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Bluffboy says: My mate cheated death and burned his eyebrows off looking down the barrel of a potato gun. Tell us about your brushes with the Grim Reaper through stupidity.

(, Thu 12 Feb 2009, 20:01)
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Three mishaps so far in my short life
The first one I am too young to remember but I have been told many times about it from my family. I was 3 years old and I fell in to a pond, knocking me out for a few minutes. The resulting trauma caused me to lose my sense of smell and I gained a horizontal scar on the left side of my forehead.

The second one I was about 8 years ago. I was helping to clear a bridle path by sawing the overgrown branches out of the way. I pulled a big branch down to saw it and just as I got to the end, it pinged up and twatted me in the face, resulting in a concussion for 3 days and a vertical scar on the right side of my forehead. Luckily I had just moved 1/2 inch backwards otherwise I would have lost my eye.

The third one was a few years ago when I got my second motorbike, it was the 2nd jan and I decided that I wanted to have a go on it even though it was snowing. I was outside my garage (going so slow that the digital dial was reading 0mph) hit a piece of black ice, fell over with the bike falling on my leg resulting in a broken ankle and 6 weeks on crutches.

That was the year I stopped having "Will not end up in hospital for any reason" as my New Years resolution.
(, Fri 13 Feb 2009, 16:35, Reply)

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