The misadventures of the God of Hardcore Large ass splinter edition

...and what treatment were you actually offered? I only ask because when I got home, took my soaked shoe off and then peeled the sock from my skin, my mother flapped around like a bird and couldn't actually do anything! In the end I had to dunk my own foot in warm water (which I tell you now was excruciatingly cringe worthy) to clean off the blood and only then would she deal with it.

On seeing the mark my brother did what only a brother could, he poked at my foot! OH:

 

My foot story is waaaaay better than any of yours:033:

Why? cuz it involves TIGERS!h:

Now seriously, when I was 5 my dad took me to one of those "open" zoos were you could drive inside and see the animals. After that we went to the petting area, and among the animals there was a young (not cub) tiger.

It had a chain around its neck, so it wasnt dangerous, but I got too close to it and BAM! it bit my shoe with foot and everything!

Now before you ask me if I have a wooden leg or something, nope, it didnt do nothing.

I'm not Wolverine, it didnt grow back, is just that the tiger's teeth went just between my toes, thus I just lose one of my shoes:lol:

Awesome huh? next time I'll tell you all how a toucan almost ripped my fingers off during vacation in brazil:nod:

 

I concur, that is far better than my story! Anything involving wild animals and almost losing a limb beats a plank of wood nailed to a foot. However, having almost lost your foot to a Tiger what made you get so close to a Toucan? You would think a near Tiger-limb-death incident would perhaps teach you something?

 

Dude it was a toucan, its like smaller than a parrot...

The thing is, since its almost more beak than bird you'll think "it cant be dangerous".

Well, when somebody tells you "dont touch the beak" your should NOT touch the DAMN beak!:rambo:

I was like 9 back then, and well all my knowledge about toucans at the time came from disney movies:lol:

Who would thought a funny little bird like that could have such a temperament! seriously, if you have a big yellow beak like that you're asking for people to grab it...


PS: I'm joking at the end.

 

My experience of the Toucan comes from very old Guiness adverts and I have nothing to establish scale because it was always far bigger than the pint of Guiness lol - I do recall the enormous beak however and that's what made me think that poking fingers anywhere near it would result in substantial pain and / or blood loss.

 

They actually have little strength in that beak, the problem is that damn thing is pretty sharp, so while toucans cant actually rip your fingers with it, they can give you a nasty cut.

 

That sounds like you! :dance:

 

While not as bad as some of yours I was once helping install drywall on a 10foot ceiling at a neigbors house. I was up working the screws into the drywall on a ladder. I finished and jumped about 8 feet down, little did I know a piece of Lath board (old stype boards that went under layers of plaster on OLD OLD OLD houses) was in my path. A 4 inch nail was sticking out the top stright up in the air.

I landed my right foot square on it...

If not for the heafty 1 1/2" rubber on the bottem of my boot the nail would have came out the top of my foot. I still had to get it out and cleaned up and it hurt like hell but it could have been worse >_<

 

I dealt with it at home and hoped my jabs would protect me - luckily I didn't catch anything. I didn't speak enough Greek at the time, although in hindsight the doctor would probably have spoken in perfect English. I cleaned it with plenty of hot water and soap, then I limped a few days and it was OK afterwards, no infection.

One of my friends asked me - and she was being totally serious - why I didn't just step over the nail too.

She was blonde :lol:

 

Do you smell like Fruit Loops?

 

Nope, frosted flakes