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*walks into door hitting head as he types on his phone looking down*
Injury-wise, it's mostly been painful near-misses where I get cut on jagged wire, but my tetanus jab is up-to-date, or I walk into a metal bar, but only a lump ensues. I'm clumsy that way.
Edit: oh yeah, let @legoboy have my place if I win!
@Legoboy deserves my spot as well!
@monkeyhanger @devilhead @cmrt1014 @carnage717 @ReesesPieces @flord @woony2 @William_Townsley @Russell844 @hoodaddy @BoomDiggity @Gurooo @Shib @scoiltreasa @thenos @MugenPower @Yodalicious @MasterBeefy @iplante @CommanderRaab and of course @legoboy are all in the running, maybe there is a favourite at this stage and along will come @SumoLego in his own sweet time missing the draw with his usual frequency
thanks!
Still makes me laugh at just how many people told me how lucky I was, sure didn't feel lucky.
Also I'm still waiting on the super speed to kick in.
Me neither - I was just pleased to have caught it in time this week. Legoboy can have my spot.
In a nutshell, August of 2014, we had around a week of really nice weather and had the usual storm afterwards, this time it was quite heavy, the thunder and lightning had been pretty constant from early evening the day before and when I got up at my usual of before 6am to ride my scooter in to work the following day I remember thinking "maybe I shouldn't ride in as the roads will be slippery", I did think about the lightning, but the odds are ridiculous so that wasn't really a concern.
Pulled up at a set of lights, had literally just pulled away from the lights and heard an almighty 'CRACK', blinding, and I mean totally blinding flash of white and an immense searing/shooting pain hit across my hands, arms and across my chest.
Luckily the road was dead at that time in the morning, and shortly after I managed to kinda stagger the bike to the side of the road.
Can't remember just how long I was in the hospital, but felt like an attraction at a freak show as every few minutes a new doctor would come in to see 'the guy who got hit by lightning', and run a few more tests.
They say I was very lucky (again it really didn't feel that way), and that a combination of the water on the surface of my bikers gear and the rubber of the tires took the sting out of it, but had major pains in my hands and arms for months and generally my health went through the floor for ages, eventually after god knows how many tests they discovered a problem with my heart, which they say was the cause of my health deteriorating afterwards, but who knows.
Fit and health now and still living in hope of my super speed.
Were any of your senses affected? Many moons ago, while driving, I witnessed lightning strike a tree branch in front of me (probably ten to fifteen metres away). The strike was enough to blast the branch to bits and, thank the maker, my speed was enough that by the time the branch hit the road my van had passed. It did blind me totally for about six hours and resulted in an overnight hospital stay (standard OP for any major electrocution in Australia). It took many months for my senses to fully recover - I had weird spots in my vision (and could see strange stuff), could hear frequencies outside the range of my standard hearing (particularly where any sort of electrical flow was involved) and everything tasted metallic (at worst) and just 'different' at best. I wouldn't say it gave me super powers per se but I firmly believe that it has permanently affected the way my brain works...
Were any of your senses affected? Many moons ago, while driving, I witnessed lightning strike a tree branch in front of me (probably ten to fifteen metres away). The strike was enough to blast the branch to bits and, thank the maker, my speed was enough that by the time the branch hit the road my van had passed. It did blind me totally for about six hours and resulted in an overnight hospital stay (standard OP for any major electrocution in Australia). It took many months for my senses to fully recover - I had weird spots in my vision (and could see strange stuff), could hear frequencies outside the range of my standard hearing (particularly where any sort of electrical flow was involved) and everything tasted metallic (at worst) and just 'different' at best. I wouldn't say it gave me super powers per se but I firmly believe that it has permanently affected the way my brain works...
I really need to find a different job. The clients conspire against me on Fridays!
Everybody is a comedian. Although, this made me laugh.
The day I was discharged from the hospital I went to get some rest in my bedroom, I laid down and thought my boys would come up and disturb me, so got up to lock the door (we put a lock on as we had medicines in the bedroom at the time), but it wasn't until I got up that I remembered that the lock was on the outside of the door. After about an hour of sleep I got up, to find the door locked from the outside. My wife and kids hadn't got back home, so I'm at a loss to explain it, but did make me feel I had somehow locked it, so closest thing to a superpower yet :-)
A penalty shot (I think) in field hockey took off from three feet away and slammed me hard in the head, about half-an-inch from my temple. Its momentum toppled me over and I did lose consciousness briefly, but there didn't seem to be any other consequences. Other than that I've lead a pretty lucky life!
For once I don't mind coming late to the party as of course I'd have donated my spot to @Legoboy!
Sadly, I am fighting the tide of Pokémon Go. I'm trapped playing Disney Magic Kingdoms. (Yes, you read that correctly.)
Minor injuries include slicing my pinky finger to the bone trying to open a bottle of Mountain Dew for a friend, breaking my pinky toes probably a half dozen times total, and nearly being rendered deaf in one ear because my brother thought it was a good idea to shove the sharp end of a paintbrush down my ear.
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@Legoboy now has 86.44...% of winning. C'mon people, let's make a 100% @Legoboy Bonus Ball Bonanza!
Hit by a car, 21 stitches in my leg and severed nerve. Pretty sure the nerve won't heal despite the doctors saying it would, 16+ years ago.