Ouch!A friend was once given a biopsy by a sleep-deprived junior doctor.
They needed a sample of his colon, so inserted the long bendy jaws-on-the-end thingy, located the suspect area and... he shot through the ceiling. Doctor had forgotten to administer any anaesthetic.
What was your ouchiest moment?
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chthonic, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 17:29)
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Quadbiking in EgyptMrs Lardy and I took our two girls to Egypt a couple of years ago on a cheap package deal. Of course, this meant that the first day, meeting the tour company rep, we were bombarded with information about all the excursions available. We had already decided on the obligatory trip to the pyramids and the boat-trip/snorkelling, but also decided that we'd like to do a quadbike safari, into the desert, to watch the sunrise.
We've been out for about an hour, I have our eldest on the back of my bike and Mrs Lardy the youngest. We're riding at a reasonable pace on decent tracks when, for reasons unknown, suddenly, my left front wheel digs in to gravel, the bike turns immediately 90 degrees left and smashes into the only tree for miles. The left handlebar smacks into my wrist causing it to swell to twice its size, the right handlebar makes gouges across my chest, belly and thigh as I am catapulted from the bike in our original direction of travel, aided by a sixteen year pillion old who was not holding on. I hit the floor and have the wind knocked out of me, by her landing on top of me. I was a wreck, she suffered onlt a ripped knee of her trousers and had to drive the bike (with now flat tyre), back to the tour operator.
Did I get any sympathy? Of course not, my beloved family proceeded to tell every person they met that I had crashed into the only tree in the dessert. Gits
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:36, 3 replies)
We did a similar tripwe didn't crash into trees, but we did have to buy drinks from Bedouins. Ouch.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:46, closed)
OuchAt least I got a couple of glasses of hot sweet tea for free from the bedouin for the shock
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 14:57, closed)
Quad bikes are just dangerous.Ask Rik Mayall or Ozzie Osbourne.
The whole top-heavy design is flawed and if you want to travel above walking pace they are just plain crap.
(, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 18:20, closed)
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