The Stupidest Injuries People Have Sustained

No injury is smart, but some are certainly dumber than others. There was a time, like a hundred thousand years ago, when one slight injury was all it took. One twisted ankle on a mammoth tusk, one scratch from the saber tooth tiger you ride to get to work, one nip from the pelican you use as a toilet and you're a goner, bud.

But with modern medicine, we get to survive the terrible infections we would have gotten in the days of yore and live to tell people about the stupid ways we've accidentally harmed ourselves. It makes us wonder if people didn't have stories like this for a while, just based on survivability bias. Either way, it's nice to have learned a lesson from an injury rather than be telling people about it in caveman heaven, which we are assuming is full of very jealous cavemen watching the new arrivals who've lived happy, long fulfilling lives. Maybe heaven is just cavemen beating the ever-loving snot out of everyone who enters, just to teach them the hard knock life.

Whether it came from a seemingly inconsequential source, a poor decision, or just plain hubris, most of us have sustained otherwise avoidable injuries that at least make for an okay story. Some are dumb and embarrassing freak injuries. Other injuries are just stupid.

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