Your worst accident.

Riding some trails on my bike wearing nothing but some shorts, t-shirt and shoes. No back brake as I had a dodgy Maugra HS33, I took it off leaving the brake cable bosses sticking up on the crossbar and thought if I had problems I'd just gently use the front.

Riding down a hill and notice that some utter arse had stretched a bit of barbed wire between two trees. Rather than disembowling myself I slammed on the front brake :(

Off saddle, *smack-smack-smack*, nutsack torn open by every open brake boss as I slide down the crossbar and finally smack my tattered balls into the stem. I had to walk down to the road, cradling my nuts, bleeding everywhere. I had to have stitches and then saltbaths for a month afterwards. :o

Also snapped the banjo string, but that was nothing in comparison, just lots of blood.
 
Bit my tongue in half while trying to build a raft.... then had to cycle home 3 miles.

Dislocated both my knees... at different points in my life.... twice. First time I tried to kick my brother and missed... knee popped out of joint (musta be about 12). Second time was dancing like a plonker in a club in Cheltenham (fell down - all my friends just thought I was really drunk), next time trying to dodge behind a door while playing football in the halls at Staffordshire Uni.... final time was recently (at possibly the most embarrassing).

I twisted my ankle pretty bad on the curb outside a pub on High Holborn, couldn't walk the next morning so had 2 days working from home. Went back to work for about 3 days after that. Then the third evening I was "testing" how well my ankle had healed by balancing on one foot... ankle gave way and I dislocated the knee on my other leg.... followed by another 2 - 3 days off work :(

Can I just point out that the knee is one of the two most painful parts of the body (the other being your stomach). There is no pain on this planet like your knee out of joint that you cant quite pop back in... woman got child birth easy!
 
When i was about 9 i fell over on some glass and it cut my knee open, pretty nasty as the skin was hanging down, also when i was about 8 a few of us had to stay in hospital over night after playing with some ant poison powder :o
 
Ran through a patio door about 15 years back. Needed heaven knows how many stitches to put the top of my nose back on my face properly. Virtually unnoticeable now :)

Also fell in a swimming pool about 20 years ago, but one leg stayed out of the pool, while one went in. So I basically did the splits and landed on the edge of the pool on my plums. Black and blue from my bladder all the way to the top of my crack.

The first was certainly the worst, but the latter still brings a tear to my eye.
 
Not had too much happen to me luckily. Worst thing I can remember is when I was riding someone's bike and managed to pull the wrong brake handle. Result: I fly over the handle bars and the bike lands on me. I was only about 12 or so at the time, so my bones weren't as brittle as they are now. The end result was a buckled radius/ulna, like when you bend an empty pipe.

My friend had a slightly more cringeworthy injury though: he was cutting an apple (with a nice, sharp kitchen knife) when he was about 10 or 11 and pressed down on the knife, only to find it was the wrong way up. Result: almost severed thumb, hanging on by a few bits :(
 
In the same week:

I had a wall collapse on me when I climbed it. I was pulled out without a scratch. About 4 days later I snapped my left femur while racing in a pedal car, I got my foot trapped then dragged underneath me. The hospital thought that I would need surgery to pin it, however they had a go at straighening my leg manually without anesthetic. It worked but I screamed the place down!
 
Hmm where do i start?

When i was 7 i was riding my bike with some friends around my estate in london.
My friends turned off the road so i looked over my should & said "where you going" looked forward & landed on the front of a car smashing my teeth on a windscreen of a car. (friends never said CAR & just watched me hit it :D )

When i was 9 my dad was a banger racer, we was at a Coombe Valley race meeting & they had massive piles of coal (for some reason) around a waste ground. So me & a few kids was running across the coal, i tripped smashed my head open & had blood streaming from my head.
Ambulance was called & i was taken to hospital @ around 100 miles an hour along the motorway, apparently they was worried i had concussion & wouldn't let me fall asleep. (i don't remember anything other than the medics telling me not to go asleep & keeping me awake)

When i was 10 we was living in Brixton, i had a bike that was crossed between a motor bike & a BMX (had drum brakes & suspension :D )
So i rode it down a grassy hill but at the end of this it had a sheer drop, my front wheel hit the floor, suspension compressed then sprung me off onto the pavement spam first, St Thomas's hospital here i come (i was a regular there).

13 & living on the isle of sheppey, i was cleaning the grass out of my bike chain & i said to my mate "I'm cleaning the cogs don't turn the pedal" & he said "Turn the pedal ok" which chopped the tip of my left index finger off, medway hospital here i come.

15 & i climbed a tree, now at the bottom of this tree was a thorn bush (which i didn't see when i climbed it) so i'm hanging off this branch & look down & i'm right over it & i thought im not dropping in that so try & swing over it, i let go missed the bush but landed on my elbow which snapped my arm & broke my shoulder, 1 week in hospital & 6 months off school for me.

Worst i've seen is my mate being shot in the eye with a pellet gun, only way to describe what came out of his eye is "Strawberry Angel Delight, but very runny" he still has the pellet in the back of his eye socket.
 
Crashed my car at 60mph into another car coming the other way, but i was fine :D

oh and i got my finger trapped in the hinge part of a door when someone closed it...wow the pain :(
 
A Bayonet fell off the top of a wardrobe when i opened the door, i looked up & got it in the face :p It sort of stuck in & slid out, left me with a nice scar on the right side of my face which has faded over my many years to just a shiny little line. I've just looked in fact & you can hardly see it now :)
It was All my sisters fault as we were playing hide & seek at the time. After i had found her she moved wobbled the wardrobe & i ended up looking like my Action man :cool:
 
A 6 inch spiral fracture of the right humerus, caused by a botched throw at karate-jutsu that ended up with me as the recipient of a forcefully applied arm-bar.

Doctors were reluctant to pin it in case they damaged the nerves to my hand, so I had a cast for 5 weeks which seized up the muscles in the arm and shoulder. It took just over 2 months to get the full range of movement back.

As it wasnt pinned the join is offset, so I have to avoid rotational loading unless I want it to pop again. Shame really, as it meant I had to give up MA training :(
 
A snapped banjo is nothing at all really, there's near enough no pain involved just the shock of seeing a bit of blood on your ojo. That'll teach me to go "hell for leather" though :(
 
malfunkshun said:
Annoyingly I got a similar shoulder injury when a woman in an MR2 clipped my back wheel, knocking my off my bike. I like to think she was checking out my backside, but in all probability she was just a crap driver.
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Being that is was a woman, it's a safe assumption.
 
was in a smart car that rolled onto its side. my side. my arm went through the window. that hurt. had to climb out the car and then we pushed it back onto its wheels. which was fun. and we got it on video.
 
Fell off a barn loft, was sitting on a over hanging plank of wood and it snapped :(

Somehow I didn't break anything but it hurt a lot more than other times when I have break things.
 
This is seriously tempting fate, but.....

I'm 33 and have never had a bad accident. I've never broken a single bone or had even 1 stitch. I've been in 1 car accident that I walked away from without even getting whiplash. Seriously, apart from the odd sprain or cut...nothing. And I'm quite an active person as well.

Watch me go fall down the stairs now :rolleyes:
 
I stopped a garage door from being slammed shut from the other side by putting my thumb in the hinge..

..no wait.. that didnt work at all.. i got hurt.. :(
 
mainly bmx injuries.
1 where i landed after a big jump, but my foot slipped off the pedals, not uncommon, except this time the metal pin of the pedal went straight into my shin and scraped up(i was wearing shorts), resulting in me seeing my shin bone, 27 stitches and a cool dint in my leg forever. altho this didnt hurt at all, like not even slightly :S jus loads and loads of blood

2nd one i would say fell, but i was never really close enough to landing to call it a fall, so ill jus call it a **** up.lol but i broke my tailbone landing on the bike, not being able to sit is so annoying. this was the most painful of my injuries.

and fallen off and dislocated my shoulders 4 times, arms sound like cement mixers now.

also stubbed my toe jus on a vacuum in the living room, dunno how hard i was walking but it managed to tear off half my nail.lol
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