Serious injuries are nothing to laugh at. The circumstances that led to said injuries though? Those are fair game.
Here are some of the funniest ways that Redditors accidentally injured themselves.
Source at the end of the article
Sat on the toilet too long and my legs fell asleep. Stood up, leg buckled, and I went head first into the wall.
UrMomLikesMine
Busted my teeth on the floor while doing the worm at a middle school dance.
rapcheck18
Tried jumping over a bonfire, and hit someone mid air who had the same idea.
I won because I didn’t need 3 weeks in a burns unit, just a bottle of aloe vera cream.
YourBestMateRobbo
I was laying under my sister’s bed messing around with her nail varnish. Just dipping the brush in and out if I remember right. I forgot about gravity though and a drop of the varnish went in my eye. I can’t even describe the pain. If I had to try, I’d say it was like getting nail varnish in your eye.
Ballsop
My foreman was hammering some framing in place and had to knock the wood towards him so he reached around and was swinging his hammer towards him. It was a difficult angle and a tight fit so he was swinging with a bit of velocity and ended up missing and hitting himself in the forehead. He knocked himself out cold and left a good sized lump for everyone to see. No one has let him forget about it since. And whenever he asks the boss to do something he says ‘yeah knock yourself out.’
imtakingapooprn
The knife I was trying to cut a cucumber with wouldn’t cut so I used my index finger to push down on the blade. I just assumed it was a blunt knife.
However the knife was just upside-down and I cut my finger and had to get 4 stitches.
nayyyf15
As a child, I was messing around with the cigarette lighter in the family car. I ‘knew’ that once the lighter bit stopped being orange it must have cooled off. It didn’t.
Burnt my thumb
Twice
dmtredd
I climbed a tree when I was about 12, fell out and broke my left arm.
A week or so later, my friends dared me to climb the same tree with my left arm in a cast to my elbow. Got a branch higher than the first time, fell out, broke my right arm.
Mum wasn’t happy about having to take me back to the hospital to get the other arm put in a cast!
junior_joiner
I was ironing and wanted to check if the iron was still hot before putting it away. I was in a silly mood and I decided, for reasons which are still unknown to me to this day, to check the temperature of the iron by putting my mouth over the top of it.
Ended up burning my bottom lip and tongue pretty bad but no hospital, no permanent damage and absolutely no chance of my brother (who was also there) ever letting me forget it.
tastill89
Years ago, I knew a bunch of guys that once played beach soccer with an empty green coconut. It works since instead of kicking you kinda use your foot to fling the ball.
Everybody was having fun until somebody did a high pass and friggin Carlos tried to headbutt it into the goal. Carlos went to the hospital that day.
Babykay
Wanted to see if I could force myself to bite a chunk out of my skin!
Spoiler alert: I could.
SaruganOP
When I was 9, my sisters locked me outside of our house on the porch. The only problem was that I had to use the toilet really bad. So I screamed and begged them to let me in but they wouldn’t budge. So I started to pound on the window until, suddenly, my hand went completely through the window, shattering the window and getting shards of glass stuck in my hand.
I didn’t have to use the toilet after that.
RiggedErection
I was cutting a cake for a friends birthday, I accidentally dropped the knife and attempted to catch it with my foot.
AltairCharter
My friend threw their keys at me, and instead of catching them I leaned back like in the Matrix to avoid the keys, I then proceeded to fall back while turning. This resulted in my face slamming into the wall.
And of course, this was during the few minutes we had before our gym lesson started. The whole class saw me fall.
b3lsibub
I woke up one morning and my thigh felt like it might be bruised, and I couldn’t see any. So I head into the bathroom and prop my leg up on the bath to see if I could see any bruising in the mirror. I was a little too short and shifted my weight onto my leg, my foot slipped and my head slammed forward into the sink, damaging my chin. So I had to walk around with a cut open chin for a week or two.
Mattenburg
I wanted to jump out of bath two legs at once but my feet hit the edge. I hit the floor with my face and got a concussion.
Pablo550
I was looking at my phone while sitting on my parents’ motorcycle in the garage. The pipes were hot and I didn’t realize it. My leg was rested up against the pipe and when it made contact it was so hot that it killed the nerve endings. When I got up, my skin was still on the pipe. I didn’t know what to do. It took months to heal, and the feeling is now back after ten years.
WellsMck
Quite recently I was watching Netflix while doing the dishes. I had a dirty gross knife in my hand and was watching some comedy special.
Without paying attention to what I was doing, I started flicking the knife about, spinning it with my index and middle finger. Sure enough, it leapt from my hand and stabbed me in the boob. Not deep, but it bled through my shirt.
Frostitute_85
Both my and my brother in one day
I was running down the hallway at home and tripped over a toy and put my head through the drywall. 3 stitches in my forehead.
Coming back home from the ER my brother falls out of our van and cuts his lip WIDE open on the gravel driveway.
My dad just yelled, “EVERYBODY BACK IN THE VAN!”
The doctor had a good belly laugh when he saw us back at the ER.
hulkzillaman
Not me, but my mate actually stuck his finger into a running electrical fan.
Angharaz
I was trying to be like Willow Smith and while singing “Whip my hair” I swung my head, hit a counter and knocked myself out.
cece_gadelia
I shut a car door on my face this morning, so probably that.
Smantie
Hmmm… it could have been the time I broke my elbow playing nerf basketball in the fifth grade.
Or maybe the time I permanently dented my shin by tripping up the basement steps while fleeing from a “ghost” when I was in the eighth grade.
Or that time last Friday when I was walking — just walking, and got distracted by a bird, tripped over a shrub root, and ate dirt in front of my coworkers. I now have a fantastically gnarly brush burn on my arm.
SuchANiceGirl
When I was 4 years old I wondered what would happen if I did a somersault down the stairs. So I did a somersault down the stairs. I ended up crying and breaking an ankle.
Dune_Coon234
One time I tried to fart while playing online poker really late while my girlfriend was asleep. About half of the fart came out before I realized more was on its way out too. I caught that before it was too late and jumped up and started to run to the bathroom. I had headphones on and yanked my head to the left and pulled my computer tower over as I kicked a 25 lb weight on the floor, broke my toe and then pooped all over myself.
BLACKMACH1NE
We were jumping into a large bed of flattened Bamboo sticks off a tree stump. (was soft enough)
I front flipped into it, when I stood up a bamboo stick had ripped through the right side of my left hand. Blood spraying everywhere. 17 stitches, no feeling in my pinky finger and a weird scar later.
I’m regretting the decision to jump.
Hesoner
I was practicing basketball alone in the driveway one day and I broke my own ankles. My parents thought I was joking so they watched me crawl around the house all day but when I was still doing it next morning they took me to the hospital.
BlameReborn
So I was trying to dislodge ice that had built up in the freezer.
Thought process at the time: “I’ll use a butter knife to chip away at the ice – it’s not sharp, how can I hurt myself?”
Cue slipping with my left hand (holding the butter knife) and with pure force severing my little finger on the right hand.
At least my hand was cold from being in the freezer for so long, that I didn’t actually feel it happen to start with, and the finger was immediately on ice.
All good though – got it reattached that afternoon and is about 95% functionality. Needless to say, I am now banned from defrosting the freezer.
Soup_in_my_p**s
I feel over and broke my spine .
fairyxxx