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Funniest injury?
What’s the funniest injury/accident you’ve ever had – work related or not.
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i slipped on a banana skin…… 🙄
nik
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I don’t think any kind of injury or accident is funny but that’s just my opinion.
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quote martin:I don’t think any kind of injury or accident is funny but that’s just my opinion.
martin its friday night……………………….. :lol1: :lol1:
nik
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So I’m a stick in the mud sorry
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I was once rotavating my back garden. Whilst rotavating downhill the machine toppled forward and I fell on top which put a deep wound in my leg. This put me off work for about a week (this was before I became self employed). No -one would believe my reason for being off work and having stitches down my leg was because I’d rotavated myself.
I’m sure a few people thought it was funny – but I certainly didn’t 😕
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I dislocated my little toe walking to the bathroom in the middle of the night some years ago, it was poking out at 90 degrees to the rest of my foot so I had to cut a hole in my boot so I could drive to work the next day. When I arrived the boss etc took one look and fell about laughing and ordered me off to the hospital to get it sorted.
Funny now, painful then…
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I fell out of my mum and dad’s loft when I was about 16, and landed with a leg on either side of the bannister OUCH
Dawn
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But I must confess to being amused by Rob’s recent wrapping injury when he pricked his @rse with a scalpel :lol1:
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Could’ve been worse Dawn – what if you were a boy 😕
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A couple of years ago I was cutting the lawn. I didn’t notice a metal pole in the grass. Lawnmower picked it up and very kindly inserted it into my big toe. The air went rather blue!
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I’m obviously in the wrong place. Time to find a new forum.
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quote Phill:Could’ve been worse Dawn – what if you were a boy 😕
I used to be!!
(only kidding – don’t tell John!)
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i checked out the safety features of a fly mo.
there aren’t any 😳
cost me a really good pair of leather shoes and a big toe nail
the xray man said oh look lawn mowers foot
he might have seen it beforechris
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Dawn,
Was losing the manhood the funny accident? 😮 🙄 -
I have 3 distinct memories, All involving 2 wheels..
1/ my mate, riding an old scooter (DKW i seem to recall) riding on waste land aged about 12, went over a bump, bounced in the air and landed on the petrol tap, piercing a beaulock. not funny at the time, but him trying to explain his injury to his dad later was….
2/ My younger bro took me for a ride on the back of his "bike" again on waste land, no footrests or hand grips, accelerated so hard, I fell off the back, and discovered I could nor run at 30mph! A over T and a few minor bone breaks..
3/ will leave that till the next episode…Peter
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Very few of mine have been funny at the time…and mainly bike related (cycle).
Riding along with my eyes closed (as 12 year olds do)…went into barbed wire fence & cut arm. No blood, no mess – just stitched up. But got REALLY itchy once the stitches came out…needless to say – they are now two rather wide scars on that arm.
Going down a hill & the front wheel collapsed>>>>I get ejected at high speed, do a perfect landing and roll / reverse…remember that high speed bike? Said goodbye to front teeth 5pm Friday night with a holiday Monday…
A couple of years later – new bike, greasy road…faceplanted going round a corner and broke the dental crowns and got myself a ‘hilter’ scab on my upper lip that was there for weeks.Crushed my thumb closing the ironing board (!) – found out what ‘the hot paperclip method’ is for removing built up pressure behind the nail – nippy sore.
Had four fingers slammed in a taxi door – complete with nice crease mark for several hours. Driver was wetting himself laughing – so were the bouncers at the pub. Did they let me in – did they (insert expletive of your choice)…something about the wrong shoes.
Out night riding off-road and I’d brought the duff battery pack so was riding by following the lad in front’s rear light "There’s a hole round here somewh…." as I disappeared in a crumpled heap – chunk out of my hip skin (cut it off later with scissors much to the gross-out of the young lady I was riding with at the time.)
Required the services of late night garage staff to ‘supply & install’ elestoplasts to each finger when I landed finger tip first after mis-timing a bunny-hop up a kerb. 🙄
Ended up dazed & confused when I fell off an office partition I was building. Note to self: Don’t grab onto the piece of wood that’s only screwed in at one end to stop yourself falling. Only standing 4′ up – but battered the back of my head off a table. I felt fine, but others were more concerned given the gibberish I was talking and the "coooool – I’m focusing really slow…look"
Cut the tops off my left middle & index fingers TWICE with scalpels. ‘SLIP’…looks "Oh, that’s not so bad"…touches "Oh, dear" they are barely still attached and blood starts running down my arm. Not a pleasant experience for the re-attachment. You can’t stitch through nails…so they’ve got to come off 😳 (Blech!)
Tried to catch a folding ladder from falling through a window – it folded onto my head as I stumbled around like something out of a comedy sketch…I tube of medical glue later 😀
Had been oxy-acetylene welding & quenched the job in a bucket…which made it wet. Used the same torch to ‘dry it off’ – picked up my handywork to admire it – oh, yeh, it’d got kinda hot & seriously sizzled my finger!
Electrocution & me are no strangers. Wiring lamp for taking into the attic – pft! Who needs to unplug it…oocha bugger!
Wiring a coolant pump (110v) and the system HAD been shut off. Technicians arrive on site and don’t see me. Fire up the plant & I’m wondering why the edges of the metal I’m rubbing against are ALL really sharp whilst screwing in the terminals with my trusty non-insulated driver. Duh, not sharp – just providing a nice earthing point.Using a penknife as an impromptu ‘hole maker’ isn’t a great idea when it folds closed with considerable force with your finger inside – bled for hours.
And I considered myself the ‘safe’ one amongst my fellow bikers & workmates.
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David seems to have beat everyone with a long list of things gone wrong.
Myself not too much = walked on a hay = fork through my foot, came out the top too. not too painful basically minor thing. so what did I do two weeks later, what else walked on the Same blasted fork and another hole in my foot. Electrocuted myself one or twice, smash the fingers in door, dislocated shoulder and wedgied+crashed bicycle. Last one happened while going gliding down steep hill at speed, I decide to turn left to pull in. Handlebar go one direction bike the other and I hit side of bridge = result Lot of pain and nearly went in to the river. Gave up cycling when got hit by car and had to walk home carrying broke bike. bike might be broke but its still mine and not going to let someone steal it. Pain tended to hit once I collapsed literally onto bed. Pain all over as youd expect.
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Petrol and fire for me.
I was burning out brake fluid from a contaminated set of brake shoes, something we used to do regularly, along with clutch plates. (Remember those days Peter?)
Working in a garage I’d done it hundreds of times and knew it needed care, but on this particular day conditions conspired against me. Stinking hot sunny day, total absence of wind to dissipate the fumes, me wearing shorts (but fortunately socks and boots or it could have been a whole lot worse).
So that was three weeks in Stoke Mandeville Burns Unit for me then. 🙁
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quote :You can stop laughing about the wedgie now.
:lol1: :lol1: not laughing at that…laughing at your bad misfortunes with a hay fork…..twice 😉
nik
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my daft stuff seems to be at work and normally when i am trying to rush things…
a few years back, using a power drill i put a 5mm drill bit right into the middle, in one side of the side of my finger and clean out the other side. looking down in horror the only thing i could do was put the drill in reverse and slowly pull my finger away from the unwinding drill bit.
it wasnt sore at this point, just very warm, almost numb but the feeling of the bone rubbing the knurles of the drill bit was memorable to say the least… anyway… once off i was rushed to hospital. i recon about 2 minutes after the accident happened i then began to feel real pain… almost vomited due to it… by time i got to hospital they loaded me with morphene and injections to numb my hand while then went to work…this is the drill that went through my finger… never got a picture of finger due to being rushed to hospital :lol1:
then there was the time i was in a rush while working with LED’s…
cutting the LED strips i managed to snip the end of my index finger.
very stupid i know… 😕
then just a couple of weeks ago i stuck a swan morton scalpel deep into my backside whilst (again rushing) to finish my assessment on the grafityp wrap course. :lol1:
[/img] to some it up, yeh… i can be a prize muppet without even trying. :lol1: :lol1:
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quote Robert Lambie:my daft stuff seems to be at work and normally when i am trying to rush things…a
then there was the time i was in a rush while working with LED’s…
cutting the LED strips i managed to snip the end of my index finger.
very stupid i know… 😕to some it up, yeh… i can be a prize muppet without even trying. :lol1: :lol1:
geezz Rob your short enough!!! no need to make your finger match the rest of you :lol1: :lol1:
Ian
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quote John & Dawn Roddick:quote Phill:Could’ve been worse Dawn – what if you were a boy 😕I used to be!!
(only kidding – don’t tell John!)
:lol1: :lol1: :lol1: :lol1:
I was weeding away one day and engrossed in what I was doing, had an itch on my thigh and scratched it …………….. with my new Stanley blade. 🙄 Didn’t notice anything until I wondered why my leg was so cold then looked done and saw I’d slashed my jeans to smithereens and there was blood all over the place.
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When I was 7, I asked my mum to throw me a packet of Hubba Bubba from our window, we lived on 3rd floor of block of flats at the time. I stood on a wall waiting, while the bubble gum flew through the air, whacked me on the forehead and I fell off the wall and twisted my ankle! That taught me not to be so bl00dy lazy.
Dawn
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While a student I stayed in a friends house, in which he had a homemade jewelery workshop. We had had a chinese and it didnt agree with me and in the rush to get to the porcelain I drove 4 inches of a shattered jewellery blade straight up the inside of my toe. These things are about a mm thick with teeth!…………no pain going in but I vividly remember the searing pain when the doctor pulled it out with ordinary pliers!!! 😮 😮 😮
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ouch 😮
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quote Marcella:ouch 😮
Correct! 😮 😀 I’m making buttons here remembering it!!!:D
(forgot to say the funny thing was the doctor ordered a ring for his girlfriend!)
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Got Stabbed 4 times in the back, not funny in itself but had to smile when the £1200 compensation cheque came through the door.
Snapped my achilles tendon back in may sliding into a kerb in a gravelly car park.
Other than that I’m not very accident prone.
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