Getting injured is, universally, a crappy experience. However, it's an unavoidable part of our lives as we all sometimes simply get into harm's way. However, most of the time, we just happen to have the bad luck of being at the wrong place at the wrong time, but there are also occasions when we put our health and wellbeing in danger by being... Well, not the sharpest tools in the shed, but a great pretender for the Darwin Awards. And if you know that there's something on the internet that you can always find, it's people's epic fails where there's no filter for shame or shyness. Here are some of the dumbest and silliest stories of how people injured themselves in funny accidents. Upside to all this? You might not feel so bad about making some stupid choices in life. So scroll down below, indulge and don't forget to comment and vote on your favorite funny fails!
#21
My brother swallowed a bell metal turtle while my parents were on a trip. That was 10 years ago. Best vacations ever.
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88points
#22
I was vacuuming, and thought the vacuum might not be working well. So I put my hand up to feel if the suction was weak. I forgot about the beater bar and it pulled my middle finger into the vacuum.
The beater bar was going fast enough that it took off all the skin on my finger down to the tendon. It actually bled very little, and hurt much less than what one would expect, because both the blood vessels and nerves were torn off.
I was also incredibly lucky because I should have needed a skin graft, but my finger managed to heal on its own. The scar tissue was painful to deal with and it took a long time to regain full flexibility and use of my finger.
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88points
#23
Scratched the cornea and broke the lens in my eye during an unfortunate encounter with a cactus plant.
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86points
#24
I popped my kneecap 90 degree to the left by wearing socks on a slippery floor. I was just walking and somehow lost control and POP.
So, walking.
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85points
#25
I was walking across the living room floor, and I stepped on a toothpick. The toothpick did not go through the skin, instead, I lurched in fear that it might go through my skin and somehow twisted my own ankle as I crashed to the floor. Went to the ER and I broke it.
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82points
#26
Broke my left ankle by tripping over my right foot while running in the house.
I also once got a black eye from throwing a snowball up in the air and catching it...and then missing it once
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77points
#27
Looked down at my phone for too long at 10:00 at night and walked face first into a goddamn telephone pole. This was 2 years ago.
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70points
#28
At age 9 I jumped down a full flight of stairs for the hell of it. Landed on my feet and broke both my growth plates in my heels. Insanely painful. Insanely stupid.
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69points
#29
I was out drinking and I tried to jump over a parking meter. Not realizing it was a single pole with two meter heads on it. I got hung up on the second head, fell and broke my elbow. Slept all night on my broken elbow and then walked to the hospital hungover and hurt the next morning by myself. Felt bad.
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66points
#30
Picked up a water bottle off the floor and threw out my back. It wasn't like a 5-gallon, it was a 16 oz water bottle.
I didn't even know people could really throw out their back randomly and without reason like that. It was three days before I could even walk right.
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66points