spanxalot15 -> RE: The stupidest way you ever hurt yourself (11/19/2006 6:47:22 PM)
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When I was a kid in the late 70's, BMX motocross-style bicycles were popular. Bicycles with gooseneck handle bars, big wide tires with huge treads, one front hand brake, and we kids loved to race them and jump them on dirt hills. Anyway, one day I was out with some buddies, and we were all showing off, as young (and old) boys do. We had built a jump ramp behind an old apartment building in our neighborhood, out of a few cinderblocks, a piece of plywood, and an old nasty mattress as a landing strip. It was in an old back alley, not paved, just gravel and dirt. In between jumps, we'd pump and pedal as fast as we could, then turn the handle bar as hard to one side as we could, pull the brake, and stick one foot down and spin, spraying gravel everywhere. I was successful my first few times. On try #5 or 6, I wiped out, and skidded along the gravel alleyway on my hip, my gym shorts shredded, the skin on my thigh shredded, the gravel and sand embedded. Fun and amusement for all later that afternoon/evening, lying on my side in the doctor's office, while he picked out the big chunks with tweezers.
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