# What is the most ridiculous way you've ever injured yourself?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [May 4, 2009, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-ridiculous-way-youve-ever-injured-yourself/495318 "2009-05-04T19:05:45Z")
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### Author: ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-ridiculous-way-youve-ever-injured-yourself/495318/2 "2009-05-04T19:15:48Z")

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We did one of these a year ago. Luckily, I don’t have a new one to add, but I’ll repost my previous:

> [@Stupid Injury Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-injury-thread/400866/17):
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> I was walking through my oddly shaped kitchen in the house I was renting at the time. In the middle of the kitchen, there is a post and a kind of archway that goes from that post to the wall. I was going to go through that archway, when I saw a bicycle pump laying on the floor underneath the archway.
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> I could have stepped over it. I could have picked it up and put it away. Instead I decided to jump over it. Here’s the problem. I’m about 6’5". I can dunk which means that I can jump at least 2’ in the air (not that impressive of a vertical leap, but bear with me). The archway (which I measured after the fact) is a shade under 6’7".
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> I didn’t just jump, for some reason I put my all into it and jumped as high as I could. I don’t know what the upward force is for a person to jump 24" in the air, but not much of that force is dissapated in the first 2".
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> I woke up on the ground. The bicycle pump was under my left arm and badly mangled. I noticed a pool of blood forming on the floor. I was quite dazed. I felt my head and found a rather large cut and lots of blood. I had managed to inverted pile drive myself into the bottom of the archway.
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> I really should have gone to the doctor, but as I was in college and didn’t have health insurance, and I got the bleeding to stop right away, I didn’t go.
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> I do have a nice scar on the top of my head now, but it is not the type of injury you brag to your friends about.

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