Great moments in bad judgement

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Reaching under commercial lawn-mower to remove stick. Mower running. Started with 10, ended with 6.

The guy had taken a stab at the snake that bit him and stabbed himself.

That's so the kind of thing that I would do....

Specializes in PDN; Burn; Phone triage.

Burning brush while being a wheelchair-bound paraplegic.

Specializes in ortho, hospice volunteer, psych,.

we had a repair made to our metal 150+ year old roof. it was summer and my husband was about to go out the kitchen door with the garbage. the repairman had said he had picked up all the dropped little bitty nails... i called that he should double check just to be safe.

he skipped that little step. he went to the er with 4 nails in his foot. ouch!!

when we got home, he said, "i really should have checked." uh... yeah.

eta: he was barefoot when he took the garbage bags out.

Specializes in Peds/outpatient FP,derm,allergy/private duty.

"I guess putting my hand between the pneumatic nail gun and the wall wasn't such a great idea after all."

My favorite line is "What happened was......"

Specializes in Progressive, Intermediate Care, and Stepdown.

Favorite lines.

"Me and my buddy..."

"So I had a couple of beers and..."

"I don't know how the light bulb got there."

Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.
Favorite lines.

"Me and my buddy..."

"So I had a couple of beers and..."

"I don't know how the light bulb got there."

the last one goes with my up the butt theme lol

Specializes in Progressive, Intermediate Care, and Stepdown.

HaHa. Yeah, butt objects could get endless.

Specializes in CCU, SICU, CVSICU, Precepting & Teaching.

my first husband had an iq of 160-something but the common sense of a gnat. camping in a lovely campground at the side of a river. greg wanted to demonstrate his great grilling skills, but didn't think the coals were getting ready quickly enough. he decided in his infinite wisdom to help things along by throwing a bit of gasoline on the fire. i looked up when i heard the "whoosh" and saw that his jacket was on fire. i tackled him and pushed him into the lovely river. then i noticed that he was thrashing about in the three foot deep water, screaming "help! i can't swim!" so i had to pull him out. and after all that, he was mad at me for ruining his new jacket.

Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

Gun in waistband of pants + owner in seated position in car + safety off = -1 testicle.

Specializes in ER.

All of my good stories come from the ED!! Foreign bodies I have seen.....three golfballs (same guy, wife snuck them in there), 2 pears (same guy, slipped while mopping floor in the nude, fell onto fruit bowl), large can of scrubbing bubbles, several glass Coke bottles, glass thermometer (anyone remember those?), the headless Barbie, and then of course the usually battery operated devices.

I just got home and the one tonight is fresh on my mind :) Guy kissed his pet Anaconda, and the snake did not return his affections! Several hours and two plastic surgeons later, he had his lips sewn back on! He couldn't understand how the snake could have bitten him..."But it was a rescue snake". They walk among us :)

Specializes in Adult/Ped Emergency and Trauma.

I heard this as a story from many years back.

During a cold winter night, the pipes under the sink busted, and the husband jumped out of bed nude, threw on his robe, and ran downstairs.

He ended up in the ER with a Head Lac needing sutured, and broken leg.

He got bent over to get up under the sink to turn the water off, and then, . . .the house-cat "paw slapped" him in the testicles, and his head hit the metal pipe. He got the broken leg because when he was explaining the head injury, the EMT's dropped him in uncontrollable laughter in c-spine on the Stretcher board.

Could be a Rural Legend, but it's passed as real here.

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