Boss started a thread about a guy who did nails on the side claimng to have been a carp for 12 years, and wondering if the guy was lying.
This is an informal poll – how many scars do you have, how many stitches, etc.
For a starter on me;
-37 bone fragments in head from pulling a tree onto the dozer (good thing it hit me in the head or I might really have been hurt)
– 157 stitches on left hac due to getting ‘slapped’ with a chain saw chain
– 6 self administered stitches in left leg from axe on Christmas even in ’71
– a few more here and there.
Edit PS: met Pro-dek a few years ago, he has me beat!
Edited 3/24/2006 3:05 pm ET by junkhound
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knee replacement and stainless rod in left arm, more bolts than home depot
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BOB thinks I,m an idiot
6 head wounds with a total of 18 stiches
Thumb wound 5 stitches
wrecked a motorcycle numerous times......ran a footpeg through the top of my foot and broke it in 7 places and the ankle in 1. Broke the other foot in 2 places. Broke a collar bone. Pulled the ligaments in my neck. Numerous road rash areas. Took a clutch lever off with my side while flying over the handlebars, self medicated, stich est. 10.
Numerous 1-2 stich cuts have been repaired with super glue and tape.
Broken toes.....at least 12 times.
Broken fingers.....6.
Just for fun years ago we counted scars and hit 70 and quit. Tough life. I am not donating anything, there is nothing left lol. I was just remembering that I actually have a childhood scar on my forehead that is about 3 inches long and I split it open again, in the same place about 10 years ago. Jeesh! DanT
Edited 3/24/2006 4:10 pm ET by DanT
I can't compete with you guys. Just many miscellaneous 5-10 stitch goofs. Shoulder reconstruction from a skiing accident.
Most painful injury I ever had was a tiny scratch on my eye from a new kitten. Got so bad and kept getting worse so I went to the ER one night. Funny part of the story is that I hadn't shaved in a few days and was pretty dirty from some demo I was doing that day -- got to the hospital and all they asked me was my name. No address, no insurance info., nothing.
When I never got a bill, I realized they thought I was a homeless guy off the streets. My buddies still never let me live that down.
"A job well done is its own reward. Now would you prefer to make the final payment by cash, check or Master Card?"
I have one on my left calf where I buried a weed hook in it while walking beans. (Showing off)
Another one on the back of my head from attempting to dance while standing on top of a rather small 3 legged stool. (more showing off)
And one more on my left knee from playing foot ball at the farm - Got tackled and hit a piece of clay tile sticking up out of the ground.
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But the biggest one I have is on the back of my left shoulder. Way back when I was a teenager, my Brother and I were wrestling in the living room at home - trying to impress a girl. (more showing off)
In a prominent place in the living room was Mom's prize china cabinet. It's one of those cabinets with the 90° curved gass on the sides. she paid a lot of money for it, worked like heck to refinished it, and it was full of her favorite collectables/junk.
Well, my Brother managed to throw me off of him once and I went right through one of the curved pieces of glass. The glass shattered and I broke a couple of her things inside the cabinet. And I got a large gash on the back of my left shoulder from one of the pieces of glass.
Mom was livid, as you might expect. But she was an experienced ER and OB nurse, so a little blood didn't impress her. She ws more concerned about me bleeding on her stuff than how badly I was hurt.
She was so mad she wouldn't take me into town to get stitches in my shoulder. She just stuck a couple of butterfly band-ainds on it and told me I was fine.
So now I have a large scar on my shoulder to show for it. And a story to go along with it.
aside from several bullet wounds...
a plane crash...
lotsa reconctruction from those two...
missing digits...
nothing to mention in the self inflicked catagory... (duct tape sized repairs)...
you take the honors...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
8-concussions
5-stitches chopsaw
6 stiches forehead
too many scars to count
sprained neck and concussion same work accident
tons of nail gun bullet holes
You're entitled to sh!t.---Tony Soprano
Edited 3/24/2006 5:10 pm ET by Stilletto
Otay, I just read all 45 postsand nobody as asked, so I'll step up,How did you get shot and a little more info on the plane wreck
ditto on the plane wreck...
1) 87 stitches on the ole noggin- dope deal gone bad
2) stomach pumped remove bit off nipple- from one of the
fellers that put stiches there
3) operation to remove broke off tooth from right index finger knuckle
4) 4 days later -ER again- blood poisoning - right hand- whew fun had by all
3rd* burns 15% body 1900* dust explosion cement plnant-2 hernia operations
im a no navel wonder .just great things when you look back on them
wonderhow a man can take punishment and keep on ticking
oooohhhh yech --- dish pan hands,vaccumers elbow my currant job.hehe DW.
S.S. pen*le extension back in '84.
TRIGGER
Whenever my wife brings up the pain associated with childbirth, I mention how I did not walk for close to a year and a half after I was circumcized.
LOL, and I'm stealing it!
LOL, and I'm stealing it
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I think they through it out after they cut it off......If Blodgett says, Tipi tipi tipi it must be so!
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pouring 40' long 20' high wall in an industrial storage facility, Im on top the forms running the hose
guy comes around the corner in a payloader, smacks the corner of the form
I fall, forms + @ 15 yards of crete fall on top of me
2 broken ribs, broke right ankle, chiiped the bone in my left heel, fractured skull, concussion and about a 10" gash on my right side.
On seperate occasions-
4 broken fingers
broke right arm twice
nose broke three times
ripped the nail off my big toe
2nd degree sunburns from falling asleep at the beach
interesting...I had a good friend that had a similar concrete accident in Manhatten. He cashed in big time.If Blodgett says, Tipi tipi tipi it must be so!
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In ten words or more.
Twistin' with Lucy, Doin' the Watusi, Roll over on your back, I like it like that Do that Jerk-uh,Watch me work y'all, Ow! Do it!
LMAO!!
Hey Gunner!!!..... how many words would be "eat me Gunner"????Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
you got yur more than 10...
and then there is usual stuff like when Goldhiller broke my 2 fingers with a pipe wrench....
set fire to me electrically..
electrocuted me...
A host of the day to day Ho-Hum...
then there was the deal with the little blue dog and an M3 stapler..Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
That didn't do it so he loaded you on a plane and did the earth burn?
Twistin' with Lucy, Doin' the Watusi, Roll over on your back, I like it like that Do that Jerk-uh,Watch me work y'all, Ow! Do it!
Never mind I just read the post above. Goldhiller must of thought you were just lonley for the old days.
Twistin' with Lucy, Doin' the Watusi, Roll over on your back, I like it like that Do that Jerk-uh,Watch me work y'all, Ow! Do it!
Service related conflict some time back for the shooting.... 3x's
C130 I was in hit another one during a low level drop exercise...
didn't have my seat belt on and was thrown out of the plane... long ways to the ground it was....
Remember that well....
R hand mess up... not much good for much...
L arm, shoulder and wrist not much better... limited motor action...
typing is a real chore..
L hip....
L knee...
Broken neck...
1 crushed vertebra and 5 herniated disk...
broken pelvic...
trashed R foot....
11 months traction..
14 months learning to walk again...
I predict weather better than the weatherman....
weather change by Monday...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Somebody shot you!!!???!!!
I'd be afraid it would pizz ya off!!!!
Mr. T.
There's a steering-wheel in me pants and it's driving me nuts!!!
it did...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I bet they regretted it!!
Mr. T.
There's a steering-wheel in me pants and it's driving me nuts!!!
I suppose..
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Edited 3/26/2006 11:24 pm by IMERC
No Major major scars...
Milled the tip of my finger off with a jointer...
Smashed my thumb so many times its cries when I LOOK at my hammer...
got scars on both knees from the sawn off rails of alum. ladders.
had a metal pice taken out of my eye on Xmas eve...
My nose is bent from being broken by a 10 y.o. girl...
My hands don't have any area more than 1 square inch that hasn't been smashed, sliced, pinched, brusied, gouged, impaled, abraded, drilled, burnt, contused, or nailed.
my two current majors are from an unintended double tap with the brad nailer to my thumb, and a knuckle that I keep whacking just as it stops hurting from the last whackjob...
then there's the mental and emotional damage.....
Mr. T.
There's a steering-wheel in me pants and it's driving me nuts!!!
then there's the mental and emotional damage.....
Christ T, everybody here has that problem!
Doug
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then there's the mental and emotional damage.....
Christ T, everybody here has that problem!
You got that right!
Tim
then there's the mental and emotional damage.....
Christ T, everybody here has that problem!
except me..........
IMERCLife is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Yeah...
your about as stable as Iraq....
but your are in capable hands...
errrr paws....
right Oreo???
GOOD dog!!
Mr. T.
There's a steering-wheel in me pants and it's driving me nuts!!!
Who???? Me????????/
shhhhhhh.. don't let that out....Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Knocking wood as I type this.....notta. Aside from the everyday scrapes, scratches, bumps and bruises....nuttin'.
I dunno if I'm extremely careful....extremely lucky....or a good combination of both.
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
maybe you hang back????Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
One would think that....but in all honesty, I don't.
Matter of fact, I'm more often than not the lead guy.
I remember early on.....when I just got into construction, my boss at the time said I looked like I had been walkin' plates for years.
No fear....maybe thats it.
J. D. Reynolds
Home Improvements
I'm with you- I had one good gash that should've got some stitches, but I was too far out in the woods, so butterfly bandages did it. never broke a bone, split open my head, etc., and I'm ok with that. I really don't want to lose a finger or two on the tablesaw.
Funny thing is I'm constantly cutting myself with hand tools, especially while sharpening them- but they're almost always small enough to drop some superglue on and keep going.
zak
tons but none too huge. Best one was in college back when I was a biking fool doing all kinds of stunts and jumps and such. Jumped a mound and really did a lousy job, came down head first. Woke up 4 days later, broke my nose, the bony thing that surrounds your eye, lost an ear (thankfully reattached), spent about 6 mos trying to remember how to walk again. That was fun. Rest of it is just average breaks and stitches and sprains and dislocated things. Carpentry is a lot safer than biking!
"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think -- there are no little things" - Bruce Barton
I've tried to cut my knee in half w/ a circular saw(got really lucky)40+ stiches; nearly cut my thumb off w/ a cooking knife-30 stiches by a plastic surgeon(it's fully functional); ripped half the skin off my index finger w/ a sawzall(duct-tape and a glove did the trick)10+ stiches in my sack(don't even ask / also fully funtional) and many more, but the most painful thing I've ever done by far is drop the toungue side of a pc. of 3/4 ply on my big toe. I had to drive to the job and unload about 25 shts. by myself in a muddy driveway before I could call it quits and see a doc. It still hurts a yr. later. I still don't wear steel-toe's. Bright, huh.
Nothing compared to the things that you guys have done, but.
A couple of years ago I decided that it would be a good idea to give Nikki (Siberian Husky) some exercise. Tagging along on my mountain bike sounded like a good idea. Wrong she decided that a sharp right hand turn at full clip would be fun. I crashed and burned.
Hands were still there thanks to the gell biking glove, just a couple fractures that would heal on their own. A couple small puncture wounds on the front of my right leg, the bone stopped them from getting any bigger.
And the bike was ok. That is the first thing that I always check.
Opps something is running down the back side of my leg, no it is not that! It's blood, apparently that new chainring is rather sharp sort of works like saw blade. I bandage myself together and go to see my favorite nurse practitioner the next morning just to get chewed out about cuts longer needing stitches. Ok so now I know. By the way chain lube makes a good tattoo!
I still have my virgin collar bones so maybe I do something about that this summer.
LOL, My grand dad was a biker, after he broke the collar bones the fifth time after he had retired from work, he aannounced the biker waas for sale and that he planned to live a while longer
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Store front window..40 stitches.The guy i was fighting drove me to the hospital.thanks bro.
Littlle guy complex...,..numerous broken fingers.
All nighter ...nailed my big toe to the gable end.
Polynesia...numerous reef scrapes and 8 hours adrift.
talkin story...priceless.
Several 1-5 suture bits here and there, mostly my head and around my left hand, reattached ear part from a broken bottle (I was 8), stuff like that. Broken toes and fingers, probably a dozen - "daddy's fingers go 'pop'"!
Had to get a piece of rusted metal removed from my eye with a dentist drill-like thing - tiny scar that doesn't indicate the pain!
My big one was the left arm break and wrist dislocation I posted pix of last year - Everything's better now, but I think 44 sutures in five different areas, bones poking out, nerve surgery, an external titanium fixator . . .
My only real saw kickback accident just left me with a huge lower abdomen bruise - I thought I had ruptured it all, cutting a 3/16" plywood dish cabinet divider on the short side, against the fence.
I feel lucky, listening to some of you guys!
Forrest
Another thing -
I'm always impressed with "self administered" sutures. I've got some sterile packs of the curved needles, just waiting for the opportunity to be a bad*ss!
Forrest
oh yes...
The little blue dog getting even with me and a M3 stapler....
remembering that makes feel like I wanna pass out.....Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I have never broken a bone.
I received stitches four times as a kid, all in the vicinity of an eye.
I almost cut my finger off in my mid twenties. So a few stitches putting it back together.
Yesterday I was diagnosed with a hernia, so I guess I'll have a couple of stitches from that surgery!
Rich Beckman
Another day, another tool.
Like IMERC i feel pretty lucky.52 yrs old and never had a stitch or broke a bone or spent more than 2 hrs in a hospital. After 30 yrs in the building business alot of it working with logs and logging with a team of mules on incredibly steep hillsides now just reminicing about stuff ive done gives me the willies.Probably got more lil defects from gymnastics in hi school than working with sharp tools and straddling ridges.
treetalk
aside from several bullet wounds...
a plane crash...
lotsa reconctruction from those two...
missing digits...
Where'd you get the idea that Imerc was so damn lucky!
After readiing about all the head injuries I'm starting to understand a lot more about some of the people on here though!
BTW, I've had several head injuries myself, none that has had any effect on me though. :)
After readiing about all the head injuries I'm starting to understand a lot more about some of the people on here though!
thought the same....
sure answers a lot of questions and accounts fer a lot too....
I didn't look to be shot nor partake in a plane wreck...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
IMERC is modest. He has parts that are only still attached to him because nobody else wants them
Welcome to the Taunton University of Knowledge FHB Campus at Breaktime. where ... Excellence is its own reward!
the dog kept bringin' them back.....Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I've had several over the years, the one one that bled the most didn't even get more than three stiches... here's what happened:
Replacing some windows, and broke one window pane,and bent down to pick up my sawzall, I must have just touched the sharp edge of the glass...didn't feel a thing..... when I started seeing blood on the floor, than I looked at the knuckel on the index finger of my left hand, blood was running out of a 1/4 " long cut right on the tip of the knuckle. This cut was bleeding like crazy. I just stood there and looked at it and when it looked like too much blood was getting on the floor, I held my hand over the open lid of my sawzall box. The blood started filling up the lid too much, so I held my hand out the window. The blood was running out on to a roof below, collecting in a valley and running into a pile of leaves and damming up. Just then a co-worker walked in and said..." hey, how far are you into..JESUS CHRIST WHAT THE F--- DID YOU DO!".
When I came back from the emergency room six hours later the blood on the roof had still not coagulated. It looked like a big blob of red jello.
I never had an injury that needed professional help. OK, let me rephrase that, none of my injuries ever got professional help. Fell off the porch and broke my index finger once. Taped it up myself. It'll never be right, should have had that fixed.
i don't know if I've been lucky or careful, but after fooling around with tools since i was knee high to a grass hopper, playing rugby at a regional level for nearly as long and flying down big hills on my mountain bike every weekend I've never had to get medical attention for any injuries..... except when i broke my ankle playing volleyball for the first time (stupid game).Now I'm writing this I've probably jinxed myself into shooting a nail into my leg or falling off the roof when i get onto site tomorrow.
raced motocross & karts then dirt track late models... lots of small broken bones.... put up radio towers for awhile til one fell on high voltage wires... not a good mix but got to do the see'n the tunnel thing the fireman with the little pads nixed that trip all i got were some burns... electricty burns on exit blew my shoes and some of me off... Only missing part of one finger..shop teacher turned the power off while i was run'n a board thru the joiner in jr high... a great lesson as pretty as i am people still notice that i hide that one finger like it'd take away from my good looks ......
put'n tension on a huge gate spring it came loose and...thought i'd put my eye out but i'd just cut my eyelid off... a little micro surgery fixed the tear ducts kinda... i'm now one of those people that can blow smoke or milk out of my eye/tearduct you have a one way valve to make it one was to drain tears into your sinus... i'm missing one now...
nothing to ever really lay me up lots of scars... i was fix'n a large plate glass window once 1/4" plate remove'n some glass when a large pointed piece dropped from above pinned my hand to the ledge below.. kinda nice scar... people are always impressed when you stitch up your own wounds I'm just like... i'm poke'n little holes they can't hurt worse than this big one...
it's not the adventure that has worth... it's the story you get from it that has value
it's all fun til someone loses an eye...... then it's just fun you can't see
p
Oh yeah - one I forgot about. I was throwing a demo'ed wad of morter/mesh/ceramic tile out a window one time, and cut the base of my left thumb at my hand - could see way on down in there. Didn't want the client to see, didn't want to spend $ at the emergency room, Kaiser won't sew people up, so I spent an early lunchtime with my thumb taped over, calling around for a doctor to sew it up. finally found a Dr. who said he would do it for $100.00 cash right then. I drove over, he did the stitches, lots of extra tight and small (to hold), no paperwork, and I could sledgehammer the day after.
Kind of funny, really. I felt like a gunshot victem finding a vet!
Forrest
What do you do if you break your arm in two places?
Stay out of those 2 places.
badumBUM
Sorry, I know it's bad.
Pete Duffy, Handyman
well, been shot twice once in the calf other one through my side
stabbed in the chest cavity once
run over by a jealous boyfriend in an old chevy van
airlifted to hospital cause i was pronounced from drowning
beat up a zillion times usually with bottles bricks and sticks-still get glass and little pieces of stuff working their way out every now and then
no bone left in my left leg from knee to ankle fell walkin a 9' interior wall top plate.told em to brace it better lol
right ankle compound fracture from roller skating got infected they had to cut into or cut it off
fell about 20 face first off a rope swing in the barn to wood floor teeth through the lip
bit in the belly by a buddys wolf hybrid when he went in the house to get some more smokes left me with the dog i had been petting for awhile talking to him
4 wheeler +lotsa beer + tree =stop real fast. fly over handlebars catching brake fluid resevoir on the same side as the dog bite
both of those left some cool technicolor bruises
340 71 dodge demon into a t intersection with a big dirt embankment on the other side estimated speed 90+leaving 18th birthday party. had to live in the hospital for a few months on that one
old man in a land yacht turning left -harley going straight at about 60
paid some rent to the hopital again collapsed lung broke ribs compounds on both wrists one elbow went into pnuemonia chest tubes (they put them in through your back with long azzed nail lookin things)
28 stitches in eyelid wacked with numchucks sticking up for some woman gettin beat
lol i dont even count the two or seven stitches ive put in myself many times
my g/f was just reading this post she says the middle leg still works fine though
some reason im not skeert anymore
I hate my government
JEEZUS H!!!!
I need to do a belly flop into a tree shredder to catch up to you.
Once in awhile bob your head to the other side. If you keep going the same way they'll be waiting for ya everytime. Tuck your chin into your chest and wail the pizz out of em windmill style.
You need to borrow some of my hockey fight tapes?
Twistin' with Lucy, Doin' the Watusi, Roll over on your back, I like it like that Do that Jerk-uh,Watch me work y'all, Ow! Do it!
If I ever get to meet you ,.
You will understand why I wont ride with you right ? <G>
Tim
i think i would understand lol.... but then again i'm still alive and working,must have done something right in my lifeDue to recent budget cuts the light at the end of the tunnel will be turned off until further notice.
Where do you live in the central armpit?
I got a booboo on my peepee one time. Do I win?
Birth, school, work, death.....................
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Mom walk in on ya "roughing up the suspect"?
Twistin' with Lucy, Doin' the Watusi, Roll over on your back, I like it like that Do that Jerk-uh,Watch me work y'all, Ow! Do it!
Edited 3/24/2006 10:17 pm ET by Gunner
Actually, it was my MIL. I was standing on my trailer hitch bending over the tail gate trying to get something out of the bed of my truck. My foot slipped and Mr Willy got smashed on the top of the tail gate. MIL walked up while I was writhing in the driveway. I've got numerous bone pins, passed kidnsy stones, etc. This hurt worse than any other injury I've had and was the most difficul to explain.Birth, school, work, death.....................
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nope, u ALL wrong. this guy has us all beat.http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/16449119?source%3DPARugby fan cut off his own testicles
8 February 2005A Welsh rugby fan cut off his own testicles after his team beat England, police confirmed today.The man was rushed to hospital after the incident at Leigh Social Club in Caerphilly, South Wales.A Gwent Police spokeswoman said: "We received a call from the ambulance service at approximately 9pm on the 5th to inform us of a situation at the Leigh Social Club in which a man had indeed severed his own testicles."She said the man was taken to Heath Hospital but could not confirm his condition.It was reported that the man told his friends: "If Wales win I'll cut my own balls off."After the 11-9 victory in the Six Nations clash, the man is reported to have gone outside and severed his testicles before bringing them back into the club to show fellow drinkers.A local was reported as saying that the man was on medication and should not have been drinking. edit: found this in Darwin award: "Reader Dale says, "He used a (blunt) pair of wire cutters, or so it was reported in the British press. It apparently took him 10 mins to complete his task!!!"
Edited 3/26/2006 5:14 pm ET by VaGentinMI
Here's something I found recently...
and some of you guys thought you had problems? ;)
Office - Brick Layer Accident ReportAUSTRALIAN BRICKLAYER`S REPORTThis is a bricklayer's accident report, which was printed in thenewsletter of the Australian equivalent of the Workers' Compensation board.This is a true story. Had this guy died, he'd have received a Darwin Award for sure.......Dear Sir,I am writing in response to your request for additional information in Block 3 of the accident report form. I put "poor planning" as the cause of my accident. You asked for a fuller explanation and I trust the following details will be sufficient.I am a bricklayer by trade. On the day of the accident, I was working alone on the roof of a new six-story building. When I completed my work, I found that I had some bricks left over which, when weighed later were found to be slightly in excess of 500lbs.Rather than carry the bricks down by hand, I decided to lower them in a barrel by using a pulley, which was attached to the side of the building on the sixth floor. Securing the rope at ground I went up to the roof, swung the barrel out and loaded the bricks into it. Then I went down and untied the rope, holding it tightly to ensure a slow descent of the bricks.You will note in Block 11 of the accident report form that I weigh 135lbs.Due to my surprise at being jerked off the ground so suddenly, I lost my presence of mind and forgot to let go of the rope. Needless to say, I proceeded at a rapid rate up the side of the building. In the vicinity of the third floor, I met the barrel, which was now proceeding downward at an equally impressive speed. This explained the fractured skull, minor abrasions and the broken collar bone, as listed in section 3 of the accident report form. Slowed only slightly, I continued my rapid ascent, not stopping until the fingers of my right hand were two knuckles deep into the pulley.Fortunately by this time I had regained my presence of mind and was able to hold tightly to the rope, in spite of beginning to experience pain. At approximately the same time, however, the barrel of bricks hit the ground and the bottom fell out of the barrel. Now devoid of the weight of the bricks, that barrel weighed approximately 50 lbs. I refer you again to my weight. As you can imagine, I began a rapid descent, down the side of the building. In the vicinity of the third floor, I met the barrel coming up.This accounts for the two fractured ankles, broken tooth and several lacerations of my legs and lower body. Here my luck began to change slightly. The encounter with the barrel seemed to slow me enough to lessen my injuries when I fell into the pile of bricks and fortunately only three vertebrae were cracked.I am sorry to report, however, as I lay there on the pile of bricks, in pain, unable to move, I again lost my composure and presence of mind and let go of the rope and I lay there watching the empty barrel begin its journey back down onto me. This explains the two broken legs.I hope this answers your inquiry.
That's why I'm glad I have the "chipmunk package." Except for the dog jumping on my bullocks I'm pretty safe with that region.
Twistin' with Lucy, Doin' the Watusi, Roll over on your back, I like it like that Do that Jerk-uh,Watch me work y'all, Ow! Do it!
what did you do
wack it off?
ya know theres a skeeter on my peter....Due to recent budget cuts the light at the end of the tunnel will be turned off until further notice.
Nhh...you don't win...after thirty some odd years of climbin' in and outta windows...over rooftops...three stories up over concrete with the ladder on a picnic table and varies other dumb things the worst thing thats happened to me was being circumcised and havin' my tonsils taken out. Circumcision hurts like a MF'er..no wonder I started drinkin' at an early age..lolIf Blodgett says, Tipi tipi tipi it must be so!
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I have a couple of fillings...
Let's see...
Hockey: Bruised ribs, broken ribs, bruised liver, bruised lung, a concussion and broken nose (thrice)
Snowboarding: Knee scope to remove loose body (still have it!), knee cartilage not so much torn as completely ground away, 2 concussions, bruised kidney, recurring back spasms
Mountain biking: Lower legs have more scar tissue than skin, good-looking scar between lip and chin, another concussion
Carpentry: Most recent - 7 stiches in December from mishandling a (very sharp) chisel, also a dislocated shoulder (works good as a barometer now), broken ribs and plenty of scar tissue on the hands
Miscellaneous: a couple of car accidents, broken collarbone, a couple more broken noses
It's funny, I've never run through my CV of injuries before. Save for the bike concussion, none of these were alcohol-related and none occurred via physical confrontation. I've never considered myself accident-prone, but looking at this, it makes me wonder.
DCS Inc.
"Whaddya mean I hurt your feelings, I didn't know you had any feelings." Dave Mustaine
What a thread JH! If I were a health insure, I would think that all carpenters are in the most high risk group! I didn't read all the messages, and I won't. I am not without my bumps bruses and a few broken bones. But none of those happen while on the job, with the exception of one. Some jurk tossed a plank off a section and while I walked under the unit, coming out the other side, it hit me on the side of my head. It KO'ed me and all I remember, was about three guys holding me down to keep me from getting me up. It crushed the side of my HARD HAT, that alone, the doctor said, saved my life!
I was told, back in the sixties, while working with an old timer, "You can tell the Professional from a hacker, by looking at their hands." Something I have never forgot! My hands? I once took the nail off my thumb with a hammer. Which, brings to mind, "What hurts worse than hitting you thumb with a hammer? Hitting it again, right after the first strick! The thumb nail came back, looking normal........Pop
I had a 3' toe board hit me in the temple once after a roofer threw it off a roof 2-1/2 storeys up.
After I got up off the ground, my biggest memory was cussing the guy out - then the supervisor showed up and took over getting tht iditot off the jobsite. I also had a rep for a while as someone not to be messed with. They figured if I could take a 2x4 to the temple and come up pissed, it'd be hard to stop me.
act is - I go down easy if you hit me in the back of me head, but never have had the lights turned out with a frontal blow
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Man... some of you guys are lucky to be alive.
Never had anything bad happen, except I rode my mountain bike off a footbridge and broke my collar bone. Almost a non-event... the doc said, yeah that's broke, try not to move it too much and it will heal shortly. Had to learn to use TP left-handed. No joke, it's quite difficult, try it sometime.
I thought maybe something was wrong with me, having no serious accidents and all. So I'm not the only one now.
My bro broke both wrists and an elbow in a bike crash on the Golden Gate bridge. He said TP was tough; luckily he had a significant other he later married!
Forrest
Had to learn to use TP left-handed. No joke, it's quite difficult, try it sometime.LOL!
Doin it all the time.
too many to list.
pretty much split between "active childhood" and "mis-spent youth" ...
some are work related ... most aren't.
Just always played hard.
Doc would always ask my Mom if I was clumsy ... she'd say no ...
just very active and sometimes not so smart!
I do have some in the distinctive shape of various bicycle and motorcycle parts ...
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
Two titanium plates in my head. Open rotator cuff repair scar, plus the staples to put the muscle back. Left "pointy" finger chopped up with TS. Iron rake tine through right knee. Target arrow in left leg. Big scar on right arm from being thrown from a horse into a BW fence after firing a 30-30 past her ear. Etc.
Last one, ladder side of a side od a metal , ZIP LOck building, puting plumb mark to cut out for OH door, 6 ft. ladder slipped out, down I went, broke my right wrist in to places, s steel plate and screws, that was Jan. 10, still recovering. Year ago got 8 stiches when branch I was splitting with hyd. wood spliter scissored my finger on left hand. Broke my little finger on right hand few years ago when bar i was using to pry a stone out of ground for sidewalk, slipped and my finger was between it and nother stone. couple stiches on couple fingers when plexieglass I was cutting, climbed saw blade and nicked them. But still have all my ditgits ! Oh, stepped off scaffold, 5 ft. and cracked couple ribs. The most embarrasing thing, I am the first to tie ladder off, put my hearing protection on, my saftey glasses or my fall protection on!!! You can 't be to safe.
IF IT WAS EASY, EVERYONE COULD DO IT !
I lost count, but five out of ten fingers have been stitched, one of them twice. Missing some bone from three of them, but they all work fairly close to OEM specs.
Andy
"Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig." Robert A. Heinlein
"Get off your dead #### and on your dying feet." Mom
Not much ever hapened to me until the surgeon thought he needed to cut my chest cavity open , then it rained and poured. Both knees and a hand then . I was sure lucky before that.
Tim
Sort-of-a "while were here" thing huh!
Doug
Stopped counting individual stitches. I think we all have earned the right to estimate coverage by FT/SQ
I've only got about 4-5 scars that required stitches, but I've probably got most of you beat as far as lineal inches go.
My main scar is from back surgery 23 years ago. I fell off a roof and broke my back in 2 places, which required a 15-16 " incision during the 8-1/2 hour operation. There's also a 4-5" scar on my left butt cheek, where they harvested bone chips to rebuild my vertebrae.
What really sucks is that I've never really seen my scars, except in mirrors.
don'y you know sq ft estimting is a sore subject around here?LOL
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Good God!? I'm supposed to remember stuff like this?!!!!??
I've averaged A MAJOR MEDICAL THING about once every five years, since '70. This ain't a job career choice for wimps!
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Taunton University of Knowledge FHB Campus at Breaktime.
where ...
Excellence is its own reward!
This ain't a job career choice for wimps!
This ain't a job career choice for wimps!
This ain't a job career choice for wimps!
Well said Piffmiester!!!
Mr. T.
There's a steering-wheel in me pants and it's driving me nuts!!!
not to mention how it makes some of us go deaf so we have to shout all the time to hear ourselves...
;o)
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HEH?????
Mr. T.
There's a steering-wheel in me pants and it's driving me nuts!!!
SAFTEY MEETING : OK , NO BODY MOVES, NO BODY GETS HURT !!!!!!!
I'm usually over at knots, but i'll play...
Broke left arm, bicycle
broke L arm 5 stitches, atv
Left collarbone, bicycle
5 stitches in my head, bicycle
Torn left thumb ligament, surgery plus rehab and 5 stitches, flag football
5 stitches left thumb, chisel
bruised ribs, tree climbing (thats my trade)
5 stitches left thumb handsaw, tree climbing
and as i type my left index is probably sprained, got pinched in a kink in a 2 inch flexible vinyl hose at full pressure
I thought i was accident prone, but now i don't feel so bad.
U gotta learn to tie that left behind your back
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and stay off of bicycles...
and out of trees...
and don't pick up ant tools...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!<!----><!---->
Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I started at an early age.
When I was about 4 pulled a wall mirror over on my self had to get about a hundred stitches on it still have a big scar on the right side of my head about 2" across
Got in the cross fire of dad fixing a pipeline on the ranch when I was about 5. He threw a broken piece of gal pipe behind him nailed me in the forehead got a 1.5" scar there
At 13 got pinned under a goose neck stock trailer it landed on my right kneedidn't do any major damage just alot of scar tissue.
At 14 Flipped a fourwheeler over it landed on my left leg above the knee basically chopped it in half only a few inches of skin and tendons holding together. When I woke up my foot was by head. I also broke my right arm and tore my upper lip. That one took awhile to get up 1mo. traction 3mo. bodycast 1mo. hinged cast.
At 25 working at large open pit coal mine working on one the large shovels. Operator did'nt follow directions broke a 1" chain that caught my left hand. Got lucky only chopped of one finger broke several bones.
Just before broken hand fell in a hole in the dark on the dragline we have here. Tore out left shoulder. Doc. cut 1" of collar bone to make room for scar tissue so I could move shoulder. Company doc. didn't want to do surgery made me wait a year. When i couldn't get arm above my chest I finally put my foot down and said were going to have to do something. Surgeon said if he'd took care of it when it happened all would've been fine. Now after 2 years it's finally coming back.
I've also got a couple of other scars from stitches on hands and face, but there only little ones.
Edited 3/28/2006 12:14 pm by opiegarden