Ouch!!!

[peachey]

Originally Posted by col d

Didn't really hurt myself, but was a very stupid thing. I woke up at 6 in the morning once, and noticed it was dark, my brain somehow decided that this meant it was 6pm. At the time i had a job where i started at 5.30pm, so i rang the sick line, left an answer on the machine informing them i was late and went to work. It was only when i turned up at work and saw the doors were locked and realised the sun had started to come up that i realised my mistake.

Like i said i didn't really hurt anything except for maybe my pride when my boss asked me about a strange message they had recieved at 6 oclock in the morning.

I did a similar thing
set the alarm on the mobile phone for 7.30am

but got one of those junk texts about 2.30am while asleep
assumed the noise was the alarm and was dressed and halfway out to the car
before I noticed tell tell things like the moon and stars and a couple of clocks all agreeing on the 2.30am timeslot

had to go back to bed and lay there foolishly for a few more hours

I did not sleep that wll as i was sort of on guard for more junk texts and keeping a sort of ear out for the real alarm

[Nugget]

Whe I was 16, I did an orienteering thing on Cannock Chase that involved camping overnight ,

When we'd set the tent up, we were supposed to prepare a meal using on of the little gas heaters. As the (supposedly) senior member of the team , I was responsible for chaniging the gas canister when it ran out.

Unfortunately, I didn't notice the spurt of gas when I changed it until, when I lit the heater, a streak of flame ran up my arm - I stupidly just looked at it until being rugby tackled and having it put out. I wouldn't have minded, but they then marked the team down for 'dangerous use of equipment'

We have these big hydrolic machines at work that get really hot, when i first used them they told me don't touch it because it gets hot so me being a dozy mare lent my arm on it i had a huge burn on my arm and i have the scar to prove it

[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by gary_580

I've walked into a closed patio door before, in fact ive done the same door twice. Funny thing is the split second before my head hit the door i had decided it was closed!!!

That reminds me of a holiday in Florida a few years ago. We had rented a house with a pool and were the first people to stay in it. I opened the patio door for some fresh air and some time later decided to go outside. What I had forgotten was that whilst the patio door was open there was still a flyscreen sliding door over the opening. I remembred this just as I was about to walk through it and put my arms out neatly pushing the flyscreen out of its runners and carrying it forward with me. The shock of this made me forget what was a few feet in front of me ................ you guessed it, the pool. It took a little work to get the flyscreen looking something like it did before the accident. If only someone had the camcorder on me it would have been a sure £250 from you've been framed.

[Bifta]

Originally Posted by virtual-angel

Ok, i was just washing the dishes and noticed that one of the glasses i was washing had a huge chip out of it, well being a bit of a dozy cow, i only went a stuck my hand back in the water to find it! yup, i found the peice of glass....cos it stuck right in my bloody hand!!!(get it, bloody hand... )

Anyways, has anyone else done something really stupid and ended up hurting themselves?

Someone dared me to jump out of a tree I was over 20 feet up .... I was a child and assumed that the fall wouldn't break my ankle ... I was wrong ...

i also was once doing some oxy-acetalene welding and needed to get my gloved hand nearer the hot end of the rod so i could control it better so what did i do? i pushed the hot end of the rod in my chest to slide my hand down the rod!!. how dumb

[Xaccers]

Was soldering something in the garage, and got distracted by some mates.
The iron had spun round and I picked it up from the hot end not looking. Took a while for my brain to register what could be causing the hot pain sensation!
Then a little while longer to think "oh yeah, best let go"

Then while dabbling with my chemistry set, had a meth spirit burner going, and foolishly left the just empty glass meths bottle on the table.
A mate decided it would be a good idea to muck about and knocked it over, throught the flame.
Quite a spectacular, kind of like an after burner effect out of the neck of the bottle.
Unfortunately my hand was in the way.

[Theodoric]

Well, I was once pulling the front panel out of a piece of equipment, so I gripped it over the top edge and found the hard way that I had also grabbed hold of the mains switch - no, I hadn't disconnected the equipment from the mains! After I'd recovered, blow me if I didn't do exactly the same thing again.

Or the time I cut through a mains cable that I was assured was dead with a pair of edge cutters. Fortunately, I had enough common sense to wrap the handles of the cutters in a handkerchief before I did it.

Or possibly the time I managed to put the full mains across a transistor on a PCB. After the bang, there were 3 wires left in the board and no sign of the transistor.

[Theodoric]

Or a one that all smokers have probably encountered. You get hold of the ciggy, it sticks to your lips, your fingers slide along the cigarette and end up over the glowing coal. For a bonus point you have to knock the coal off the end of the cigarette so that it ends up burning a hole in your clothes. One of the many reasons why I gave up smoking.

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by Theodoric

Or a one that all smokers have probably encountered. You get hold of the ciggy, it sticks to your lips, your fingers slide along the cigarette and end up over the glowing coal. For a bonus point you have to knock the coal off the end of the cigarette so that it ends up burning a hole in your clothes. One of the many reasons why I gave up smoking.

been there , and boy does it hurt

[Mr_Burns]

When I was younger, my Mum & Dad used to make me mow the lawn. It's a fair sized garden and they've always had petrol mowers. One particular day I cut the grass and it hadn't been done for a couple of weeks which meant that I could only do about 2 lengths before I had to empty the bucket thing. The mower was a rotary one and the back had clogged up with grass. One of my mates was over helping out and I was so busy talking to him while I was trying to clear the grass blockage I didn't realize that I'd put my hand in the back of the mower too far (yes, I'd left the engine running but fortunately it was only ticking over, but the blade was still spinning) until it was too late. I've got some good scars on the fingers on my right hand.

[ian@huth]

Originally Posted by Theodoric

Or a one that all smokers have probably encountered. You get hold of the ciggy, it sticks to your lips, your fingers slide along the cigarette and end up over the glowing coal. For a bonus point you have to knock the coal off the end of the cigarette so that it ends up burning a hole in your clothes. One of the many reasons why I gave up smoking.

Been there, done that, and if I got a rep point instead of a bonus point for every time I would have more balls than Stuart.

[blackthorn]

Originally Posted by gary_580

I've walked into a closed patio door before, in fact ive done the same door twice. Funny thing is the split second before my head hit the door i had decided it was closed!!!

Thats not as daft or uncommon as you might think. I work in a shopping outlet and when we first opened we had an average of 2 people a week, walking into the glass doors. You can buy some tape called manifestation strip, which is designed for doors. Its not ugly or anything but it makes you aware that the door is closed. Have a look at hotel and big chain store doors, they all have it on now.

[swoop101]

I've stuck my finger in the socket when I was changing a light bulb, I remembered to check the switch when the tingling started to go up my arm.

[MadGamer]

Originally Posted by gary_580

I've walked into a closed patio door before, in fact ive done the same door twice. Funny thing is the split second before my head hit the door i had decided it was closed!!!

Funny you should mention that because i was round a friends once and her dad had just cleaned the patio doors leading out into the conseritory. Anyway being a bit of a dozey b*****d thinking they were open i walked straight into it.