Silliest thing you've done to cause yourself an injury

I feel everyone's pain and have to admit hubby and I were almost crying with laughter reading these stories. He then reminded me what I did last week.....

We had a new wee pony who our other mini decided he would do a Houdini and get through the electric to get to (he can be a meanie with new horses!) enter me running through the outdoor school to clamber through the middle gap in the post and rail fencing to catch him and to then realise hubby wasn't kidding about his threat to run electric tape along the paddock size of the top and middle rails (as he was fed up fixing the fencing from tickly bottoms!) I caught the inside of my right thigh on the electric and in my struggle to get through the fence and off the electric caught the top of my head on the top piece of electric tape. Said pony caught and given a very stern mummy lecture!!
 
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Probably not my silliest accident, but having lurked on this thread and laughed so much it hurt, I thought I'd better contribute!

When I was about 15 and thought I knew best, I tried to help a racehorse who was turned out in a field at my cousin's place wearing a headcollar. The headcollar had twisted round and was rubbing right up under his offside eye and he was squinting for want of a better word as a result. Now if I'd been listening earlier instead of clowning around the yard, I would have known that this particular horse was a bit of a g*t and shouldn't be approached by anyone he wasn't used to. So anyway, I reached out to move the headcollar and as I did so, he reached out as well and bit me on the shoulder. You would have thought I'd have taken the hint - but no, I still thought I knew better, so I grabbed said headcollar and twisted it back to where it should be. At this point the horse decided he really had had enough of this small person who was messing with him and bit me really hard on the chest, and tore a chunk out of me. For the rest of the summer I had to keep the wound covered as it got infected and I still have the scar to this day.
 
Ripped thumb nail half off/folded in half when putting a stirrup leather on the stirrup bar of a very old saddle! the worst part was having to fold my thumb nail back to where it should be
 
Wasn't me but I remember a boy at Pony Club Camp years ago managed to stab a pitch fork prong through his boot and into his toe while mucking out. Remember him being helped into a car with this huge fork sticking out. I dont have very interesting silly things, I fell off twice onto fences which wasn't very intelligent - once trying to race my brother (on other side of fence on his motorbike, me on my 13.2hh) but pony spooked at bike (of course) and chucked me off onto the barbed wire fence, ended up with stitches all over my back and still bear the scars. Other time I was cantering a pony bareback with only a headcollar on down a fenced off hedge bit (so narrow with fence up one side and hedge other), slipped off and smacked straight into a fence post with the back of my leg so I ended up with my shoulders and head on the ground and rest of my body vertical up the post, the bruise was pretty impressive. I don't do these things nowadays of course, now I'm old - falling off really hurts even without stitches and bruises!
 
I am a klutz.

I once chopped off the end of my finger while getting all chef-y with some coriander . . . washed it (including the exposed nerve!), slapped some germolene on it, wrapped it in kitchen roll and held it aloft until it stopped bleeding. I didn't take it to the doctor until three days later when it turned green (yes, green). I still can't feel the very end of that finger and get some very funny looks from the immigration officers in the U.S. when I have to do the electronic fingerprint thingy.

Had a little wine one evening to celebrate Pops winning both his classes at Oldencraig and slipped in the shower, faceplanting on the edge of the toilet, breaking my nose and giving myself two lovely black eyes.

Went on a business trip (first ever for the company that had just hired me) and walked into a plate glass window of a five star hotel in front of a lobby full of new colleagues (who hadn't met me yet) breaking my nose and giving myself a fat lip and one black eye.

Do I need to go on?

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We all have our favourite pair of riding breeches, this particular pair I had had for 15+ years and they had those leather knie reinforcements.....that had become undone for 1/3rd at the top. I wanted to mount my at the time 27yr old Arab, but she was no piece of cake- you had to be quick or she'd be off in a galop (she did this all her life until I lost her at 29- no back problems or anything but very impatient!) Anyways, that day after nearly killing myself I binned them. I got my foot in the stirrup and gracefully attempted to swing my leg over but wasn't quick enough for her. The leather flaps got caught inbetween the stirrup straps and my own weight kept this firmly in place. My left leg was now attached to the saddle and she took off. I pulled her hard in her mouth as we passed the steel pointy neighbours fence which did stop her but then (ofcourse) she was on her back legs, me holding on for dear life. She bounced around what seemed like minutes when by chance she positioned herself under me and I finally sat in the saddle.

Same horse; when I just got her (3yrs), riding out in the fields, jumped a ditch but we had to jump it again to get back home. She refused multiple times and I asked my friend if I could borrow her whip. I had the whip in my hand for a nano-second when I found myself hanging in front of her chest with my arms around her neck, with one foot still in the stirrup....in a canter. Till my friend on her horse caught her. That was the first and the last time I ever rode with a whip.

And same horse again, trailered out to the forrest, saddled up and just as I wanted to get on her a group of mountainbikers decided to take a break closeby. She was about 25-26 at the time and I should have known better...I really should have! She loved to give away shows, and could never resist with an audience....she would Always spin 180degrees in the air at 60cm's high and after all those years I became quite good at rodeoriding, but with the bikers oohh en aaaarh- ing she would not stop and there I went again, ofcourse in the only mudpool around. It really looked like I had been mudwrestling. Gave her a good kick (which you could only do if she knew she'd deserved it, otherwise she'd pay you back bigtime) and got on again. 5mins later in the forrest my vet was also riding his horse, his comment "oh....did you fall off ?" no...no... they say mud is good for your skin!
 
I was letting the horse into the stable (we use sliding doors) I was opening the door with one hand, with my thumb on the edge of the door, and holding the horse with the other. The horse then rushed in unexpectadly when I didnt have the door opened wide enough and she squashed my thumb and broke it! It hasn't been right since and this happened a year ago. I can only bend my thumb 45 degrees!
 
Horsey? Pulled a lunge line through the bit rings too quickly and it pinged up and smashed me in the mouth, giving me a fat lip and a chipped front tooth.

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cinnamontoast said:
OMG, please explain that one!

Pedalling furiously on my Chopper (that sounds so weird!), the chain came off, I flew over the handlebars and snapped a front tooth in half. A week later, pedalling furiously once more, chain came off, so did I, broke my arm and gashed my leg wide open.

Stupidly offered the horse a carrot with a finger pointing at his mouth: he of course bit down as hard as possible on the finger. The pain was excruciating.
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Well, the old bottle had run out, so I picked up a new one, but it wouldn't work. So, ya know I squeezed a few times. Well, I then realised you had to take the under cap thing off and did so. I then squeezed again, to test it. Only it was pointing upwards, and near my face....

Shot straight up my right nostril, making me scream and cry in pain. Cue many weird looks :D
 
LittleMonster said:
Thought of another
Electric fencing... i thought it was a good idea to push the wheelbarrow under the line but i forgot it was a completely metal wheelbarrow and i nearly lost control of my bladder :( The shame! but i learnt a lesson lol! and my legs were shaking for about 20 mins after!
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Oh I've done something similar - parked next to a fence and got out of the car at a show, had my hand on the car door and put the other hand on the electric fence - some very choice words were uttered :)
 
Just thought of a more recent one - also something for everyone else NOT to do.

In the trailer trying to take out the centre pole that the partition fitted to. Now it was probably never taken out before and it wouldn't move, it was stuck at the top where it goes into a bracket on the roof. I decided to borrow a hammer and thought to tap it gently to make it come loose. I was too lazy to go and get something to stand on (being vertically challenged) to there am I with a 6lb claw hammer held high in the air trying to knock out the pole.......... the next thing I know I am standing in the trailer, the hammer is on the floor, I had split my face open from about an inch and a half below my eye to my top lip. I had knocked out a tooth and was gushing blood everywhere. I went to find my daughter who took one look at me and took me to A&E, first stopping to grab a large piece of gauze from the yard first aid box. To cut a long story short - concussion, 10 internal stitches, 15 external stitches, one tooth gone at the gumline, a face the size of a football, high as a kite on morphine. I had to drink/eat through a straw for a month and couldn't get my tooth repaired for three months as the muscle and lip had to be fully healed before the dentist would touch it. I still have a scar on my top lip and my daughter won't let me live down my stupidity. The doctor said I was lucky to have hit myself with the hammer head and not the claw end as I could have lost an eye or even killed myself.
 
A few months ago I hopped off to open a gate and somehow badly twisted or sprained my left ankle. Being the idiot I am I brushed it off, clambered back on and continued on the ride, only to find that the next time I had to get off I could barely walk. That was a very difficult and slow hobble back to the stables, as there was no way I was going to be able to get back on. Though better now, that ankle still isn't right; but that's what you get from being impatient and riding again less than a week later. Never would have thought that getting off to open a gate would be such a perilous thing to do!
 
My best one is non horsey

I fractured my eye socket by slamming a car boot door on my head...I was in a bad mood and stropping around, and went to get a pineapple from the boot.

Slammed the door down in the temper but clearly hadn't moved out the way enough....It hurt so much I threw the pineapple at the floor in an even bigger fit of temper and smashed it.

So I had a broken head and no pineapple.
 
One I have mentioned before but worth another mention - as a child my bike was my pretend horse, took it for a "ride" one day and used my new whip to make it go faster...whip got caught in back wheel spokes, I went over the handlebars and head first into a lamp post. Carried back home by a kind neighbour!!

On leaving school, we threw ourselves a bit of a party...I was drinking Lambrini from the bottle (classy!) and my friend - encouraging me to "drink up" - hit the bottom of the bottle and cracked one tooth in half. I have a fabulous dentist who repaired it the next day but since then it has had to be "touched up" twice - once after biting into a KFC hot wing a bit too vigorously (told you - classy!) and once after being so angry (long story!) that I ground my teeth in my sleep an ground my half fake tooth right out!!

At university, I borrowed a pair of roller blades to go skating in the park (had not been on roller blades since I was a child) however these were a size 7 and I am a size 3/4...went freewheeling (infront of a huge crowd of local school kids) down the massive hill into the park, hit the kerb and did a spectacular rotational fall (much to the amusement of said school kids!) breaking my scaphoid and busting my knee. This was 2 weeks before I was due to do Camp America for the summer to work at a horse summer camp - wasn't able to go due to plaster cast :(
 
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The list is endless, but when I was 12 a friend and i made a rope swing... Out of a rope style skipping rope, on a steep hill. I didn't even get through one swing, of course skipping rope snapped, went flying down hill, badly broken arm.... Might as well have used a piece of thread to make the rope swing, what a plank!
 
I managed to trip over my own feet on the yard and broke both my elbows!!!! When I have told people since they think it must have been horse related...not just me being clumsy lol
 
Have to share a new one of Dans.

Got a new top box for his little 125cc motorbike yesterday. He opened it, had a play about looking at it and the fitting bits and bobs and...thought it was going to fall off his lap, so grabbed it, sending the top part into his face with astonishing force. He now looks like a thug with a split on the bridge of his nose.

For me last night....not a silly thing that made me injure myself, but some may get a giggle out of just how thick I can be sometimes. Jet black bedroom, no light whatsoever apart from that coming from my phone. Dan asks how it is doing as has not been working well....so I explain there is a black spot on the screen, but you can only see it when the screen is off. I then say, "look" to show him the black spot...on the black screen....in a room where the only light was coming from the phone I just turned off. The milisecond it all went dark and I realised my sheer stupidity, we erupted into laughter....I could not stop. I almost wet the bed at just how dumb I was. I turned the phone back on, set the alarm and spent the next hour trying to stop laughing at myself.
 
All the time! I am THE clumsiest person! My winning one is probably with one of these little b*****ds

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If one fell over my friend stood on the shovel part so it flew up and he grabbed the handle. He is 6'4. I am 5'2. I did it, totally forgot to put my hand out to grab it, it hit me in the eye and knocked myself out! Needless to say i had an amazing shiner, had to go to the hospital for x-rays as had a suspected fracture to my eye socket! How they kept a straight face when i told them i will never know!

I've hit myself in the face doing my girth up loads of times! Walked into doors,hit my self with the lunge whip, you name it i've probably done it! i need wrapping in bubble wrap haha!
 
I have had sciatica for the last 4 months after trying to pull up a ragwort plant, doing it wrong, causing the sciatic nerve in my butt check to go into spasm. It caused me to have a month off work spending most of the time lying on my bedroom floor and now having courses of physio and acupuncture with a MRI booked for the end of the month.
Also had a horse slip out on the road with me, I went right over his head and as I head butted the concrete my hat lifted up so my forehead hit the floor. Was made to get back on and finish the ride with concussion.
 
Some of these are hilarious!

I have done the girth thing many a time, and also done the same thing when I have been in bed and going to pull the covers up....bam, straight in eye.

My others are non horsey

When I was bout 5 I was at my grandparents, and my aunty was there too. I didn't really like her at all (still don't, and you will see why!), but for some reason she wanted a kiss so I ran away from her, and she chased after me, so I ran some more....straight over and onto the petrol lawnmower that was switched on. Still have the blooming scar now on my leg. And the worst thing was she then came and helped me and smothered me in kisses!

And then back in May, I went to a house/garden party, the drinks where flowing and the trampoline came out. Everybody else was doing backflips, and front flips and all sorts of fancy things, so I asked them to teach me. Got a lovely rhythmical bounce going on, and my OH just said ok, now just throw your self over forwards.....so I did, in the form of a complete and utter FACEPLANT.....owwch.....bust my lip and grazed all of my forehead. Wasn't fun at 25 years old telling people how it had happened.
 
I'm quite good at causing stupid injuries... Gave myself a black eye hitting myself in the face with a broom handle when picking up a twig that was in Bud's hay, sliced my finger open and had to have stiches washing up (OH tends to wash up now :p), twisted my ankle falling down a rabbit hole out running and dislocated my hip falling UP some stairs, to be fair it was already pretty damaged from a fall riding and I just finished it off. Best one has got to be when I had a night terror and hit a wall in my sleep and tore all the ligaments in my wrist and ended up in a splint for 6 weeks.

I realise after writing that and not including all stupid ones how clumsy/accident prone/ daft I really am!
 
PolarSkye said:
I can top that . . . I actually punched myself in the face IN MY SLEEP - woke me up (naturally) but good God I felt stupid.

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Sleeping is dangerous. I suddenly jerked awake when I was in bed and as I did I somehow managed to catch a sharp toenail into a vein in the back of my other leg resulting in blood everywhere.
 
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