Bizarre injuries you've suffered

[ShipitFMA]

i was play fighting with a friend and i went to jab him in the stomache, he lifts his knee and i've broken my thumb

[neuroman]

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I know it says "bizarre injuries you've suffered," but I will share one that a co-workers has suffered.

I work at a television station. One year a photographer was shooting video at the zoo on the fourth of july weekend. There were a number of little american flags decorating all the flower beds. As he was backpedaling while shooting the scene he tripped over the low railing around a flowerbed and...[img]/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img].

A perfect shot. Surgery that afternoon to repair a tear in his colon.

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"A million to one shot, doc, a million to one."

[Mcbrag]

I got my left hand caught in the dough roller at the pizza place I was working at about ten years ago. The only damage was to my middle finger which was crushed flat as a piece of cardboard up to the 2nd knuckle. It looked like a cartoon except for the muscles and tendons squished out of it. Went to the hospital where they x-rayed it and sewed everything back in. The specialist they sent me to said I would probably not be able to use that finger in the future without major surgery. Anyways, the finger started working again a week later when the swelling went down, but I can't feel anything with my fingertip. It feels like my finger is always asleep (tingly).

[kazana]

Not very bizarre, but I chuckle to this day when I think back:

I'm 4 years old and sitting on the arm rest in the back seat of the mercedes of my uncle (no seatbelt obv) while he's looking for a parking spot at the mall. Someone pulls out in front of him, he hits the brakes, and I go flying to knock a gash into my forehead.
That all would've been pretty standard hadn't I worn my full superman outfit that day.

[suzzer99]

A buddy of mine went up for a slam dunk and came down w/o his ring finger. Probably wouldn't have been a fun sight. He lost the finger.

[Wilco23]

Probably doesn't qualify as "bizarre," but I absolutely shredded my ACL playing competitive tennis 2 months ago. How it might qualify as bizarre is I actually felt my right knee cap slide right and down the side of my calf as the rest of my body was moving to the left. Apparently, I dropped 14 MF bombs immediately as I was laying there reeling in pain. I seriously thought my shin was going to come out of the skin when it was happening. It was very surreal and slow motion in the instant. Makes me throw up a little in my mouth to think about it - so of course, I thought I'd share it here.

[DrewDevil]

I guess I should have expected that more than half of these would be "bizarre injuries you've suffered while doing something amazingly stupid"

[NIX]

In 3rd grade, my friends and I made a huge piles of leaves to jump into. We figured it'd be even better if we jumped off of a small step ladder into the leaves. I go first. The ladder kicked out from under me when I jumped, I feel awkwardly and fractured my wrist in two or three places.

In 8th grade, my step brother and I got into a fight with like 3 other kids on the school bus. Not too far into it, my brother and I smashed heads. He knocked one of his front teeth out and cracked the other in half. I had a deep inch long gash or so in the side of my head. As I was trying to clean myself up afterwards, I found the other half of his tooth lodged in my scalp.

In 10th grade, I was riding my bike for fun/exercise. I was on a back road that had a gravel shoulder. Somehow, I fell asleep or blacked out while riding or something because I remembered riding and then a second later I remember sitting on the crossbar while my arms and head were hanging over the handlebars. I started to drift into the road and panicked as a car was coming, so I grabbed the handlebars and cranked the wheel to get off the road. I turned it to far, basically cause the bike to jackknife so I went down in the gravel and skidded for several feet before coming to a stop in the road. I quickly got up and went home. When I got there, I saw my one knee was torn up pretty bad, a hip and shoulder cut open as well, but not as bad as the knee, and worst of all, the side of my forearm was missing all the skin from my elbow to about halfway to my hand, so about 5-6 inches. I was a mess. My step dad said he had something to help my clean up my wounds and got a red bottle. I told him no peroxide and he promised me it wasn't. That's when I learned about iodine. I still have three inch long streaks of asphalt or something in my forearm.

[mbillie1]

I got hit directly between the eyes with a golf ball. It popped both lenses out of my sunglasses. I was standing around 30-40 feet from the tee, with the golfer facing me (so hitting it to his left my right)... turns out that guy sucked at golf, shanks the ball off the toe of the club and it dropped me cold. I was young, 12-13ish I think, and it knocked me out cold lol. Still don't golf.

[Dudd]

I don't have anything too bad. When I was in 5th grade, it was raining during recess so we couldn't go on the grass, and instead played 500 in a parking lot. I got pushed from behind and fell head first into a drain, got a couple stitches above my right eye.

Two more involving this terror of a little girl who lived next door to me. Once, I'm probably 6 or 7 and she's a little younger, hanging out with my sister drawing. I don't know why, but she threw a pencil at me that hit me in the eye. Didn't really affect my vision, but every time I go to the eye doctor they point out the scar, although my laser eye surgery might have removed some of the scar tissue. Also, later I was in a tree house of a kid next door, and it was raining so we had a tarp acting as a roof weighted down by bricks. She managed to pull the tarp and caused a brick to fall a few feet directly on my head, if I feel around my head I can still find the scar today. Never got it stitched up, probably should have, but I hope I don't go bald because it's probably an inch long or so.