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Hmmm... I've had plenty of tumbles in my day, but most of them were run-of-the-mill missteps or sports injuries. There's only one incident I can think of right now that really fits the stupid/bizarre qualification.
I was in my yard mowing the lawn, a rarity for me (infact, this may have been the first time that my dad forced me to do a good job on it). I begin mowing under a tree. To avoid being hit by any branches, I duck my head down, so that it's right in allignment with the handlebar of the lawn mower. All of about three seconds later, the mower gets snagged on one of the tree's roots; it stops while my face keeps moving. Nose right into the handlebar. The looks on my family's faces, as I ran inside with a cut up and bloody nose after mowing the lawn, were priceless.
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One night I spent my first night at my boyfriend's condo. He got up early and left for work. When I woke up, I faced the dilemma of how to exit his condo, which only had a deadbolt, and still secure it. Getting out of the parking area was also a problem, as it required a remote for the gate, which I did not have.
I decided to go out through his patio door, leaving it unlocked, rather than the front door. I then scaled the 6 foot brick wall. As I was at the top, I saw someone starting up their vehicle. In my hurry to "follow that car!", I leapt off the wall, hitting the concrete sidewalk with such force that I broke 3 bones in my foot. Did I mention I was wearing cowboy boots? With heels? Yep.
I limped and gimped hurredly to the car and managed to squeak out the gate before it shut. By the time I got to my house 1/2 hour away, my foot was in terrible pain. I popped a few Tylenol 3, cracked open a beer or two, and waited for the pain to stop. When it dulled, I managed to remove my boot, and the foot was twice the size it should be. I finally had my friend drive me to urgent care, and ended up casted. Had to learn how to drive left-footed after that one!
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Funny how reading these remind me of more...
When my husband & I were dating, we used to go camping quite a bit. He bought an ATV for these trips. He found a really nice place where he could do jumps and stuff and asked me if I'd take his picture while he was doing a jump. I had a Kodak disc camera at the time (anyone remember those?) and got myself all set up to get the picture. He was coming down the path and I thought, "I really can't see him that well. Let me move up."
You know, once all four wheels are off the ground, you can't steer an ATV around a stupid idiot in the middle of the path. The left rear tire hit me in my hip, actually driving up my hip, knocking me back on my ass. My head was about 2 inches from smacking off a tree.
Got a great picture of the underside of the ATV. And a 35mm camera with a zoom from my hubby.
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I used to think my family and I were the kings and queens of stupid accidents. Reading all this has made me feel better. But I'll post them anyway.
*Stapled my thumb at age 4 because "I wanted to see what it would feel like."
*Brother opened his mouth to speak and a bee flew in, stinging him repeatedly in the roof of his mouth.
*Playing "cops and robbers." Brother got PO'd because no one would fall down dead when he shot them. Threw his toy (metal) gun; it skidded on the street, hitting a blood vessel in my sister's ankle.
*Brother trimming hedges, mom picking off the clippings. Mom got too close to brother. Let's just say, 8 stitches and could have been worse.
*Went to school basketball game with a friend. As I was just in front of a steel door headed for the bathroom, someone opened it from the other side. Bottom of the door jammed into my toe hard enough that the nail was hanging by a thread. Needless to say, the thread was snipped by a nurse.
*Sister brushing hair with large, 60's-style hoop earrings in her ears. You can guess the rest.
*Running up concrete steps from the backyard. These were way oversized steps, more like slabs, so it was easy to miss one. I did - and scraped the bottom inside of my mouth on the next step in a sort of licking motion.
Any good chain saw stories??? (hint! hint!)
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Does anyone know the movie "Heavyweights"? You know the exercise mats used in the movie that you put the little booties on with and slide across? Mmk.
My aunt had once of those mats in her basement with a concrete floor. Add one very uncoordinated teenager. The result? A very unhappy ambulance ride and a broken back. I will never try one of those things again.
And when I was in elementary school, I jumped off of the very top of the jungle gym (these things are HIGH) and broke my arm.
I think I was a stupid kid. Now I just have the run-of-the-mill trips and falls every day.
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I regularly twist my ankles by trying to turn around without remembering to move one of my feet. Another favorite is to misjudge my position and scrap my arm against a door frame. I've also broken th little toe on my right foot more times than I like to think of by ramming it into things.
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I was washing a glass. I dropped the glass. Apparently, I have a very strong "catch" instinct. At least I didn't need stitches, or lose the tip of my pinky.
When I was a very young child, my mother took me to the playground. The jungle gym at this particular park was set up with the bars all perpendicular, forming rectangles. These rectangles are large enough for a child's body to fit through, but the chin and the back of the head have enough bulk to get caught. I suppose this shouldn't count, since I didn't actually injure myself. Scared Mom half to death though.
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I love this thread. Enjoying everyone elses stories has reminded me of more of my own :
1) I threw a teenaage temper tantrum, slamed my hand down while holding the glass stem of a wine glass - which shattered leaving hundreds of glass splinters in my palm. And no sympathy whatsoever...
2) Someone once gave me the world's nastiest ornament as a Christmas present. Two lovesick dogs on an island - in a sort of translucent green glaze. I didn't like to throw it away as it was a present but a couple of months later I knocked it onto the floor - completely unharmed. I was annoyed, so I picked it up and dropped it deliberately. It bounced. I lost my temper and threw it hard at the floow. It broke in two, and the pieces bounced up and one piece cut my leg. It was only some time later when the bleeding had stopped that I even found out that it had cut a wedge from my leg. I still have the scar, and about an inch of flesh with no feeling.
3) Someone mentioned injuries cause by parents - when I was little my mother was doing my coat zip up when it got stuck. As she wrenched on the zip it came free, and she punched me in the face. (She had a history of this - as a social worker she once managed to injure a child in her care by hitting them on the head with a plane while fixing the gate of the children's home where she worked).
4) Also my parents once had to take me to the hospital because they had (accidentally) hit me on the head with a wardrobe...
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Whoo boy. I have so many horribly odd and bizarre stupid injuries I don't even know where to start. I think broken things just jump out at me so the universe can laugh.
The ones that immediately stick out in my mind:
When I was 12 or so, I was babysitting a little girl who had one of those kiddy playground things. It had a slide that was about 3 feet tall. It had just rained. I was going to slide down it but couldn't fit, so I was going to crouch down and slide on my feet. I got to the top, went to crouch down and slipped on the freshly wet slide. I did an (i'm sure) amazing acrobatic move just before landing square on my toes on my left foot. My foot bent backwards, my toe touched my heel and *snap* snapped my foot cleanly in half.
Another time when I was about 14 or so, my friends and I were sliding down a "Slip and Slide" (if anyone knows what i'm talking about). I felt a scratch on my foot and thinking there was a stone under the plastic, walked around to lift it up. I looked down and there was a massive amount of blood everywhere. Think papercut, only from plastic. And bigger. Much bigger. Much, much deeper. I still have a slice mark going down my ankle and foot about 8 inches long.
Another time, I was just randomly walking down the stairs. I slipped on the carpet and slip-slided all the way down. Hurt my ankle quite a bit. I mentioned something to my mom about it, but she thought I was just being a baby (it wasn't really swollen or anything, I just couldn't walk) so wouldn't take me to the hospital. 10 years later, I was playing basketball. I jumped up, landed oddly and hurt it again. When I went to the hospital, they told me that I had really old scar tissue. I'd broken my ankle when I was little and it healed badly. It still bugs me all the time.
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When I was about ten years old, I was running around in the field on our farm. This was in the time before we started mowing the field, so the grass was quite long. My sister and brother noticed a wasp nest in the ground and warned me about it. Since I was running quite far behind them, I didn't know where they had pointed to. I jumped over where I thought it was, but landed in it instead. Fortunately, only one wasp decided to attack me. I got stung 3 times on my eyelid and surrounding area however.
Three years ago, I was vacuuming the house. I lifted the vacuum off the floor while I moved something out of the way. I kicked the vacuum accidently and got my toe sucked up into the spinning part of the powerhead and trapped it. I couldn't walk properly for a couple days after.
Two years ago, I was biking home from school. I had to cross some train tracks where the road turns at a right angle right on the tracks (the road is perpendicular to the tracks on one side and runs parallel on the other side). The front tire of my bike got caught in the groove between the track and pavement, and I went flying off my bike onto the road. Most of my body was on the shoulder, but my hand was over the line lying on the road. Fortunately, no cars were coming, so my hand wasn't run over.
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Thought of another one. Hiding in the backseat of a friend's car to surprise another friend, I wedged myself on the floorboard with my feet under the driver's seat and slice my big toe open on an exposed spring. Years later, the friend was going to sell the car and put the seat all the way forward to thoroughly clean the carpets. The huge bloodstain from my sliced toe was still there.
DH has a twin brother. Whenever they get together and a chainsaw is involved, one or the other of them gets hurt. DH sliced across his kneecap one time (after a trip to emergency care and 10 stitches, he went back out to help his twin finish up). DH'd twin sliced his arm while trimming a friend's tree. He refused to go to emergency care because a doctor would havem ade him stay home from work for a few days. Dh had his thumbnail 'pruned' with pruning shears. Amazingly enough, it grew back normally.
A few months ago, DH and I went to pick up some fruit wood in an orchard that had been grafted. While tossing 8-10 foot branches in the back of the pick up, DH over estimated and cracked the back window. When we got in to drive back to my MIL's house, DS2 slammed the door, the window shattered and I recieved a seatful of glass shards. Normally I'm rather modest, but I stripped on the side of the road and shook out my britches. Fortunately, I recieved only minor scrapes in the NFBSK area.
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Well, I think we have all realized that yes, I am a very talented klutz, by how I managed to get hurt on my birthday.
However, that's not the first time I managed to do something equally stupid.
I have:
*had to fill out an incident report at work because I pinched the side of my hand on the latch of the garden section gate
*had to actually go to urgent care, from work, because I sprained my wrist after tripping and falling
*gave myself a nice gash right by my left eye, running away from a boy at the birthday party of a friend (I think I was about seven), and was VERY lucky I didn't need stitches, and I still have the scar
*have a nice triangle shaped scar from the time I was washing dishes, and the carafe from the coffeemaker broke in the dishwater, and I didn't realize I'd been cut till my hand was out of the water
*bruised the entire joint of my right knee, insisting on opening my own damn car door while I was on a date (I was seventeen! I should have known better!)
And, of course, there's many, many more. Let's just say I'm one of the very few people Mr. K knows who has fallen UP stairs.
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Not a major injury, but when I was in my teens, I was in the kitchen chatting to my mother, and decided to lean against the bench. Who knows why, but instead of resting my hand on the bench, I decided to rest it on top of the toaster oven. Which I didn't notice was switched on. And the top of it was bare metal.
No long-lasting harm done, just a few blisters and some serious embarrassment.
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I have a fun chain saw story! Well, my brother does, but I was there so I always have fun telling people for him...
We were at Niagara Falls, going through a haunted house. (I'm not sure if I should say which one on a public forum, so if you really want to know, PM me. Of course, this post might give it away anyway) It was pitch black and they guided you through with little red lights. We had just crawled though a tunnel, and my brother decided it would be fun to scare his friend who was just ahead of me. Somehow my brother managed to climb onto a higher section (I think they left a stool in there, but I really don't remember) with the intention on jumping down. Well, as my brother is up there, a light comes on someplace at the top, and a dummy with a chainsaw drops down. My brother got nailed on the head. There was quite a bit of blood, but the kid is alive. I don't know if that means there was no chain on it, or if he was just lucky.
The employees there were really helpful in cleaning him up and making sure he was ok. There was no permant damage, except for a small scar covered by his hair. (And I make sure to look for it every time I fly home to visit!)
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WARNING! GRAPHIC AND BLOODY DESCRIPTIONS OF INJURIES! WARNING! GRAPHIC AND BLOODY DESCRIPTIONS OF INJURIES! WARNING! GRAPHIC AND BLOODY DESCRIPTIONS OF INJURIES!
When I was a wee one, my family went to Virginia Beach. I was walking along the shore, and stepped on a pile of seaweed and felt something prick my toe. I picked it up, disgusted, and hurled it into the surf.
... the large rusty fishook tangled up in the seaweed then entered just above the last joint on my index finger, followed it's own shape when it met the resitance of bone, and the barb popped out the tip of my finger.
The medics arrived and cut the barb off to slide the hook out, but the hook was so rusty and by this time my finger was so swollen it wouldn't budge. They had to take me to the hospital where a doctor cut all the way down to the hook to pull it out.
About 15 years ago, I was very sick and was on some pretty serious medication. I had been lying down all day when my mom asked me to get up and get her a hairbrush. I did so, but to this day I don't remember actually having done it.
All I remember is standing up, then suddenly I was lifting myself off the floor face first with the hairbrush in my hand staring down at a rapidly expanding pool of blood on the living room floor. My bottom lip and chin were split open and gushing ilke a waterfall. I never felt a thing, though, which is good. What happened was that I was already lightheaded from being sick and heavily medicated, and when I stood up I just blacked out and did a faceplant right in the floor. What's odd is that I made it all the way to the bathroom, looked for and found mom's hairbrush, and almost made it back out to the sofa before blacking out.
My bottom lip was split almost evenly in half, and I had a penetrating gash on the skin right below my bottom lip where my bottom teeth pushed all the way through. I now have what I call my "Indiana Jones" scar ... a half-inch long scar on my chin right above where Harrison Ford has one on his chin.
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When I was 18 I fell off the roof of the local school - 2 stories high and onto concrete, blind drunk at about 4am, breaking my wrist in the process.
Why was I on the roof? I was using this vantage point to fire rotten oranges at a man's house using a spud gun. Instant karma.
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I have been known to hurt myself accidentally here at work with the staple remover. Klutzes should be banned from using staple removers.
I had to get 4 stitches when I couldn't find scissors and used a box cutter to open a bag of boil-in-a-bag meat at Taco Bell. A few weeks later I was cutting lids off boxes in dry storage, didn't notice that the box was right next to a metal bar and sliced my thumb when the box cutter hit the bar. Then I had to keep the shift manager from fainting at the sight of my blood.
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Hmm... There was the time I was running down the hallway of my old house and broke my toe by accidentally kicking a piece of loose carpet. The time I was riding my bike, aimed at the corner of the house to see what would happen and woke up two minutes later on the path with a swollen top lip (and half of my teeth straightened ). "Moshing" to 28 days at a concert and got a broken tailbone by a crowd surfer's head hitting my lower back as he got put down. Oh and my personal favourite- my grandma told me not to play on the woodpile because it was dangerous, but I ignored the advice and got a nail through my foot. Oh and a line of tetanus up my leg the next morning! Ahh karma. We're old friends.
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Around the age of four-ish, at the dinner table I reached for something at the same time my father did and his hand knocked my hand into the fresh-from-the-oven scalloped corn dish. I had blisters. To this day (I'm almost 37) I refuse to eat scalloped corn.
A few years ago, I was using a pocket knife as a screwdriver. In my defense, I'd done this many times before. But, this screw wouldn't budge, so I applied more pressure. The knife blade slipped off the screw and sliced into my other hand- near the base of my thumb, on the curvy part of the edge of my hand. Five big ugly Frankenstein-ish stitches. The scar is still ugly.
Last summer, I had my German Shepherd outside. We don't have a fenced yard, so I have a 26 foot horse-lead that I take her out on. I gathered up her leash to come back in and started walking. She was behind me and spotted something (a squirrel, a bird, a non-existant ninja) and lunged in the opposite direction. By the time I realized she'd taken off, it was too late to release the bundled leash in my hand. It tangled around my ring finger on my left hand and *snap*. I luckily got my ring off before it swelled. And, shortly after that-
While in Australia, I sprained my ankle by stepping out of Shawn's house through the sliding glass door. That's all I did. Stepped down and bam! I went down, ankle twisted, on my hands, spraining a finger on my right hand and ruining the sunglasses I had in that hand.
And of course, most recently, I slipped on frost... yes, frost. I tell people I slipped on ice, just because I don't like to go into the whole thing. But, on March 3rd, I was walking out my back door. We have a wooden deck and there was a thick layer of frost on everything. I took two steps and my one foot slipped out from under me and I tore up my knee ligaments. I'm still recovering from that one.
I could go on... but, I won't.
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I've slammed my thumb in a car hood, been hit in the face with a shovel full of dirt, jammed each of my fingers about a hundred times, but the best all-time injury has to be...
When I used a boning knife to pit an avocado. The pit came out, the knife went through my thumb, eight stitches, surgery to repair a severed nerve, four weeks in a cast, and no feeling on the inside of my thumb from the aforementioned severed and not successfully repaired digital nerve.
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Give me a single edged razor blade, and I can put myself in the E.R. within the hour! They're handy, and I always keep them around for whatever, but dangerous in my hands!
Another dumb thing I did was attempt to light a very large illegal bottle rocket type thing with a Bic lighter. As soon as the fuse caught, it barbequed my thumb but good.
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quote:DH has a twin brother. Whenever they get together and a chainsaw is involved, one or the other of them gets hurt.
quote:I have a fun chain saw story! Well, my brother does, but I was there so I always have fun telling people for him...
Ahh, chainsaw stories. My favorite.
My hubby is famous for chainsaw stories. For his first, he was trimming some branches from a tree with a small electric chainsaw. He had climbed up a ladder and was in the tree running the chainsaw when it somehow bounced off of the tree and into his chest, where it proceeded to get tangled in his flannel shirt/jacket, thermal shirt, T-shirt, and flesh. He said to me, when he came into the house, "You need to look at this and I'm not going to the hospital." I was about 4 months pregnant at the time. Suffice it to say, it was not a pretty sight and I am glad that I don't have to clean that wound anymore. He ended up with a raised scar about 3 inches long and an inch & a half wide.
The second chainsaw story is fun as well. He got out of work early and decided to go up the hill behind our house to cut some logs. We heat our house solely with wood, so we are always cutting & splitting logs. I got a call at work at about 2:30 from my husband.
Him: I think I need to go to the doctor. Me: Why? What's wrong? Him: I cut my leg. Me: WHAT? How did you...what...call an ambulance, I'll meet you at the emergency room! Him: No, I'm gonna take a shower and I'll pick you up. I can't go to the doctor all sweaty.
So my husband wrapped his calf in paper towels, a plastic garbage bag and duct tape, and proceeded to take a shower. Then drive to pick me up at work (it was on the way to the emergency room). He ended up with 20 stitches that time. The cut was so deep, I could see bone.
I've been told by my co-workers not to let him touch the chainsaws.
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When I was about 9 or 10 I was mad at my brother once, so I grabbed my dad's hatchet and some of my brother's green plastic soldiers and went to work chopping them all up. I missed one and hit the thumb of my left hand. It turned purple pretty much instantly and before long I lost the nail. Owie.
I was also attacked and brutally maimed by a filing cabinet when I was 19. While working at a grocery store, I needed to make myself a new name tag. I opened drawer of the filing cabinet open and for some reason put my hand under it as I slid it open. I got what was basically a nasty paper cut from a piece of metal along one of the tracks that guide the drawer. Four stitches, right on the crease of the last digit of my right middle finger.
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quote:Originally posted by Nappy Solo: Another dumb thing I did was attempt to light a very large illegal bottle rocket type thing with a Bic lighter. As soon as the fuse caught, it barbequed my thumb but good.
Brings back childhood memories of watching my best friends father light a Catherine wheel with a blow torch...amazingly no one was hurt but he burnt right through the wheel and it would only do a single turn before needing to be re-lit. And he insisted on re-lighting each time.
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When you see the signs on file cabinets that it is dangerous to open more than one drawer at a time, believe it.
I was filing in a 3 drawer cabinet at my previous job and got tired of opening and closing drawers, so I left the bottom drawer open while I opened the top drawer. You can guess the merriment that followed.
I don't know how I managed to push the stupid thing upright again (I weighed about 100 pounds at the time). Maybe fear of being the butt of office jokes? Luckily, only minor muscle damage.
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quote:Originally posted by smackmac: When you see the signs on file cabinets that it is dangerous to open more than one drawer at a time, believe it.
People like you are why with most modern filing cabinets only a single drawer can be open at any one time.
And if you think regular filing cabinets are bad, take a look at what microfiche cabinets weigh. The example given is only about 30" high and weighs almost 200 lbs, empty.
Seaboe
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quote:Originally posted by smackmac: When you see the signs on file cabinets that it is dangerous to open more than one drawer at a time, believe it.
People like you are why with most modern filing cabinets only a single drawer can be open at any one time.
I always wanted to be "people like you!!"
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I was rolling over in bed to cuddle my boyfriend at the same time he was rolling over to cuddle me. Cue elbow in the eye.
Fortunately, I play rugby, so shiners are easily explained away.
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quote:Originally posted by smackmac: I always wanted to be "people like you!!"
From the tenor of your original post, I figured you wouldn't mind.
Speaking of filing cabinets and stupid injuries, I'm the one who cracked a knuckle (as in cracked the bone, not made a noise) because I stupidly stuck my hand between the bottom of the empty filing cabinet and the dolly being used to move it. The dolly, of course, promptly rose off the floor to meet the bottom of the cabinet.
Seaboe
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I kept bypassing this thread because I couldn't think of anything "stupid". (I knew I just had to think about it a minute and I could think of something )
Once when I was probably around 11, some friends and I went bike riding. Since I didn't have a bike at the time, one of the girls offered me either her dad's bike or a bike with no brakes. Like a fool, I pick the one with no brakes! We went riding down Tower Hill, and I flipped and was a scraped up mess. I still have a scar on my leg.
....More tales to come, I'm sure.
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After hearing that one I have to admit to putting on the hot pot mitt to take the pizza out of the oven and then grabbing the pizza pan with the OTHER HAND. Nothing as stupid as taking a precaution and then deliberately failing to make use of it.
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The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up. Posts: 44 | From: Virginia | Registered: Oct 2005
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snapped my foot cleanly in half.
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