# Bizarrest injury, ever **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 28, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541 "2006-02-28T23:27:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Giant\_Spongess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@Giant\_Spongess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Spongess)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541/1 "2006-02-28T23:27:18Z")
Guess how I got [this wound.](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/kemspit/other%20crap/wounded.jpg) I’ll give you a clue: I never saw the assailant. ---
**Author:** ![Giant\_Spongess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@Giant\_Spongess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Spongess)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541/2 "2006-02-28T23:29:18Z")
Er, that was supposed to say, I never saw the assailant but I did see the weapon. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541/3 "2006-02-28T23:35:53Z")
Ninja throwing star. You’re lucky to have survived the attack. Who’d you piss off? If I were you, I’d start sleeping with one eye open and a samurai sword under your pillow. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541/4 "2006-02-28T23:37:51Z")
A steakknife-throwing poltergeist. Have you been messing with that Ouija board again? ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541/5 "2006-02-28T23:37:59Z")
Poltergeist? Black cat in the night, with sharp glinting claws? ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541/6 "2006-02-28T23:42:11Z")
Invisible Pink Unicorn gore wound? ---
**Author:** ![Giant\_Spongess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@Giant\_Spongess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Spongess)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541/7 "2006-02-28T23:42:51Z")
The very forces of nature itself turned on me today. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541/8 "2006-02-28T23:43:31Z")
wild lipsticking? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541/9 "2006-02-28T23:47:13Z")
Wind blown tree branch? ---
**Author:** ![Giant\_Spongess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@Giant\_Spongess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Spongess)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541/10 "2006-02-28T23:47:21Z")
It actually hurts quite a bit, but it was so weird I can’t help but be amused. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541/11 "2006-02-28T23:48:32Z")
Necklace flung at Mardi Gras. ---
**Author:** ![Giant\_Spongess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@Giant\_Spongess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Spongess)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541/12 "2006-02-28T23:51:55Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Wind blown tree branch? Close, but weirder. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541/13 "2006-02-28T23:54:45Z")
> [@Giant\_Spongess](#): > > Close, but weirder. Tree blown wind branch? ---
**Author:** ![marque\_elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@marque\_elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marque_elf)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2006, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541/14 "2006-02-28T23:57:20Z")
A wayward meteorite? ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541/15 "2006-03-01T00:11:19Z")
You snapping a treebranch at yourself? Speaking as someone who has dashed through the woods many times and gotten similar injuries. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Giant\_Spongess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@Giant\_Spongess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Spongess)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541/16 "2006-03-01T00:34:43Z")
Actually, it was an evil “Career Fair” sign, one of those corrugated plastic affairs. I remember noticing it flailing about with one anchor pulled out, then WHAM!! I was staggering about clutching my face. I was worried broke my jaw or crushed one of those important blood vessels, it hit so hard. I didn’t even realise I was bleeding until somebody pointed it out to me. There’s gonna be a wicked bruise there for a while. Stupid Career Fair. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541/17 "2006-03-01T00:35:11Z")
VILLAGER #1: Bread! VILLAGER #2: Apples! VILLAGER #3: Uh, very small rocks! VILLAGER #1: Cider! VILLAGER #2: Uh, gra-- gravy! VILLAGER #1: Cherries! VILLAGER #2: Mud! VILLAGER #3: Uh, churches! Churches! VILLAGER #2: Lead! Lead! ARTHUR: A duck! ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541/18 "2006-03-01T00:36:17Z")
Darn. That was my next guess. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541/19 "2006-03-01T01:25:25Z")
Scarred for life by Career Fair…You’re surely not the first, but you may be the first to show it _physically._ \*\*\*\*\* TMI TMI TMI TMI TMI \*\*\*\*\* In 1986 I was attending a University of Michigan football game when a guy behind me wearing wire-rimmed glasses was hit on the bridge of the nose by a flying roll of toilet paper. The impact of the roll drove the bridge of the glasses (fashioned of two flat wires about 1/2" apart) _clean into the bridge of his nose_, neatly incising a chunk of flesh about 1/4" deep. The injured party did not appear to be feeling great pain and in fact managed to laugh a bit hat his disfigurement. He had to take his glasses off to nurse the wound, which meant he could no longer follow the game, but at least he had something to stanch the bleeding, which was considerable. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541/20 "2006-03-01T02:20:04Z")
My weirdest injury: When I was about 17 I got whooping cough (despite being immunized as a kid). I had violent coughing fits every day for 3 months, so hard I’d see stars. One night, I went to see a movie with a few friends. We were standing in line at an ATM afterwards and I began one of my coughing fits when **THUMP** I had this sudden sharp pain in my side, like I’d been kicked. The pain intensified the more I moved. I figured I’d just pulled a muscle, but by the time I got home I was walking like a crab and my mom insisted on taking me to the clinic. X-rays there revealed that I’d broken a rib. From coughing. :eek: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bizarrest-injury-ever/346541.md?page=2)