People shared their weird, ridiculous and embarrassing accidents – our 21 favourites
At any given moment, there’ll be someone sitting in a hospital’s Emergency Department in your area, as a result of an accident that the doctors and nurses will snigger about later. Elle Gato on Twitter is only too well aware of this kind of accident, for reasons which will become apparent, so they asked people to share their anecdotes.
So because a family member of mine was recently hurt in a Weird Freak Accident, tell me Twitter what's the weirdest/most ridiculous/funniest/most embarrassing way you've seriously hurt yourself? Seriously meaning more than just like, a bruise or a small cut
— Elle Maruska (they/them) (@ellle_em) April 29, 2019
They followed it up with several personal examples, including these:
Mine: I tripped over my dog and spilled hot tea all over my arm. It was so bad I had to go to the hospital for third-degree burns
I burnt myself another time when I tripped over literally nothing and stumbled into my stepdad's motorcycle that was still super hot
— 🌻Elle 🐈 Gato🌻 (they/them) (@ellle_em) April 29, 2019
My husband: he'd broken his leg skiing when he was 12 but a few weeks afterward, while he was still in the cast, he pushed so hard while taking a shit that he strained the muscles in his neck and couldn't turn his head for a week
— 🌻Elle 🐈 Gato🌻 (they/them) (@ellle_em) April 29, 2019
If the responses are anything to go by,t seems Twitter people are horribly accident prone, and are quite possibly idiots.
Some people hurt themselves doing stuff that shouldn’t have been dangerous.
1.
I cut my hand open on bread, and needed surgery to fix the damage. https://t.co/KJMyxsmN6H
— Sarah Kage (@Purpliser) April 30, 2019
2.
I worked in a bakery for the summer last year and a lot of our stock was on super high shelves, so I would just stretch to try and reach, but I overextended so severely reaching for cupcake foils that I TORE MY ACL https://t.co/1qfC1sI4wJ
— Shiro’s Left Tit | College Hard (@nuttinonice) April 30, 2019
3.
I was standing on a step stool (max 1' off the ground) and fell off and broke my wrist in 3 places https://t.co/tXTrhaMGGz
— finally got noticed (@finallydressage) April 30, 2019
4.
https://twitter.com/c8_marie/status/1123259620322156546
5.
Gave myself concussion by power walking into a lamp post. A male friend accompanied me to A&E, where staff were convinced that he was a domestic abuser as nobody could possibly be so stupid as to sustain a serious head injury by walking into a lamp post.
— Samara Ginsberg (@samaracello) April 29, 2019
6.
Getting my sunglasses out of the car, and trying to put them on I scratched my cornea with the ear piece and flinched back so hard I gave myself a concussion hitting the door frame.
— monkeypawwishes (@monkeypawwishes) April 29, 2019
7.
Dislocated a shoulder taking my socks off.
(There is a more embarrassing one but my students read my Twitter so a big nope to telling that one publicly on this hellsite)
— Nicholas G. Evans (@neva9257) April 29, 2019
8.
I was trying to erase a dry-erase board and threw out my shoulder because I got too zealous 🙄
— Emma (@emmagoddamn) April 29, 2019
9.
Broke a rib while trying to lift this critter out of the bathtub. She decided that she didn't want to be in the air, so she alligator-rolled. I managed not to drop her, but did not manage to avoid injury. pic.twitter.com/BFfhUZXuvY
— Andreth (@AndrethSaelind) April 29, 2019
10.
Not really hurt but fucking dumb. I was in bed and tv controls were on the floor so I lent down to get them, my arm gave way and I headbutted the floor, the bad news: there was a drawing pin on the floor. Yep drawing pin in my forehead. https://t.co/Eio7N0aZTl
— Kat Sewell (@katrinnas) April 30, 2019
11.
Burst all the blood vessels in one eye when I coughed while pooing 💩💩💩 pic.twitter.com/fqaY2Gp7ty
— Molly (@molliotti) April 30, 2019
12.
I'm an aerialist so my usual workouts can be dangerous if I'm not careful.
Last year I broke two toes by tripping over nothing when I was running to warm up.
— Miau (@comradeMiau) April 29, 2019