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What's the dumbest thing you have ever done that involves injury to yourself ?

I was playing pickup basketball at the gym friday, and my team was losing 4-10 (1st to 11). I decided that I was going to try and steal the ball from their center instead of just letting him score and getting the [censored] off the court. I slapped at the ball, not expecting it to come out, but it did, and it bounced down and back up, breaking my [censored] pinkie finger. This is a $1000 mistake. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

I know OOT can come up with something 2356x better though...

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fight club

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This is a $1000 mistake. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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How is this a $1000 mistake? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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This is a $1000 mistake. [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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ER bill

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I got drunk and decieded to take a walk on the train tracks by my house. Now I have no legs.

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I got drunk and decieded to take a walk on the train tracks by my house. Now I have no legs.

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LOL I HAVE NO LEGS.
I love that line.

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Not my story, but deserves telling.

Drunk in the fraternity house one night (this is 10 years or so ago), an idiot friend of mine decides to play a "prank" on the fraternity next door. So, he goes over to their house with some sort of strong acid (hydrochloric?) solution he's stolen from a lab on campus. He pours said solution on one of the concrete lions by their front door. Of course, the acid runs off the lion onto his leg, burning him terribly and requiring all kinds of emergency room/medical care. As far as I know his leg remains disfigured to this day.

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You went to the ER for a broken pinky? Did you have bone coming through the skin or something? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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I was fixing a fuse on a fautly light, but couldn't be bothered to rescrew the back of the plug on, cos I was half-certain the replacement fuse in the plug was also broken. So I pushed the pins in with my fingers, and the socket was turned on.

I've still got curly hair.

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I fried my scalp bleaching my hair. I literally had blood running down the sides of my head.

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You went to the ER for a broken pinky? Did you have bone coming through the skin or something? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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no, but i don't have a doctor i can just go see here at college. i didn't go until the next day (saturday) and NYUs urgent care center on campus is closed on the weekends.

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I fried my scalp bleaching my hair. I literally had blood running down the sides of my head.

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Mowing grass, the stupid lawn mower kept getting clogged, and it was a pain in the ass to restart, so after the 10238901239th time, I decided to just pull out the clump w/o turning off the mower.

All I could feel was a sting on my middle finger, which I immediately grabbed with my other hand. Blood was runnign out from between my fingers, but I couldnt really tell if I still had all of my middle finger or not, and I was scared to look for a couple minutes. Ended up that I just sliced a little piece from my fingertip that got sewed back on, but was pretty scary clutching my hand & not being sure if I was horribly disfigured or not.

jvs

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You went to the ER for a broken pinky? Did you have bone coming through the skin or something? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Was about to say the same thing. Splint it with a popsicle stick and get on with life.

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You went to the ER for a broken pinky? Did you have bone coming through the skin or something? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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Was about to say the same thing. Splint it with a popsicle stick and get on with life.

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I thought the same thing, but when i woke up the next morning, my finger was purple and i couldn't bend it.

When i have a kid (god forbid) 20 years from now and i'm teaching it to count, i would actually like to be able to get to 10....

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Any heterosexual male who bleaches his hair deserves whatever injury results.

As for me, when I was 13 or 14 my friend and I were chasing each other around my house for some reason. I decided to run out the back door, but when I opened it (it opened to the inside), the door hit my foot and bounced back, crushing my head between the door and the frame. Worst pain I've ever felt and I had giant bruises on both sides of my head for about a week.

Also when I was about 6 I put a steak knife through my hand trying to cut an orange, but I think my young age is a mitigating factor.

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I decided to just pull out the clump w/o turning off the mower.

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That's where you went wrong.

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no, but i don't have a doctor i can just go see here at college. i didn't go until the next day (saturday) and NYUs urgent care center on campus is closed on the weekends.

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I've broken every one of my fingers multiple times and never been to a doctor. Just give em a good yank and slap a splint on there if you think you need to.

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no, but i don't have a doctor i can just go see here at college. i didn't go until the next day (saturday) and NYUs urgent care center on campus is closed on the weekends.

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I've broken every one of my fingers multiple times and never been to a doctor. Just give em a good yank and slap a splint on there if you think you need to.

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you should share a story jake [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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pissed at girl, punched wall, broke hand.

2 months pass...

repeat.

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You went to the ER for a broken pinky? Did you have bone coming through the skin or something? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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no, but i don't have a doctor i can just go see here at college. i didn't go until the next day (saturday) and NYUs urgent care center on campus is closed on the weekends.

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i broke my pinkie playing football a year ago. my friend is a paramedic and i asked him what i should do. he said he could pull it back in place or i could go to the ER and they could do it. so he snapped it back and i kept playing. it freakin hurt though.

about a week later it was swollen like a balloon. i was a little bothered thinking i got bad advice from my friend so i went to the doctor and the doc told me the ER would have done the same thing. wasted my copay that morning.

bwana

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Any heterosexual male who bleaches his hair deserves whatever injury results.

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Mowing grass, the stupid lawn mower kept getting clogged...

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First sentence and it was already good. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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Any heterosexual male who chases boys deserves whatever injury results.

As for me, when I was 13 or 14 my friend and I were chasing each other around my house

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FYP

Mack

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I decided to just pull out the clump w/o turning off the mower.

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So "You're That Guy"

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I shaved my head once on a drunken whim (that's not the dumb part). A friend warned me that if I go outside, I should put sunscreen on my head. I ignored her and spent a day in the sun. My scalp got sunburned and for a week my head looked disgusting with dry skin flaking off and some clear fluid dripping from it.

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In my defense, this was not a "I'm some fancy boy with blonde hair" thing, this was my 18 year old I'm punk rock and I want a blonde mohawk type thing.

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In my defense, this was not a "I'm some fancy boy with blonde hair" thing, this was my 18 year old I'm punk rock and I want a blonde mohawk type thing.

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This changes nothing...

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I was in high school near a concreted patio area with some friends. I couldn't play basketball for crap, but my friends were really into it. So they'd jump up on this little ledge thing there some height above us and grab onto it, and lift themselves up as if they were slam dunking.

I decided I'd try and show how cool I was by doing it also. In high school I was somewhat overweight and as I said, completely crap at basketball. I took a runup, jumped, grabbed the ledge... but the runup I took gave my body momentum that carried most of me forward while my hands were back grabbing the ledge. I ended up horizontal before my hands slipped and I fell flat on the concrete ground on my back. Very painful, and very embaressing too. I was just trying to fit in. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Damn highschool social ladder structure, burn in hell you bastards.

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I second this... without the repeat.

I never knew I broke my wrist, though, and it bit me in the ass when, over a year later, I had the back piece of a shelving unit fall on the same wrist at work.

Workers Comp said "Old injury, we're not paying." Thank god for insurance, or I'd have been $25K in the hole.

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Punched the TV screen in 7th grade after I lost the Super Bowl in Tecmo Bowl (broke my knuckle). I was up like 42-7 in the 4th quarter then the CPU pulled that sh*t where all of a sudden their running back can run twice as fast as mine!?? WTF????

Also rode my bike down a hill with no hands while staring into the sky. Fell and ripped up my upper lip. 3rd grade.

Held a firecracker in my hand while wearing a winter/ski glove and let it explode. The glove ended up with a large hole in it and my hand was semi-burned. This was around 9th grade. I got lucky though, because I was close to just holding the firecracker in my bare palm and letting it go off.... [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

I'm sure there is more stuff that I'm forgetting. Surprisingly, I don't think I've ever been injured while drunk.

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Not my story but thought worthwhile to pass on -

New Hampshire - Post-frat party

Dude gets beyond trashed. Like basically comatose. If everyone else were not super-trashed, I get the sense he would've been taken to ER for alcohol poisoning.

Anyway, he passes out face-first on a radiator (the old kind in east coast college dorms that are always on during the winter) - is not moved / does not move for some time (possibly an hour).

Wakes up - one side of face disfigured (apparently to this day) - now known as "Radiator Face".

Aloysius

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I was about 10 years old, and a friend and myself were skipping rocks across a large puddle. I found a piece of broken bottle, and got the bright idea that, since the glass was smooth and all, it would skip really well. It did. [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img] I got about 10-11 skips out of it, and only noticed a few seconds afterwards that the palm of my hand was all bloody. Only about 6-7 cuts, though, so less than one per skip.

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In Jr. High, I rode my skate board down this steep, long hill behind our house with no forethought of what I would do when I go going too fast. I jumped on the board and started down the hill. When I got going very fast (I'm guessing 30 MPH) the board started wobbling and I knew I was going to loose control ....the board was wobbling so bad that I didn't dare move enough to drag a foot or anything for fear that I'd wipe out on the asphalt (I was wearing shorts and a tank top...) I decided the best thing to do would be to jump off and just run with it...

So I jumped off and ran with it.... for one step.....then I face planted into the asphalt... Aside from the obvious road rash and a huge bump on my forehead, I broke my arm pretty severly....

I went home and the first thing my mom did was chew my ass for being so stupid..... I felt like saying... Hey mom, WTF?? I'm hurt here..... why are you chewing my ass? Years later I realized that my dad was out of work at the time and the family had no insurance... No idea how much this ended up costing my parents but I'll bet it was a considerable amount.

Mars

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Wow... is this all you could come up with? lol. Docile, very docile childhood.

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Wakes up - one side of face disfigured (apparently to this day) - now known as "Radiator Face".


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You gotta think of something more creative than Radiator Face. Maybe Ray Diator... Melted Man... something jeez. But good story nonetheless.

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Ray Diator...

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I'll admit, I laughed.

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And that wall STILL doesn't give a damn about what you were angry about.

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When I was younger I decided to karate chop a bus seat. The one thing I learn in retrospect is that children bones break pretty easily.

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I decided I'd try and show how cool I was by doing it also. In high school I was somewhat overweight and as I said, completely crap at basketball. I took a runup, jumped, grabbed the ledge... but the runup I took gave my body momentum that carried most of me forward while my hands were back grabbing the ledge. I ended up horizontal before my hands slipped and I fell flat on the concrete ground on my back. Very painful, and very embaressing too. I was just trying to fit in. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

Damn highschool social ladder structure, burn in hell you bastards.

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This made me laugh. Good story.