War stories: epic fails and injuries

[ickyrica]

The premise is simple. This is a thread for epic fails and injuries. Gym related or not.

I'll start with what happens when audio video professionals don't have power at the office for two days straight. We decided to shoot an abandoned box truck with a compound bow. My boss decided to pull an arrow out of the box truck and the tip broke off leaving him with a sharp hollow point at the front end of the arrow. The dude thinks its a good idea to use the arrow again, sets up with the broken arrow in the bow and the tip drops down onto the hand that's holding the bow, directly at the base of his thumb.

You know those speed release things that a compound bow can have? Yeah, he hit that by accident. This really happened...
The doctor said if the arrow was slightly more left it wouldn't have glanced off the bone and come through the thumb like that, it would have pushed the bone out of the thumb completely. Nasty!!

 

[Eman]

This reminds me of a project the neighbor kid and I had when we were kids.

We were trying to make a big ass swing in the woods. We had tons of rope so the idea was to tie fishing line to an arrow and shoot the arrow over a branch way up high then we'd use the fishing line to pull the rope over the branch.

So the guy ties everything up and shoots the arrow. Fishing line had a loop in it that caught his finger on its way up. Fishing line cut into his finger right down to the bone before it stopped. Nearly took half his finger off. It was gnarly.

 

[mjf]

My first year of college, I was working a part time job at an auto parts store at night. It was slow and we were bored so we took a dart and taped a hook to it then stretched rubber bands across an isle leading to the back. We set up a can in the back and were betting to see who could hit it first.
It was my turn. I was all bent down lining the shot up with one eye closed, really aiming it like I was looking down the barrel of a gun. Just before letting it fly, I decided to stand straight up and lucky I did. The dart got hung up in the rubber band and instead of flying to the target, it flung back and stuck me right in the chest. Could have stabbed me in the eye, face, whatever and really done some damage. That game ended at that point.

 

[Rockclimber]

Have you ever shot bowling pins with a .45? Don't, that round will ricochet right off the pin and come back at you. I have a dozen or more ricochet stories. Rifle rounds large and small, pistol rounds etc. I'll try to find some pics, I have some good ones!

 

[ickyrica]

Have you ever shot bowling pins with a .45? Don't, that round will ricochet right off the pin and come back at you. I have a dozen or more ricochet stories. Rifle rounds large and small, pistol rounds etc. I'll try to find some pics, I have some good ones!

Good advice sir!! That's something I would do!

 

[grey]

I have thousands of fails, but will stick with one for now.

Working night shift in a secure facility in Asia.

Eleventy-billionth night in a row gathering the same "intel" leads to extreme boredom so we invented games.

We would send the FNG under the raised flooring (we had suction pullers in case shit broke under there) to hide.

Then we would stand in the middle of the bay taking turn throwing the suction puller at random tile in a game on human battleship.

End result: One case of hemorrhagic rat-shit fever for a FNG. (This area was well known for it and we were all too young and dumb to grasp the dangers inherent in putting a guy under a floor where the rats shat, knew you didn't sleep on the ground in the field for that reason, too dumb to extrapolate, even with a bay full of "genius IQ" kids).

Thankfully he lived. Soldiers are fucking idiots. Someone should have beaten me every day of my career.

 

[johntt44]

I was about 10yrs old living in South Boston. My mom took me over to her friends house with her after dinner. The woman had a son the same age as me(same first name too). It was dusk and we decided to go stand under a tree and take turns throwing a yard dart up into the foliage and trying to dodge it. I threw it up and it came down and just about tore the other kids ear off. He ended up getting quite a few stitches.How can kids be so stupid?

 

[HIGHRISK]

I was about 10yrs old living in South Boston. My mom took me over to her friends house with her after dinner. The woman had a son the same age as me(same first name too). It was dusk and we decided to go stand under a tree and take turns throwing a yard dart up into the foliage and trying to dodge it. I threw it up and it came down and just about tore the other kids ear off. He ended up getting quite a few stitches.How can kids be so stupid?

Oh man that brought back memories lol good ole yard darts!!! We all stood back to back and took turns throwing it up and run! I never got hit but a friend caught in the calve lol The game was over at that point

 

[Kakarot]

Couldn't afford paintball guns growing up but everyone in my "neighborhood" had bb guns I say neighborhood in the most vague way since my closest neighbor was 500yards away.lol So we had a bb gun war instead of a paintball war in the woods 11 kids in camo only one had an actual paintball gun. I ended up squeezing two BBs out of my calf and one out of my abdomen they wernt very deep but still. My cousin got the worst of it and had to go to the er after I shot him in the ear was aiming for the back of his head after I belly crawled 200yds to get to there base

 

[HIGHRISK]

Couldn't afford paintball guns growing up but everyone in my "neighborhood" had bb guns I say neighborhood in the most vague way since my closest neighbor was 500yards away.lol So we had a bb gun war instead of a paintball war in the woods 11 kids in camo only one had an actual paintball gun. I ended up squeezing two BBs out of my calf and one out of my abdomen they wernt very deep but still. My cousin got the worst of it and had to go to the er after I shot him in the ear was aiming for the back of his head after I belly crawled 200yds to get to there base

Nice! Got my cousin in the for head one time lol yet some how we all lived to tell about it. Not these days! Everyone want to wrap there kids in bubble wrap.

 

[OldmanRob]

I was 14, thought I would do a handstand on a front porch step at the house of a girl I had a crush on. She was my friends sister

Her mom, her dad, my friend and his 4 sisters were all sitting on the porch and porch steps just talking.

I did my handstand, looked cool for about 10 seconds then I fell sideways, my foot hit his mom in the head, knocked her out.

Good times, she was alright but his sister always thought of me as the klutz that kicked her momma in the head.

 

[Deisel26]

Couldn't afford paintball guns growing up but everyone in my "neighborhood" had bb guns I say neighborhood in the most vague way since my closest neighbor was 500yards away.lol So we had a bb gun war instead of a paintball war in the woods 11 kids in camo only one had an actual paintball gun. I ended up squeezing two BBs out of my calf and one out of my abdomen they wernt very deep but still. My cousin got the worst of it and had to go to the er after I shot him in the ear was aiming for the back of his head after I belly crawled 200yds to get to there base

Holy shit I thought we were the only kids that did this, grew up in the city of Boston we had BB gun wars everyday still got places on my body were we dug bbs out lol!

 

[tenpoundsleft]

Here's a total dumbass thing I did at an adult age... was driving my car, 55mph country road, realized I needed something from the glove box, which I'd locked for some reason. Same key as the ignition key.

No problems I thought - I'll just pull out the ignition key, unlock, then pop the key back in the ignition, all without losing much speed.

Pull out key, engine turns off, quickly start to unlock glovebox, then the road turns and the steering lock kicks in....

I got that fucking key back in the ignition lock faster than a Vegas magician can make a bunny disappear....

Close call

 

[x11]

We thought the most alpha among us kids could kick a brick the furthest with no shoes on. What better way to prove your manhood.

The first kid took his turn. It did not end well for him. There was no second attempt by anyone.

Geniuses we were not.

 

[ickyrica]

I was about 10yrs old living in South Boston. My mom took me over to her friends house with her after dinner. The woman had a son the same age as me(same first name too). It was dusk and we decided to go stand under a tree and take turns throwing a yard dart up into the foliage and trying to dodge it. I threw it up and it came down and just about tore the other kids ear off. He ended up getting quite a few stitches.How can kids be so stupid?

Oh man that brought back memories lol good ole yard darts!!! We all stood back to back and took turns throwing it up and run! I never got hit but a friend caught in the calve lol The game was over at that point

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did the same when I was a young buck. We'd all stand and not move, Chuck the dart in the air and let it come down. Called it Jack the ripper lol. Surprisingly never had any real issues!

 

[HIGHRISK]

did the same when I was a young buck. We'd all stand and not move, Chuck the dart in the air and let it come down. Called it Jack the ripper lol. Surprisingly never had any real issues!

Damn at least we ran haha

 

[RodgerThat]

One of my best friends rides for red bull and I do not.... anyways was riding with him on a trail I had never been on, he said follow me and keep your speed, long story short ended up hitting a 65foot jump and half a backflip later broke my back in 3 places.

 

[johntt44]

One of my best friends rides for red bull and I do not.... anyways was riding with him on a trail I had never been on, he said follow me and keep your speed, long story short ended up hitting a 65foot jump and half a backflip later broke my back in 3 places.

Was that an unintended half back flip? Ouch!!!

 

[Johnny442]

My son was a National level BMX racer for a few years. Two years ago I decided to ride my bike around the neighborhood with him as he was getting bored with training by himself. After about 30 min I had a flashback to my childhood and had a “hey, watch this” moment. Ended up with a broken tailbone and some compression fractures in my lower back. Needless to say, my bike hasn’t left my shop since!

 

[Oldschool]

My son was a National level BMX racer for a few years. Two years ago I decided to ride my bike around the neighborhood with him as he was getting bored with training by himself. After about 30 min I had a flashback to my childhood and had a “hey, watch this” moment. Ended up with a broken tailbone and some compression fractures in my lower back. Needless to say, my bike hasn’t left my shop since!

I think a broken tailbone is one of the most painful injuries you can suffer. I've broken a bunch of things but damn that tailbone hurt like a mofo. Guess that's where term ass kicking came from?