Pretty Bad luck

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/1072470/boy-11-accidentally-strangled-by-game-console

An 11-year-old boy from England has accidentally hanged himself after he became tangled in an XBox cable, according to reports.

You can get cable controllers.

Reminds me of Grade 6 when I was the 'swing monitor'. I had to hang the playground swings in the morning by standing on a chair and clipping them in.

Being lazy and almost tall enough to reach the clips I used to just jump up and clip them without a chair. I had to hang the rope and chair, which combined was quite heavy, over my shoulder while doing this.

One day I inadvertently had the rope wrapped around my neck. Jumped up, clipped the chair in, and bam - hang time! It eventually unraveled but not before I had massive rope burn from the rope holding my full body weight. The teacher was not happy.

Still can't picture it.

Xbox controllers have that quick-release plug near the end of the cord. They thing comes unplugged at the drop of a hat. Seems a bit suss.

Years ago, my nephew was climbing a tree and fell and got his neck caught on a branch which like rubbed/burnt the skin off his neck. My brother, his dad, took him to the hospital, and I don't exactly know what happened because nobody will talk about it, but either cops or child services got involved, and I think my nephew was seperated from his parents for a while. He got real f*****g depressed over that, and probably contributed to how he is today.

This kinda reminds me of a story I heard about last year...

A kid in NSW strangled himself to death whilst riding his dirt bike apparently... he had a length of rope over his shoulder and as he rode along, one end of the rope somehow snuck down and became entangled in the chain/sprocket...

This (the xbox story) still seems suss tho...

I once stabbed myself accidently with a pair of 12" tailors scissors (full steel construction)
I was 5, my brother (7) and neighbour (6) were using hammers to put holes in a massive cardboard box that our above ground pool came in

I couldn't find a third hammer so I grabbed the scissors from inside and started following suit, mum called lunch and I turned my head while striking the cardboard
put one of the blades through my right shin and in about 3 inches

7 stiches

unrelated but I found this when googling for scissors

http://craziestgadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/pizza-scissors.jpg
sauce

awsome!@

The other week I opened the kitchen cupboard and a tin of campbell's soup fell on my big toe from the first shelf. It hurt like a MFer. No lasting damage to see.

I used to think that I was fairly tough and that I could shrug off some nasty injuries. Torn lumbar discs, dislocated shoulders and knees, 2nd and 3rd degree burns, s*** like that.

However, I remember the day that I realised I had nothing to brag about. My then-girlfriend's parents own a sheep station. It's large. Her father was clearing trees to put up a new fence about 20 minutes ride away from their house. Somehow, the chainsaw slipped or snagged on something and ended up out of control. He ended up having it cut through his palm, almost severing his pinky and ring fingers from the rest. If it were me, I would've spent a significant amount of time thoroughly losing my s*** and going, "f*** f*** oh f*****g f***!". Apparently, he just grabbed a tube of superglue from his toolkit, glued his hand back together, hopped back on his bike and rode back to the house, covered in blood. The RFDS were called and he was flown to hospital where his hand was stitched back together. That s***'s insanely hardcore. If it were me, by the time that he was back at the house, I think all I would've managed to do would be to soil myself, go into shock and pass out.

Xbox controllers have that quick-release plug near the end of the cord. They thing comes unplugged at the drop of a hat. Seems a bit suss.

I haven't read the article but maybe he was tangled up that much that there was no tension on the actual plug?

^ in which case he is an even bigger idiot for jumping if he was that tangled up

we used to have a hole in our wall and i had 1 of those mad nurf guns and used to fire shots at it, eventually i hit it, went to get the arrow or w/e the fk it was i was shooting out and it kept slipping down, eventually i had like my arm prob to 1/2 my forearm in the wall, got jolted and ran away.


was boss, meanwhile yer don't xbox cables have the quick release on 360? i know my reg 1 used to have it, fkn annoying as hell u tug it a tiny bit and it broke, i can hardly see a 20-30kg kid hanging, not snapping that thing

when my dad was a kid he was chopping wood with an axe and axe slipped and went into his leg. it got stuck in the bone so took a bit to get it out. it did no lasting damage.

my mum always told me the story of her mates saying "chop here" and they did resulting in their mate losing his finger in an axe related injury

I had to rescue my pet parrot from being strangled, he wasn't playing on the x box though, just wrapped a few threads from his cover around his neck after chewing it to pieces.

Sometimes when I get a few headshots in CS I like to wrap the mouse cable around my neck and I get a semi. Sexual.

Maybe he was looking for a new sensation?

When i was 11, i was playing xbox one day and the cable got wrapped around me neck. I died.

The end.

At my first job we had to cut butter before using it, and butter is cold and hard, so we had this massive sharp knife to cut it. It was the butter knife. One of the guys that worked there threatened some kids once with "Don't make me get the butter knife!". Ah good times.

ahaha, nf with the inappropriate lulz.