playground injuries
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- anzelina
when you were a kid, surely you flipped over the swingset bar, or dove down the slide, or dropped off of the monkey bars.
once i was traversing the monkey bars and fell off and sprained my elbow. years (10 or more) later, a girl apologized for pushing me off. and i thought i had just fallen off!
- patnoodle0
did you break her legs?
- -leah-0
i never got hurt but when my brother was about 6 he fell of the monkey bars and split his head open and broke his arm. when my dad found it he was like "oh he'll be fine" luckily my mom took him to the hospital!!!
- -leah-0
oooh i know one thing that happened to me! when i was 11 u was fishing off the dock for bullheads and i hooked my finger straight through with a rusty fish hook! my dad (he is such a hard ass, god love him) took my hand, cut the hook off and yanked the rest out, i was traumatized i tell you! and i still have the scar to this day
- anzelina0
eesh!
a friend of mine rode his bike down the driveway into the garage door.
he always had so many bruises from accidents that the school administration questioned his parents because they thought he was being beaten.
- derek20050
i reached out to slide down the pole.. (about 15 feet up) and i completly missed it and fell on concrete... i got a concussion and woke up in the office..
that was grade 3
- mg330
Man, there would be lawsuits galore for the stuff we did on playgrounds.
From seeing how horizontal you could get the chains on a swing (rememeber how it would just go slack and you'd freefall for a second and just get jerked back into it's motion)
to
Spinning the tire swing so fast you looked like you were in an astronaut centrefuge.
to
accessing the parts of the wooden playgrounds that weren't meant to be climbed, like the highest support beams, or scaling the outside walls.You just brought back memories that are about 20 years old. :)
- k0na_an0k0
i was shot six times by a fellow 3rd grader over playground turf wars.
- mg330
Anyone else have those playgrounds with pea gravel?
My mom swore that over the course of preschool-third grade I brought home at least 1/3 of the playground in my shoes.
- chumm0
one warmish slushy winter day in first grade - before we had pea gravel under the big slide - I decided to go down ninja-squat style, but I got hung up at the top, did a nose dive to the pavement, and ended up with a busted lip and a scabby face.
ninjas are still sweet...
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- SteveJobs0
don't remember any playground injuries, but a particular bike accident stands out. i built this ramp with a large board and several bricks and other items to prop it up. the painfull engineering of that ramp was probably equally proportionate to the suffering i endured when i jumped it, dipped my handlebars forward too far, and then twisted them so that one end was firmly planted in the ground and the other in my stomach. i've had the wind knocked out of me on several occasions, but this one instance i was really scared because it seemed like an eternity before i could finally get air back in my lungs. i think i got like 4 feet of air on that jump though...
- k0na_an0k0
sweeeeeet
- brandelec0
my buddy and i were nine and we hauled a bike to the top of the slide and i took the pilot seat and he stood on the peg bars on the rear wheel.. we cleared i good 6 feet horizontaly then the front wheel jabbed straight into the concrete ground flipping us both over the handle bars, i landed on my stomach and his fat ass landed on the back of my head.. got ten stitches on my chin and a shiner
- gabriel20
5th grade was playing touch football, I threw a hail mary and watched as the kid trying to catch it ran mouth-first into a chainlink fence post. Poor guy lost 9 teeth. Actually had the nurse out there later picking up his teeth.
- zedvox0
dudes
i have1. 6 stitches on my right eyebrow and 2 on my upper lip...cuz i wanted to to shave whe ni was 5..i cut my lip bad and then slipped and slid across the wet bathroom floor hittin the corner of the door on my upper eyebrow.
2. i have 4 stiches on my knee i was playing cricket on the street and dove to catch a ball hit the pavement with pebbles. nasty.
3. A friends German shepard took a nic lil chunk of my nose have around 8 stiches cus of that.
i am a pretty boy.
- shaft0
I wonder if I still want to have kids after this thread..
- brandelec0
don't forget the 6 stitches in your ass pretty boy
:O
;)
- SteveJobs0
when i was about 11, my cousing took me for a ride on his 4-wheeler. for some reason he didn't see a low hanging branch that clocked in around 8in in diameter and then clocked him square in the forehead. no wait, there's more. consider the catapult effect: head catches branch. head absorbs energy and transfers energy as it pushes the branch back several inches. energy transfered from branch to back seat recipient. passengers ejected from bike...
- lymlyt0
first day of kindergarten, put my hand down on part of the cement playground equipment not realizing there was a wasp there --- damn thing stung me right in the middle of my palm, but i'm pretty sure i smashed and killed it. haha.
- anzelina0
this fall i rode a quad for the first time. it was broken, and the throttle was stuck open.
long story short i got my leg stuck under the rear wheel and ran myself over. kind of jacked up my leg for a while.
- waynepixel0
I was going down hell sitting on a skateboard and hit a small pot hole full of stones and broken glass. My hands got trapped between the skateboard and pot hole, and then the skateboard wheels run over my hand and cut the knuckles to bits.
Yep it hurt.