When I was very young I would try to climb the chain-link fence in my backyard. I could make it up but I had trouble with the top. Apparently once I got stuck hanging by my diaper, and another time by my shoe. Just imagine walking down the street and seeing a little kid hanging by his diaper from a fence :lol:.
I've bashed my head on the sidewalk on some skateboardesque thing I was kneeling on, that was the worst. I got a scab all across one side of my face and a gigantic lump. I've also been crushed into the boards from playing hockey in one of my few contact games, and have slipped out at high speed in such a way that my head was the first thing to hit the boards (it wasn't that bad though). I've gone down a snowy hill on a saucer looking thing, spun around backwards midway, and while struggling to turn back around bashed my head straight on a light post. I'm suprised I didn't get a concussion (that I'm aware of anyways). Once testing the brakes on a bike my dad insisted I apply the front breaks only coming down a hill, I think you know what happened, yeah that was a stupid thing to do. Dirt biking I've fallen in mid-high 1st gear many a time, but the equipment takes care of that, one day I'm gonna end up impaling myself on a tree branch though. None of these sent me to the hospital except to get ointment for my scab, yet they're all more dramatic than the 3 times I've gotten stiches, my chipped tooth, and my fractured arm.
My brother was walking his bike across a twelve foot barrier wall (with his legs on either side of it) when he fell off. Now if this was a 6-foot wall or if he had the natural reflex of putting his hands down he might be dead, but as it played out he held on tightly to the bike as he did a full 360 barrel roll down the 12 feet, and landed sitting up straight up on the bike, having the bike absorb much of the impact. Perfectly vertical too, because if he was off by more than a tiny bit the force would have knocked him either way. He was just shocked, a little sore, and then just rode on, and met us at the bottom.
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