Any ol’ car will do…am I going to crawl away with “flat feet” or is it just going to be a hardly-noticeable bump? Let’s start small and go big. At first say, a Fiat Cinquecento, then an a-typical soccer-mom minivan, and then how about a 1-ton pickup truck? A semi? A loaded cement truck? At what point does my foot just squirt out of my shoe? While i’m on the subject, how would you describe my condition using medical terms if I were ran over by a steam-roller ala Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
I aobut 11 years ago I fell off a truck and broke my heel, and they when I fell over the top of my now broken, and planted foot. All the little bones and such in the top of the foot got all streached out and tweked. (technical medical term)
Anyway in the long run those little bones on the top of the foot hurt way worse than the heel did during physical therapy.
YYMV of course, but I shudder to think of an injury like that. :eek:
When I was teenager I cleverly stuck my foot under a moving car to settle an argument about whether it would crush my foot. Luckily the “it won’t do any harm” brigade were right. It hurt less than having my foot trodden on in football games. I had been sure it would not harm me because one of my family’s cats had been run over twice with only minor ill effects.
When I was a kid, my mom was moving slowly, so I decided to stick my foot in front of the wheel, just for the heck of it. Rolled over my foot, but didn’t feel anything more than someone normally stepping on it by applying some pressure (i.e. no big deal). Car was a small Mazda hatchback.
I was wearing shoes, and it was on a gravel driveway, which both could be significant. I was telling this story recently and a friend asked if it was the front or rear of the car, and I honestly don’t remember, and that certainly would play a factor.
I know a local cop who got his foot run over by a motorist who waited until he was at the window to flee. That was at least five years ago when he was in his late-20’s, and he is still a cop, he can run and do all the physical aspects of it but still has a limp to this day. He had surgery on it several times within the first couple years.
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So yea–if you mean, havig the arch of your foot driven over–it’s bad.
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I was once moving a patient in a bed, (granted, it was a special type of hospital bed, weighing just over a ton) with the help of several other people. It wasn’t moving as fast as I wanted it to so I gave it a good shove. It rolled over the foot of one of the docs helping… he fainted. The bed had solid rubber wheels on concrete.
On a hard surface, your foot would probably be broken. If the surface is gravel you would probably be luckier, since the tire and the surface would give, along with your foot.
But don’t wait, as you age, the bones in your foot will be more brittle. The likelyhood of injury increases with age.
Penn and Teller did a fine trick where a heavily laden lorry ran over Teller.
DON’T TRY THIS AT HOME!
I had a smallish elephant stand on my foot when I was a kid. Because elephant feet are so large, the weight was spread and it didn’t hurt. (I think the elephant came off worse, because my Mum was very cross with it!)
Yeah I managed to run over my own foot… I had a breakdown in a jeep wrangler and was trying to push on the door frame while steering the car around a curve. The back tire caught my foot and ran right over it, but slowly. I should point out too that it was the bad way, as in my toes were ‘stacked’ in a verticle line.
I believe the word the doctor used was ‘massive soft tissue contusion’. When I asked what that meant, he said bascially everything in there that wasn’t bone was a big 'ol mess.
And I guess I should point out, it hurt like HELL and I spent the next month in a very stylish medical boot… I guess the moral of the story is that there is a right way and a wrong way to run over the foot.
The 2 times when i had my foot ran over (run over?) i was in a bit of pain. Accidentally the first time and purposely the 2nd time b/c i knew it could live thru it. It was an “ouch” pain, but more of an “ooooooh maaaaaan” pain. It was a tremendous amount of weigh, even the rear of the car where there is no engine!
A semi or a concrete mixer? Every bone in your foot would be crushed–easily.
The reason semis have a lot of tires and concrete mixers have such big ones is to distribute the weight of the load they’re carrying over a greater area. It’s not immediately obvious to me that having one go over your toes would be such a disaster–especially the conrete mixers. Those things have HUGE tires, and you see them driving on crappy dirt roads (which can’t support weight like concrete or asphalt) to get to construction sites all the time.
I have some doubts about that. The key figure isn’t the weight of the vehicle, it’s the pressure-- roughly, the weight of the vehicle divided by the area of all of the tires. For instance, you can lie down and get run over by a 40-ton tank without harm, because the weight is spread out over large tracks.
I bet an unloaded semi-trailer (with eight large wheels in back) would have less pressure than a typical auto. Not sure about concrete mixers, though. But a bulldozer would probably be fine.
As a teenager my dad once drove over my foot as I got out of a car. Rear wheel of a station wagon-- I was wearing soccer cleats. Despite my yells of pain, my dad refused to believe he had actually run over my foot, since he figured my foot would be broken and I’d be unable to even limp, let alone walk. Dad obviously failed to realize that it takes a lot of punishment to break bones in the Barbarian family…
Whoosh or no, the B.S. quotient in this thread has broken all existing records. This thread screams for some solid mathematics. Since no one qualified seems near, I’ll do my best to get the ball rolling. Forgive my inevitable mistakes.
Figure an American SUV weighs 4,000 lbs. Figure maybe 3,000 lbs on the front tires, or 1,500 lbs per front tire. Figure a realistic tire surface area of maybe 6 x 10 inches max, or 60 square inches per front tire. That means, each front tire is exerting about 25 lbs/square inch, which ain’t much. Figure it rolls over a 3 x 5 inch section of your toes/arch–translating into 15 square inches of territory–meaning you have 375 lbs of SUV rolling over your Nike’s. Don’t know about you, but I don’t want 375 lbs rolling over my foot, unless green Kryptonite makes me ill.
Problem is, the tire isn’t placed directly atop your foot–not all at once. It rolls up onto your foot, introducing physical and physiological variables I’m not competent to assess.
Bottom line: don’t place your foot underneath a car tire. And stay away from M1A1 Battle tanks and bulldozers.
I suspect it depends on how much of the foot is run over. If it is just the toes and perhaps a little of the foot, you will probably escape much injury, if any. If, however, the arch is run over (for those of you who HAVE arches), I would suspect that you could suffer significant damage.
