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What is the freakiest accident you ever had?

89 replies

Bearthewear · 09/03/2021 19:04

I would say accidentally throwing my Nintendo Wii remote into the telly and breaking it.

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Reinventinganna · 09/03/2021 22:10

@Krazynights34

If anyone on here knows me.. they will now!

Got impaled on a steel spike on a gate after I tried to climb it on our local town’s Roman wall after I tried to make it through the park just before it closed and got locked in.

My insides were showing!

I feel sick
RonSwansonsChair · 09/03/2021 22:19

Was play chasing my then 6yr old when he jumped on my bed, I jumped after him - he was bouncing back up as I was bouncing down and his skull hit my cheek and cracked my eye socket. Seriously looked like I'd been in a boxing match!

Wendyhause · 09/03/2021 22:20

@bigdinkydoodah

Going to loo in the middle of the night, skidded on a jar of Vicks and put my head through the bedroom wall and landed in the washing basket.
Please forgive me but I laughed at that,
midsomermurderess · 09/03/2021 22:23

I've mentioned it before jere. I stood, in bare feet, on a knitting needle, and, I don't know how, it it went in and all the way along the sole of my foot. Pulling it out was, well, interesting.

OverByYer · 09/03/2021 22:24

I managed to give myself a paper cut on my eyeball ( so sore)
And shut my own head in the car door.

artquejtion · 09/03/2021 22:27

@Krazynights34

If anyone on here knows me.. they will now!

Got impaled on a steel spike on a gate after I tried to climb it on our local town’s Roman wall after I tried to make it through the park just before it closed and got locked in.

My insides were showing!

Bloody Hell, glad you are here to tell the tale ! were you with others who were able to help? how were you unpaled? did you need surgery ?
Sunnyday321 · 09/03/2021 22:29

Not freaky but fairly regular . I have low blood pressure . Often need the loo in the night , I've taught myself to sit on the side of the bed before getting up . Go to the loo , but at least every few months or so and especially if also unwell will then faint whilst sat on the loo.

Brigante9 · 09/03/2021 22:29

I went over the handlebars of my Chopper, the chain came off (such a great bike!) and snapped my front tooth in half. A week later, same thing happened, chain flipped off this time I broke my arm.

@Krazynights34 holy fuck!! Is it dreadful that I wonder if you got photos? 😱 I hope you’re ok now.

I remember climbing over a 15ft gate when I was trying to get out of a locked campus, just flipped over the spikes, could have been unpleasant!

HandyBendySandy · 09/03/2021 22:35

Not me but DH - cutting hedge with hedgecutter, up a stepladder. Disturbed a hornets nest, hornets rushed out furiously, DH tossed the hedgecutter up and away from him and leapt off the ladder at a run - directly into the path of the hedgecutter as it plummeted back to earth.

By some miracle, it bounced off his massive head and he sustained only a small cut to his forehead. And not a single sting.

HandyBendySandy · 09/03/2021 22:40

@Sunnyday321 oh yes I'm one of those too - I have fainted and fallen off the bog. Such an indignity. Although I have IBS and some super-crazed intestines, so I blame the vasovagal response...

chilledteacher · 09/03/2021 22:44

Toddler DDS trapped his EAR in the door last night. I'm still trying to work out how.

micc · 09/03/2021 22:45

I was about 5 at school doing PE.. I fell of a balance beam.. that was on the floor.. so maybe 3 inches from the ground.. I landed on a mat.. and broke my elbow.

YesItsMeIDontCare · 09/03/2021 22:52

Friends dog lunged forward to lick me as I leaned in for a fuss, we banged heads and split my lip. Very small cut but being my lip there was a lot of blood.

Stood at the kitchen sink spitting blood, rinsing my mouth and cleaning my face for a few minutes, poor dog looked worried.

Went to reassure him that it wasn't his fault, he was still a very good boy... did exactly same thing but I split the other side of my lip.

He's a Staffy Cross and his skull is rock hard 😂

He's still a very good boy though 🥰.

micc · 09/03/2021 22:52

@Handybendysandy my mum once disturbed a Hornets nest, loads of them flew at her and a couple got stuck in her hair!!

MizMoonshine · 09/03/2021 22:56

Jumped off two steps and broke my leg in two places.

AlexaStop · 09/03/2021 22:57

Emptying the dishwasher and dropped the sharpest knife we have and it landed pointy bit down in between my toes!! Such a close call

spaceghetto · 09/03/2021 22:59

When I was in the thick of sleep deprivation, I decided to prep breakfast for the next morning so it was all ready. I booked eggs then put them in the fridge. Ds complained it was too cold so I put it in the microwave. I opened the door and it exploded in my face!

Elderflower14 · 09/03/2021 23:05

Tripped over the end of a suitcase extended handle with bare feet and sliced my second toe from one side to the other. Ripped my arm open after the dog got his extending lead stuck in a barbed wire fence. Fellow walker released his lead, he shot forward and my arm got ripped on the fence. Put my hand in the washing up bowl, forgot the apple corer and segmenter was in there and my thumb got stuck in the segmenter bit. Cue a washing up bowl full of blood. My first aid trained neighbour dealt with all of the above.
When I was six I got thrown from the back of a Morris Traveller through the car when the driver braked suddenly. I hit my head on the dashboard. Narrowly missed the windscreen.

Makescakeswhenstressed · 09/03/2021 23:07

Was giving DP a little treat, but neglected to line up any kind of tissue or other receptacle and was not in the mood to swallow, in fact started feeling a little nauseous, so hotfooted it out of the sitting room, butt naked, only to lose my footing completely on the wooden hallway floor. My bare feet just went from under me like I was on ice. I narrowly missed the cast iron shoe rack with my head, but twitted my arm and shoulder on the floor as I landed full on them. DP got to witness my feet flipping up into the air suddenly, then the loud thud, cane running to help me up and ask if I was OK, which I couldn't answer as my mouth was still....erm... full.
I never forget to line up tissues now. Should follow my own rules: no running with your mouth full.

Loopylou555 · 09/03/2021 23:11

In my early 20s I went to Kenya with my husband, although we weren't married at the time and had only been dating for about 6 months. His friend had been working out there for a few years and was getting married and DH along with his identical twin brother were best men. We also had some other friends in the area who ran a project for children in one of the slums. We went to visit them and whilst playing duck duck goose with the children I tripped and gave myself concussion, a nose bleed and shattered my zygomatic arch (facial bones.) There were no roads in the part of the slum where we were so our friend ran ahead to get his car and bring it the the nearest access point while DH walked me, nose gushing blood and throwing up every few mins, through the slum to the car. I had 4 hours of facial reconstructive surgery and have metal holding my face together. The best bit? I got the cheapest travel insurance as all I was interested in was making sure I had health cover. I paid £8 for the insurance and after the cost of surgery in a private hospital in Nairobi, a week in hospital, another week in a 5* hotel for DH and I as we had missed our flight home, our accommodation had ended and the consultant said I needed a week before I was fit to fly and the cost of new flights for us back home, plus an upgrade to 1st class for us as again the consultant wrote to the airline to say I needed to be able fully recline, it cost the insurance company around £30 thousand pounds!

Pantsomime · 09/03/2021 23:15

Not being used to massive boobs, when breastfeeding, I trapped a nipple in the fridge door- more than once - wowee it hurt like hell.

NoMackerelInSwindon · 09/03/2021 23:17

Squeezing through the primary school fence to retrieve the rounders ball someone had batted out into the farmer's paddock next door. I had to carefully negotiate two lines of freshly stapled barbed wire put up to prevent cattle from pushing into the school field. The wire had been uncoiled and temporary hung over posts to be fixed later. I dislodged one end, it coiled back up wrapping me round inside it. Still have the scars around my neck, chest and under my hair line. These were the days when you just got on with it.

Bettalife · 09/03/2021 23:24

On honeymoon with exh and we took a shortcut through a bit of wasteland to the marina to book a boat trip. I was so busy admiring the view I didn’t notice the open manhole. Fell straight down it, flip flop flipped off and I impaled my foot on a stop cock without the tap on it. A random stranger gave us a lift to hospital in his pick up truck and I returned from honeymoon in a wheelchair.

VienneseWhirligig · 09/03/2021 23:25

I was pratting around whilst working night security at a festival and had been dared by the other guards to drive one of the Hilux trucks across the golf course at speed to make it fly, then do a handbrake turn and stop as close to the other truck as possible. I have no driving licence as I have a medical condition which means I am not allowed one. I accepted the dare, made the truck fly, even did the handbrake turn but panicked trying to stop it without hitting the other one and ended up banging my head on the top of the truck and somehow giving myself a black eye by whacking it with my fist. Luckily the men didn't know I had panicked and were really impressed that I stopped 3cm away from the other truck. None of them managed closer. I let them think it was by design... but my eye was such a shiner!

JustAddCoffee91 · 09/03/2021 23:29

Not me but a close friend of mine-
He was just walking across a field with one of his friends chatting on his way home and a golf ball came flying through the air and hit him straight in the mouth, smashed all of his top teeth to bits.
I dropped a whiskey glass on the floor,slipped on a piece of it and landed on the glass (which was spiky end up) and it went straight through my kneecap 🤢
My knee now looks like Frankensteins arsehole!

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