What's your best fall?

newmills · 07-01-2009 11:26PM #1

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 · 07-01-2009 11:27PM

Mark E. Smith

HalloweenJack · 07-01-2009 11:30PM

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! · 07-01-2009 11:36PM

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 · 07-01-2009 11:39PM

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 · 07-01-2009 11:40PM

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 · 07-01-2009 11:41PM

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 · 07-01-2009 11:54PM

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

phelixoflaherty · 08-01-2009 12:01AM

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 · 08-01-2009 12:03AM

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 · 08-01-2009 12:03AM

Wasn't a patch on L’Étranger, imo.

Kya1976 · 08-01-2009 12:04AM

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 · 08-01-2009 12:10AM

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 · 08-01-2009 12:14AM

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 · 08-01-2009 12:52AM

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

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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 · 08-01-2009 01:18AM

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 · 08-01-2009 01:39AM

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

Chardee MacDennis · 08-01-2009 01:51AM

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 · 08-01-2009 02:11AM

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 · 08-01-2009 02:14AM

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...

08-01-2009 02:16AM

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 · 08-01-2009 02:26AM

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 · 08-01-2009 02:29AM

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 · 08-01-2009 02:39AM

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 · 08-01-2009 02:41AM

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 · 08-01-2009 02:42AM

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 · 08-01-2009 02:42AM

Autumn 1996.

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

*sigh*

Overflow · 08-01-2009 02:44AM

sdonn_1 wrote: »

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

Must have been a huge jumper !

sdanseo · 08-01-2009 02:47AM

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 · 08-01-2009 02:52AM

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

Frisbee · 08-01-2009 02:55AM

Overflow wrote: »

Must have been a huge jumper !

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

What's your best fall?

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