31 Painful And Ridiculous Ways People Have Broken Their Body PartsSkip To ContentHomepageSign InSearch BuzzFeedSearch BuzzFeedlol Badge Feedwin Badge Feedtrending Badge FeedCalifornia residents can opt out of "sales" of personal data.Do Not Sell My Personal Information 2022 BuzzFeed, Inc PressRSSPrivacyConsent PreferencesUser TermsAd ChoicesHelpContactSitemapPosted on 15 Feb 2018 31 Painful And Ridiculous Ways People Have Broken Their Body Parts "There was a sound like uncooked sausages snapping." by Gena-mour BarrettBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestTwitterMailLink We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us the most ridiculous way they ve broken a bone Here are some of their ridiculous and cringeworthy stories 1 The enthusiastic stomper buzzfeed.com "I broke my foot jumping up and down celebrating the Eagles winning the Super Bowl." — mackenzieb446125b5b 2 The bread incident "I was taking a rather large and rectangular loaf of bread from the freezer when the bag tore. Fell straight onto my foot, broke two metatarsal bones and a couple of these fiddly little toe bones." — orlofthesky 3 The uncooked sausages "I slipped on a wet bathroom floor and landed with my back against the toilet bowl. There was a sound like uncooked sausages snapping. I went into shock and somehow ended up at the cinema an hour later watching Jupiter Ascending with a large collection of broken ribs." — kateclairep 4 The pee slide buzzfeed.com "Leeds Festival 2008 completely sober. I was too lazy to go to the campsite portaloos so decided to find a place to crouch down to have a wee. Slipped in other people's piss, fell down a hill and broke my leg in 3 places. Missed the last day of the festival and it took me two months to be back on my feet!!!" — jessw4e5ed5bfa 5 The giant sneeze "I sneezed and cracked a rib." — helenlouisek 6 The finger jam "My mum slammed my thumb in the boot of our car, worst of all it was jammed there for a minute or so until she could get the keys out to unlock it." — jessicapecar22 7 The Human Bowling game "Snapped my collarbone playing Human Bowling when I was 11, which I am still proud to say I invented. This involved getting 4-5 people to kneel on a hill (the pins), then the ball would have to curl up and throw themselves down the hill and hit the pins. I was the ball." — Hollie Craig, Facebook 8 The Mexico meltdown buzzfeed.com "Got extremely drunk in Mexico. Decided to try a small zip line across the beach. Lady told me to WALK DOWN THE STAIRS and glide. I jumped off a 2-3ft ledge and hit my foot on a rock. Honestly can't remember a thing from when it happened. But three broken metatarsals that I was in denial about until I got back home four days later. Everyone knew me at that resort for the rest of my trip." — nikkiperezdet 9 The lazy lightbulb changer "Changing a lightbulb. I was too lazy to bring the stepladder upstairs with me so I decided to stand on a pile of books. The books obviously didn’t hold, I fell and hit my arm on a chest of drawers. I broke both the bones in my lower arm and fractured my wrist. It required 2 operations, metal plates, screws and wires." — Catherine Louise Hammond, Facebook 10 The bag break "I STEPPED on a plastic bag to stop it flying away in the wind and in return I received a fractured foot." — amyacrisp 11 The lamb lunge "I grew up raising livestock, so the first time I ever broke a bone was by getting kicked in the face by a lamb in high school. It wasn’t even my lamb." — christinalynns2 12 The trampoline story buzzfeed.com "Trampolining. But not a 'fall off a trampoline' break, or a 'crash into someone' break or a 'land on the hard metal at the edge' break. No, I landed a back somersault dead on my feet in the centre of the trampoline and my leg decided to snap into 6 pieces with the bone sticking out of my leg for no reason..." — bubblemuffin246 13 The pocket procedure "When I was in seventh grade, I went to get a drink of water. I put my hand in my pocket, and when I leaned forward, my finger bent backwards and broke on the growth plate. Got to wear a full arm cast for six weeks." — catheriner19 14 The smashed screen door "When I was a teenager, I had a fight with my mom and decided to storm out of the house barefoot. The front door was open, so I kicked the screen door as hard as I could in a fit of rage, only to find that it was locked, and broke my foot." — dslewis86 15 The frozen orange juice "A can of frozen orange juice fell on my big toe right under the nail. Broke the top phalange, fractured the middle one, and I had a haematoma under the nail." — tessah5 16 The bent pinky buzzfeed.com "When I was 11, I was waiting for something on my family computer to load and decided I wanted to play with my mom’s yoga ball while I waited. Instead of being smart and standing up to go get it I thought I could lean over in my chair and roll it toward me. Bad idea. The chair and I both toppled over with the back of the chair somehow catching my left pinky finger on its way to the tile floor. Needless to say, my finger broke and while my mom took care of me - she was home alone with all 5 of us kids and didn’t want to take all of us to the DR so I never got it set. It makes a great conversation starter though." — xanniej 17 The toaster shock "Watching the toaster. It popped, I was scared, I fell on my bum. Coccyx. This is my stupid story." — Fran Crossley, Facebook 18 The slippery leaf "I slipped on a leaf. Yes, a leaf. It was the middle of fall and the leaves were kind of wet. I went to walk across my school campus, when all of the sudden, I fell. I broke my kneecap clean in half. I remember being carried to the school nurse because there were bone shards just kind of floating around in there. The nurse gave me a bandaid and made me sit in her office for a solid four hours. I still have recurring knee issues to this day because I never had anything done about it. Lesson learned!" — poefanclub 19 The shoe betrayal "I broke my elbow by falling over my own shoe laces. What was worse, was that it was in front of my ex-boyfriend with his new girlfriend. They both just laughed at me!" — lauras4cf778f0e 20 The Jerk buzzfeed.com "I was hanging out with my younger cousin at a yogurt shop. The shop had a little mini stage in it, so I️ hopped up onstage when “The Jerk” came on and started dancing. I heard a snap and the thing I️ know my knee is on the back of my leg. Turns out I️ dislocated my knee doing the jerk. Super embarrassing and I️ had to wear a brace for 6 months. My family still won’t let me live down my dancing fiasco." — juliannaj2 21 The unfortunate door slam "I had been having an argument in the car with my husband, he parked the car and I got out and slammed the door in a huff. I had left my hand in the door frame and broke a finger clean across." — amyk4da5d6cf1 22 The banister dare "When I was 7 I was climbing on the banister at the top of our house, because my brother dared me to. I fell, quite predictably, and fell 3 floors down onto a concrete floor. I broke my shoulder, arm, hip, leg, knee and ankle all down one side. I was in traction for 9 months. I had only been out of hospital 8 weeks when I fell out of a tree and broke my knee on the other side. To say that my Dad was unimpressed was an understatement!!" — m42949fcb1 23 The zebra vault "I was at an event and one of the exhibitors, who had a zebra for a logo, had brought a life size zebra model as part of their exhibition. I decided to vault onto the zebra, fell straight off, knocked myself out and broke my wrist into a million pieces." — hannahw415aef330 24 The gigantic helium tank buzzfeed.com "When I was 14, my overnight camp held a carnival. When we finished with the gigantic helium tank, we stashed it behind the dining hall door. Fast forward a couple days, we’re dismissed from dinner, we’re all running out, and someone managed to hit the tank with enough force that it fell...directly onto my foot. To make matters worse, it actually bounced slightly, hitting my foot a second time before rolling off. The top of my foot was broken, and healed well, but my two end toes were shattered. The fourth toe is permanently bent, and my pinky toe looks like a red balloon. The other toes sustained damage, and that’s why most of my nails are deformed. No more pedicures for me." — chanl 25 The risky jeans "Putting on a pair of jeans. Fractured my ankle in 2 places. Yep." — Ian Biddle, Facebook 26 The spiked fence "I was showing off to a boy I really fancied by climbing the old spiked fence in Greenwich Park. He asked if I needed help, of course me being me said no. I promptly slipped and fell on a spike, breaking my ribs." — ClairetheBear 27 The Nintendo cord "I broke my right arm when I tripped over a Nintendo 64 controller cord. I was 8 years old. The day I got my cast off, I was jumping from couch to couch and rebroke my arm." — Mandyjo94 28 The cat chase buzzfeed.com "Made a cheese and tomato omelette, decided I was thirsty so grabbed some juice and on my way back to the table my cat was staring at me, a look that said, 'chase me'. So I put the juice down, proceed to run between the two sofas after him and instead smash my foot into the side of the sofa. Clean break on my pinky toe because of it!" — laurao4b8aa619d 29 The pocket change punch "I was on a carnival ride which just basically spun you around in a 360 degree loop, I had loose change in my pocket, with the first 360 ‘loop’ all my loose change flew out my pocket, smacked me right in the face, fractured my nose and chipped my front teeth, it was carnage." — brendanq 30 The darkened dock "I went on vacation with my boyfriend's family and the first day we were there, I was on a dock and it was getting dark so I started heading back to the house. The dock lights were on and I lost sight of the dock, and my right foot went off the dock. I twisted to try and save myself and broke my left leg in 5 places. I ended up in a canal and we had to find a ladder to climb out. When I got back into the dock my leg was loosely swinging back and forth like there was no bones beneath the knee!" — hannahwilliscanuk 31 And the box "I kicked an empty cardboard box and broke 2 bones in my foot." — kathleencg Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity. Make sure to follow the BuzzFeed Community on Facebook and Twitter for your chance to be featured in similar BuzzFeed posts Share This ArticleFacebook PinterestTwitterMailLink BuzzFeed DailyKeep up with the latest daily buzz with the BuzzFeed Daily newsletter!This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.