What has been your daftest injury?

[WomenHour]

I would say being pushed into a thorn bush

I was crossing the road (pedestrian crossing, green person showing) when I was mown down from behind by a motorised wheelchair. The driver had pressed the wrong pedal, went into shock and couldn't reverse. I was pinned by the weight of the wheelchair (and her) onto the ground. For the first time in my life, traffic stopped in both directions.

@User3627290

I know someone who stood on the tines of a rake so it flipped up and the handle smacked them in the face

Aka a sideshow Bob! 😂

I was sat on the bottom step having just finished talking on the phone. My labrador was sat between my knees having a fuss. I put my chin on her head and was giving her a tickle under the chin when she did a massive sneeze, brought her head up onto my chin and knocked me clean out.

Watching an exciting football match I jumped up when someone scored, not remembering my foot was wrapped in a duvet. One painful broken tow which A&E refused to X ray because I was 6 weeks pg with DD2 (who was the result of drunken celebrations of DD1's first birthday - DD2 was a couple of weeks early so there is less than 21 months between them!)

Fainted getting out the bath, feel into radiator and knocked myself out. 2nd degree burn on my upper arm, and my top incisor went through my bottom lip.

I put a screwdriver that I was using in the front pocket of my jeans and proceeded to bend over and impale myself on it!!

I tripped over DD’s dolls house a few years ago. Tore the ligaments in my ankle. I couldn’t run for 9 months.

@Notwiththeseknees

Broke my ribs making DC bed years ago
It was top bunk and I fell off the ladder

Tried to separate two frozen sausages by placing them on my hand, and pushing between them with a fork. Stabbed myself moderately badly (rather a lot of blood).

Also burned myself with an iron whilst trying to iron a blouse that I was wearing.

Broke my foot (on holiday on my birthday) because I missed a kerb while looking at Google Maps.

I hurt my shoulder doing ballroom dancing. That was ten years ago, and it still flairs up on occasion.

I also put my back out for two weeks, requiring time off work, painkillers and physiotherapy for ages by....

Walking round a corner.

Not me, but once had a team member who claimed to have walked into a cacti plant.
It sat at the back of one of those huge, deep bisley filing cabinets.
No one believed it, but he was one of those who spent more time off sick than in the office. Threatened to sue us for having dangerous plants. It was only there because we didn't have to remember to water it.

Yet another arse breaker - on autumn leaves on outdoor steps in the rain.

Broke my wrist falling upstairs

As a student, we were in someone's room we decided to do the "Timewarp". As you will recollect it starts with a jump to the left. I don't know my left from my right so got jumped on by everyone else and cracked a bone in my foot.

About 15 years ago I was at the end of year party for sixth form, bit piddled, Billie Jean came on and I stormed on to the dance floor to dance. Slipped in a bit of beer and went down, my left leg went behind me and I sliced my bum cheek on my high heel! Hurt to sit down for a good week but I’d forget, sit down, jump back up yelping and have to explain why to whoever was around and looking at me strangely. I got my mum to take a photo but it’s long gone now unfortunately!

Got a staple stuck under my finger nail while removing the tag from a Christmas tree then later that day got hit in the face by the wheelie bin lid while putting the rubbish out in high winds. That night was my office Christmas party, needless to say I looked less than glam

Way too embarrassed to say in case a certain paper gets a hold and I would have to disappear.

@Lobsterquadrille2 - so glad you said it was a her - so easily could have been my Dad, he was lethal in his motorised wheelchair.

I have a massive scar under my arm. It still hasn't healed. I had it operated on and may have to undergo more surgery... all from waxing my pits.

Fell forward off the step at the back seat on a bus, punched the floor and broke a metacarpal in my hand which needed screwing back together, tore the ligaments in my shoulder and had a huge bruise running all down the side of my body from hitting the seats as I went.

Had to get a tetanus jab after stubbing my toe in the dark. On a hedgehog...

Not me but my DH broke his wrist by running into a wall he was racing against some younger chaps at training and showing off a bit so serves him right!!

Greedily scoffing a slice of boiling pizza when the whole topping slid off onto my chin.. arrghhh it took the skin off and I had to walk around for days with a bloody sore on my chin. Soooo embarrassing

@EveryDayIsADuvetDay definitely female and with learning difficulties. I felt very sorry for her - I was carried into a carpet shop across the road and various onlookers apparently laid into her verbally. She was terrified that I was going to sue her. My injuries were superficial really, but she could have done serious damage to a child/elderly person.

My father was in one for the last (93rd) year of his life and I don't know how he kept control of it, frankly.

Was attempting to twist together some 10mm steel to make a catapult for the kids. It was wobbling a bit too much in the vice so I grabbed it without thinking to hold it still. Trouble was that the steel was literally red hot. It was rather ouchy.