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"XSMP failpost hole digger 11563 Posts user info edit post i saw a guy get electrocuted by a power line - it split his arm like a hot dog in the microwave. 6/26/2008 1:53:32 AM hypaone All American 6750 Posts user info edit post Holy shit, for real? Damn now that would be some crazy shit to see. Did it smell like hotdog too? 6/26/2008 1:56:04 AM"

no - it smelled for all the world like beef/chicken and african hair salon

[Edited on June 26, 2008 at 1:57 AM. Reason : .]

6/26/2008 1:56:54 AM

um.. you have much olfactory experience in african salons?

I got electrocuted before, but it was much less severe. Did leave a small burn mark on my finger though and made the right side of my body feel this weird tingling.

6/26/2008 1:58:54 AM

the salon reference infers burning hair smell.

6/26/2008 2:00:05 AM

I figured. So where were you when you saw this? I can't imagine going through that... looking down and seeing my arm split like a hotdog.

6/26/2008 2:01:57 AM

at spring break in panama city beach one year, i was outside in the hotel pool (it was shared between our hotel and the hotel next door). I heard a scream and a "SMACK", jumped up out of the pool and ran next door to the other hotel to find that a dude had fallen over the 4th or 5th floor balcony rail and landed on the concrete. i think he hit head first or pretty close to it. He wasn't completely dead then, but he was by the time the ambulance got there or shortly thereafter.

6/26/2008 2:03:00 AM

oh it killed him
after fran during clean up phase i was helping clear some fallen trees, and dude across the street was cutting a tree off the lines when one broke and swung into him - he didn't scream or anything.

6/26/2008 2:04:05 AM

I've seen an explosive take off a guy's leg and the most of another's face.

It looked like someone had punched a hole in a watermelon. Miraculously he lived.

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6/26/2008 8:57:59 AM

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"Motorcyclist was traveling WAAAY too fast down Friendly Ave. headed out of town. For those of you not familiar with the area, there is a quirky turn right at the top of a hill near Aycock street."

.....hahaha AYCOCK STREET....funny...

6/26/2008 11:39:50 AM

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"I got electrocuted before"

No you didn't, unless you are posting from beyond the grave.

6/26/2008 11:41:06 AM

Aparently i broke my leg once...

Cracked my skull i think that would be up there... 13 staples to hold the skull fragment(s) in place.

seen a guy slice his calf in half with a bicycle disk brake.

thats pretty much it.

6/26/2008 11:44:08 AM

^^ "the word "electrocution" is a portmanteau for "electrical execution"

6/26/2008 11:47:09 AM

in like 6th grade a buddy and i were rollerblading and he did something weird one one of his legs just basically did a 180 at the knee

his knee cap kinda slid down to his calf and his foot was facing the wrong way

it was weird, b/c he was just cruising along going straight but one of his feet i guess decided to go apeshit

i still cant explain how it happened

i haven't really seen a lot of carnage in real life though


ohyeah and i powerboat race once some dudes boat fucked up and he sunk and drowned.

6/26/2008 11:50:01 AM

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"i still cant explain how it happened"

its actually fairly common for people to slip their kneecap out of place

it's just kinda chilling on top of the joint

6/26/2008 11:51:48 AM

weird.

oh yeah another one

when we were small kids we used to have those huge physical therapy balls in the playroom to bounce around on a shit

we got into the habit of jumping off the couch and launching off the balls

it was pretty unpredictable as to what direction you'd get shot into, and it was kinda perilous looking back

one sister of mine did this, and she kinda went ass first through my other sister's planted on the floor leg and pretty much exploded her fibia/tibia

6/26/2008 11:55:40 AM

your sentence structure leaves a lot to be desired today

6/26/2008 11:57:20 AM

I was soldering together a battery pack at one of my R/C races back in the day and I was wearing my high school ring.

The ring shorted out the pack by accident and it literally ZAPPED the tip of my ring finger off, up to the tip of the nail.

Smelled horrible and felt even worse.

6/26/2008 11:57:55 AM

I think the worst injury I have seen was a girl breaking her arm falling off the monkey bars sometime around second grade. Lame.

6/26/2008 11:58:39 AM

ha - in first grade a black kid named jermaine cut open his bicep on a chain link fence - the color contrast between DARKNESS and the yellowy color underneath was disgusting.

6/26/2008 12:10:16 PM

That reminds me of the time the kind in my class who thought he was all bad-ass had to jump the fence to get a ball that went over, and when he came back he was standing on top of the fence and went to jump down, but one of his shoelaces got caught and he landed flat on his face. It wasn't a bad injury, but it was a hilarious one.

6/26/2008 12:18:08 PM

in HS i saw a fight that ended with a guy getting pushed through a huge plate glass window...later that week, the other guy got thrown off the 2nd floor balcony for the guy through the window.

6/26/2008 12:40:22 PM

Dark skinned Jermaine

6/26/2008 12:41:00 PM

I haven't really seen any horrible injuries, but in high school, my band director was conducting and just stopped all of a sudden and held his left arm and walked into his office really fast. It turns out he had dislocated it. He came back within 5 minutes and kept conducting, what a B.A.

6/26/2008 12:55:16 PM

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"I got electrocuted before"

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"No you didn't, unless you are posting from beyond the grave."

Ok fine. But an electric shock went through a light switch and through my damn finger.

[Edited on June 26, 2008 at 2:25 PM. Reason : oops]

6/26/2008 2:24:45 PM

I hate that. It happened to me once hanging the top half of my body off a catwalk. My arms got all tingly. Not a feeling I'd like to reenact.

6/26/2008 2:28:37 PM

I've gotten light fixture-electrocuted a number of times.

Doesn't approach what I would call bad. It's a strong and violent tingle, but not much more. Do a demo for a taser gun and you will know a new kind of pain.

6/26/2008 2:37:28 PM

I was playing Center Forward in a soccer game and my buddy who was playing Left Forward got hit. When he tried to get up, his leg 2/3 of the way down his shin had snapped and was hanging there.


Yummy

6/26/2008 2:54:19 PM

i havent seen to many nasty things happen but i was in EMS for 5 years and i can go toe to toe with evan on death...ive seen the things nightmares are made of

saw a gey get the fuck beat out of him in highschool. the beater upper had a padlock and used it like knuckles and beat that guy into a bloody mess.

i saw my friend get his hand sliced open after he tried to catch this can lid i threw it at him...(we were kids) he had to get a crazy amount of stitches.

other than all the shit ive seen after the fact...thats all i got

6/26/2008 3:06:18 PM

damn. I can't imagine the stuff emergency personnel must see during any given day. Seeing any blood other than my own gives me chills... I know I would probably pass out or puke. Lame.

6/27/2008 3:04:03 AM

My sister was walking through the library, somehow tripped, and bit her tongue in half.

It's never good when you go to the pediatrician and they say, "Oh my! I need to go get my medical book!"

6/27/2008 3:08:33 AM

pretty much everything I could add to this thread happened in the mid-east; so that probably DQ's my stuff.

6/27/2008 3:11:18 AM

I think it's fair game.

6/27/2008 3:21:42 PM

me too

6/27/2008 9:17:23 PM

I've seen quite a few but right off the top of my head...

I was sitting at a traffic light in the back seat just looking out of the window at this drunk guy who climbed up one of those portable lifts to change street lights and other hard to reach places...he fell and hit every post on the way down and landed on the concrete right in front of me...i didn't say anything and the driver of our car just drove away...no one else noticed. I think he died or at least it seemed that way when his gf was screaming bloody murder.

6/27/2008 9:23:08 PM

double homicide at a tailgate

6/27/2008 9:55:37 PM

I saw a guy hold an opponent's wifes hand... in acid... at a party. That was pretty gruesome.

6/27/2008 11:13:24 PM

Was it George Washington?

6/27/2008 11:15:25 PM

I'm not sure, all I remember was that he was 12 stories tall and made of radiation.



[Edited on June 27, 2008 at 11:23 PM. Reason : durka]

6/27/2008 11:20:43 PM

:-/

6/30/2008 2:14:51 AM

The Emergency Room guys know that as soon as they see the people coming in wearing the funny white pyjamas, it's going to be gruesome.
Kama are these nasty little hand-sized sickles that cause all sorts of untold destruction to the person wielding them. They're so sharp, mostly you just end up slicing your leg as you swing it around, and not even noticing you're cut, until everyone is staring at your very red pants leg and the tatamis need to be bleached.
The best injury was when one of our black-belts was bringing the kama from behind him, point-first, in what was supposed to be a swooping upwards strike. He failed to clear his hip, and the kama ended up embedded a few inches deep in the meat of his ass.
One year at a camp, a different karate guy got drunk and tried to show off his breaking skills. He shattered most of the bones in his hand. I will never forget the floppy rubber-glove look it had as he was rolling around on the ground.
Judo gets some GREAT ONES, too. There was the newbie that tried to reach behind himself one time as he was being thrown backwards, with another judoka on top of him. Snapped his arm right above the elbow joint.
We have these neat rolling break falls in judo, sort of a front somersault with a break fall at the end. Oh no, this won't end badly... Guy did a superman dive, landed right on his head, fractured something in his neck. That scared the crap out of all of us, and I still don't know how he managed to survive, let alone not get paralyzed.
Speaking of demonstrations, just this past month at Animazement, we had a guy dislocate his shoulder on the mat. He actually pulled off one of the most beautiful flying arm-bars I had ever seen, but landed bad, and we could all see he didn't move for a second (his wonderful partner, though, was nice enough to writhe around in pain so that the audience didn't notice) but we were all sure he had at least knocked himself out on the landing. Luckily judo uniforms are big and padded, so nobody noticed the sag in his shoulder...
I can keep going on this shit forever, man. The guy that dislocated his wrist during a judo match, got it set and splinted, and got back on and won the match. My brother almost got paralyzed once from being body-slammed right on his head. The two women that had to be cut apart with wire cutters at the end of a judo match (much longer story, and it was the greatest thing I've ever seen.) Just...wow, in the martial arts, do we know the funniest ways to hurt ourselves.

6/30/2008 7:38:12 AM

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"just this past month at Animazement"

Most of the people who go there are complete idiots, so it doesn't surprise me that someone would hurt themselves in that venue.

6/30/2008 8:31:33 AM

never seen a bad injury at all

never even witnessed a broken bone except when I was kicked in the finger during 9th grade gym class

6/30/2008 9:11:47 AM

I want more gory details, plz.

7/9/2008 3:53:53 AM

Saw someone tear their ACL at a tournament once

it looked extremely painful even though there was no blood

7/9/2008 4:04:36 AM

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"I was on my way to a bar after a State football game, when we stopped because there was a tiny accident and people were helping move it to the side... and then BAM... but I'm sure most State students know all about that accident. "

Was there.... was actually in command of the scene, actually had to chose life or death for 2 of the people...

there was no court... he plead down

as for worst injury that didn't result in death..... prolly the lady who was head-on hit on i-40 by a drunk driver. Had a femur fracture that went through the dashboard of the car. That was an interesting one.

Have seen countless deaths by traumatic injury including crushing, gunshot, ripping in half, burning, kids ran over by cars, etc... where to start

7/9/2008 9:46:30 AM

I was working for the Red Cross at the state fair a few years ago, and a carnie came in after mostly amputating two of his fingers... they were just hanging on by pieces of skin He seemed ok about it. We pretty much just stabilized it and sent him to the hospital.

However, the dude stunk like ass. I never did find out which ride mangled him.

7/9/2008 10:53:50 AM

^ typical carnie injuries... that's the one thing I hate about the fair the most.... carnies....

7/9/2008 3:30:46 PM

saw a girl come out of one of those moon bounce obsticle courses with her arm broken in half

7/9/2008 3:57:51 PM

saw a buddy get his nipple rings ripped off by a volleyball net

7/9/2008 4:02:13 PM

I saw this guy get killed at a drag racing event a few years back. The guy was in one of those jet cars and it flipped, spun around, hit the wall and burned to the ground. The safety crew really sucked at that event.

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7/9/2008 4:05:27 PM

Ahhh damn... some good (?) ones coming in now.

7/9/2008 5:52:59 PM