what has been the dumbest injury you've had or seen happen.
I've had some dumb ones in my time. such as cutting the top of a knuckle off,daughter picks up the piece, head to the hospital to resew it back on. ouch. dave

Was fixing a flat tire on a dirt bike when I was a teenager. I fixed it put the tire back on and was adjusting the chain spinning the back tire and some how got my thumb caught in between the chain and the sprocket :help:, (that was moderetly painfull ) I didn't do that again.
Joe

Years ago I went to the hunting camp a day early and set up to wait for the rest of my party. Decided to go check out a canyon about 5 miles from camp. In the Northwest everything under the trees is damp and you never step on a downed alder tree as they can be down right slippery. Well I did and the resulting injury was a broken arm (large bone in the left forearm). What took me a half a day to get there took me the rest of the day and a night to get back (spent most of the night in a hollow stump) Got back into camp around 10:00 the next morning. Needless to say the hunting for that year was out.

At the farm where I used to work we were having an addition put on the barn. One of the workers was using a nail gun and nailed his foot to a piece of lumber. One of his buddies had to pull the nail to release him.

according to my friends I'm a walking accedent waiting to happen. 8 major breaks with about as many minor breaks on the right arm/wrist. But the stupidest break was walking into a hotel bathroom in nylons (ya that girl thing again) the maid had waxed the floor and I slide smacked my arm on the marble counter and broke it. Then had to fly home with it broken, I think that was around major break 5.

Other stupid thing was so not my fault. I was in auto shop in 10th grade. We had a rule about if you drop oil stop everything to clean it up so no one gets hurt. The teacher didn't clean up HIS oil spill. Hit the oil, slide across the shop floor and stopped when my head meet the parts washer and dented the thing. Had to take a semester final the next day.

Dumbest injury thats a tough one, if I start working on something I'll get hurt, one way or another, never really that serious though, I'm safety orianted when it comes to really dangerous/unsafe things.

Only broke bones once, that was my left wrist playing tackle ruby in grade 8 at lunch when it was a suspendable offence to do that, 2 idiots got tired of me knocking them to the ground, tackled me from the back and front, spinning me on the wet leaves that were on the field and sending me flying and idiot me put my left hand out to stop the fall so I wouldn't land on my head and it snapped. So I went to the office and told them I slipped on some leaves.

Dimitri

I have never broken anything, but I cut myself carving a pumpkin back in 2004. Cutting the top out, and the knife slipped out and cut the inside of my forearm. Had to get 18 stiches to close it back up. Luckily it was a brand new knife, and I didn't feel a thing. It was with one of my ex's little brothers that had never carved a pumpkin before, and I was teaching him how. Worst part was that I said "Always cut toward your buddy, not your body" right before I did it.

codybrown, gotta feel for ya, i done the same thing at work with a razor knife. cutting a box toward me an' slicwd the arm 1.5" deep just wrapped it up an' used some duct tape healed up in about 3 weeks , actually it didn't hurt or bleed, until i decided to clean the wound. dave

lets see where to start... steel rod 2 screws in right leg, going 20 mph on the bike and a lady backed out of a parking space on me.. almost lost foot.. how about drilling a transmission mount and the drill catching and spinning around smacking me in the mouth, lost a tooth on that one.. and one of my all time favs, hunting with a buddy and his step kids, single file kid steps over a log i go to step over as i do tell my buddy to watch the THUD... face first, butt of a mossberg into the nose.... rang my bell a good one!!

rdncktink...Stay away from horses....

yeh, them there horse are and get mighty slippery. i'll make sure she does just that. besides bushmaster the only horses in our town are the end portions. dave

Id been riding my well broke and sort of lazy buckskin with spurs on, changed horses to my spirited Quarterhorse forgot asbout my spurs being on and punched him in the flanks. Rodeo City, no 8 seconds here. He ran towards a fence and he put the brakes on and I didn't. Rang my bell good, didn't know who I was or how I got there, big black and blue bruse on my tail bone. Hurt for a month. Freedyf

I shot a staple thru my thumb with an air stapler once. Had to pull it out with pliers. It hurt more coming out than going in, OW! Fish hooks in the lip are the same. Luckily it was just a small fly, still smarts some.
Don

Well now if we're going for stupid moves with inserting things into the human body that shouldn't be there I did a great on when I was about 10ish. Was trying to separate 2 hamburger patties with a butter knife, watched my mom do it all the time so why not try it too. She was on the phone with my grandmother and I walked over to her with the knife sticking out of my hand, the fleshy part between the thumb and index finger on my right hand. All she did was hang up with my grandmother and have my dad pull the thing out and wrap it up. I know that I didn't get stiches because there's no stich scars and well I scar easily.

Was about 14 or so, camping in the edge of the Everglades with a couple of Florida State game wardens. Good sense was apparently absent that day.
I was hanging onto the jeep's trailer hitch, and they were dragging me through a shallow pond, which had a pine "stob" in it . Into the left chest: a couple of inches right, and it would have been all over.
As it was, I missed a couple weeks of school.
We were poor, and my parents parents couldn't afford a proper doctor. A a couple of miserable weeks, with the wound festering, then breaking open and draining. Finally recovered. Learned my lesson.