Just been mucking about with my car today and my ever helpful old dad took up my offer of giving me a hand with a few bits.
To cut a long story short he almost cut my right index finger off while we were buggering about, and it got me thinking. 'What is the worst thing I've done to myself'?
Had a couple of head wounds from playing football/fighting as a youngster, couple of scars on hands and arms from work but nothing stands out other than perhaps a broken jaw.
Has anyone got any horrendous stories of cutting off limbs, breaking bones or smashing heads etc????
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When I worked at Brands Hatch for Sainsbury's (we had a temporary store in a tent for the superbikes). I had just made a cup of tea (without the milk in) and then pressed the "cash" button on the till.
Cue the till draw popping out and boiling hot water to going over my unprotected foot as i had just crawled out of my tent. I sat for about an hour with my foot in a bucket of water until some St John's Ambulance people who wanted some bread came in and asked why i had my foot in a bucket. They took one look and told me i had to go to A&E.
I went to stand up, fell over and then felt the burn. Went to A&E, had treatment, got put on crutches and had to visit the nurse at uni in Swansea everyday for 2 weeks to get it redressed.
Nice scar to the day!
Thats it really!
i was trying to chat up a bloke but side kicking him up the back side but unfortunately I had been drinking for about 9 hours and I tripped over my own feet and landed on my thumb. It dislocated in two places... the cabbie nearly threw up when i picked myself up stuck out my deformed thumb and hailed him down to take me to St Thomases.
4 head splits, 1 collar bone snap, 2 middle finger brakes (1 on each hand), i cracked rib, both big toes, 1 gammy knee, 2 concussions, and a broke nose.
but that's it. if anyone knows my old man his list is proberbly treble that!
The best probably being what looks like a bad maori tattoo on my right arm/elbow from leaning on a barbeque down Camber Sands last year.
Have many more that I could think of at a push!!
And a UDI courtesy of 'Wego'?!?!
it was self inflicted!! i leaned in the wrong position for sure! Sorry i spooked you curb it! BTW my new journey home takes me through char village and the other day i saw you and tav smerking outside the bugle, was gonna wave but i might of crashed!! next time i will! lol (wave not crash!)
Back to thread, once got bit by a dog! hurt! Was self inflicted cos they reckon the dog could smell fear, it wasnt fear i was smelling at the time i can tell you!! Does that count!??
broken wrist #1 - playing footie in the school playground
broken finger - wicket keeping
broken wrist #2 & #3 yes both at the same time pre season footie training, (no jokes unless they are original)
12 stitches in head - clash of heads playing football
torn cruciate ligament - playimg footbal
broken wrist/arm #4 - playing cricket. had metal plates put in 5 days before the demelza charity game.
you may appreciate that if i am playing golf and hear thunder, i head for the clubhouse.
You've got a funny way of celebrating goals mate! What did the Bloke Behind You say?
Worst I've done is a broken jaw, broken finger and broken toe, all at different times though. Oh and when I was a kid I accidentally stapled my thumbs together!
Fractured shin
sundry broken toes and fingers
concussion - twice
stitches in head courtesy of a bottle in the H&G c/of some Burnley fans.
Four teeth surgically removed
Worst injury I inflicted on someone was concussion and a suspected fractured skull smashing the ball back at the bowler playing cricket, it hit the bowler right in the middle of the forehead.
Back to the original question, mum and dad once had to cut all my hair off after discovering me in the bath disposing of a whole pack of Hubba Bubba in my hair trying to do a mohican like BA Baracus.
Or was it just an iraational hatred of mohawks???
Broken 2 wrists and.....
broke my arm due to the uneven football pitches at school, i tell ya there like mines.
all injuries in the name of sport.
I bet you caused a nightmare for train travellers! how many people do you reckon were cursing you that evening? ;-)
As soon as we heard the screaming we knew something was not quite right and ran to his aid and lifted the lid off his hand to find him down 1 digit. the ambulance arried and told us to look for his finger and after doing one of the most revolting things I've ever had to do (fish around in silty, muddy water for his missing finger) we found it, they took him to hospital and managed to re-attach it.
Weeks later he was back at work with his finger still attatched and with a sort of condom thing over it to keep it clean. However he just would not take this condom thing off to let the air get to his finger and aid recovery. As he was only driving the lorry for us it wouldn't have been a problem but he just would not take it off. And one day whilst taking a big left turn he caught his finger on a metal bar used to stop you from falling out of the cab when dis-mounting. It simply dropped off and the other bloke in the lorry mildy inquired 'where's your finger gone'?
The bloke kicked off a bit more screamed shouted and drove back to hospital. They could not re-attatch the now pretty manky finger so on his return to work he was christened 'Kit-Kat' and remained so!
By the way Sash don't tel your father-in-law that story!! Trust me he wouldn't see the same funny side we did!!
my parents used to go and visit my aunt and uncle in plaistow regualrly and most times leave me and my older borther at home - at the time i was 13 brother 16/17 and they trusted us.
2injuries later and I had to go with them every time.
1st injury - playing silly buggers on our garden wall - fell off and snapped my wrist broke both bones and had to have an op to re set the arm and was in hospital for 3 days and in plaster for 6 months - had just arrived at my aunts and had to rush back
2nd injury - mum made me wear new shoes round the house to wear them in for school - this was summer holidays, they go over my aunts - me and my bruv decide to have a laugh with these guns that fired out those sucker type things - silly bollocks here is on the stairs 0 in new shoes - when bruv jumps out at the top of the stairs to shoot me I try and dodge and slip on the stairs fly backwards down the stairs head first into the front door splittling my head open pumping blood all over the walls
my mum thought someone had been murdered when she got home with all the claret eveywhere.
Needless to say I was banned from being left on my own after that.
... although i don't ever remembering you coming round my house.
Outside of footie, I've broken both of my collar bones a total of three times and have a shagged left ankle and knee as a result of a car acident.
Apart from that my body is a temple!!!!!! :-)
Deliberately breaking a leg to get Insurance money - Worth it or not?