Not a lot has heppend to me thank goodness.
However, the same can't be said for many people I know. The most horrific thing that springs to mind happened at Leeds Festival in 2001.

Having been at the festival for a couple of days and wandering around the surrounding area rather inebriated a few of us came across a bridge over a river with people jumping off of it and generally larking around. I tend to be a bit of a scaredy cat when it comes to this type of thing, but a couple of the lads I was with thought this would be a great idea.

Jumping off of a bridge whilst hammered on cans of Blackthorn. What could possibly go wrong?

Anyway, one of the lads, Lee, was running back round laughing and joking for his second jump into the river, climbed aloft the wall and jumped in feet first. Doing a silly jump and pulling faces was all great fun. A couple of seconds later, he surfaced and came to the edge of the river looking rather gaunt. As he climbed out we were all still in fits of laughter and rolling about the place until we realised his foot was losing blood at quite an alarming rate.

At first we thought the problem wasn't too serious and the blood was just diluted and therefore the wound looked far worse than it actually was. That was until we looked a little closer and realised that he was in fact one little piggy short of a full sty. Somehow, he must have landed on something on the river bed and taken his little toe clean off.

That was our queue to tear off t-shirts to try to stem the bleeding and one lad to be violently sick. Ambulance arrives, Lee is taken to hospital and spends the next day and a half there and the next year and a half in physio (contrary to popular belief, you do have a little toe for a reason).

We laughed at him for a bit as he lay there, drank a can outside A & E and went back to carry on with the festival.
( currantbun is nubtnarruc backwards, Mon 2 Aug 2010, 8:37, 1 reply)

See, that's why you should always keep your shoes on when you're jumping into water.
I've jumped into rivers, fountains, lakes, freezing oceans, you name it, always in trainers or Doc Martens. OK, they get wet, but you keep your toes.

Having worked at a gym and seen many swimming-related toe injuries, I wear pool shoes in swimming pools too.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Mon 2 Aug 2010, 9:47, closed)