtbkingy

supersonic wrote:

When I was a kid, I threw a brick in the air (as you do). Lost sight of it, and it landed on my head, knocking me to the floor.

Not that I learned. Next door neighbours kid was firing at me with a pea shooter through the fence, so I tossed a breeze block over. Straight through the greenhouse.

i laughed bad at that lol


Mine would be just fixing a puncture and putting wheel back on - i then head out mountain biking on the final stage came down a massive hill must have reached about 30 mph, got onto the gravel which made me slow down and front wheel fell off lmao