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Ridiculous Accidents

Changed a drill bit without unplugging the drill, gripped it hard, touched the trigger and turned a finger into spaghetti. Round and round it went.
My Dad drummed it into me that I should change the bit and tighten it before plugging it in.
 
My Dad drummed it into me that I should change the bit and tighten it before plugging it in.

Yup, I was being a DIY genius and changing the bit for a bigger one or summat. Forgot to unplug. Won't do that again!
 
My most stupid one was decades ago. I'd bought a flat with an electric cooker with a ring that wouldn't turn off. So I thought, hmm, I could sort that. Unplugged it at the mains, looked at how to safely disconnect the ring so that I could use the rest of the rings. And then, at some point, I must have turned it on again and directly touched the half-inch thick mains cable. It threw me across the room, but being 30 and fit and healtyh I had no more than a cut finger from the cable. Not sure a youngster or old person would have been quite so well. Hadn't even had a glass of wine, either...
 
About 25 years ago, coming out of the Town End an PNE's football ground, you exited into a narrowish passage, sandwiched by the TA building next door. This led onto the car park.

the passage was crowded with people and we were all filtering out, in a rather squashed fashion. Everyone flowed around a couple of bollards like water around a boulder, except me of course. I was too busy talking to a mate, hit the bollard, fell, body straight, over the bollard and landed on my back on the other side.
 
About 25 years ago, coming out of the Town End an PNE's football ground, you exited into a narrowish passage, sandwiched by the TA building next door. This led onto the car park.

the passage was crowded with people and we were all filtering out, in a rather squashed fashion. Everyone flowed around a couple of bollards like water around a boulder, except me of course. I was too busy talking to a mate, hit the bollard, fell, body straight, over the bollard and landed on my back on the other side.
Happened to me years ago. I was looking at something to my side as I walked along and I fell onto the large wooden bollard. Knocked the wind out of me. I take more care these days.
 
So, she wrecked his stall , then went and stole 6 eggs, hope she see's that and has the decency to offer him something towards the damage
 
A strange accident but not at all funny -

Little boy in critical condition with severe burns after church nativity horror

A schoolboy is in critical condition after an incident during a nativity carol service at a south London church on Wednesday.
The child, believed to be a pupil at a Croydon primary school, reportedly suffered serious burns during a service the school was taking part in at Addiscombe Catholic Church.

Emergency services, including an air ambulance, rushed to the scene just before 2.30pm.

A witness told MyLondon he saw primary school children being escorted from the church in their nativity costumes.

From what I've read, the child's Nativity costume is thought to have caught fire.

This is pure speculation on my part, but I'm wondering if this costume was a sheep or lamb? The reason is that I have read of this sort of accident happening before, twice in fact, where people have suffered burns when an improvised sheep costume caught fire.

Here's one -
RAF pilot set on fire wearing sheep costume

Mr Geraghty was dressed as a sheep and his costume included a large quantity of cotton wool.
The party included a tradition whereby a piano was burnt and, while people were gathered round the blaze, a joke started about how inflammable the sheep costume was, the court heard.

Mr Buckingham is then alleged to have set fire to it using a cigarette lighter. Mr Geraghty suffered burns to his face, neck, shoulders, armpits, upper arms and the back of his legs.

I heard about another such incident when I worked at the local Magistrates' Courts a few years ago, in a case where a young man who was dressed as a sheep (wearing, I think, a piece of the inner part of a duvet) for a fancy dress party was set alight by a friend. He suffered severe burns. This one didn't make the news.

Makes me wonder. The Nativity incident has been put down to the children carrying candles, it wasn't deliberate.
 
Sofa so bad. The sort of thing that happens in cartoons.

A woman left seriously injured by a sofa which fell from a building has said she is "glad to be alive".

Edita Butkeviciute, 30, has been in hospital with injuries to her spine, legs and lungs since the incident in Aberdeen city centre on 7 December. She said she faces three months more in hospital as "everything is broken inside me". Two men, aged 26 and 31, have been charged after the sofa was allegedly thrown from a building.

Ms Butkeviciute, from Lithuania, had stepped outside at the rear of her work to speak to her boyfriend Daniel Ferreira on the phone when the sofa fell. She said: "I remember just waking up, I screamed really loud for help and started feeling cold. I couldn't move."

She said she was probably unconscious for some time.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-50822842
 
Saw this in the Times today at work.
Not sure what heli-skiing is but it sounds dangerous. Seems accidents are rare, though.

FRENCH HELI SKIING GUIDE DIES DURING SAFETY TRAINING

A helicopter took off on top of a mountain with an instructor tangled in a cargo net underneath.

Gaide quickly realized that a bag was missing and rushed back to the helicopter which unknowingly took off with the instructor caught in the cargo netting. Unable to make contact with the pilot or hold on to the netting, Gaide tragically fell hundreds of feet to his death on the French side of the mountain where his body was later recovered.
 
Another ridiculous accident involving a gun ...
A father's concealed weapon went off when he was play-wrestling with his toddler, police say. Both were shot in the head

A 4-year-old boy and his father sustained gunshot wounds to the head after the man's concealed weapon accidentally discharged while the two were play-wrestling, police said.

The 36-year-old man was playing with the toddler in their home in Bloomington, Indiana, when his handgun slipped out from his back and went off, the Monroe County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. The shot struck them both in the head, the office said.

The 4-year-old remains in critical condition at a children's hospital in Bloomington. His father is expected to recover, the office said.

The sheriff's office wouldn't say whether the father was charged, citing the ongoing investigation. ...

SOURCE: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/24/us/father-son-play-wrestling-shot-head-trnd/index.html
 
Anecdote I heard today at work, from the horse's very mouth -

A colleague was standing on a stepladder to put something on a high shelf at home. The shelf had some screws sticking out of the edge for hanging things on.*
The ladder wobbled, and he grabbed at the shelf before falling off. His wedding ring caught on an exposed screw and degloved his finger.

It didn't hurt right away but after picking himself and the ladder up, he noticed that his finger felt sore. He looked at it and noticed that it was somehow different...

And that's how he lost his finger. The subject came up when he was handed a ring as lost property and put it on his little finger, and mentioned that it was the first ring he'd worn since The Accident.

*What's wrong with cup hooks, I want to know!
 
I don't have a male body part and it makes me cringe! Poor man!
 
That gives me second thoughts about using a ladder when no one else is around, even though I have a little head and couldn't get it stuck in any ladder I've ever seen.
Maybe it's safer to use stilts.
 
That gives me second thoughts about using a ladder when no one else is around, even though I have a little head and couldn't get it stuck in any ladder I've ever seen.
Maybe it's safer to use stilts.

Yup, I decided years ago never to work up a ladder if I'm alone in the house. This came from reading about some spectacular fatal accidents described in pathologists' memoirs. For example, one woman fell off a ladder while wallpapering and landed on the big decorating shears she'd been carrying in her apron pocket.*

*I also don't carry sharp objects in apron pockets.
 
For example, one woman fell off a ladder while wallpapering and landed on the big decorating shears she'd been carrying in her apron pocket.
Yikes! That's far worse than running with scissors!
 
Yikes! That's far worse than running with scissors!

We've got that :)

SUSPECTED ROBBER STABS HIMSELF WITH SWORD, DIES
suspected burglar’s plans to rob a house in Welgelegen took a turn for the worst when he reportedly sustained a self-inflicted stab wound with a sword which was apparently among his stash of stolen items, and bled to death just outside the targeted premises on Tuesday.
Blood stains against the wall and on the sidewalk outside the residence on Gen de la Rey Street was evident of a serious injury.

read:https://sauncut.co.za/suspected-robber-stabs-himself-with-sword-dies/
 
Yikes! That's far worse than running with scissors!

Another bizarre fatal accident involved a teenage boy who was found dead from lack of blood at home, alone, possibly naked - I can't remember - with all the doors and windows securely locked. The only wound was on the sole of one foot.

He'd been helping himself to Dad's whisky while his parents were out, overdone it, heard what he thought was his parents' return, panicked, put the lights out, dropped and smashed a glass, stepped on it with a bare foot and quickly bled to death because of the fear-effect of adrenalin on his heart rate.

All this was conjecture on the part of Prof Keith Simpson, who was famous for solving cases with sudden unexpected discoveries.
 
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