When I was around 8, a neighborhood kid was swinging around a light pole, just a plain metal pole but it had the wirenut box attached to the side about a foot from the ground, which he was standing on while spinning.
His foot slipped, the corner of this box ripped his ankle open, cut right up from the top of the shoe about 6 inches into his lower calf/ankle.
He screamed and ran home, blood pouring everywhere. Saw him a few days later with massive stitches and bruising all over his leg. Wasn’t as bad as it looked, but fuck me it still makes me wince thinking of my ankle being sliced by a dull metal corner by weight and gravity alone.
My brother and I were riding bikes in the driveway when my dad asked if he could ride too.
He took over and then fell over. He got up and said he needed to go to the hospital while showing us his pinky finger. I kid you not, his finger was at an almost perfect right angle.
My dad liked playing pranks on us and we thought he was pulling a joke on us, but he was not…
I’ve never seen an injury quite like that one.