milo Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 I just had another one happen to me today. I almost got into 4 seperate wrecks in the space of half-an-hour. I was driving to Wendy's to get a bite to eat. In the first incident, my car stalled out in the middle of the intersection right when I was in the middle of turning (I drive a stick, left it in 3rd gear). Then, as I'm pulling out of the Wendy's parking lot, I realize I can't turn left, so I put it in reverse without looking behind me, and I almost bash into a car. Then, as I'm waiting at a stop light to turn right, I use my awful judgement and turn right in front of a car, narrowly avoiding colliding with it. And finally, as I'm driving home, I slowly begin to drift into oncoming traffic while I try and eat my fries, and swerve to avoid an SUV. Needless to say, my friends are too scared to drive with me anymore. Why am I such a dumbass? *sigh* The worst part is, they were all my fault too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSR Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 erm.. well played? dude, retake you're test, eating whilst driving is as bad as talking on the phone...;xp: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ztalker Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 @milojmiles: That's got to be the worst thing mentioned in this thread..congrats...i think @ Topic: It happend in the seventies...my long-haired dad and long-haired mates were living and hanging around, and my dad's mate, Bob, worked at somekind of metal-industry thingy. He always tighted his haird into a knot, but forgot it this time. It got into somekind of machine, and was ripped out of his skull. What are the odds that, when you forget to tight your hair together, the worst thing possible happens...stroke of bad luck? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSR Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 erm, blatant stupidity? we got that rule drilled into our heads when we first started machinework in year 7! and most of the lads didnt even have long hair! (then emo came along...) still, thats pretty bad. oh yeah... 6 minutes into the world cup, you're a goal keepr, you let in an own goal and then have to pull out of the world cup with an injury. what are the odds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hallucination Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 Just today I was hit by a javelin. I was at friend's house filming a little movie we're making. It's a fantasy movie set in a medieval time period, so we have swords, axes, shields, javelins etc. After we were done doing the filming for the day, we threw javelins at targets, which devolved into a game of dodge ball. With painted bamboo sticks we called javelins. When I was bending down to pick up a javelin, my friend threw one at me and it went barely above my groin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 ^ You almost made the Darwin Awards Honorable Mentions with that one, Hallucination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samnmax221 Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 Ah the Darwin awards, I thought they'd never make death funny, I was wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hallucination Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 ^ You almost made the Darwin Awards Honorable Mentions with that one, Hallucination. Yeah, but Rhett beat me to it. Maybe next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC-1162 Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 if it had hit you in the groin, maybe you'd have got the award Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ztalker Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 Getting hit by a javelin...right above the groin... This thread get's stranger by the minute... @Topic: The Katana Accident Hallucination's accident reminded me of something that happedn to me too. Me and my mate had bought some katana's (don't ask how...) and were practising some on-line tricks at their backyard. But suddenly, my mate improvised, and swung with a straight slash at my head, while my katana was lowered. I couldn't dodge it completely, and my shoulder got hit. I'll spare you the details. Let's just say i have a 20 centimeter scar on my left shoulder now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSR Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 impressive. the only scars i have are next to my right eye 92 of them) the first is from falling over in the shower (i was 4) and the second was from err... using a bed, ironically, as a bouncy castle. needless to say, i missed on the return journey and hit the bedside table right next to my eye.=| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerbieZ Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 Just today I was hit by a javelin. I was at friend's house filming a little movie we're making. It's a fantasy movie set in a medieval time period, so we have swords, axes, shields, javelins etc. After we were done doing the filming for the day, we threw javelins at targets, which devolved into a game of dodge ball. With painted bamboo sticks we called javelins. When I was bending down to pick up a javelin, my friend threw one at me and it went barely above my groin. Can we swap lives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 @Topic: The Katana Accident (snipped) I couldn't dodge it completely, and my shoulder got hit. I'll spare you the details. Let's just say i have a 20 centimeter scar on my left shoulder now... Even when the blade is not sharpened, with enough force behind it, a sword can do some serious damage (as you discovered--you're very lucky). When a sword is sharpened, pretty much all you have to do is just drop it and it will cut deep. You don't even have to have force behind it. I was cleaning my nice new set of high-grade and very sharp kitchen knives to use for the first time when the handle slipped in my hand, the blade dropped a few inches down, and the darn thing hit my thumb and didn't stop til it hit bone. If it had dropped any farther than just a few inches, I don't know if bone would have stopped it, either. It was tiny on the surface but it was so deep that it took forever to heal. No swordplay should ever be done unchoreographed, unless you're doing something like fencing, and that's done with quite a bit of safety gear. There are some history re-enactment groups that do unchoreographed re-enactments, but they don't use real swords--the Society for Creative Anachronism comes to mind for me, and there may be others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ztalker Posted June 11, 2006 Share Posted June 11, 2006 You are correct. Weapons are illegal in Holland, with the exception of sword and the like. They are only legal if they aren't sharp. If my mate WAS using a sharp katana...i probably would have more damage then just a scar.I was indeed very lucky it wasn't sharp... The way you describe your kitchen knife accident...i realise i'm very lucky.. And we did choreagraph it, we realy did. We were fighting for about 20-30 minutes about the time, and we did it weeks before too, each time without accidents. My mate messed up completely... We were practising for a movie too, by the way...and add the lightsaber effects instead of the katana's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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