Running with scissors

[Meier Link]

Ok, even though I have used that as my custom user title for a while in my life here at TFF it finally inspired a thread.

Whats the dumbest thing you have done that could seriously get you hurt or did get you hurt?

For me it was when I was back in my skater days. I thought it would be completely bad ass to 50/50 grid down the highest slide that the elementary school had to offer.

Over all it was 20 feet in the air and had two slopes on it before bending to a sharp 60 degree angle at the bottom.

It was epic, I started off fast and made it through both slopes and tragity hit when I made it to the sharp bend at the bottom. The angle was way off and I didn't lift the front of the board up at the right time (not that it would of mattered).

To put it in short my board hit and locked in place and I went head first into the slide that ended across from it a few feet away. I went out cold and woke up a few minutes later with blood every where and massive pain on top of a raging migraine.

What was suppose to be epic turned out to be one of my most epic fail moments where I could of easily ended my life.

So I am wondering what was one of those moments that you have had. If you have had many of them feel free to share.

Also feel free to compare and discuss others stories.

:: note:: Loco I am looking for 100 of your stories.

[che]

Funny you just brought this up. I stumbled upon some kids failing at backflips on youtube. Some of the lands I saw before I decided to turn it off were just...ouch. One of the clips was two guys holding another guy's legs, trying to help him with the flip motion, but you could tell he didn't WANT to flip over backwards. I was just thinking to myself, "how can you halfass try a backflip?"

It's weird though, that things humans try with our fragile bodies turn out okay in the end more than you think. People learn to do all sorts of dangerous shit.

I'm not quite sure what mine would be. I've done the whole skateboarding thing, walked away from it with two broken arms in the end and a lot of lessons learned. You have to have heart to do something dangerous and not get hurt. You have to know you're going to do it, or it's not going to happen at all. It's a rush trying to control something that could sway at any point because of the smallest thing.

This time baby, I'll be bulletproooooof.

[Dodie16]

I'm fairly careful about my personal safety, but I do recall one thing pretty vividly:

Jumping on a pogo stick near a bunch of cement steps...

Well, I didn't start out that way. I was just hopping along, and somehow made my way towards that direction. I was going backwards a lot, since I didn't have all that great of control, and once I turned to look where I was going, I immediately hopped off. I was really close to those steps, and if I would have made one more jump I would have fell down them pretty hard... So I feel really lucky that I caught that in time.

I feel for people who have broken bones before... I can't even imagine what that would feel like.

[Josh_R]

I to used to be skater. I remember the first time I ever skated a vert ramp. It was exhilarating, and extremely frightening all at the same time. Needless to say as soon as I went down it, I fell, and busted my damn head, had a nice concussion.

I think me doing MMA qualifies as something stupid that can easily get hurt. I mean shit I go in with the intention of hurting someone, but I know that they want to hurt me just as bad as I want to hurt them.

Hmm another thing I can think of was downhill buggy racing. When I was in 8th grade me, and a bunch of my friends took some shopping carts from our local walmart. We then went to a big ass hill, and raced in the carts. I lost, and ended up with a broken arm, and a f*cked up rib.

[Unknown Entity]

I walked out infront of a bus. By accident, of course. My friend pulled me back just in time, and even then, if I'd been any closer, I'd have felt the side of the bus against the tip of my nose. I didn't look when I went to cross the road... huh... xD;

I jumped down a flight of about thirteen steps as part of a dare. I almost made it, but it was a small flight of stairs and I crash landed against the wall at the bottom.

In some tube stations, the walls are curved. So, obviously, I tried to wallrun. And failed and slipped on my side - my ribs felt bruised for over a week. Turns out the bottoms of my shoes were too wet from outside to be able to get a grip on the wall. ^^;

[Pete]

Driving many adult beverages in. That was bad times, and probably incredibly stupid.

I've also done backflips into a pool in Florida, while incredibly drunk. Supposedly I almost cracked my head open on the ledge of the pool. My friend said I missed it by a few inches.

[ultimatekupo]

Lol well sometimes I think that I can defy gravity. There was this time that I was playing paintball with my friends Preston and Corey in the woods, and we had this fort barricade thing we made in the creek out of random object we found in the woods like a metal childrens slide, and pieces of wood and metal. Over the creek is a very large log that stretches across that we used to sit on and talk, and one day we were all playing and I was running and I ran across the log, tripped and fell, woke up with them freaking out, I fell into all the rocks and in the water of the creek, and it was freezing out, my back was all bloody and bruised. I would have died from all the sharp rocks if the metal children's slide hadn't been there for my head to hit.

Then I was at a summer program in savannah Georgia and we were swimming in an inground pool, I always do front handsprings into pools, and I saw someone right as I way jumping forward and swerved not to hit them, so when I landed in the pool, my face got knocked against the inside of the pool against the concrete and I got a bad concussion, busted lip, tooth knocked back... it was a big bloody mess. Everyone thought I took a pounding,

Once I was with my brother and his friends in the woods in a different creek, with tons of little water falls getting chased and tripped, I managed to do a flip forward as I was knocked over the small water fall, I landed on my stomach and have a scar from it.

[Robbo]

Umm this one time in College i got hurt quite bad i didn't break anything but the worst injury i've ever head is a 7 stitch cut on my eye brow so...

I decided to slide down the banister in College a guy did it just before me it looked quite cool although i didnt notice how close his head was to the ceiling and i'm a bit taller than him and i slid hit my head and fell down a half flight of stairs i laughed at first and then the pain struck... wont be doing that again any time soon.

Ooh and i lay on a roundabout and let my friends push it round very fast this also wasn't that long ago so it was going really fast and one leg slipped now luckily i didnt get hit between the legs but i slid off on on angle and the pole hit me elbow as it was inline with my head so i was close to being knocked out, but my elbow saved me..

I need to develop some common sense

[Lily]

Climbing across a loch gate to get to an all night asda after a night out for food because we couldnt be arsed trecking up to the bridge is probably up there. Pissed as farts at 3 am, we'd of surely drowned xD

Also, turns out it was a Tesco and it was shut, so our efforts were in vain ]:

Leaned on a post by a swimming pool, fell in and almost drowned, all I remember is the post, and being pulled out

Trying to climb the side of a house. Fell off, broke my arm, gave myself concussion, massive bruise all down my right hand side and knocked a tooth out. That shit hurt

I staopled my thumb once when i was bored to see if it would hurt if that counts..? Incidentally. It did. Alot.

Theres so many stupid things Ive done, Im amazed Im not dead yet

[Josh_R]

Today at work I had an accident that was f*cking scary. Our grills are basically clamps that press the meat. There is a button that lowers the clamps. We were very short handed today so I went back on grills to help out. Well I was scarping the grills and my knee hit the button. The clamp started to lower on my arm. The teflon the is on the grill hit my arm, and burnt the shit out of it. Luckily I had the common sense to hit the button and raise it before it was their for to long.

[winterborn86]

One of the dumbest things for me was that when I was 15/16, I got sucked into the world of internet chatrooms and I did meet a few guys from there, at the time to me it was fun but looking back on it as an older person, I realised just how dangerous and stupid it was. I will NEVER go down that route again, I consider myself lucky that nothing happened to me.

Also like Entity I have stepped out in ffront of a bus and had a friend to pull me back, I was completely wasted so it's totally my own fault.