Comments on: And They Walked Away: The Stories of 5 Strange Injuries

By: CaliforniaCbee

CaliforniaCbee — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 03:35:39 +0000

The lumberjack story is the most intriguing and yet disturbing injury story I’ve ever read. Yikes!

By: Tdave

Tdave — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:58:26 +0000

When my car was hit by another I was injured by my air bag. I told the cop, “It feels like intense heat, as if there’s a nuclear reactor in there” as I pointed at the bent part of my arm that isn’t supposed to have a bend. I thought of asking the cop if he wanted to sit down, because he looked kind-of sickly as he kept saying, “OMG,That’s broken,your arm is broken,you have a broken arm,that is broken,OMG that’s broken,your arm is broken, that’s really broken!”

By: mary

mary — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:03:56 +0000

i sneezed once and tore the muscle off of my ribcage. it can make you paranoid of a sneeze.

years ago, my mom lost a large tapestry needle in the shag carpet. i found it the next morning walking barefoot. it went up my big toe into the bone. my parents took me to emergency room where the doctor laughed, then gathered all the interns, telling them it was a chance in a lifetime to see it.

he then gave his car keys to one of the students and told him to go into his trunk and get his tool box. in the meantime, they numbed my big toe. the doc used his locking jaws pliers to pull it out.

it went in so clean, not one drop of blood before or after!

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:37:33 +0000

Eric, something similar happened to me once where I woke up one morning and just couldn’t lift my head off the pillow and I had a sharp pain in my neck. I had to roll myself off the bed and couldn’t turn or move my neck at all. I waited it out for a couple of days because my roommate didn’t think it was anything requiring an emergency room visit. It was scary! Not funny at all!

By: Keona

Keona — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:22:30 +0000

Oh, man I remember having “Nintendo Thumb” sometimes it got so bad I couldn’t play my N64 for days xD I’m starting to think maybe they should have kept the hard joysticks, it caused many kids to put down the games for a little while and do something else. Nowadays they can play for hours without any problems.

By: Jacqui

Jacqui — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:34:14 +0000

Ahh… the power drill one reminds me of my dad. He and I were building a tack shed in my barn when from around the corner I heard him start yelling and screaming. I ran over and saw that he had managed to drill a screw straight through the second knuckle on his middle finger of the right hand. He started cussing and then reversed the drill out. Dad didn’t even go to the hospital… he doesn’t have any problems with the knuckle today though! It sure was scary at the time to come around the corner and see that your dad screwed his hand to the wall… and I mean that screw was all the way in and almost stripped! I don’t know what on earth distracted him so much…

By: Vicki

Vicki — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:44:30 +0000

My son, who unfortunately takes after his dad when it comes to accidents and injuries (but that’s a whole ‘nother article), had a double-whammy with his pointer finger on his right hand. When he was about 4, he stuck it in a metal grinder that was still spinning – so fast in fact that he did not know it was on. It filed off the tip of his finger half way through the nail before he pulled it out! It disrupted his nerves so he has limited feeling. Because of that, he caught the same finger on fire a couple years later when burning some papers in our fire pit. He did not realize the paper had caught fire till he looked down and the tip of his poor finger was on fire! Needless to say, his “damaged” finger has lead to many “cool” stories to tell his friends at school, but nightmares for mom(me)!

By: belle

belle — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:22:03 +0000

chainsaw thingy really made me cringe…

By: Jhonny Paranoid

Jhonny Paranoid — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:04:05 +0000

Damn, now you ruined sneezing AND sandwiches for me! Thankfully drill bits and power tools are already ruined. My friend’s dad was a carpenter. One day he was using the angular grinder with a brittle disc and without the grind ward, he was cutting a metal pipe when the disc chipped and a shrapnel went right through his thorax severing the aorta. He bled out in the scene. After hearing that story I can’t come close to power tools!

By: emmie c

emmie c — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:41:10 +0000

I dislocated my shoulder and subsequently passed out from the pain in the grocery story after picking up a cantelope at what must have been a very awkward angle….that was fun.