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Katharsys
Location: Las Vegas, NV Gender: Female Total Likes: 143 likes
| | | Re: Worst exploring injury? < Reply # 121 on 3/12/2014 4:40 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I've done some pretty crazy/risky things in my explores, but I had my first injury a few weeks ago. I'd like to share the story of how I did it with you. It's called: How to maim or injure yourself by acting like a jack-ass for self portraits in five easy steps Step 1: See something whacky and random, then romanticize about how awesome it would be to take a picture with said whacky/random thing Step 2: Check whacky/random thing for semi-reasonable degree of structural integrity, then set up your shot, dial in your exposure, etc..... Step 3: Set the timer on your camera and set it to take multiple images with the hope that one or two will come out well. Push the shutter button, and run and scramble to get in place for this amazing work of art Step 4: This one's where the magic happens.........So you may have already got "the shot," but go ahead and repeat step 3, you know, just to increase your chances of creating an even more amazing image. Here's the important part: Once you've hit the shutter button and scrambled like hell to get to your position in time, try to mix up your pose a little bit by stepping backwards without looking. If you're lucky, it will turn out that the heaps of stuff you think you're stepping on (without looking at) are not very solid at all, and down you go. Hopefully there is someone nearby to point and laugh. Step 5: Congratulations! You have just successfully maimed or injured yourself out of sheer stupidity, but hey, at least you have the pictures to prove it. Now go high five yourself and nurse those wounds.....or something ;) bonus step: document it a few days later if you can, because everyone knows that wounds and bruises look better after a few days ;)
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| gr8fzy1
Location: Waterbury, CT Gender: Male Total Likes: 67 likes
Fewer and Fewer...
| | | | | Re: Worst exploring injury? < Reply # 131 on 3/31/2014 4:46 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Luckily my worst injury was just a broken ankle. I was in an abandoned brass Mill and the landscaping business next door illegally uses the huge production floor (The factory site is...I believe...65 acres?) for storing soil, gravel, wood chips, anything that they have too much of at the time, I was rounding a pole when out of nowhere a dump truck shows up through the loading bay door and blasts it's horn at me. I TOOK OFF RUNNING as fast as I could, then did something stupid. 250lb fat guys should not look behind them over their shoulders as they are running over uneven terrain. I ran off a 6 inch concrete footing and folding my ankle over 90 degrees under my calf. Tore 3 ligaments and compression fractured both sides of my tibia. I then proceeded to hop my way out of the building on one foot. Then because it was winter, I took off my shoe, poured my water bottle on my sock, stuck the shoe in the basket on the back of my bike, and proceeded to ride back home, pedaling with only my left leg. Went to the hospital the next day when the adrenaline wore off and the swelling started. Spent 4 months on crutches in a fiberglass cast then walked with a cane for a year. Still need the cane occasionally when it get's really cold or damp because my ankle still aggravates me sometimes.
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| denvereen
Location: Denver Gender: Male Total Likes: 40 likes
| | | Re: Worst exploring injury? < Reply # 135 on 5/7/2014 11:19 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I've had a lot of cuts and bruises, some as dramatic as a few seen in this thread. The ONE time I got busted, I had given myself an enormous leg gash on jagged glass on a broken window. One of the cops SERIOUSLY used a marine drill instructor voice to scream in my face "where's the dead body." But I kept insisting I got in on Rebar out in the fields. I described a broken glass door that had fallen off a hiway overpass and that "it's been there for YEARS and you know it."...and they did know it, so it threw them off making such a deal outta the idea that some rape/murder victim was laying out there. But, totally without BLOOD or Gore, I must say that the incident that scared me most happened at a tiny hotel. I was in the abandoned residential yard next door standing on a retaining wall, and I was adjusting my eyes, and getting happier and happier, I could see my whole path to entry, this is gonna be CaaaaAAAAKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEE/YOoooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. I was standing on like ONE square foot of leftover winter ice. I tumbled onto the hotel property and down an outbuilding's cellar stairs. I was in a total "V" position in the stairwell, and my tailbone was hurt bad. I was Stunned, and really couldn't tell how hurt I was. I gotta say, that, unlike some others in this thread, I was OK....got up, and explored, and the pain went away in days, but the dark horror or being trapped like that still lingers with me..."WHAT IF...."..."WHAT IF."....HA....yes, that was a creed song...so suffer like I did. I came to LOVE the place,,,,even slept there later. It burned down a few years ago.
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| Radical_Ed
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA Gender: Male Total Likes: 2728 likes
"You work your life away and what do they give? You're only killing yourself to live!"
| | | Re: Worst exploring injury? < Reply # 136 on 5/8/2014 12:07 AM > | Reply with Quote
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