What is the stupidest accident you've ever had as a child?
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I stood on Lego.
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Electric shock.
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I wasn't allowed to have accidents.
Leap frogging over some concrete bollards wearing a gaberdine mac when I was about 8. Got over the first and second ones but on the third one my mac didn't clear the top. It tilted me over and my face hit the bottom of the fourth post. Knocked a few of my teeth out, (luckily baby teeth so new ones grew eventually), scraped my face and hands. Luckily I lived about 25 yards away and some woman, who knew our family, picked me up and took me home to mum.
Not as a child, but, years ago we had one of those old fashioned televisions, the ones with the thick glass screen and a control panel under the screen, no remote control back then. One night I'd gone to bed and the mrs shouted for me to come down and sort the telly out as it was playing up. I went downstairs in nothing but a vest and crouched down in front of the telly to try and tune it in. We had a young kitten at the time and he reached up and scrammed my balls causing my head to go through the tv screen knocking me out cold. The mrs called an ambulance and when they were carrying me out on a stretcher she told them how it happened, they laughed so much they dropped the stretcher and I broke my fecking arm.
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my sympathies..!
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Didn't happen!
I'll tell you why.
The glass on those things is tough as heck. I was given a huge old TV in a wooden cabinet to get rid of in the 90s.
To make it easier to carry, I broke it down so the largest (and heaviest) part was the CRT.
Me and someone else threw it over the wall at the tip onto a concreted area.
No word of a lie, it landed intact.
Oh, and the other thing about the ambulance men laughing so much they dropped you ....
Tea boy jim, nothing else to do?
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When I was about 7 or 8, me and my uncle were sitting on a sofa at one end of the lounge. My mum was about halfway between us and the other end of the room, knitting. We had a dart on a piece of thick fishing line and we were throwing it up the end of the room and pulling it back with the fishing line. I gave it a hard throw and it stuck in the skirting. I gave it a tug as it was stuck fast but when it came out it flew back and hit my head. I turned round to look for it but at the same time my mum and my uncle started screaming. It had lodged firmly in my forehead! I just pulled it out. It was then that I got told off by my mum! I shudder now to think what could have happened.
I was playing darts with my cousin one day, think we were about 6 or 7 at the time. My turn to throw and he stood in front of the board daring me to hit the board surrounding him. I kept telling him to move but he wouldn't so, in the end, I threw one of the darts. Straight through his left cheek and the point was touching his tongue. Screamed blue murder, I got a hiding and he still has a strange dimple in his cheek nearly 60 years later.
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"Me Dad" & an uncle used to have a sideline in blowing up tree trunks when the big field clearances were happening, you could buy Dynamite from a good agricultural suppliers in them days (pre IRA) & it had many uses on the farm. He first took me & my mate from t'village when we were 8yrs old. Not one for showing off he placed a second charge that would hopefully & dramatically chuck the stump up in the air.
It didn't, it went off pretty much the same time as the first charge, meaning all his safety calculations were well off . . . .
We were tucked behind the Landy when all the grass went flat, the Landy lifted 45deg over the top of us as I watched my uncle rolling off down the field. It wasn't a loud BANG, more of a thump, but you felt it in your chest.
I remember me dad saying "Shhh, don't tell yer mam" & me replying "Dad me ears are bleeding"
It didn't, it went off pretty much the same time as the first charge, meaning all his safety calculations were well off . . . .
We were tucked behind the Landy when all the grass went flat, the Landy lifted 45deg over the top of us as I watched my uncle rolling off down the field. It wasn't a loud BANG, more of a thump, but you felt it in your chest.
I remember me dad saying "Shhh, don't tell yer mam" & me replying "Dad me ears are bleeding"
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I used to make pushbikes from old bits of bike I could scrounge or find. I took one magnificent beast out for a test ride round the block, and this particular bike had one of those brackets for a front lamp on one of the fork legs, and it had come loose and was not on straight. In one of my not so bright moments I decided that a hefty push with my foot would straiten it up and proceeded to kick it while still moving, Doh! Should have got a Darwin award for that.
Did something similar to a friend when we were kids. We were messing around on bikes and I threw a short branch at him as he rode past me. Unfortunately it went in the front spokes and jammed against the forks. Was quite spectacular to see him and the rest of the bike cartwheeling over the handlebars. Luckily he was almost unscathed.
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