Funniest or most bizarre injury suffered at one of your jobs?

[LockedHDD__Pot]

when I worked for a time in construction

LOL! it was a Village People tribute band

 

[BonnieMcFarlaneMe2]

LOL! it was a Village People tribute band

I’ve never understood the YMCA song. Isn’t it a gym and not a hotel?

 

[LockedHDD__Pot]

I’ve never understood the YMCA song. Isn’t it a gym and not a hotel?

I think it's some kinda youth hostel originally, I used to visit a friend who lived in one but that was medium / long-term small apartments, gym, etc. was included

 

[Ladynyahh]

I’ve never understood the YMCA song. Isn’t it a gym and not a hotel?

I think they used to be like hostels for broke homosexuals who were new in town

 

[Suetonius]

Wait no the stupidest injury I had was when I would walk to my old-old job it took me like 10 minutes the regular way but 5 if i hopped a fence. So this day I hopped the barbed fence but got caught climbing down the other side and one of the rusty barbs impaled my arm. Like I had to pull myself off the fence to get it unlogged.

It literally pierced, no joke, maybe 1-2 cm from spot 3 in this diagram. I still think if it were a few inches to the right I would have gotten tetanus or started bleeding profusely.

 

[Chive Turkey]

Forgot about this one. Last place I worked we would char the peppperoni before slicing it lengthwise and then again the short way. You'd use a chef knife obviously. My knife set was Global, beautiful knives and expensive relatively, so of course one of the other guys stole my 8 inch chef the night before when he walked out. I charred the niggeroni and grabbed the second longest one in my bag, a santoku. It wasn't cutting the pepperoni as well so I grabbed a rag and put it on the sharp end and tried to force it through. My hand slipped off and since I was pushing hard, when my hand hit the table it went back up again and got sliced by the knife. I nicked a tendon running to my thumb (I could see it) and was dangerously close to a blue vein. Hardly bled

Had the same thing nearly happen to me but I was cutting onions at home and tried to force the knife through the root end and of course it went flying and the knife went into my thumb instead. Lucky as shit that it was the fleshy part and nothing important was nicked because it cut quite deep and bled like a motherfucker.

It did make me appreciate the whole "sharp knives prevent accidents" spiel. Nowadays if I experience some difficulty, I either sharpen them on the spot or find some other, safer way of cutting whatever I'm trying to. It ain't worth it to be cavalier with knives once you realize how fucking easy it is to maim yourself with one.

 

[DeadWithoutMyDavid]

One time I fumbled the fry basket when taking it out of the oil and got a pretty cool gridwork burn running down my forearm

 

[WifeStoreWill]

I think it's some kinda youth hostel originally, I used to visit a friend who lived in one but that was medium / long-term small apartments, gym, etc. was included

They have actual hotels too. I stayed in this one, it was nice and really cheap.

YMCA of Hong Kong - HOME

www.ymcahk.org.hk

 

[johnnynoname]

when i was a stripper, and had to go to someone's apartment, my knees would bleed from all the dry humping i did on carpeting

 

[SoloJoeAcousticShow]

The only injury you get when working IT is the continuous blows to your self esteem.

Just kidding. I was in a integration kind of social welfare program for a while making sure retards didn't hurt themselves and got some rudimentary skills like working in a warehouse. One of the mentally defective/deranged guys cut off the tip of his thumb because he was resting his hand retardedly on a hinge on the truck lifting platform while it was engaging. I still think about him running around with his stupid thumb tip not knowing what to do. I heard one guy once somehow electrocuted himself, one got her hair caught in some lathe type appliance and lost half her scalp. Retards shouldn't do unsupervised work, if ya ask me!

 

[bumbum8]

This place I stayed at during college was a real hippie dippie sort of place, and we would have these meetings where you could suggest improvements to the building. One thing that came up every now and then was why, as hippies, don't we do solar panels on the roof? We had a lot of space to do so, and a lot of engineering students who were alumni and some still staying there, so it didn't make sense not to have any. I got to hear the oldest guy who still hung around tell the story:

They actually did have quite a bit of solar panels at one time. Part of the labor requirements was that they were cleaned regularly. One time the crew consisted of a young man who was deathly allergic to bees. He goes up there with his friend, drunk, as you do, and began to clean when they both found a pretty big hive up there.
Dude is rightfully freaked out, and tries to get the fuck away from them, but falls off the roof onto a concrete statue in the courtyard and dies. This also answered my question about why that statue looked so strange, but it was because he cracked it in half.

Anyway, they figured that it would happen again, because the poor feller was also supposed to be wearing his harness properly, but being drunk as shit he decided against it. They banned solar panels shortly after that.

 

[Torque’sHeadBump]

broke homosexuals

 

[Guest]

I worked in an old building with a basement. There was this lazy pothead goofball who was always goofing off. He was in the basement bumbling around that day. There was this fat chick who he heard coming down the metal stares and decided to give her a jump scare but it was as she was coming down them (which were about a story high). This guy jumps out and frightens her, she screams ear piercingly loud and then this fat bitch sort of slides all the way down then tumbles at the bottom (but wasn't hurt that bad). It was hysterical. The goofball starts laughing like he should have, she starts laughing too and then after a beat began sobbing, making it even more hysterical. The dumb general manager, a woman, had to comfort her for like 15 minutes, the guy got in trouble, it was pathetic.

 

[Nigger Jim]

Almost got raped by a nigger in ‘13

 

[PickleRickle]

I dont have any funny ones, but I do have a disgusting one. 450 lb fat motherfucker, almost 7 feet tall. He was holding a piece of steel in his hand, he drilled through the steel, through his knuckle, through the steel table, pinning himself to that same table. He was screaming and wailing like you wouldnt believe

 

[Jen_Tomlinson]

when i was a stripper, and had to go to someone's apartment, my knees would bleed from all the dry humping i did on carpeting

Does Nikki tip pretty gud?

 

[Phish]

I dont have any funny ones, but I do have a disgusting one. 450 lb fat motherfucker, almost 7 feet tall. He was holding a piece of steel in his hand, he drilled through the steel, through his knuckle, through the steel table, pinning himself to that same table. He was screaming and wailing like you wouldnt believe

I had a buddy nail himself to a wall with a nailgun. Gotem in the web of his thumb. He was stuck to the wall until we could cut the board out and go to the hospital. He took it like s champ lol

 

[Dummy Gaynuts]

Worked BOH at a small but busy restaurant when i was in college. Had to jump on dish duty on a particularly intense night, went to go unlock my bike after my shift, and my thumbnail bent 90 degrees away from the nailbed and then came off

 

[guest]

when i was a stripper, and had to go to someone's apartment, my knees would bleed from all the dry humping i did on carpeting

Describe your clients. I command you to answer me! Were they women?

 

[johnnynoname]

Describe your clients. I command you to answer me! Were they women?

it was women....all sort of women...nothing crazy

never did gay stuff

it was a lifetime ago

I worked for an agency that would just send me out on calls

ironically, i got more pussy working as a waiter