I was playing on my mountain bike a couple days ago popping wheelies on a tennis court. I went over backwards when I got overconfident and bounced my helmeted head off the concrete twice splitting my helmet in half. If I hadn't been wearing it they would have probably been mopping up my gray matter.
My neck is a bit sore.....maybe I should sue myself for whiplash.
I thought helmet laws were gay until...
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psychic_mechanic
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SeVa-S13 wrote:...and short buses. <3
Yep and don't forget gloves,boots, and kneepads. On a short bus you have to watch out for all that.
My friend in sacramento would tell me the funniest stories about this kid. "**** you man" "oo oo pt cruiser " friend:"pt cruisers suck" kid: "**** you im goin' shank you *****"
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I keep trying to tell my sister to get a full face helmet for motorcycle riding with her boy friend. She won't llisten. After my experiences interfacing with the pavement, you think she would get it. She saw how my Shoei had the front acte off from eating a face pull of road. Stupid.
psychic_mechanic, Glad to hear you are okay. And glad to hear you had a bike helmet on. I love seeing people do tricks on bikes. Never could do a wheelie on my bicycle. Now my motorcycles, Hehe
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psychic_mechanic, Glad to hear you are okay. And glad to hear you had a bike helmet on. I love seeing people do tricks on bikes. Never could do a wheelie on my bicycle. Now my motorcycles, Hehe
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Jesda wrote:Helmets are great, awesome, amazing inventions. But a law requiring them just slows down the cleanup process for our gene pool.
-Jesda
darwinism is always in full swing. if the lack of a helmet doesn't get them, they'll do something else equally stupid. like trying to trim some hedges with a push mower
LOL!
Glad you're ok man. I never wore my helmet except when I was about 10-13. Never hit my head, but I flipped over it at full speed quite a few times doing stupid ****. Still stopped wearing my helmet during 6th grade.
Well here are to of my 2 crash stories.
1) In 4th or 5th grade, I, for some unknown reason, decided to ride my bike full speed inside the garage and into the wall. What happened was that the wheel went partially into the wall and I flew right into it.
Result=A lotta pain and I never did it again. Was wearing my helmet at the time though.
2) Me and two other friends(a neighbor and a kid down the street) took our bikes up a huge dirt hill on the neighbor's property. We only used to sled down it, but we decided to ride down. Well we started the race. As we built up speed, we were able to jump pretty good when the little hills or half burried rocks popped up. Anyway, I took the lead and 3/4 way down the hill it happened. A damn gopher or groundhog ran up the side of the hill and scared the **** outta me. Guess what? I crashed. BIG TIME! I hit the ground real hard and rolled down to the bottom. The bike flipped right over my face. My friends flew past me laughing their ***es off. I got pwned by a ****in gopher.
Result=The bottom of my chin was bleeding and burning. I got bandaged up and took on the hill quite a few more times.:ylsuper Wish I had a full face helmet that day.
Glad you're ok man. I never wore my helmet except when I was about 10-13. Never hit my head, but I flipped over it at full speed quite a few times doing stupid ****. Still stopped wearing my helmet during 6th grade.
Well here are to of my 2 crash stories.
1) In 4th or 5th grade, I, for some unknown reason, decided to ride my bike full speed inside the garage and into the wall. What happened was that the wheel went partially into the wall and I flew right into it.
Result=A lotta pain and I never did it again. Was wearing my helmet at the time though.
2) Me and two other friends(a neighbor and a kid down the street) took our bikes up a huge dirt hill on the neighbor's property. We only used to sled down it, but we decided to ride down. Well we started the race. As we built up speed, we were able to jump pretty good when the little hills or half burried rocks popped up. Anyway, I took the lead and 3/4 way down the hill it happened. A damn gopher or groundhog ran up the side of the hill and scared the **** outta me. Guess what? I crashed. BIG TIME! I hit the ground real hard and rolled down to the bottom. The bike flipped right over my face. My friends flew past me laughing their ***es off. I got pwned by a ****in gopher.
Result=The bottom of my chin was bleeding and burning. I got bandaged up and took on the hill quite a few more times.:ylsuper Wish I had a full face helmet that day.
jdmfreak03 wrote:1) In 4th or 5th grade, I, for some unknown reason, decided to ride my bike full speed inside the garage and into the wall. What happened was that the wheel went partially into the wall and I flew right into it.
Result=A lotta pain and I never did it again. Was wearing my helmet at the time though.
are you sure this was the first time you hit your head against something hard?:evilhaha
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You think Im lying?
Here's another one.
When I went snowboarding in in Feb., I decided that I wasnt gonna rent a helmet since I felt as though I had enough experience. Well after a bunch of runs, I decided to move over to the part of the hill with the jumps on it. I hit the jump and tried to do a 360, but I was going too fast and accidentally did it off the wrong jump(The jump I needed was the next one). I landed farther than I was supposed to(At the begining of the next jump) before I was able to finish the 360, the board hooked into the snow and I hit the ground HARD. The back of my head smacked the ground. Needless to say that my day ended an hour and a half early. I was pretty ****ed up.
Here's another one.
When I went snowboarding in in Feb., I decided that I wasnt gonna rent a helmet since I felt as though I had enough experience. Well after a bunch of runs, I decided to move over to the part of the hill with the jumps on it. I hit the jump and tried to do a 360, but I was going too fast and accidentally did it off the wrong jump(The jump I needed was the next one). I landed farther than I was supposed to(At the begining of the next jump) before I was able to finish the 360, the board hooked into the snow and I hit the ground HARD. The back of my head smacked the ground. Needless to say that my day ended an hour and a half early. I was pretty ****ed up.
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haha....
reminds me of having a snow ball fight indoors...
totally slipped went a about 4 feet of the floor and landed on my head hard....saw stars but got up and didn't act like a *****, more like a dumb dog and just kinda shook my head a few times and went on...
there was also this night were me and some friends were in the walmart parking lot just kinda talking. There happened to be a cart return there that wasn't bolted down. Somehow, we got the bright idea of sitting on it while the others shook it as hard as they could to try and shake them off. I was on it, feet slipped off, and they just kinda leaned forward yanked back really hard on it and slung me head and shoulders down onto the asphalt. My friend said it made a sound much like someone clapping when my head hit, I wouldn't really know as I couldn't hear anything but a low ring for a few seconds...
I've probably had concussions I've never gotten checked out....I'm retarded:D Occasionly I'll still get a slight ring in my ears at random, but that isn't stopping me from hitting stuff with my head. Did I mention I'm a retard?
reminds me of having a snow ball fight indoors...
totally slipped went a about 4 feet of the floor and landed on my head hard....saw stars but got up and didn't act like a *****, more like a dumb dog and just kinda shook my head a few times and went on...
there was also this night were me and some friends were in the walmart parking lot just kinda talking. There happened to be a cart return there that wasn't bolted down. Somehow, we got the bright idea of sitting on it while the others shook it as hard as they could to try and shake them off. I was on it, feet slipped off, and they just kinda leaned forward yanked back really hard on it and slung me head and shoulders down onto the asphalt. My friend said it made a sound much like someone clapping when my head hit, I wouldn't really know as I couldn't hear anything but a low ring for a few seconds...
I've probably had concussions I've never gotten checked out....I'm retarded:D Occasionly I'll still get a slight ring in my ears at random, but that isn't stopping me from hitting stuff with my head. Did I mention I'm a retard?
Same here about the concussions and the ringing in the ears. I hate when my ears start ringing outta nowhere. I've hit my head hard a couple times and went to bed for about 3-5 hours(BAD). No1 was home to keep me awake at those times so I just got in the bed. I also fell asleep in the ski lodge cafeteria. I remember talking to a friend cuz he had fallen off the rail and hit his head on the ground. I put my head down for a second and the next thing I know, I woke up to find him sleeping. I woke him up and we went to the snowboard shop downstairs and the guys were cool and hooked us up with some asprin for free. Didnt help though.
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surely you have some to contribute yourself.
the only time I can remember ever being knocked out was when I was 5 or 6(headshots begin to effect memory...). I was at the park playing "bumpercars" on a slide. I don't know how many of you have played this, but it involves sitting on the slide sideways with your feet hanging over to one side and sliding down into another person seated the same way. Anyway, there I am at the top of the slide, getting ready, getting seated, and OH ****! I lose my balance and find myself hanging upside down over the side of a slide probably about 12 feet in the air. Yeah, so my grip totally slipped. Landed face first in gravel (before nearly all playgrounds had mulch) blackness..come to a few seconds later, I raise my head up to see blood all over the gravel. blackness. come back to find myself being carried to a car, proceed to puke blood all over my uncle's awesome (and rare) Iron Maiden tour shirt. (ruined it, very sad). blackness. I don't remember really anything after that or the days following. I remember ice cream and mashed potatos were about all I could eat for a few days though. I still have a scar on my face that would line up with my baby teeth. That's probably the worst head shot I've had....
There was also that a time in high school, I think I was a junior that year, just getting back from some assembly at the gym, me and some friends in the hall laughing and being stupid in general. Me, all of the sudden, decide it'd be amusing to see if people would think I'm dumb enough to run as hard as I can head first into a locker. I am. I don't think the impact was loud enough to make my ears ring, but they were anyway, everything got fuzzy and I decided it'd probably be a good idea to run and hide in a bathroom to avoid questioning about that loud noise.
That locker had a huge dent the rest of my time in high school.
those are about all I can remember now though. I'm sure more of us have tales of ignorance to chime in with.
the only time I can remember ever being knocked out was when I was 5 or 6(headshots begin to effect memory...). I was at the park playing "bumpercars" on a slide. I don't know how many of you have played this, but it involves sitting on the slide sideways with your feet hanging over to one side and sliding down into another person seated the same way. Anyway, there I am at the top of the slide, getting ready, getting seated, and OH ****! I lose my balance and find myself hanging upside down over the side of a slide probably about 12 feet in the air. Yeah, so my grip totally slipped. Landed face first in gravel (before nearly all playgrounds had mulch) blackness..come to a few seconds later, I raise my head up to see blood all over the gravel. blackness. come back to find myself being carried to a car, proceed to puke blood all over my uncle's awesome (and rare) Iron Maiden tour shirt. (ruined it, very sad). blackness. I don't remember really anything after that or the days following. I remember ice cream and mashed potatos were about all I could eat for a few days though. I still have a scar on my face that would line up with my baby teeth. That's probably the worst head shot I've had....
There was also that a time in high school, I think I was a junior that year, just getting back from some assembly at the gym, me and some friends in the hall laughing and being stupid in general. Me, all of the sudden, decide it'd be amusing to see if people would think I'm dumb enough to run as hard as I can head first into a locker. I am. I don't think the impact was loud enough to make my ears ring, but they were anyway, everything got fuzzy and I decided it'd probably be a good idea to run and hide in a bathroom to avoid questioning about that loud noise.
That locker had a huge dent the rest of my time in high school.
those are about all I can remember now though. I'm sure more of us have tales of ignorance to chime in with.
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Worst, and quite possibly the only head shot I've had was where I ran myself into a concrete wall on my bike. Man oh man was that fun...
7th birthday, racing my friend, lost control and ended up on wet grass on a collision course with a concrete wall. I found out that bikes don't stop to well on wet turf.
I believe it was 8 or 9 stitches that I ended up getting--nearly blacked out as well.
7th birthday, racing my friend, lost control and ended up on wet grass on a collision course with a concrete wall. I found out that bikes don't stop to well on wet turf.
I believe it was 8 or 9 stitches that I ended up getting--nearly blacked out as well.
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tenkawa_akito wrote:i hate it when i see states without helmet laws. my parents had a motorcycle wreck years ago. the entire face portion of my mom's helmet was nearly ripped off. Without it, she would have lost her jaw.
In DE, your'e required by law to carry your helmet with you, but not wear it. (as far as motorcycles go, don't know about bicycles)
How dumb is that? I guess they figure if your'e dumb enough to carry it on your bike but not wear it you deserve to die. Darwinism or something
I have eaten dirt many times, and dont even ask me how many times I have fallen on my skateboard. I did a 360 flip off a Walmart loading dock and was given 25 or so shards of glass in my arm....I was K grinding a square rail, slid back and sliced my back 6 inches long on the end of the rail, had a fork on my bike snap after a jump, fell through the handlebars, face down on dirt to a downhill roll. I am surprised I have never broken a bone besides 3 fingers
Well about a month and a half ago(Im actually not too sure) I hit my head. Well Ill try my best to describe it. I was going down the steps in my house and you know the wall that comes down and connects with the ceiling downstairs? Well some how(I have no clue how I did it) I smacked my forehead on it and fell down the rest of the steps. Hurt like a *****.