[EagerJeeper]

I ran through a sliding glass door when I was in the fifth grade. I cut my nose and cheek badly. I still have the scars.

[Diehard]

If by best you mean worst, I lost both legs above the knee after falling off a railroad car, while working for the railroad. Dumbest would be ice skating, years ago of course, with ice skates 2 sizes too big and breaking my ankle. 4 weeks in a splint and 8 weeks in a cast. Only time I ever broke a bone.

[Matt Gertsch]

I dislocated/hyper extended my right knee by kicking my rig.

[Bananahands]

Originally Posted by PDX_XJ

Dumbest Injury? A few, but nothing permanent yet. One that was particularly stupid sticks out in my mind. A few years back, I was fooling around in a grade-school gym, and I went to the ball dunk in one of the short nets. I'm 5'5", and certainly hadn't dunked a basketball before, but I figured it wouldn't be too hard. So I grabbed a child-sized basketball, palmed it in one hand, ran right at the hoop, jumped, put the ball through the net, and, while still in mid-air, BAM!-smacked head-first into the 8x8 post the backboard was bolted to.

I did something similar. Was playing before school back in 8th grade. Went up for a rebound and got my legs cut out from under me, cut a flip and landed on my chin, earning my first 8 stitches. Never heard a thunk in my head quite like that before.

[MuddDog]

In 1997 I was electrocuted with 240 volts and fell 25 ft onto the fender of the machine I used to stack 52ft 48ft and 40ft containers for storage and chassis transfer. I broke my left collar bone, 7 ribs, shattered both ankles dislocated my left shoulder my right knee and suffered 1st degree electrical buns to my thy's, and right hand, I flatlined on the way to the hospital but i don't remember for how long.

Long story short, it took two years before I fully recovered and was able to work a decent job, but I had already lost quite a bit of memory and most of my physical character which I worked very hard to gain.

[xhek]

Around the age of 8 I was riding a bike around my friends yard. Up against a wall is a metal ladder on its side. As I am riding along the wall, I lean into the turn at the end but my tire slips and my left thigh hits the corner of the ladder. Causing a triangle type wound that was a good 1-1.5 inches deep. I got up, walked into my friends house with my leg covered in blood. Got a glass of orange juice (i was thirsty I guess?) and got a towel and put it around my wound and laid on his bed. After feeling comfortable, I got up and walked home (across the street). Being the stubborn little kid I was, I told my parents I didn't want any stitches. In the end it took 3 months to heal and I am glad with the decision I made.

When I was 11 or 12 a friend and I were riding out bikes to the local lake. As we get about 500 feet from it, my front wheel hits a rock causing me to fall to my side. I ended up falling on my right arm and getting a green twig fracture. While at the hospital, the doctor said in order to fix it, he had to complete the break... So he gives me some numbing medication, and proceeds to break my arm in 2 with his hands. While high on whatever he gave me, I said to the doctor after it was all over: Thanks doc.

My dumbest one is pretty recent. While sparring/rolling in my brazilian jiu jitsu camp, I was caught in an armbar. This is one of the various types of armbars similar to the one I was caught in.



Anyway, I felt I could get out of it, so I tried. About a second later, I hear a snap. Thankfully it wasn't too serious and all that happened was a torn ligament. If my arm was pulled back just slightly further, theres a good chance my arm would have been fully hyperextended causing my arm to break at the elbow.

Just a couple weeks ago actually I was sparring/rolling once again. The dude I was sparring had a good 20 pounds on me. He ended up picking my up, and slammed me right on my shoulder causing it to dislocate. It was mostly my fault though, I should have landed as we are taught. In a way, I actually deserved that because months ago I used a hip throw on another person there and ended up dislocating his shoulder when he landed.

Heres a hip throw for those that don't know:

[jbrem]

I was about 12 at the time, and my buddy and I were driving his gokart in a field behind his house. It's a 2-seater and he was driving at the time...well he starts booking down a hill and takes a sharp left turn while still cruisin....we end up rolling for a bit and ended upside down on the roll cage. I got a pretty nasty gash in my right hand from the padded cage rolling over it on top of a sharp cornstalk stump.

No worries, we eventually both got ATVs and have been riding ever since.

As for my dumbest injury...probably about 4 months ago at my desk job. I was tearing apart a computer and couldn't get a hard drive to come out. So I start pulling as hard as I can, it breaks loose and my thumb gets slashed on a piece of metal. That ****er bled for a long time. I get injured at that job more than my warehouse job.

[pamo]

-In the country of Panama I was washed down a storm drain in a huge drainage ditch during rainy season and ripped open my elbow to the bone. and I almost drowned too.

-I jumped off a bridge and my left hand hit a stick floating by braking 2 bones and giving me a couple stitches.

-Had a fork stuck in my forehead.

-Hit with a shopping cart splitting my lip open(stitches).

-Got excited and forgot about eye relief (stitches to eyebrow area)

-Jumped 2 stories and impaled my foot on a 1/2" square by 12" piece of wood.

-My big toe took a spin around the sprocket of a bike. (this was ugly)

-Got pummeled over coral and I wanted to die.

-Ran through a little dry creek and when I turned around my buddy was bent over holding his ankle. He got bit twice by a fer-de-lance.

-Had flies lay eggs in my scalp.


I'm sure there is more that I'll remember later.

[RyanZJ]

Dumbest injury? I've broken 13 bones, but I'd have to say the night I flipped my **** and punched something multiple times while shattering my hand was probably the stupidest. Especially since it ruined my blossoming career as a hand model.

[dz1087]

worst and dumbest was at a Boy Scout camporee. I was horsing around with one of the guys when he jumped up on my back. I twisted somehow and dislocated my left knee. Later that night it swelled to about the size of a cantalope. That was four years ago and it still ain't fully healed.

[PDX_XJ]

Originally Posted by Bananahands

I did something similar. Was playing before school back in 8th grade. Went up for a rebound and got my legs cut out from under me, cut a flip and landed on my chin, earning my first 8 stitches. Never heard a thunk in my head quite like that before.

You were actually IN 8th grade? That's not so bad. I was 21 and a Junior in college. I was visiting my home town for christmas break, and was at a friend's little brother's basketball game. The whole town was there.

[minileprechaun]

when i was in 9th grade i was in va beach for a soccer tournament .. we were playing around the hotel at night .. and trying to impress the girls team, some guys were jumping up and pretending to his an air vent with their heads (actually hitting it with their hands only). well, i didn't understand the trick .. and when i jumped up to hit it .. i put my head right through the metal air duct. landed on my feet, looked up, couldn't see cause there was blood everywhere. turns out i went clear through the air duct (metal and drywall covering it). went to the hospital, found out i had a 1/4in deep gash in my head and they glued me back together.

however .. the hottest girl on the on the team stayed with me the entire night and i got BOOB. sometimes being dumb gets you the good stuff!

[lrsmithwhaley]

Dumbest #1
I made metal replica of an aircraft carrier in a welding class for a book report (10th grade) I was doing in my english class. I had taken it home to paint it and when I took it back to school for the report I decided walking through the same yard I walk through everyday was safer than walking on ice. I ended up stepping in a hole I had never stepped in before and tripped and missed the artery in my neck somehow, but got a good cut from the metal project. I went to school and got a bandaid from the nurses office (should've gone and gotten stitches, but I didn't) and went to class.
Dumbest #2
My dad was going to turn a carport into a garage at our old house, but he decided to sell the house and move instead. We were stacking all the aluminum siding onto a trailer and I managed to walk into it. I cut both my shins wide open (about a 1 in by 1 in cut) down to where you could see fat. I just wrapped them up and continued working. Found out a couple days later I should've gotten stitches. They ended up getting infected pretty good, and it took about 3-4 months for them to heal.
Best
I was playing mud volleyball during 10th grade and I threw some mud at someone and got thrown. I ended up landing wrong and broke both bones in my left forearm in two places so that it looked like a backwards z right before the wrist. Once the firefighters that were watering down the playing field finally figured out that I was trying to tell them I had a broken arm they called an ambulance and the dumb *** firefighter decided to grab my wrist real rough and had the balls to ask "does this hurt?". After the ambulance got there they called it in that my right arm was broken even though it clearly wasn't. I got to the hospital and they then had me write my initials on the wrist of my broken arm so they could see which one was broken. Even though it was clear to tell which arm it was. It ended up healing wrong so they had to re-break it (the doctor admitted there was a 85% chance it would have healed wrong, but didn't put the plate in anyways) and put a plate in. The other bone also healed wrong, but the doctor was to stupid to see it till it was to late so I decided that I didn't want to deal with it.
All three of my injuries have nice scars!!

[ajmorell]

#1: While putting up some 4x8 sheeting on a porch, I put a 1 3/4" staple from a pneumatic staple gun directly into my knee. Word to the wise-don't hold down the trigger unless you actually want to fire staples or nails.
#2: Hit myself in the chin with a big metal prybar and split my chin open resulting in 5 stitches.

[jneal]

under chemical influence.... diving into a brick jacuzzi. resulting in about 100 stiches.