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In reply to the discussion: Dumbest ways you've injured yourself. [View all]panader0
(25,816 posts)135. I have hurt myself many different ways
but the dumbest was punching the wall in anger many years ago. I broke bones in my hand and was out of work for two weeks.
I never did it again. I once got my arm caught in a large mortar mixer. I put a bag of mortar into the mixer, but part of the bag went in too. I took the mixer out of gear and reached in to retrieve the paper. My knee accidentally hit the gear lever and my arm was caught. The mixer blades took meat off my left arm. When I got to the hospital, the lady at the desk asked me to fill out some forms. I showed her the blood trail through the room and she nearly fainted. 35 stitches, and pain, but thank god the paddles missed the elbow bone. After a month all was good except for permanent numbness in one area below the elbow.
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Okay, Bertha, you should have started with the shooting your foot with a BB gun--intentionally.
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#78
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#134
Sounds like something you would see in a Coyote - Road Runner cartoon.
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#142
ya know the scene in Christmas story where the kid gets his tougne stuck on the flagpole?
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So I was young, stupid and bored sitting in my mom's car by myself
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