Ah yes, injured siblings
When anyone asks me "Kryptik, have you ever broken a bone?" I say "Yes. But it was my brother's collarbone."

My brother [known on here as inquus] and I were messing around, what might be called 'horseplay' if you're very posh and use words like 'horseplay' and I rolled him up in a heavy woollen blanket. To stop him unrolling himself, I then proceeded to sit on him. With some force.

Now at the time, my brother was a skinny little man [still is], and although I wasn't very big myself, I was, at four years older than him, almost twice his height, and at least twice his weight. As I sat down, there was a snapping noise, followed by a whimper.
I quickly unrolled him, and started thinking hard about how I was going to explain my way out of this one.

Several hours later, he emerged from A&E holding an X-ray with his arm in a sling and with a reproachful look in his eye.

I also seem to recall persuading him, when he was very little, to lick the terminals of a 9-volt battery, after pretending to do it myself to prove it was safe. He denies this occurred, or if it did he has no recollection. I know I definitely tried to make him do it.
(kryptik, Fri 19 Aug 2005, 1:14, Reply)