# Dent in bone? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 18, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dent-in-bone/369261 "2006-08-18T18:24:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Organisoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d26b3c/32.png) [@Organisoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Organisoid)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dent-in-bone/369261/1 "2006-08-18T18:24:46Z")
I’m female, 16, and I went to a party recently where a load of us ended up bundling each other at one point. In one particular bundle, someone hit my left tibia, and I didn’t look at it but felt that there was a proper dimple there in my tibia about 7cm below the knee. I’m pretty sure the dent isn’t supposed to be there, if I run my fingers along the left tibia, you can definitely feel a dip in the bone whereas my right tibia is smooth. I’m not gonna get osteoporosis or anything? Or will the dent be there for EVEEEEER… ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dent-in-bone/369261/2 "2006-08-18T18:40:37Z")
What is bundling and why is it so violent? ---
**Author:** ![FormerMarineGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/65b543/32.png) [@FormerMarineGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FormerMarineGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dent-in-bone/369261/3 "2006-08-18T18:40:50Z")
[QUOTE=Organisoid] I’m female, 16, and I went to a party recently where a load of us ended up bundling each other at one point. In one particular bundle, someone hit my left tibia, and I didn’t look at it but felt that there was a proper dimple there in my tibia about 7cm below the knee. I’m pretty sure the dent isn’t supposed to be there, if I run my fingers along the left tibia, you can definitely feel a dip in the bone whereas my right tibia is smooth. I’m not gonna get osteoporosis or anything? Or will the dent be there for EVEEEEER… [/QUOTE] Although I can’t answer your question, I will ask one. What happens in a bundle? ---
**Author:** ![TNWPsycho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/47e85d/32.png) [@TNWPsycho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TNWPsycho)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dent-in-bone/369261/4 "2006-08-18T18:46:51Z")
I have no idea what a bundle is, but dents in bones can and do happen. I am a professional wrestler and got a dent in the upper part of the eye socket due to a stupid mistake i made in the ring. I’ve had that for about 5 years now, and as far as I can tell it hasn’t filled in any and hasn’t given me any problems. So really i don’t think it matters. ---
**Author:** ![Organisoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d26b3c/32.png) [@Organisoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Organisoid)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dent-in-bone/369261/5 "2006-08-18T19:29:53Z")
Aaah, well bundling is where you kinda jump on a person, tackling them to the ground and then more people join in so a pile is created. Just don’t be the bottom person in the writhing pile, it’s probably a British-only term then I suppose… ---
**Author:** ![TNWPsycho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/47e85d/32.png) [@TNWPsycho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TNWPsycho)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dent-in-bone/369261/6 "2006-08-18T19:32:20Z")
I believe we call that a doggy-pile. ---
**Author:** ![Danalan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dent-in-bone/369261/7 "2006-08-18T19:39:55Z")
[Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_%28tradition%29) > [@](#): > > …bundling is the traditional practice of wrapping people together in a bed, usually as a part of courting behavior. > [@](#): > > By the 20th century, bundling as a practice seems to have died out almost everywhere Everything old is new again? ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dent-in-bone/369261/8 "2006-08-18T19:43:48Z")
[QUOTE=] …bundling is the traditional practice of wrapping people together in a bed, usually as a part of courting behavior. [/QUOTE] So hard that it dents _bone_? No wonder it died out. ---
**Author:** ![Organisoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/d26b3c/32.png) [@Organisoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Organisoid)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dent-in-bone/369261/9 "2006-08-18T19:51:05Z")
Oh…my… well I wasn’t expecting THAT… ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dent-in-bone/369261/10 "2006-08-18T20:23:04Z")
My hubby has dents in his temples from where the arms of his eyeglasses press against his head. You can feel the little grooves if you press against the skin. I imagine 10,000 years from now, archaeologists will find his bones and speculate that there was some sort of ritual banding of skulls which indicated high status. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dent-in-bone/369261/11 "2006-08-18T20:44:45Z")
I’ve got a pair of dents in my tibia (on the left, even!) from walking into immobile objects. Strangely, the incidents were about 40 feet apart from each other, but separated by about a year in time. I never would have thought walking into the end of a picnic table bench would dent me, but it did. I do suspect they’re mine forever. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dent-in-bone/369261/12 "2006-08-18T20:45:30Z")
‘Bundle’ is a British colloquial term for an energetic, usually fairly good-natured, human pile-up/wrestling session. It sounds like dogpile will be a fairly equivalent term. ---
**Author:** ![Surok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@Surok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surok)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dent-in-bone/369261/13 "2006-08-18T21:20:53Z")
[QUOTE=gotpasswords] I’ve got a pair of dents in my tibia (on the left, even!) from walking into immobile objects. Strangely, the incidents were about 40 feet apart from each other, but separated by about a year in time. I never would have thought walking into the end of a picnic table bench would dent me, but it did. I do suspect they’re mine forever. [/QUOTE] There’s no diagnosable harm? If so, thank Og. Every time I go for my medical tests I worry that they’re going to notice the dip in my thigh muscle (table), the extreme negative curvature just above my kneecap (chainlink fence) and the…eh…what can only be termed a chip…out of one of the bones of my lower left leg (stairs). And then once they notice, they’re going to run some additional tests, discover I have some horrible disease, and run me out of the country. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dent-in-bone/369261/14 "2006-08-18T22:57:35Z")
[QUOTE=Surok] There’s no diagnosable harm? [/QUOTE] Only harm is to the otherwise smooth skin on my leg. :rolleyes: Two roughly 3/8" divots on the front - one from that picnic table bench, and the other from an irrigation valve. Naturally, no damage was done to the valve or bench. If anything, this probably results in a slightly stronger spot of bone as the body generally leaves a little extra material behind when if fixes damaged bones. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dent-in-bone/369261/15 "2006-08-19T04:22:15Z")
Are you sure it’s a dent? Once, I walked into a marble curb and got a big hematoma on my shin bone. There was a raised area about the size and shape of a half dollar sticking out. It didn’t color up badly but the raised area didn’t go away after several months. I had to get it broken up with this vibrating sonic therapy thing. Also, it hurt. Eh, you’re 16, you’ll probably be fine. I was much springier then. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dent-in-bone/369261/16 "2006-08-19T05:44:52Z")
When I first read this, not knowing what bundling was, I thought it involved wrapping each other in saran wrap or duct tape. _Crazy kids these days,_ I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2006, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dent-in-bone/369261/17 "2006-08-19T05:48:47Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] ‘Bundle’ is a British colloquial term for an energetic, usually fairly good-natured, human pile-up/wrestling session. It sounds like dogpile will be a fairly equivalent term. [/QUOTE] I’ve never heard of a party here in the states where there were events which would license a description beginning with the phrase “and in one particular dogpile we…” That sounds like a wild party. Or maybe Brits are just weirder than I thought. What am I talking about? If they’re serial dogpiling over there today, we’ll be doing it here next year. -FrL-