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What's the worst accident that's happened to you?

  • 10-01-2012 01:25AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 384 ✭✭Erica<3


    I suppose mine would be this time last year.. Fell off a horse and broke every single rib on my left side, dislocated my shoulder, cracked 3 vertebrae and punctured a lung.. Only to recover a while later and fall off the same horse and face plant a wall and pull my other arm out of the socket..

    So what's you worst accident??


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,646 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    You did all that to yourself and then after you recovered you fell off the same horse?

    I'm sure if you asked your parents this question they'd answer "Erica <3"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    A glob of molten steel fell into my work boot while I was cutting steal with a blow torch.

    painful, still have a scar and that was 1997..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 384 ✭✭Erica<3


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    You did all that to yourself and then after you recovered you fell off the same horse?

    I'm sure if you asked your parents this question they'd answer "Erica <3"

    It's called work and commitment, darlin' :rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,884 ✭✭✭Eve_Dublin


    Erica<3 wrote: »
    I suppose mine would be this time last year.. Fell off a horse and broke every single rib on my left side, dislocated my shoulder, cracked 3 vertebrae and punctured a lung.. Only to recover a while later and fall off the same horse and face plant a wall and pull my other arm out of the socket..

    So what's you worst accident??

    My good god.....:eek:

    Sliced a bit of me finger off with a sharp knife into a customers sandwich I was making (yep...in their bellies....) and had to get stitches. Nothing else.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,542 ✭✭✭Captain Darling


    Chernobyl.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 621 ✭✭✭dave3004


    Went into a tackle in football.

    Hurt my ankle. Multiple surgeries. No improvement. Told to retire.

    Never played since. That was 2007.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 407 ✭✭daddydick


    Remember the Chinese finger trap things?

    Well I got me willy caught in one of those and took a scissors to it only to cut my willy off.

    And now I have no willy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,646 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    daddydick wrote: »
    Remember the Chinese finger trap things?

    Well I got me willy caught in one of those and took a scissors to it only to cut my willy off.

    And now I have no willy.

    Bit of an ironic username then no?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40 OpTiMuS Pr1mE


    Was having sex...to cut a long story short it went in the wrong way broke me banjo string and riped open half my cock, then follows a very very awkward conversation with me dad for a lift to the hospital, then telling them what happened, disinfectant on my cock to get rid of dry blood injection right into the wound and stitches. Many will think this is a joke but I can promise you its not...that pain will stay with me to till the grave!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,433 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    What is it with people falling off horses? Seems to be much more dangerous than riding a motorcycle and three times as expensive just to ride a big donkey.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 384 ✭✭Erica<3


    Eve_Dublin wrote: »
    My good god.....:eek:

    Sliced a bit of me finger off with a sharp knife into a customers sandwich I was making (yep...in their bellies....) and had to get stitches. Nothing else.

    Yeah well I didn't notice the pain, I was too busy being unconscious...

    I'm not going to lie, yours made me squirm and gag a little :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,390 ✭✭✭IM0


    car nearly killed me while out training on my bike, turned across me BAM! into me on the bonnet/side wing/window pillar - cracked sternum among others :(:mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,646 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    Erica<3 wrote: »
    It's called work and commitment, darlin' :rolleyes:

    Yeah? I backed a horse called "Work and Commitment Darlin' " once.

    Lost a fortune! F*ckin jockey couldn't stay on the thing!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭TanG411


    I stood on a plug once.

    Barefoot.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,404 ✭✭✭mr.jingle


    When i was a kid i fell off a skateboard tied onto the back of a bicycle :o face first into the curb on the road. Lost my 4 front teeth. Nasty stuff! Might not have broken bones or anything major like that but my f**k it was sore :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 384 ✭✭Erica<3


    Confab wrote: »
    What is it with people falling off horses? Seems to be much more dangerous than riding a motorcycle and three times as expensive just to ride a big donkey.

    It's a live animal that has the mental capacity to make split second decisions.. If you don't end up on your arse at least a dozen times you're a freak of nature...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭RickRoll


    Broke my 2 legs in a car accident when I was 3, thankfully I don't remember any of it.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 621 ✭✭✭dave3004


    Jockey is a very underrated professsion.

    These lads are harder than coffin nails.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 594 ✭✭✭carfiosaoorl


    My sister banged the boot of the car down on my nose. I was in hospital for 8 days because it wouldnt stop bleeding. I ended up having surgery the day of my birthday. So I have to celebrate 2 birthdays this year.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 384 ✭✭Erica<3


    dave3004 wrote: »
    Jockey is a very underrated professsion.

    These lads are harder than coffin nails.

    Current OH is a racing jockey, could not agree more.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭Old Perry


    My sister banged the boot of the car down on my nose. I was in hospital for 8 days because it wouldnt stop bleeding. I ended up having surgery the day of my birthday. So I have to celebrate 2 birthdays this year.

    thatll teach to try sneak a peak again


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭EGAR


    Smashed my right knee into a tree whilst the horse was in full flight gallop. Couldn't bend my leg properly for ages and had an OP.

    Ripped my thigh open with a rusty nail sticking out of a timberframe. Lotsa stitches.

    Got mauled by a Yellow Labrador, hospital and LOTS of stitches.

    Got my nose broken twice, once by a bucking horse and once by a swan.

    Several broken toes from being trodden on by horses and once by a cow.

    Oh the joys of animal rescue :D.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,268 ✭✭✭trooney


    Mashed me leg up a treat after a fall rock climbing. Left me on crutches for two years

    http://pix.ie/trooney/album/315930/goto/367428


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,408 ✭✭✭Captain_Generic


    trooney wrote: »
    Mashed me leg up a treat after a fall rock climbing. Left me on crutches for two years

    http://pix.ie/trooney/album/315930/goto/367428

    'Tis but a flesh wound


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭saa


    cut my head open or punctured by foot with an iron bar hows a girl to choose!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,365 ✭✭✭✭callaway92


    Knocking down a child off his bicycle the morning of one of my college repeat exams in August 2011. Still get days where I start shaking thinking of it. How he escaped unharmed I do not know. The bike was squished. It's moreso the "what if I hit him a tenth of a second later" is worse than anything :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,331 ✭✭✭RichieC


    I don't trust horses, or people who do... :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,298 ✭✭✭✭later12


    Another horse related one.

    The Vet was out cutting a colt who had never been in a headcollar before; of course I was landed the job of holding him while the area was cleaned and anaesthetised. I turn around to hand the Vet something and the colt suddenly swings his head to the left, pulling the joint of my humerus with him.

    I felt a dull, cold numbness in my shoulder, pulled up the arm of my t-shirt, and saw the ball of the socket popped down below where it should be. The next thing I remember I was sitting in the vet's jeep with my tshirt off on the way to the hospital:eek: Couldn't move it for about 2 weeks.

    Ever since, my shoulder has popped out on occasion: once it even happened during sex, but it always goes back in straight away.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 923 ✭✭✭Johnny Foreigner


    Erica<3 wrote: »
    It's a live animal that has the mental capacity to make split second decisions.. If you don't end up on your arse at least a dozen times you're a freak of nature...

    My Grandfather first sat me on an Irish grey stallion when I was 4 years old. By 11 I was riding a chestnut mare bareback. I have fallen off a horse once (I am 35 years old). I am not a freak of nature, I am just good at hanging in to a horse when they bolt. When you learn to ride a horse bareback, you don't fall off if you have a saddle, stirrups, and rein.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,874 ✭✭✭EGAR


    Forgot about that one. Broke up a fight between an Otterhound and a Lurcher and became collateral damage:

    http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/30158_129905377033599_100000424117521_257194_6368539_a.jpg


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