Faceplant'd

[Ethan]

Twas riding my bike down the road and all of a sudden my right hand had a spasm, and my bike had to have sensitive front brakes.
I got facepalmplant'd.

Now my hip and hand both have bad grazes, and I landed on my kneecap, which is now really really sore.

Mai friend (the drummer in my band) was watching and started laughing.

It was fun :D

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[Otis Da HousKat]

I was riding down a ramp once and I hit an oil slick. I fell off the bike, rolled through the oil and broken shards of glass, and the bike went in the air and landed on me.

Ouch.

[Ethan]

Forgot to mention it was outside an old lady's house, and she came running out yelling 'ARE YOU OK LOVE?'.

[Ronin]

Slightly different, but I was swimming at the on the beach at the end of the airstrip on Nantucket island (I had finished watching planes take off from an Air Show) when and a few others got the great idea to go take a dip in the drink.

So we jump in and its really cold (October cold?! Since when?!), well anyway my friends chickened out and I decided to be the cool guy and swim out some 25 feet off shore. It became immediately apparent that there was a 9 foot drop off about 5 feet from the shore and the waves were literally crashing in on me. 8 foot waves are really scary, and I'm a good swimmer and surfer. Well I did a really stupid thing by turning my back to the ocean and looked at my friends, when all of sudden a giant wave smacked me face first into the sand and tossed me around like a rag doll. Luckily it threw me close enough where I could wade back up the beach, but the rip current was a bitch and it kept pulling me to the drop off. I never felt as tired before swimming in my life than trying to get back on that beach. I practically collapsed on the sand coughing salt water. So we all walked back to our house and I was still tired and coughing, I honestly felt like I was going to die.

In retrospect I should have realized two things, 1 I was swimming illegally in a private part of the beach that was not meant for swimmers, and 2 big sharks frequent the waters right where I was swimming (2 years ago they reported a Great White off Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard).

[Azerath]

A long time ago, when I was maybe... 7, we went tubing down really skinny creeks and such. All I remember was going down huge rapids, and falling off into really deep water... I could see upward, and saw the bright sun shining through the water... and I felt like that was the last bit of my life. It seemed like I went 8 feet down in the water... but, luckily I got saved by my mum.

[Digmaster]

I have a tendency to stand up when riding my bike. Once, when I was riding my bike, I rode under a tree. I thought I would clear it, but alas, I did not. It hit me (in the head)off my bike, and in an odd way, my bike kept going for about five feet, then crashed into a fence. Some people where watching and laughing their asses off. I was not hurt, because I was *Drumroll* Wearing a helmet! Kids, ware a helmet, cool people do it!

[Ghoul]

I trail bike 2 miles off a road not far from my house. The farther you go in, the trail gets thinner. I was at this rocky part, where I was feeling roostery and confident. Big mistake. I went too fast, not paying attention to the fact that these basketball sized rocks littered the trail.

I was going pretty nicely when all of the sudden, I slide into a loose patch of sand. I roll out a bit shocked, and my front wheel was slightly turned after sliding in the sand. So I roll along a few more feet trying to steady myself when I accidentally hit one of the large rocks covering the trail. I gained some air, hit the ground with a turned wheel, and flew forward. I landed on my left side and slid about 2 feet before my hand hit a rock and stopped me.

I sat there in pain for a moment, then got up to inspect the damage. Most of the skin on my left elbow was gone, and the majority of my left calf had a 6 inch scrape on it. The hard, rocky ground where I slid was covered with some of my blood.

Riding a mile and a half back home was the worst part. It was a windy day, and a lot of dust got in those cuts.

When I got home and took a shower, I suddenly screamed because of the hot water hitting that painful scrape.

I have a scar from it. It's lumpy and red, indicating that there was still some dirt left in the scrape after I cleaned it out.

[Ethan]

<insert long painful story here>

Owch.

[Digmaster]

^Ouch.

In relation, once I went Mountain biking, and I hit a pine cone. Everyone was laughing.

Oh, also I once fell down a cliff when skiing and toke an hour to get back up, that was fun. Again people laughed at me. Missed a giant rock by about a half foot too.

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Why are so many people up this late?

[Ethan]

Why are so many people up this late?

So unusual for these forums, eh?

[Digmaster]

So unusual for these forums, eh?

More or less. I'm rarely up at 1am (here, at least), so I'm surprised at the activity level.

[Azerath]

I was in Minnesota for a visit, and my dad, my brother and I were heading on a small walk to the store. Me and my brother were on bikes, and so I was trying to follow him around. He was making wacky turns, and mindless twists. Well he took a sharp turn and zipped by a really busy street(St. Clare I think) just in time, with me about 12 feet behind him. Sure enough, I zip out there thinking it's clear, and bam.
It was more of me hitting the car instead the car hitting me. My bike left a nice deep scrape in the right fender. While, I had skin taken off my left knee, my left pinky was punctured and I couldn't move it, my left shoulder was evenly grazed, and oh the adrenaline. When we walked home to patch me up, I almost blacked out realizing what the hell just happened. Then, later on we went to a packed drive in movie, with Batman, and Hanrooster. :D

[Digmaster]

Drive in movies still exist? Or was it like 30 years ago?

[Azerath]

No, it was this summer.

[|Shadow]

I was riding my friends bike, which was quite new, and I was riding it fast and pressed the brakes and I went flying over the handle bars and the bike flipped over.