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Was in the attic of the offices at a cement mill mindlessly flipping through some paperwork and walking around. The roof trusses were low (about eye-level) and in my absent-mindedness managed to bash my head off one. Knocked my ass out cold and came to to my friend laughing hysterically.
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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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Was climbing an extra tall fence, and my sweater got caught and while trying to get it off I fell and did this
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Posted by Katharsys
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
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This was a Great share  Thanks
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I've been pretty lucky so far but I have stepped on a nail that went through my shoe while I was exploring an abandoned factory. Luckily the nail didn't go very deep but it still hurt like a bitch. Other than that I've gotten a couple of scratches from climbing through windows but last night I got a pretty nice cut climbing over a fence.
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This was a Great share Thanks
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Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it. hahah
It was definitely one of those *face, palm* moments, but I figure you just gotta be able to laugh at yourself over stuff like this.
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Posted by Katharsys
Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed it. hahah
It was definitely one of those *face, palm* moments, but I figure you just gotta be able to laugh at yourself over stuff like this.
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Yeah, step 4 sounds pretty familiar.
My closest call was having a big piece of timber roll out from under me when trying to cross a flooded section of mine. Did a belly flop into 18" of cold water, back pack and all. I turned my head to the side just in time to keep from knocking a few teeth out on a big rock. Took a good shot to the jaw though. Once everyone knew I was OK, the guys got a bit of a laugh out of it. Yeah, I'm a clutz! The next 4 hours were pretty miserable though. Made me glad I was wearing fleece rather than cotton.
Abby Normal
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I decided to do a spontaneous roof climb of an elementary school about a month and a half back. I stepped onto a metal fence post to reach the roof, and upon pulling myself up, slipped on the roof because it was raining. I immediately fell back down and onto the pole that I used to pull myself up, impaling myself. I was in the hospital for 2 weeks. Had 9 surgeries. Aaaaaaand hopefully will be healed soon! Good advice for anyone: do not climb when there is sharp shit below you. EVER.
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I put my entire left leg through a shoddy wooden floor a while back. I didn't break any bones but I did end up with a purple/yellow/black/orange bruise and welt the entire size of my thigh.
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Posted by Katharsys
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:
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That's what you get for copying my "Boat in the Desert" selfie..
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Posted by DigitalDirtbag
That's what you get for copying my "Boat in the Desert" selfie..
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First of all, this is some straight inner city shit. Second, mine = way more epic. Hahahaha. Still have the scar to prove it.
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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.
Softly creeping through
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Worse to happen was a jammed knee from jumping in a window and a few cuts/scrapes.Been super careful because i explore alone and I have had luck on my side thus far.
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I stepped up my game last week. I had descended a shaft down a ladder about 20 feet to an incline. After stepping off the ladder the rope dislodged a rock about the size of a grapefruit. My exploring buddy shouted "rock" so I tried to wedge myself behind the ladder. The falling rock caught me on the left shoulder and the left forearm before tumbling down the incline. No broken bones but a good bit of blood and an arm that I can't lift over my head. Not sure yet if a trip to the orthopedic Dr is in order. Of course it could have been much worse if it had hit an inch or two either way. A broken clavicle or shoulder blade, or a hit directly on on my helmet. As painful as it has been, it could have been a much worse situation. Five pounds from 15 or 20 feet carries a lot of energy when it hits.
Abby Painful
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Posted by Abby Normal
I stepped up my game last week. I had descended a shaft down a ladder about 20 feet to an incline. After stepping off the ladder the rope dislodged a rock about the size of a grapefruit. My exploring buddy shouted "rock" so I tried to wedge myself behind the ladder. The falling rock caught me on the left shoulder and the left forearm before tumbling down the incline. No broken bones but a good bit of blood and an arm that I can't lift over my head. Not sure yet if a trip to the orthopedic Dr is in order. Of course it could have been much worse if it had hit an inch or two either way. A broken clavicle or shoulder blade, or a hit directly on on my helmet. As painful as it has been, it could have been a much worse situation. Five pounds from 15 or 20 feet carries a lot of energy when it hits.
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Yikes!! Glad you're okay
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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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"Are you happy now with all the choices you've made?" "Are there times in life when you know you should've stayed?"
"Will you compromise and then realize the price is too much to pay?" "Winners and losers... which one will you be today?"
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Did you mean to post this in the "Scavenger Hunt" thread..?
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Mos' def', yo.
"Are you happy now with all the choices you've made?" "Are there times in life when you know you should've stayed?"
"Will you compromise and then realize the price is too much to pay?" "Winners and losers... which one will you be today?"
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Tore my jeans climbing through a window once. I'm pretty risk averse and lazy for an explorer I guess.
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