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Today while brushing the yard, I decided to bend down to pick something up (can't even remember what it was that I'd seen!) and forgot I had the yard brush in my hand, I managed to jab myself in the eye with the end of the brush!

What's the silliest thing you've done that's caused you an injury?

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Not horsy, but during a rounders match at work I took an unsuccessful swing at the ball and the follow-through of the bat hit me right between the eyes. Nice egg shaped lump and relentless teasing - the latter took longer to go away than the former!
 
I feel your pain OP! I once gave myself a huge black eye when playing with my dog!!! We were having a good session with his favourite tug toy ... Me kneeling on the floor and him tugging away with all his might. He's a staffie cross, and gets very enthusiastic about tugging! As I bent over to get more traction on the toy, he let go!! I was pulling so hard, my fists came up and I managed to punch myself in the face, resulting in a real shiner!!!! Try explaining that away!
 
Just stubbed two toes on the bathroom door trying to multitask - going to the loo, talking to my Mum on the phone and running the bath - all at once! Serves me right. Middle toe starting to go a nice colour - I think that may be bad!!
 
Gosh, now raiding the memory banks..... I'm just remembering a friend telling me about something stupid she'd done a few years back, she had gone to stay with her parents after a relationship breakdown and she decided to have a soak in the bath while her parents were off out to get the shopping. She was just out of the bath and wrapped in her towel when she spotted a huge spider in the doorway, from what I recall there was a bit of a stand off at the "spider" coral and it wasn't moving just sat in the doorway. After a wee while she decided she had to get out of the bathroom and decided if she climbed onto the bath she could walk along the edge of the bath and leap out through the door and shut herself in the bedroom until her dad got back to wrestle with the spider :)

She Climbed on the bath, walked along it and leapt........ Only thing she didn't take into account was the lintel over the door and hit her head on the top of the doorframe and fell flat on her back..... Ontop of the spider! Parents return to find daughter screaming around the upstairs of their house with a huge lump on her head and a very squashed spider on the back of her towel! Ha ha ha
 
I once tried to ride through a door into the barn, completely mis-judged how far I needed to duck, hit my head on the door frame (luckily had my had on), which scared my horse... He bolted through the door and I did a backwards somersault and somehow landed on my feet. Wish someone had recorded it, I'd make a fortune from you've been framed type programmes!
 
So many silly incidents..... Once nearly chopped a finger off shutting some lorry steps, they were scissor steps and my finger was in the way........ On a different lorry bruised my leg when someone had not clipped the rotating steps up and I tried to use the little foot holes instead of pulling the steps down. They held long enough that I had my weight on them, then rotated down and tra la, huge bruise and bump on shin.

Has anyone else ducked under the head partitions on a large HGV? If you mis-count you stand up just in time to nearly crack your head open on the last one......

Back gates on big HGVs hurt if you drop them on your toe. I know this from experience. Also, if there is a large row of partitions pinned back and you put your horse on first and take the restraining pin out if the next partition, if someone has not pinned each one back then the whole lot creep up behind you and slam you in the back silently.

Don't even get me started about climbing in and out of a luton..... Oh, and once I did not exit the driver's seat of an HGV backwards, I thought it was coolto walk out forwards, but I fell right out...... Oh, and exiting down lorry steps with spurs on is OK unless you catch the spur under the step.....

That is the lorry related incidents only.
 
So many..
Most recent, was picking out the horses feet, put him back in his stable, left the hoof pick on the floor, some how tripped and face planted the floor whilst stabbing myself with the hoofpick and almost breaking my wrist.

Hit myself with a lunge whip many times, also I tend to trip over them, and constantly dropping poles on my foot or fingers!
 
I nearly choked after I inhaled a plaiting band I was holding in between my teeth whilst doing a mane.
I also nearly lost my big toe after deciding I'd let the horses from one field to the other with no shoes on. It was a slip rail not a gate and when I dropped it the horse stepped over onto my right big toe, stopped when I yelled and when I shoved his shoulder did a lovely turn on the fore hand and smooshed it. It was a right mess but the managed to cobble it back together and you can't tell now except I can't bend it, the nail even grew back.
 
I tripped in a hole in the field yesterday. Ankle made a wonderful 'pop' noise. Would have happily sat for a while until the sickness/wooziness wore off but one of the liveries spotted me and rushed over to pick me up off the floor. Ankle felt surprisingly fine once I was uptight so I cracked on and took the ponio out for a ride. Fast forward to today and my ankle looks like a baby elephant's foot and I'm struggling to weight bear. Have been resting it tonight but looks like a trip to A&E might be in order 😕
 
Raising poles in field, use a block to get back onto horse, I slip off block and land flat on my back!!
Horse just stands there looking at me, and then starts to eat the grass :p
 
I quite regularly (and I have no idea why as it hurts!) stand on the rake end of my poo picking rake to stand it up straight when I;ve dropped it or put it down. Almost 90% of the time it shoots up so fast it cracks me hard on the thumb joint! Yet I still do it!
 
I've done a few!!

I broke two toes (including big toe!!) when running across my bedroom, when my bed post happened to be in the way (cue very hard kick to bedpost).

I broke my hand when I decided it was a good idea to climb over a pig crate, and lean on the lever... Cue the gate slamming down on top of my other hand.

I broke my hand again when I leapt in to save a child, who had walked past the back end of a mare, tied up, eating her feed, and put my hand out to save us...

Whilst said hand was broken, I thought it was a good idea to do mounted games. Hand was strapped up, it would be fine. Well, when your hands can't let go quickly enough of the baton due to said broken hand and you get pulled backwards off your horse, it's a bad idea...

I broke my elbow when cycling along a road, and my solid metal loop bike lock kept banging my knees. I pushed it as far forward as I could, where it promptly caught in the wheel, stopped the wheel moving, and sent my flying over the handle bars. I put my arm straight out to save myself...

I've also ended up with stitches in my inner thigh after kicking a football over a fence, and climbing the fence... To discover barbed wire between my legs. I freaked out and impaled myself.

I burned my back pretty badly when I tried to take my horses rug off next to a mains electric fence, rug touched fence, horse freaked out, and I was sent backwards into the fence, unable to get purchase to get up again...

I broke my toes again when I managed to run over my own foot with a quad bike (I was trying to move it forward a few feet without getting back on it, but didn't move my feet...)

I have myself a huge bruise on my butt at Blair when I decided that the mud outside made wellies a sensible footwear choice for the disco, and promptly fell over three different times due to sloppiness of the floor in rubber boots (and before you say anything, not due to drunkenness!).

I also managed to set fire to my own hair leaning across a candle. Yes, that can actually happen.

There's a hell of a lot more - that's just the last two years, but thought someone might think I need locking up as a danger to society if I listed more...
 
Damaged my coxis (sp) flopping down on the settee, just where the tv remote had been left, unbelievably painful and affected every aspect of my life, a year later it is still a bit tender, cured me of flopping down into seats though and slouching, I am only comfortable when sitting in the 'correct' position
 
Turning my friends horse out which snatched away from me with lead rope. Broke my scaphoid & cast for 5 months. Second out hunting double branch was huge & caught the second. Smacked my hat & bless my horse she was fantastic kept going whilst I was clinging on with a headache!
 
So many horse related ones, but the best were all non-horsey. 9 years old, going out to play with my best friend and as I stepped out of the front door, I had not realised my foot was inside the handle of my mums handbag. Door shut, I went to walk, faceplanted with the main brunt being taken by my head and collarbone. Woke up on the sofa with the ambulance on the way and couldn't move my head to the left due to my collarbone sticking up and jabbing me in the neck. OUCH!

Riding my old bike bonnie (purple hell on wheels)...me and same best friend were weaving down the street when I hit a decent sized stone and rather that the stone break bonnie, bonnie broke the stone. Split in two so I low sided and got gravel rash all down my leg.

Again riding bonnie, same best friend at my side, we were playing chicken with cars coming on to the street...It was my turn, we had just introduced a ramp to speed us up and I could then not stop before going head first into the blackberry bush mum has painstakingly moulded into a dome in the middle of our front garden. I swear she took pleasure in my pain as she vigorously rubbed TCP into the scratches all over me :)

I have to share one of Dans as well. In our old house, the pavement was lower down than the house, so there were a good 15 steps up from where the cars were to the front door. I was stood in the porch, the only place we could get reception and was on the phone to my mum. Next thing, I see Dan running up the steps like the tango man....hands up in the air, head up the air so I of course started laughing and said, "oh god, what's he done now" to which my mum replied, "Sort him out, I'll speak to you later" and so I opened the door to him standing there, dancing from one foot to the other, eyes clamped shut saying, in his Lancashire accent, "Am I bleeding? Am I bleeding?"
The n0bhead had managed to punch himself in the face so hard whilst trying to get a bolt undone on the Land Rover engine that he'd almost knocked himself out and fell out of the engine bay!
 
armchair_rider said:
I thought we'd run out of air freshner. For some unknown reason I pointed the can at my eye before giving it a last squeeze to make sure...
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Ha Ha this one made me laugh out loud

I tried to unblock the petrol lawn mower whilst it was running

a friend was with a friend in the shower (wink wink) when he fell out of the shower an knocked himself out on the sink-he had the largest blackest bruise in between his eyes that i have ever seen
 
My husband a few weeks ago has a habit of throwing all his toys out the pram if things aren't going right.... A few weeks ago we decided to go camping for a few days to the place I used to go as a child on Exmoor. As we recently go married, we didn't want to buy a new tent so my dad (who loves camping lol) gave us his old one as he'd bought a new one.

So, when the pegs weren't going into the ground well as it was stony, he decided to stamp with as much force as he could muster onto this 10 year old, already slightly bent peg...... the peg snapped, the sharp end going straight through the bottom of his shoe and into his foot.....que a LOT of swearing and foot grabbing whilst blood dripped out of his foot...... no more walking for us on our little walking holiday then...... stupid man..... :)
 
Dusty85 said:
the peg snapped, the sharp end going straight through the bottom of his shoe and into his foot.....que a LOT of swearing and foot grabbing whilst blood dripped out of his foot...... no more walking for us on our little walking holiday then...... stupid man..... :)
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I sympathise with the level of ouch! Out walking in the field, had to step over old fence posts with biggish nails poking out, so took an extra large step to avoid them- and totally didn't. Nail straight through foot and a very grumpy limp home with a blood filled welly.
 
Well as we all know I broke my leg end of May. Fast forward and I start riding new horse the day the plaster comes off. When I had the saddles fitted my jumping saddle had a broken tree so off it went to be fixed. Rode in my dressage saddle, hadn't even trotted new horse over a pole. Got saddle back at 4pm on Friday, 6pm Friday off we go to Netley Hall, 3 weeks after leg comes out of plaster. Saturday, stick new horse that I've never trotted over a pole in the 85cm. Get to fence 4, a double, a bit off so ask for a long one, horse obliges, horse tries to chip a stride in the middle of the double, balloons it, jumps me straight out the side door. All I can think is "don't put the broken leg down" so land on good leg. Can't walk.

Stuck 3 hours away from home with no car at an away show. Ankle and foot swollen and going black. One thing for it, Sunday, pain killer up, do dressage, come 3rd and 4th.

Write H&H report, poster says "looks broken" ignore poster. Two weeks later, still hobbling so husband drives to a&e. Leg is broken.

Both legs, 9 weeks apart.
Husband sells jumping saddle and shouts a lot.
 
Many years ago I bent down behind a known kicker on the yard, cue a double barrelled kick in the shoulder and head straight into a very fresh, very wet muckheap - had to be hosed down on the yard before they would let me into the ambulance. Fractured skull and shoulder.
Lessons learned - always wear a hat, never bend down behind a known kicker, always carry a spare set of clothes
 
Getting the latest dog!! I have a catalogue of injuries caused by 15kg worth of geriatric springer spaniel lol.

She has broken my ribs - twice!! Given me tennis elbow from constant pulling on lead and I'm currently sporting a torn thigh muscle from falling over AGAIN while being dragged round the woods - let her off the lead and she's in another county.
 
Not horse related but one of the most painful things I've done (and one that caused much hilarity!) - I used to work in catering and went to pick up two tins of baked beans, catering size. They sliped sideways and trapped my left nipple between the edges. It hurt. Everyone laughed uproariously, but when I looked I had actually split it......OUCH!
 
Not horsey. Decided to jump from bollard to bollard whilst waiting for the school bus because my friends were doing it and it looked cool. Sadly I forgot I have the athletic ability of a house brick, head met concrete and I end up in a&e having stitches. They initially took me to the school nurse's room, she insisted on giving me sweet tea which I later threw up over a doctor. When they wanted to phone my mum I piped up that it was no use as she'd be in the pub (always met my grandad for lunch on a Thursday), she has never quite forgiven me.

Horsey. Locked my two friends in a stable which meant that when the neighbouring horse bit my knuckle down to the bone I had to rely on myself for rescue. I never did get it looked at and still have the scar 25 years later.
 
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