What's the most idiotic way you've ever been injured?

Using a log splitter, I watched in horror as my hand was being pushed towards the maul after I steadied a log that wanted to fall off. Then I remembered I was controlling the piston with my other hand and put it in reverse. I wasn't hurt, but damn I felt stupid.

That would have been devastating.

It was at a friend's house and I was maybe 8. I remember her teenage brothers being in awe and impressed. I wondered if their house was structurally sound. Lol

Those must have been some pretty thin walls. Sounds like that would have hurt a lot 😬

I discovered as a child (no beer involved ok?) that if I jumped very hard on a post laying across a concrete block I could make it fly magnificently high in the air, because you know, physics! It was fun by myself, but I called a friend over to see this marvelous thing I had discovered and remember quite well saying "hey watch this", jumped as high as I could and landed perfectly on the end of the post, which proceeded to fly up in the air as promised, knocking me in the head on the way up with tremendous force, next thing I know blood is being wiped from my forehead while I laid on the floor in a nearby building that I was not inside before...I still have a scar on my eyebrow...also shot myself between the eyes with a BB gun due to a richochet...not my proudest moment, lol

Awe, kids are so innocent. It's when you do these things as an adult that you start to worry ;).
Lol, one of my brothers shot me right between the eyes with a BB gun, so I know how that feels. Wish I could say it was an accident 😂.

I think I actually heard God say that, just like butthead would have, lol! I consider it my official "dont be a dumbass" moment.

I know little about BB guns...but if a small projectile object is blasted toward an only semi-hard body part (cartilage) --doesnt some really serious injury occur? I have to ask WTH happened after??

Fortunately the pellets which were loaded in the gun were made of plastic. Had they been the regular metal pellets no doubt I would have been seriously injured. My brother was only about 5 at the time and the gun belonged to my cousin. Who after that was banned from babysitting indefinitely. I imagine thparky was shot with the real deal though 😉

My cousins and siblings had BB guns too...musta been a popular thing at one time. Wernt BB guns in another movie..the movie with the kids that put their tongues on the frozen lamppost.. LOL...dang cant think of the name..

That does sound familiar to me. Although I can't think of the name either 😂

A Christmas Story ;)

YES that's it! : )

Great movie, lol

Copperhead branded steel bb's my dear, I didn't use any sissy plastic ones! And yes, it hurt like hell but nobody ever knew about it cause pride is paramount to a 10 year old, lol!

Lol, I imagine your quite lucky to be able to tell this story 😂

It was an underpowered shot, I pumped it once and shot it just to unload it being lazy instead of taking the BB out manually. Shot it at a wooden fence a few feet away, and the thing bounced and hit me right square between the eyes. It really felt like a bad bee sting. Had it been at full power [10 pumps], yeah that wouldn't have been good!

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We were not always well supervised. Left outside for hours and no safety in sight. Well, there was a rusty old circular saw blade in the yard. My brothers decided to use it as a Frisbee. That ended well as you can imagine.

Also my brother had a bowling ball and the bag to store it in. Not because he bowled, but because we just had junk laying around. Again, very young. Maybe in the 3rd or 4th grade at the time. My brother thought the bowling ball was elsewhere in the yard, and said "Hey! watch how far I can kick this bag". So barefoot of course, he ran and and kicked the bag as hard as he could. The bowling ball was in the bag to his horror. LOL

saw blade frisbees? sounds like a good saturday to me :)

we did the same thing, but not throwing to each other, more like throwing them like oversized ninja stars, lol

I was about 4 or 5 years old. I got up in the night for a drink of water, there was a cup sitting on the table and it looked bubbly like soda. It was kind of dark in the dining room so I couldn't see too well what ever it was. I took a couple of big gulps and realized it was soap of some sort. Lysol or Pine Sol or something. I went to the sink and gulped as much water as I could, got back in bed and prayed to Jesus to let me live another day. Never told my parents . LOL. I honestly feel that the hand of God is what helped us make it out of childhood alive. He saved us from everything from saw blade frisbees to jumping off the roof of the house.

I hear ya! And thank God for lookin' out for you and me both. We used to have fireworks wars all summer...lighting whole packs of black cats and throwin' em behind whatever piece of plywood the other was hiding behind, shooting roman candles at each other, using smoke bombs for cover and to flush each other out...we were probably the reason that bottle rockets got outlawed in SC, lol! None of us ever got hurt (too bad) in the process, don't know how that ever happened!

I think all that trying to earn a Darwin Award sharpened our wits, quickened our step, and improved our reflexes. It was good for mind and (sort of) the body. LOL

I have a tendency to get scratched and cut by anything and everything, often not even noticing that I got cut.

But the dumbest way I hurt myself was when I cut my foot about three weeks ago, right in between the toes. My English is too limited to explain it properly, but let's just say that I ran at full speed into a sharp piece of metal that was laying around.

I jumped on a wet floor in a hotel and fell on my back.

I tried to clean my razor with my finger. That was stupid beyond belief.

I always do that, and my inner voice of reason always reminds me how I got cut the last time I did that, I always clean it anyways, I always get cut and when I get cut, I use another finger to clean the razor. My fingerprints shouldn't be legible at this point :/

You're not the only one

i fell in a septic tank once because I thought the tarp covering it was a freaking turtle pool. I was so stupid back then..what kind of pool doesn't have sides...legit

Put a big flathead screwdriver into my hand between my thumb and forefinger