What's your best fall?

newmills

Walking to the local nightclub late one night my mate tries to impress one of the girls by jumping on to a little wall alongside the footpath. He didn't know there was an 8 foot drop the other side. Cue horrendous crying of pain from him - horrendous crying of laughter from me and a trip to A+E to sort out a sprained ankle!!

tony1kenobi

Mark E. Smith

HalloweenJack

I vaulted a pretty high garden wall one time when I was drunk.

In a moment of Olympic-like high jumping I cleared the wall and landed on a concrete driveway on the other side. It was very painful.

Pj!

Bike hit a kerb at quite a slow speed. Hence a slow motionesque of me going over the handlebars in the middle of town.

TerrorFirmer

Trying to pull a bad-ass skid on my bike and ending up with a split open knee and a very painful few months.

Oh, and the time I managed to hit my face off a kerb after falling once. I don't understand the science behind it, but it actually didn't hurt at all.

admiralofthefleet

walking down the road a few weeks ago on a very very cold morning i came across a 'pool' of water, i said to myself 'sure its a bit of water ill be grand'. anyway i walked onto it and hit the ground like a bag of shíte, it was black ice. if anyone had seen me im sure they would have said 'i've never seen anything hit the ground so fast'

lee_arama

Took a few mad falls in my time. One in 98 which dislocated my pelvic joint... You can be sure I feel that one in the cold weather these days.

Guy I know jumped off a shed during a Good Friday party... Both ankles snapped... Not just sprained but royally shattered.

Cool_CM

I didn't "Mind the Gap" between the train and the platform and stepped straight into it without looking, quite painful.

phelixoflaherty

First time on a bike with Toe clips. Approaching a roundabout , tapped the brakes and arse over kettle in slow motion.
Wouldn't mind but I did it again 2 mins. later outside a petrol station

IvySlayer

I love leaning on a chair against the dresser when I'm watching TV, one day I missed the dresser and smacked my face off the wooden floor. Not too much damage, just a bloody nose.

stovelid

Wasn't a patch on L’Étranger, imo.

Kya1976

when my 55kg ridgeback ran straight into me full force, wasn't pretty at all he set my flying..... And the time when i was at home in sweden during the winter and i tried to climb some icy stairs and i managed to fall all the way down, too many people had a good laugh at me and all grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Diarmsquid

Ugh..

A little tipsy inn a certain Dublin nightclub where they have those little raised platforms with railings around them for dancing on.
I say to my friend, 'I bet I can jump straight over this onto the floor'...

and I did! I thought i was the bee's knees

But then he goes 'Alright,bet ya can't jump over the other way' (coz the railing would have been a little higher off the ground)...

And i couldn't. Caught my leg and fell right on my forehead.
Bouncer sees this and escorts me out

jester77

My self and 2 ladies decided late one drunken that we would go skinny dipping in the outdoor heated pool of a local leisure center. The fence had barbed wire on top but was easy to scale from the outside with a bit of drop into the center. After our swim we were grabbing our clothes when we got spotted, legged it across the lawn with just my pants on, give the girls a leg up over the fence and then I struggled over it slipped, caught in the barbed wire and had a rip from my groin to my knee, narrowly missing the jewels :eek: The pants were a write off!

Timmaay

I got spate off my motocross bike last year when i was out on a track, I was thrown about 15ft up in the air and snapped my arm when I landed. Had to get it pinned back in place and it took 5months to heal .

Friend of my was pissed off his head n fell off a 6ft high balcany when he was 17 or so, he was taken to hospital and all but signed himself out under a false name and managed to hide it from his folks. Funny!

Honey-ec

I once roller-skated across a frozen puddle just to see what would happen.

It was pretty much as you would suspect - pavement/arse interface

Kersh

Cycled at max speed into 6' deep road works, with sh1tty mucky water at the bottom... christ it was rotten.

Chardee MacDennis

was absolutely mashed after an evening of playing beerpong in a bar in new york, was up on the roof of my hostel after some locals hooked us up with some green. twas very wet and i was walking back down some steep stairs and slipped on the top step, did at least 3 full tumbles and landed on the bottom spread eagle. lads who saw were laughing but realised it may be serious! i was put to bed still smashed and not really feeling anythign.

next morning i couldnt get out of bed, was the next day before i could brave it. was the strangest pain ever, i would be fine for 4 out of every 5 minutes but on the 5th i would be in an excruciating amount of pain which made me curse like a sailor.

second day i managed to get into the shower and just about managed to dress myself, went for a walk down 5th avenue and couldnt stop cursing - at one point i was getting so many dirty looks i had to leave the Disney store i had to wait for the lads outside.

i was taking about 4 extra strength tylenols an hour just to get through the day. managed to survive the flight home and was picked up by my dad at the airport and we went straight to the hospital! i was told i had compressed my spine from the fall and was a couple of mm shorter and a brace would sort it out if i wanted - said no thanks to the brace.

worst thing was i had a arthroscopy on my knee a week later, so i had a bum knee and a dodgy back for a few weeks!\

Oh and another time i tried to climb into the second floor balcony of my mates apt, slipped on the wheelie bin i was standing on and my back landed square on the railing of the lower balcony, my back was black for a couple of weeks - still no idea how i didnt break it...

sdanseo

When I was ten I tried to climb on a computer chair to get a keyboard for the PC out of a high press. Whilst pulling it out of the press by the cable, the chain span through 180 degrees, hurling me off sideways in the opposite direction I started from. Landed on the support for a toy bridge (for some car Garage set thing) in a big box of toy cars.

Then of course as I pulled my head up, the keyboard (whic was puled out of the press by the fall, remember I had the lead in my hand) hit me on the head, ramming my head back into the box of toy cars. Blood up the walls and six stitches courtesy of Temple St.

Still have five of the stitches, dunno where the sixth went. Could be anywhere :pac:

Frisbee

Was hammered in Prague and I jumper clean over a Renault 5.


Then we came to a square where there was three benches in a row lengthwise about 6 foot long each with about 3 foot in between.
Cleared the first two but my heel clipped the third and I demolished myself.

Lost a lot of blood on that holiday...

This new years,we went down the country.To some holiday apartments.

I was in the kitchen and its was slippy,I fell and cracked my skull.An egg like thing came out of my head,I also fell strait on my face so my nose is swollen.

Later in the night I was running and I tripped and tore my ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) ,bruised my chest bone and cut myself up to pieces.

sdanseo

Frisbee wrote: »

Was hammered in Prague and I jumper clean over a Renault 5

What a waste of a clean jumper. Would you not have used the carwash?

Overflow

Kya1976 wrote: »

when my 55kg ridgeback ran straight into me full force, wasn't pretty at all he set my flying..... And the time when i was at home in sweden during the winter and i tried to climb some icy stairs and i managed to fall all the way down, too many people had a good laugh at me and all grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Ah happened to me many a time, i also had a ridgeback who ran around like he was possessed knocking people clear off their feet into the air.

Snowie

had to be when i was hitting a rock drop of piste snowboarding last season i was macking it put in a speed cheack caught my heal edge and went over backwards and landed in a snow drift :cool:
it was over 20 ft.....

GAAman

When i was 13-14 was in bushy park with some friends and cycling at mad speed racing each other, so anyway this family (da, little girl and little boy) are walking ahead of us and as we are rapidly approaching the da calls out to the kids to get off the path.

Well thats grand except for some unknown reason the stupid fúckin boy (while clear on the grass) runs right back in front of me again. Slow motion me hittin him and him going up under the front wheel and getting lodged between wheel and upper frame and me goin face first over the handle bars and rolling around 15-20 feet away before comin to a stop

Fúckin dope :mad:

Overflow

Hmm let me see...

1. Crashed into a fallen tree on my mountain bike, crossbar hit me so hard between the legs everything in my groin area turned black with bruising and i was sure it was gonna fall off.

2. Fell off a speeding go kart split my elbow open exposing my elbow bone.

3. Tried to jump over some people sitting on a flight of stairs not realizing that there was a huge concrete beam above my head, i jumped up cracked my head and collapsed on top of someone. I sat up to feel a strange tingle on my head followed by gushing blood running down my face, followed shortly by passing out.

4. When i was a we young lad i was sitting on a 8ft wall with my mates i some how fell backward straight onto my head knocking myself out.

5. While heavily intoxicated i thought it was a great idea to get in a shopping trolly and have my mate spin me around in it. He span it so hard the trolly became airbourne by which stage my mate could not longer hang on so he let go, there goes me and the trolly flying in a tumbling mess on the road, i ripped my shoulder open, still have the scars today, but went home to bed, woke up in agony, went to hospital to get stitched up, got a tetnis injection, the nurse hit my arse bone with the needle and i passed out. (i hate needles ever since i had a spinal tap)

AnonoBoy

Autumn 1996.

Met this gorgeous redhead in September in Boston. What a couple of months!

*sigh*

Overflow

sdonn_1 wrote: »

What a waste of a clean jumper. Would you not have used the carwash?

Must have been a huge jumper !

sdanseo

Overflow wrote: »

Must have been a huge jumper !

Yeah, not my best attempt at humour I must admit. Should have just misquoted him :P

The Saint

When I fell from heaven. Yes it did hurt and no you can't have my number!!!

Frisbee

Overflow wrote: »

Must have been a huge jumper !

It was about a foot and a half lower than where I jumped from tbf

Overflow

The Saint wrote: »

When I fell from heaven. Yes it did hurt and no you can't have my number!!!

Dudum tissssss

The Saint

Overflow wrote: »

Dudum tissssss

Thanks. I'm here all week.

Kya1976

Overflow wrote: »

Ah happened to me many a time, i also had a ridgeback who ran around like he was possessed knocking people clear off their feet into the air.

it's not a very pleasant experience....:(

gino85

borrowed a friends bike, was cycling through town and an old lady walked out in front of me, i hit both breaks but the back ones didnt work, front wheel had a buckle in it and when it got as far as the breaks the bike came to a sudden stop and i went over the handle bars, it was about 1pm and i was lucky there was no cars behind me on the road

Sam Vimes

a mate of mine got out of a taxi wearing a coat. as soon as he stood up he shoved his hands in his pockets then slipped and couldn't get his hands out of his pockets fast enough so he skidded on his ear

Sam Vimes

when i was a kid i was on a trampoline that had padding around the edges to cover up the springs. some kid was bouncing away but he bounced on a part that was missing springs and fell right into the gap. he just went "bounce, bounce, bounce, gone!"

Overheal

Stepped out of my apartment with a bottle of miller. Stupid landlady bitch had someone mop the floor and they didnt put a sign up. next thing I know im on my ass. And I've dropped by miller, which has landed standing up strangely, but half empty. Angry at the loss of good beer, I stand myself back up only intent on punting the bottle down the hall; falling on my ass a second time, and missing the beer completely.

The entire affair was caught on CCTV.

The other best fall was when I stole my brothers bicycle from him in the driveway. When I came back with it he was so mad he tried to chase me down with a sock full of gravel. Speeding off and quite pleased with my escape I turned back to yell trash. Turn back around and im 3 feet from a mailbox pushing 20mph. Bike slams head on, im flipped totally over the box, on my ass (again) and laughing at the cartooniness of it. Then I saw my hand was completely bloodied up, and I cried.

edit: oh yeah. Last week at disneyworld. They dont serve alcohol so me and my brother and his friends headed back to the car for bottles of JD and some smoke. By the time we got back to the turnstile to get back in, I'm completely baked, and buzzing. Ticket goes in the slot, I have to scan my fingerprint but it didnt go through. Assuming it had, I let myself fall into the turnstile not expecting any resistance and rocked the damn thing over. Security guard gave me funny looks and my brother couldnt stop laughing.

here.from.day.1

Fell 2 feet from the 1st branch of a tree when I was 5, broke my arm.. I cried so much. Trees are dangerous.

Sam Vimes

it was snowing and i was making a snow man in the back garden. i'd run out of snow on the ground but there was some on the shed roof so i went to climb up the oil tank.

i'd done hundreds of times before but never when it was snowing and slippy. my foot slipped and i fell forward, smacked my face off it and smashed a lower tooth so it was only hanging on with the nerve

fair play to the dentist though he glued it to the teeth on either side for a few months and it completely healed

titan18

I think this is the best one ever tbh

S.I.R

fell while running down the sugar loaf mountin...


a good 40 odd ft.


didnt exactly tickle.

abi2007

when i was a kid i raced down the jacko valley on my bike and went over the handel bars.

about six months ago I was hanging a picture at the top of the stairs and I fell the whole way, lying in agony at the bottom of the stairs I asked my 4 year old daughter to get my mobile... and she said 'no' and walked off. Luckly I wasn't seriously injured as I doubt my little princess would be getting any award for her bravery!

Mr check raise

ive had a few scrapes with death in my time

1. i was about 3 in my olld house and i was playing tag in the house, sprintin as fast as my little legs would take me when i tripped over a pair of shoes and went through my glass front door- 4 stiches

2. when i was 7 or 8 jumpin on a bed i hoped straight off it ah landed head first onto a radiator, sore one that one

3.bout 16 and cyclin with friends to shop(were in the country). the thing was i dislocated my shoulder a couple of weeks earlier and i was in a sling and cycling with one hand. we got to a steep hill with a 50mph regional road at the end. I took it on like a champ untill i found out half way down i had no brakes. Couldnt stop in time and went straight across the road 5 seconds after a car passed and then fell off on a grassy bankment. i was just blessed

Dave!

Learning to ride a bike in my back garden, was coming to the end of the garden where the bin is and pressed the front breaks rather than the back ones... ALMOST ended up in the bin.

That would have sucked.

Puddleduck

Getting on the bus one day, and the driver shut the doors on me, so I jumped forward and wound up with one leg either side of the pole that used to be there on the older buses. Bus drove off and I lost my footing, swung round and landed in a heap at the door. Fantastic. Then I had to walk down the bus and act like nothing happened with people wetting themselves laughing.

BEAT

#1
I was completely wasted and saw a skateboard, so I thought id try and recapture some of my youth by taking a run with it...as soon as my foot was on it the board flew one way and my body went up in the air landing elbow first into the cement fracturing the one...this was followed by multiple people at the hospital asking me what happened and then having a good laugh when I told the truth as it was obvious I am not of skateboarding age any longer.
ya, I think its best to leave my youth behind at this stage, falling now hurts a lot more than it did back then.

#2
first time on a dirtbike, we werent riding in the dirt, we were riding up and down my cousins street and the first time on for me was a balst, I took to it like Id been riding for years so I had a second go at it and was too cocky going highspeed and took a turn too fast..the bike and myself went down and skidded on the cement for about 20 feet ripping my knee open and causing permanenet nerve damage. Both of these incidences were in the same summer that I was out of work and a bit bored...go figure.

spoon

I've had a fair few falls as a kid, and have the scars to show. My best was when i was about 4 or 5 and I was climbing over rocks in the rain on the beach. I slipped and fell about 15foot and used my face as a brake. I had cut just under my eye to the bone and a cut all through my eyebrow to the bone. I was pretty chuffed when i had 27 stiches through my face. They hid all the scars on my face pretty well too, so no harm done!

ScumLord

I was completely off me noodle walking to a friends house from somewhere. It was pretty late so I was probably coming from someone else house or just on walkabout. I was walking down the street looking up at the night sky so I didn't notice some farmer **** parked his tractor with the transport box sticking out onto the footpath. I went head over heels into the bucket of farm muck.

marie_85

Best fall I've ever seen was the day I was on the bus into town. Two stops after mine, a little dog jumps on the bus and as there weren't many passengers, I get up to try and make him get off. After a few minutes, nothings working so the driver gets up, tells me to sit in the driver's seat of the bus and to push the big red button when he says 'Now'. Grand so. The driver picks up the dog and is able to sort of push him off the bus. As he shouts 'Now' to me, his foot slips on a banana skin and he ends up lying on his back on the floor of the bus with one of his feet trapped in the doors that I've just closed.

And, yep, as soon as I pressed the button to open the doors again, the dog gets back on.

Captain Darling

The Fall of 1998. I was a young lad with hope in my heart, she was a free spirit, we met, fell in love and had the time of our lives.

Ahh yes, that was my best fall.

There was also the time i fell off a railway bridge when i was pissed, ripped my arm on barbed wire on the way down and finished up face first in a bunch of nettles.