Daft accidents in the home

I remember soon after we had a new kitchen fitted that we kept getting electric shocks off the front of the oven and it turned out that something was not earthed properly so the front of the oven was live.
 
Worst i had was an electric shock messing with an extractor fan ducting, i had not turned off the electric because i did not think i would touch wires but i got a shock somehow.

I felt sick, quite faint, started to sweat and felt really unwell.
 
Telling my son, "always be careful of sharp metal edges on these things", when trying to fix the dishwasher pump.

He then pointed out I was bleeding, a lot, from a cut I'd just got to the hand.

That dishwasher also gave me a nasty electric shock the following day.

I ended up chuckung it out, as I thought it was possessed*


* see "The Mangler", by Stephen King for details
 
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Had the odd slipper or slip on the stairs.

Usually just banging into doors or frames etc. and screaming out in pain.

Ahhh you ****
 
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Running on landing as a kid and somehow I got foot caught up around the radiator pipe (from floor) again no broken bones,

Had so many almost broken bones situations in the past. Probably break a bone so very easy next time
 
My late father used to tell me I was the result of a daft accident in the home, and a friend of mine (quite truthfully, his wife concurs) told his son he was conceived in a hospitality suite at Donington Park because I got him and his wife paralytic in the bar...
 
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Any office chair with castors will do the same, plus you’ll have many witnesses to your mishap.

Parts of me just started aching in remembrance of the last time I did that and it was over a decade ago.
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I've accepted that challenge many times and escaped injury somehow (so far).

However I have managed to snap a tendon in my middle finger while taking a sock off.
 
not in the house but in the garden - know how you'd put your hand on the top of a post/stab and use it to jump/vault over a fence?...I used the shovel I had in my hand and sure you can guess what happened, buckled :p
 
I've had more accidents in my place than I remember. Latest one was putting potato wedges in a bag to put the coating on them & the bag split. :rolleyes:
 
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DIY accident for me earlier last year. I was stripping wall paper off the chimney breast I was almost done then slipped and sliced the palm of my hand 2 inch gash pretty deep.

I drove myself to A&E that evening luckily some glue and sterri strips was all that was needed any deeper and stiches would have been in order. I am now left with the scar as a reminder.

My brother on the other hand went one better trampoline in the back garden. His exact words were "Watch this" next a audible pop is heard by all. Next minute he is writhing around in pain. Turns out he snapped the ACL ligament in his left knee.
 
Angled my ladder too much and it slipped out from below me when I went in the loft. Luckily managed to grab the loft hatch and hold myself up and then drop down.
 
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My stepdad aged about 65, tied two ladders together with string as he didn't have one long enough. Promptly fell off it halfway up, so his foot had been trapped between the overlapped rungs. Says he doesn't remember what happened but he came to lying on the ground looking at the sole of his foot :eek:
 
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Five weeks ago I set about drilling a few holes in the wall to put one of the Mrs' approved pictures up not realising some of the tools were not up to the task. Unknown to me the drill bit of choice was dodgy and dislodged partly whilst Drilling (sending me cascading down the wall a number of times). The wall looked like it had been shot at by the time I'd finished.
 
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