People Are Sharing The Dumbest Way They Injured Themself, And I Know I Shouldn't Laugh, But Damn
Recently, we asked the lovely people of the BuzzFeed Community to share the dumbest ways they got injured. The results were hilarious, but made me feel bad for laughing. Even more people responded to the wonderful post and shared their silliest ways they got injured:
1."I pulled a muscle in my back, tying my shoes. It was like, the day after I turned 31, and I was like, 'Welp, this just must be what life is like now.'"
2."I went to the toilet on a coach bus in Spain, and while walking back to my seat, fell over and ruptured my ACL."
3."I was a bit drunk and making cheese on toast on the grill. I pulled the toast out and burnt my hand. Immediately rinsed with cold water, felt ok. A few days later, I couldn't work out why it was still so sore. Upon closer inspection, I realized the burn site was not passing over; cheese was burnt into my skin! I had no choice but to remove the cheese scab and expose fresh skin painfully. I thoroughly washed it, and it felt so much better. I can't believe I walked around for days with a cheese scab."
4."When I was about 12, my parents replaced their waterbed mattress. So, obviously, we took the old one outside and filled it with compressed air. We used this blob to launch each other in the air. It was my turn to run and launch my cousin, so I came in with all my might. He decided at the last moment that he didn't want to fly. He got off the bag, and I slammed chest first into the ground. First and last time getting the wind knocked out of me. No worries though; I still did plenty of dumb shit to come. Boy, did that hurt at the time."
5."I went to move a chair to sit in, stepped back, and broke my foot. Just SNAP! I felt it and turned to my friends and said, 'I think I just broke my foot.'"
6."I once sat on a hot toaster my idiot brother set on a chair instead of the table. Couldn't sit for a week."
7."While on a solo vacation, I slipped in my wet sandals while 'frolicking' and broke a bone (fifth metatarsal) in my right foot. Two weeks later, while hobbling around at home to get something from the kitchen, I tripped over my cat and broke the same bone in the same EXACT place on my left foot!"
8."Many years ago, I was at the casino, patiently waiting for Thunder From Down Under to start. The show was awesome, and of course, I was drinking during it. In the end, you were able to go up and take pictures with them. Well, I got excited and ran towards them on stage. Three huge bodyguards came up to me. I ended up falling off the stage, but I did get a picture of them and a broken rib."
9."Several Halloweens ago, I somehow managed to knock over my deep fryer and get boiling oil on my ankles and feet. I was more upset over ruining my favorite alpaca wool socks and baby Yoda onesie than the actual burns on my body. No more outdoor deep frying for me, no, sir!"
10."I slipped on a grape in the supermarket when I was a kid and broke my foot pretty badly. It wouldn't be such a big deal if it stopped there, but 6 weeks later, on the night before I got my cast off, I got pissed at my parents and took off hobbling across our damp lawn on crutches. I proceed to slip and fall and break my arm. The next day, I literally sat in one room to have my foot cast removed and then was wheeled into another room to have my wrist cast. Then, about six months later, I was at a different supermarket with my friend, and I was demonstrating how I broke my foot on a grape when I slipped on loose beans and broke my other wrist. Needless to say, I was a clumsy kid."
11."I was on a ladder beside a house. I jumped off ( dumb me). I forgot there was a short post in the ground. I’ll let you guess where I landed. OUCH. I got married after. I tested the goods. I managed to have two kids."
12."Slipped on a banana. The cartoons are right, folks."
13."I was laying on the edge of my bed when my dog came running into the room at top speed. She launched herself into the bed and crashed her skull into mine. I had a fractured eye socket and a concussion. The doctor said my injuries were comparable to a 30mph car crash!"
14."I was holding a glass window over my head, and I called my cat, who was sitting above me. He jumped through the window onto my head. Not my proudest moment…"
15."I was walking to school with a friend. My head was turned to face him. When I turned it back around, it slammed right into a stop sign. I had a black eye for a few days."
16."I tripped over my cat and pulled a tendon in my ankle. Just as it was healing, I was startled by a skunk, missed a step on my deck, and damaged a cartridge plate in my foot—the same leg as the injured ankle. I've spent a majority of this year in a foot or ankle brace."
17."My dumbest fall was walking into a half-down security gate. One moment, I was heading diagonally across the hallway, and the next, I was lying on the floor. I wasn’t injured, but I was thinking about my cluelessness being caught on the security cameras. I wouldn’t blame anyone who laughed while watching it."
18."There was an unfortunate incident of mixing hand sanitizer and lube. Yeah, don’t EVER do that!"
19."I jumped off a tree fort on a rope like Tarzan, and another rope swung around and temporarily hanged me. Luckily, I lived, but I had rope burn on my neck for weeks!"
20."Sitting on my foot in an hour-long Zoom meeting that ran over. I damaged nerves, and it took about three months for the numbness to go away."
21."My brother and I once had a bright idea to make parachutes out of bed sheets and jump from the tree in our front yard. It...did not work."
22."I was very angry at work and had just chewed someone out. I turned on my heel to angrily stomp away and walked straight into a wall. I gave myself a bloody nose."
23."I pinched a nerve big time in my lower back just by pulling up my pants after a pee. I could not walk right or stand up straight for about two weeks."
24.And finally, "I've thrown my back out leaning over the sink to brush my teeth!"
What was the most ridiculous way you've injured yourself? Share your story in the comments below!
