Stupid People Award

Ruby Vee, BSN · Nov 13, 2004

i've always said that half the world's population has a below average iq. perhaps the percentage is higher? :rolleyes:

zenman · Nov 13, 2004

A runner-up would have to be the guy who put VapoRub on his member, thinking it would give his girlfriend something to rave about. Luckily she was a little wiser, although she did show up in the ER with him.

That's known as a "burning ring of fire!'

ER-RN2 · Aug 19, 2006

Any new ones?

luvkitties · Aug 19, 2006

Here's a website with some good stories...enjoy! :chuckle

members.tripod.com/texican

~Lori

emllpn2006 · Aug 19, 2006

I saw a story on true storys of the ER the other day. A man came to the ER complaining of a headache for three days. Turns out he thought there was bad spirits in his head. He stuck a ice pick through his ear canal into his brain and broke off the handle. Left it there for three days to kill the spirits. When doctors went to remove it he got very upset that they were going to contaminate the hospital with the spirits. In the end he did not do any perminate damage to the brain but did end up on a psych hold.

goats'r'us, ASN, RN · Aug 19, 2006

A runner-up would have to be the guy who put VapoRub on his member, thinking it would give his girlfriend something to rave about. Luckily she was a little wiser, although she did show up in the ER with him.

i know this will make me sound like a total bi*ch, and i'm not, i swear, but if that was my boyfriend, he'd be going to th er alone. i would possibly drop him off at the door (i am not without concience), but he'd be explaining it all by himself.

the phrase 'you got yourself into this, you can get yourself out of it' fits well.

LydiaNN · Aug 19, 2006

These stories may be more creative than the run of the mill something-up-the-rectum tales, but for sheer stupidity, I'm not so sure you can write those folks off, either.

janejoeben · Aug 20, 2006

man came in one morning to my department in london, england with a glass milk bottle up his backside. its ok though, it was accidental you see, he had locked himself out of the house naked and was climbing in through the kitchen window when he slipped and fell directly onto the bottle which got stuck..... yeah, right!!!

CaseManager1947 · Aug 20, 2006

Having worked in the OR in a previous life, my best story is about the fella who came in with a carrot in his rectum... he fell on it in the garden!!??

Only obvious problem with that is carrots grow down er under the ground. DUH!!

amy · Aug 20, 2006

Two weeks ago... Callus on foot x 2 months...

ERnursing4me · Aug 20, 2006

:lol2: Guy drank OASIS (combination chemical cleaner - I think they said bleach and ammonia) - intentionally

It ate a hole in his esophagus and he was throwing up tissue from his lungs and stomach, etc. We airlifted him to a bigger hospital but the whole time he was in our ER he constantly complained about how bad he hurt and we were not doing anything to help him.......It was an intended OD and we weren't causing his pain he already handled that for us....

Don't really know what happened but IF by chance he lived we are sure he got a peg tube..... :lol2:

I also love it when people come in completely covered with tatoos and piercings and freak out if you have to draw blood....they are afraid of needles???????? :banghead:

Thanet · Aug 20, 2006

man came in one morning to my department in london, england with a glass milk bottle up his backside. its ok though, it was accidental you see, he had locked himself out of the house naked and was climbing in through the kitchen window when he slipped and fell directly onto the bottle which got stuck..... yeah, right!!!

we had one like that too, except it was a ketcup bottle... we gave him the benifit of the doubt...

until the botlle was removed... it had a condom (rubber) on it.