‘What is the dumbest way you’ve ever hurt yourself?’ – 24 ridiculous acts of self-imposed pain

13.

‘Reaching past a hot exhaust to fix part of my car engine. That wasn’t the dumb bit. The dumb bit was doing exactly the same thing five seconds later, giving me two burns on my forearm in almost the same place.’
–SuspiciouslyMoist

14.

‘I was gonna go to the toilet, and I tripped over my headset’s cable and hit my head on the table and pulled everything down. It kinda hurt.’
–Lxrikaaa

15.

‘I noticed a hairline fracture in a ceramic food bowl I was holding. ‘I wonder if I applied pressure would it would break?’ It did. Five stitches to close my thumb back up.’
–jjcnc82

16.

‘I got a nasty paper cut on my finger last night while reading care instructions for surgery I had last week. The paper cut hurts more than the surgery.’
–FalconBurcham

17.

‘Threw a punch with my keys in my hand. Car key went right through the centre of my palm.’
–Suspicious_Bat_8905

18.

‘I had to call out of work because I strained both calf muscles at a wedding, two days before, ‘dancing’ to House of Pain’s Jump Around. It was four mins of jumping, I had to explain this to my boss. He just laughed and said that has to be true, no one is making that one up.’
–VoodooDonKnotts

19.

‘I sprained my thumb while making cookie dough. Couldn’t really move it well for over a week.’
–flic_my_bic

20.

‘Brushing my teeth and using a Q-Tip simultaneously. Don’t interchange the arm motions.’
–HeezGotSteez

21.

‘Walking in flip-flops near an empty pool, my flip-flop got caught and I fell in and snapped my foot in half. The surgeon said I basically had a bag of bones in my foot. It could have been worse but thank goodness I landed on my back and not head.’
–elsiebey

22.

‘Tripped while getting into my car, bashed my head on the frame, got a concussion.

Two years (almost to the day) later, tried to flip my hair out of my face on some park equipment and hit the other side of my head on a metal pole. Cute little concussion.’
–opelemmescoochbyya

23.

‘Tried to do a backflip on my bed, broke my own nose on my knee.’
–frankensteinsmaster

Plenty of very silly injuries there, but this one surely has to take the teacake…

24.

‘Cut my finger open on a sharp piece of toast.’
–FuzzyWuzzyMoonBear

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