Horrifying Injuries you've had/seen

[IamFogHat]

When I was like 18 my buddy closed the car door on my finger, to the point where the locks latched and everything. After he opened it up, our other friend's chick wrapped it up in her sweatshirt while we sped home. When I pulled my finger out of her sweatshirt it looked like she had been shot in the chest there was so much blood. When I looked at it I could see my bone.
After the doctor shit they told me I'd have a scar forever, my finger would be slightly askew forever, and my bone is permanently dented. You can't notice the askewness unless I point it out compared to the finger on the other hand, but the scar is pretty crazy.

How about you guys?

[A.J.]

The Zapruder Film.

[Chigworthy]

When I was doing masonry I was chipping a large fieldstone with a single jack sledge and a big knife-edged chip flew up into my knuckle, splitting it to the bone. It was like a little bloody smile in my hand.

One I didn't see but heard about was when a guy I knew who did catering was breaking down about 100 ducks. He was using a duck knife, which is kind of like a small cleaver. He would reach in the bin, place a duck on the board, place the knife on the breast, then slam his hand down on the back of the knife to split the duck. Well after doing so many of these in robotic fashion, the knife was placed upside down and he slammed his hand down on the sharp edge. Basically, the same amount of force used to cut through a duck in a single blow was used to fuck his hand up severely.

[CountryBob]

I dislocated my ankle playing basketball so bad, my foot was completely spun backward and locked that way. Severed the Achillies tendon as well and broke bones of course. Stupid YMCA didnt have an elevator so I have to hop down 2 flights of stairs into an ambulance. You couldnt tell wether I was coming or going.....

[Earlshog]

The Zapruder Film.

I think you are looking for my favorite comedy in the movie thread...

[ozzie]

Not the most painful, but the one that freaked me out the most as a kid.

Sophomore year of HS, working with the defensive backs coach, and doing the stupid "tip drill". Basically, coach throws the ball at you, you tip it up in the air, another DB behind you catches it. Simple, right?

Well he guns one at me at around chest level, right in between where I was undecided on which way to turn my hands. If you've played volleyball, you know what I mean. There's that split second where you have to decide whether to turn palms up / closed fists, or palms down/wrists bent/fingers curled a bit and raised.

I chose palms up, and the point of the ball hit my right ring finger.

While I was watching the ball go over my head and finishing the drill, the coach gasped as I ran by. He pointed towards my hand, and I see my finger bent backwards at the first knuckle (or whatever you call the big one closest to your hand). And it was just stuck that way.

Once I saw it, I felt the pain. Did not feel it at all really until then.

Coach walked up calmly, put my hand behind his back, and snapped it back into place. Except it kinda dangled a bit until the swelling started, which was almost immediately.

No blood or gore, but I can still remember seeing it stuck up like that, and then kinda dangling for a moment afterwards.

Good news is... I didn't miss a game on defense, but it was on my throwing hand, so my QB abilities were limited.

[ozzie]

And let me be the first to get this one out of the way...

Joe Theisman's broken leg, live on Monday Night football.

Saw a similar break to Tyronne Prothro's (Alabama receiver) leg against the gaytors a few years ago.

I'd post the pic here, but it really freaks me out.

If that stuff doesn't bother you, here's a STILL PICTURE (http://www.manlyweb.com/sports/injuries/prothro2.jpg).

Or, a crappy quality VIDEO (http://youtu.be/8Xj46ypk67k).

[ozzie]

Before I completely de-rail this thread... was the intention for injuries you've seen in person?

Because, if tv/sports highlights count... the video of the Sabre's goalie (Clint Malarchuk) getting his throat slit by a skate is pretty horrifying.

If you've never seen it... You've been warned.

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[cougarjake13]

As a kid I watched my friend get hit by a bus and got all mangled didn't survive he was running Way from his dad who said it was time to go in and he didn't wanna go dad tried to grab he started running and bam bus doing 45 slams into him

[Misteriosa]

As a kid I watched my friend get hit by a bus and got all mangled didn't survive he was running Way from his dad who said it was time to go in and he didn't wanna go dad tried to grab he started running and bam bus doing 45 slams into him

jeez. im sorry you had to see that. i cant even imagine how many "what if"s have gone thought the dad's head too.

[Misteriosa]

Before I completely de-rail this thread... was the intention for injuries you've seen in person?

i think it is supposed to be injuries in person.

[cougarjake13]

jeez. im sorry you had to see that. i cant even imagine how many "what if"s have gone thought the dad's head too.



He committed suicide a year later

[Earlshog]

He committed suicide a year later

That’s my feel good story for today... Jesus!

[cougarjake13]

That’s my feel good story for today... Jesus!

Yeh he just couldn't get over it constantly saying I shouldn't have chased him

[Bob Impact]

Back when I installed car stereos for a living I was (stupidly) prying an electronic component from a piece of plastic with a knife. Of course I slipped and jammed the knife blade first into the webbing in between my thumb pointer finger. To make matters worse I had to sit in the ER waiting for the plastic surgeon forever, to the point that I passed out and woke up with my hand resting in the rolling tray they use for stitches. They basically had to stitch it up in an upside down pyramid with the point facing my wrist. 27 stitches later and I was out for the night and drunk after 1/2 a scotch. I still have no feeling in the tip of my thumb and most of my pointer finger.

[StanUpshaw]

I had a weird one where I slammed into this square-tube metal railing. The corner of it basically just punctured the meat of my thigh like a hole punch. It wasn't bleeding much, so you could just look in it and see down through the layers of skin and fat like an anatomy model. It left me with this six inch scar that has a perfect 90 degree angle.



One other time I had an ingrown toenail, and it got bad enough that I needed to go get it excised. After the doc removed the fragment, he had to go down to the bone and scrape off the nail bed with this metal hook, so that portion of nail wouldn't grow back. I was watching the whole time, and was fine until the scraping started. The fucking bloody froth that got whipped up from the vigorous scraping of a metal hook to my exposed bone...it made me go a little dizzy for a moment.

[jennysmurf]

I had two pins sticking out of my arm after two surgeries to fix my shattered wrist. When it came time to pull the pins out, the doctor reached in the drawer and pulled out a regular set of pliers. He started to pull them out, which didn't hurt, but the sound of the metal scraping on the bone made me almost pass out.

[PapaBear]

I've seen injuries that were far more serious, but one that stands out to me as "horrifying" (while still quite funny) just involved a broken nose.

I was at a bar in Charlottesville, where there were some UVA students celebrating a guy's 21st birthday. They have a stupid game there of drinking 21 shots on the day you turn 21. This guy was stanging (barely) next to me at the bar. He had just had his 21st shot. He was trying to slur something to me.

I was sitting on a tall swivel bar stool. He leaned forward and went to put his hand on my shoulder to (like drunks do) to tell me something. When he did, my chair spun around. His arms fell to his side. He fell face first onto the concrete floor with absolutley nothing to break his fall. When his nose hit the floor, it exploded in a mass spray of blood. It looked like someone had stomped on about twenty ketchup packs.

Like I said... I've seen worse injuries, but that one was fucking gross.

[A.J.]

Joe Theisman's broken leg, live on Monday Night football.

I remember that one live too. The thing was at the time, they kept showing it over and over. It wasn't until the next day did they say "you may want to look away if you're squeamish".

[CountryBob]

I've seen injuries that were far more serious, but one that stands out to me as "horrifying" (while still quite funny) just involved a broken nose.

I was at a bar in Charlottesville, where there were some UVA students celebrating a guy's 21st birthday. They have a stupid game there of drinking 21 shots on the day you turn 21. This guy was stanging (barely) next to me at the bar. He had just had his 21st shot. He was trying to slur something to me.

I was sitting on a tall swivel bar stool. He leaned forward and went to put his hand on my shoulder to (like drunks do) to tell me something. When he did, my chair spun around. His arms fell to his side. He fell face first onto the concrete floor with absolutley nothing to break his fall. When his nose hit the floor, it exploded in a mass spray of blood. It looked like someone had stomped on about twenty ketchup packs.

Like I said... I've seen worse injuries, but that one was fucking gross.

You make me remember another good one.

I had just sat down at the main stage of a strip joint and hadnt taken 3 drinks of my beer when a guy from the bachelor party that was right beside me (at the stage) stands up and hits the guy next to me with his beer bottle. I was completely covered in glass, beer and especially blood. The guy falls to the floor and the bouncers grab the other dude and immediatly his arm breaks (like a chicken wing). I go straight to the bathroom spitting beer and blood out of my mouth when his buddys bring the guy who got hit in.
His scalp was layed back like he had been scalped by indians and blood was pouring out of his wound so fast, I immediately told them they had better get him to the hospital immediately! With all of the drinking I could only imagine how thin his blood was - like someone pouring blood over his head from a bucket.
I had to throw my shirt away (it was covered in his blood) and had to leave then.

Unfortunately, he died that night. I guess they didnt get the bleeding to stop. It was in the paper the next morning. He also was the bachelor and the guy that hit him wasnt an invited friend but came with another that was invited and was the soon to be brides - ex.
Imagine their families horror!

Wow - I havent thought about this in years but now it seems like yesterday. And yes, I had and Aids test and Hep test soon after that because I think some of his blood got in my eyes and mouth. All tested negative.

[Chigworthy]

In high school, I worked in a pizzeria with an up-and-coming sureno ese. He had just seen American Me and was fantasizing about all the cool latino gangster stuff in the movie, like lengthy prison terms and shanking rats in the ass. There was a large pile of dough on the dough table and he decided to show me how to shank someone by stabbing a brand new serrated dough knife into the dough. The knife caught on a scraper underneath the dough and his clenched fist slid down the blade, cutting his fingers to the bone. I think he had to have some sort of reattachment surgery for the tendons. It was a gnarlfest seeing the open fingers and blood all over the pristine white pizza dough.

[jennysmurf]

Wow - I havent thought about this in years but now it seems like yesterday. And yes, I had and Aids test and Hep test soon after that because I think some of his blood got in my eyes and mouth. All tested negative.

Yes, but have you been checked recently?

[keithy_19]

In high school, I worked in a pizzeria with an up-and-coming sureno ese. He had just seen American Me and was fantasizing about all the cool latino gangster stuff in the movie, like lengthy prison terms and shanking rats in the ass. There was a large pile of dough on the dough table and he decided to show me how to shank someone by stabbing a brand new serrated dough knife into the dough. The knife caught on a scraper underneath the dough and his clenched fist slid down the blade, cutting his fingers to the bone. I think he had to have some sort of reattachment surgery for the tendons. It was a gnarlfest seeing the open fingers and blood all over the pristine white pizza dough.

Did you make a pizza with it?

[CountryBob]

Yes, but have you been checked recently?

uhhh about 2 years ago or so....

this happened about 7 -8 years ago...

why? no you got me worried :ohmy:

[Chigworthy]

A couple of close friends of mine were out at the coast one night and walking on the bluffs in the dark. One of them didn't realize there was an eroded area and walked right off of a 50 foot drop. It was almost a complete up and down face, but the little slope that it had probably saved her life. She ended up sliding down about a third of the way, then falling the rest to the beach below. There was a fridge-size rock buried in the sand, which she landed on feet first. She ended up shattering a femur and a forearm, both compound, and cracking up her face pretty good. Luckily my other friend was there as he was able to drive and call for EMS (pre-cell phone days). She ended up with lengthy surgeries and rehab, including external fixeters which are always fun to look at. The gnar part of it was taking her son and his girlfriend to visit her the morning after in ICU, then taking them out to the coast to see the scene. We hiked down to the beach and found a 1"x2" piece of her femur with a little bit of stringy tissue sitting on the rock she had landed on. We brought it home and put it in a little tupperware with rubbing alcohol so she could have a souvenir.