I Stepped on a Nail

I stepped on a nail in the backyard today.

It felt like a bee sting. As soon as I felt it, I knew what it was. Right through the shoe.

By coincedence, I bought new shoes just prior to this incidence, although I was not wearing the new ones.

Luckily, it was a tiny finishing nail.

Obviously it wasn't standing on its head when I stepped on it. I don't know how it ended up at an angle which could actually poke that far into my shoe.

I took photos while Stacy grabbed some pliers from the garage. I decided to leave my shoe on until the nail was out.

When I saw the tiny spot of blood on my sock, I was relieved.

When I pulled the nail out, all the air blew out, leaving me with a flat foot.

My foot was fine, except for a little hole. I didn't go to the doctor. I had a tetanus shot about 5 years ago, and they last for 10, so I think I'll be fine with a band aid.

bbum

I stepped on a nail when I was a kid. It went all the way through my foot. It hurt. A lot. And was sore for a week.



California
Thursday 20th of November 2008 12:09 am

Jax184

I stepped on a jar of point-up extra sharp pencils when I was ~7. Only one was in the right spot to enter my foot, but it did so with a vengeance. Then of course the tip broke off inside. I still have a black spot on the bottom of my foot 13 years later.



Washington
Thursday 20th of November 2008 12:21 am



We had a horny dog once, it nailed my foot everyday, but I don't think that counts... There's no state for outside USA, so I'm choosing where I'd wanna live if I was in the USA...



California
Thursday 20th of November 2008 12:21 am



the... the stigmata...



Utah
Thursday 20th of November 2008 12:57 am



I once got stabbed in the palm with a pencil and a bit of the lead is still in my palm. Never the foot though.



California
Thursday 20th of November 2008 4:53 am



My best friend/neighbor and I had to get tetanus shots about 6 months ago (He somehow put a screw through his ear, I sliced open my thumb on a steel outlet cover, separate instances), and we both got tetanus shots. We pretty much act like we are invincible now when we are working around rusty nails. We've had tetanus shots, what's the worst that could happen? If you want to join our club, it requires an accidental event resulting in 5 or more stitches and a tetanus shot.



Oklahoma
Thursday 20th of November 2008 5:03 am

Bren

I stepped on a bee when I was a kid. It did NOT feel like a nail.



Colorado
Thursday 20th of November 2008 5:15 am



I stepped on a fingernail once. It didn't hurt me so much as the chick it was attached to.



South Carolina
Thursday 20th of November 2008 5:20 am



I once cut one of my toenails too short. It hurt. I think it was my 'index' toe on my right foot. Ohh...AND I had a hangnail once too...I think it was on my left foot. I didn't have to get tetanus shot for either of those incidents. Phew!



Ohio
Thursday 20th of November 2008 5:45 am



I stepped on a large sewing needle. Extra points since the eye of the needle went in first? Wow, force! I must stomp around like a super mario brothers 3 castle boss. Anyhow, the eye broke off in my foot. After it healed, I got half out on a boring day with some nail clippers. But the other half is there forever!



Rhode Island
Thursday 20th of November 2008 5:54 am



I can't remember how many times I stepped on nails or sliced my foot on something. One of my most vivid memories of childhood is stepping on a nail and thinking to myself, "Oh no! That's a nail!" as I felt it slide into my foot. Ouch!



Kentucky
Thursday 20th of November 2008 5:56 am



Step on a crack, break your mama's back. Step on a nail, ??? Good thing you had your camera!



Virginia
Thursday 20th of November 2008 6:00 am



I stepped on a decking screw after I built my deck. I had to unscrew it from my foot while keeping my composure and telling all the kids to get out of the backyard.



Virginia
Thursday 20th of November 2008 6:07 am



Rob, you're just an accident waiting to happen. Tie your shoes for pete's sake, man! Good thing you only stepped on a nail. You could have tripped on that shoe lace and the nail could have poked your eye out! Just thought I'd try to offer you some friendly advice...I wouldn't want to see you get hurt any more.



Wisconsin
Thursday 20th of November 2008 6:18 am

Fortran

I haven't really stepped on anything, although I did nearly slice off a finger when I fell and ran my hand down some wood. Honestly, though, I just wanted to see what image I'd get when I picked "DC" to represent me.



Washington DC
Thursday 20th of November 2008 6:30 am

We all have horses and live on ranches! Hi, I

I got stung by a wasp in the toe once - I may have stepped on it. It felt like someone methodically pushed the tip of a paring knife into my toe. Also not like a nail. But stepping on a nail still sucks, Rob.



Texas
Thursday 20th of November 2008 7:07 am



You really need to get a tetanus shot, Rob.



California
Thursday 20th of November 2008 7:17 am



My daughter got nailed by her boyfriend, but it is OK because they are going to get married.



Alaska
Thursday 20th of November 2008 7:18 am



I clipped off the end of my big toe with a lawnmower when I was 14. It hurt. I'm fine now.



Rhode Island
Thursday 20th of November 2008 7:37 am



Put it this way - lucky it was you and not your daughter! I also can't believe you left the shoe on long enough to get the pictures!



Maryland
Thursday 20th of November 2008 7:38 am



When I was a kid, I was "helping" my dad demolish an old shed in the backyard. He pulled the nails out of the old boards. He went to go get something, and I grabbed the hammer and pounded one of the nails back into a board. When he came back, he stepped on that nail and got hurt bad enough to go to the ER. I never told him I did it.



Arkansas
Thursday 20th of November 2008 7:46 am

Billy McHuffelstein the 3rd

Ever had a metal rebar go through your foot? THAT hurts. It's funny too, because when I lifted my foot, the 20-pound piece of concrete it was poking out of lifted into the air too. It took two friends to yank it off my foot, which healed nicely. That was in 1992 if I recall.



Vermont
Thursday 20th of November 2008 8:04 am

Zach

This is actually a reply to Washington state from the top. About twenty years ago, I had a broken bit of pencil graphite stuck in my foot, and I still have the black mark, too! Prison ink be damned, I say real states use pencils!



Delaware
Thursday 20th of November 2008 8:06 am



My friend stepped on a nail once and it went right through his foot and out the top. I rushed him to the hospital where a doctor pulled the nail out.



New York
Thursday 20th of November 2008 8:35 am



Do yourself a favor and DON'T google "tetanus" and look at images. It will make you want to go get a shot even if you haven't been impaled. Or at least take a shot, preferably with some Kentucky Bourbon.



Kentucky
Thursday 20th of November 2008 8:39 am

Cheesy Dave

I was walking along the road at night and somehow got a spike from a palm frond in the top of my foot (just behind the "ring" toe). I had to walk about a block to get get to some light to see what it was before I pulled it out.



California
Thursday 20th of November 2008 9:10 am

Stefan

I'm glad you are up to date on your tetanus shot. However, I think you should install a Gangrene Watch webcam in a specially built pair of hi-rise platform shoes.



Oregon
Thursday 20th of November 2008 9:27 am

graboid90

I shot my buddy in the forehead with a framing nail gun. He's fine, but I still have the shoe in my ass.



Kansas
Thursday 20th of November 2008 10:03 am



There is no state of confusion so I picked Florida instead.



Florida
Thursday 20th of November 2008 10:27 am



It was raining when I got off work one night.At the exit of our lot was a row of "tiger teeth," used to keep people from driving in through the out gate or stealing cars. I stepped over the five-inch teeth and my foot slipped. One spike went right through my work boot and into my foot. It took me a minute to work myself free.No stitches!



New Mexico
Thursday 20th of November 2008 10:43 am



holy crap



Georgia
Thursday 20th of November 2008 11:01 am



I stepped on a nail in the backyard when I was a kid. It was a big one, too. It went all the way through my shoe, but I guess the bottoms of my shoes were pretty thick because it just barely poked me and there was no blood at all.



Washington
Thursday 20th of November 2008 11:15 am



your typeface choice for the title is hilarious.



Utah
Thursday 20th of November 2008 11:19 am



i staplegunned right through my fingernail, and into my thumb. Sadly, it didn't go all the way through the thumb as well. That would make for a better story.



New York
Thursday 20th of November 2008 11:20 am



I threw a nail at this guy. it did nothing.



Florida
Thursday 20th of November 2008 11:22 am



I was so hammered last week that the cop nailed me.



Nebraska
Thursday 20th of November 2008 11:23 am



Hi My name is Ed Jones.



Hawaii
Thursday 20th of November 2008 11:24 am



Compared to some of these stories this isn't much, but when I was 15 or so I stepped on a sewing needle and it went literally THROUGH MY FOOT. It was sticking out the other side and everything! It was one of those with the little plastic balls on the end, though, so my mother convinced me to stop screaming long enough for her to grab hold and yank it out.



New Jersey
Thursday 20th of November 2008 12:27 pm



I have a black spot on my heel from stepping on a pencil at least 15 years ago



Kansas
Thursday 20th of November 2008 12:49 pm



Ouch, nail through the foot. Not as bad as a wine glass stem through the palm of ones hand. FYI, look out for cats sleeping underneath pillows on the floor when carrying your empty wine glass for a refill.



Maryland
Thursday 20th of November 2008 12:53 pm



My cat knocked over a glass in my room, and I thought I had gotten all the pieces until I lodged an inch long shard of glass into my big toe. Cats are such joys.



Washington
Thursday 20th of November 2008 2:08 pm



Hovercraft



Wyoming
Thursday 20th of November 2008 2:08 pm



Those shots last 10 years when you don't have an incident. You should probably go get a shot to be sure. I stepped on a nail once. It was in a fallen fenceboard.



Washington
Thursday 20th of November 2008 2:21 pm

Rob

When I was about 5 or so I stepped on a cactus one Wednesday evening before we were supposed to go to church. I was hoping this would get me out of going (yes, even at such a young age). But my parents wouldn't let something as insignificant as a bleeding foot with cactus needles sticking out of it get in the way of being in the house of the lord. besides, it was probably satan anyway



California
Thursday 20th of November 2008 2:25 pm



Hi Rob, now you kinda know how it feels to be me. Love, Jesus



California
Thursday 20th of November 2008 2:45 pm



tetanus requires rusty iron and manure, typically horse. That nail isn't rusty and if you don't have pets that use the yard then the odds of tetanus are pretty low. Just go with typical antibiotic ointment and you'll be fine.



Hawaii
Thursday 20th of November 2008 3:56 pm



When I was about 7 I was fishing with my father and brother and when I went back to cast I somehow caught my brother through the ear (treble hook). The bad part is that I thought I was caught in a tree and proceeded to yank and yank the line while wondering why my brother was screaming so much. I don't think he ever forgave me.



Tennessee
Thursday 20th of November 2008 4:02 pm



How about that catepillar stuck in the groove near the nail, did it make it out okay?



Nebraska
Thursday 20th of November 2008 4:49 pm

The Papier Boy

I stepped on a snail once. It didn't hurt at all.



Pennsylvania
Thursday 20th of November 2008 4:50 pm



I stepped on a golf tee once that was in my brother's pocket of some shorts lying on the laundry room floor. I still have a great scar, and since it was wood, assumed I didn't need a tetanus shot. I also vote for the Gangrene Camera. Great idea.



Connecticut
Thursday 20th of November 2008 4:56 pm

Mary Poppins

I once put a thumbtack on my moms dinner chair before she sat down. I saw it on a cartoon and thought it would be funny. I thought what a hoot it would be to see her fly up into the ceiling with a loud "Yeeeoowwwp!" Luckily she spotted it before sitting down for dinner.



Tennessee
Thursday 20th of November 2008 5:56 pm



What's a nail?



Kentucky
Thursday 20th of November 2008 6:47 pm

Patrick

Stepping on legos hurts just as much as stepping on nails. I used to be a messy child...



Ohio
Thursday 20th of November 2008 7:09 pm

Ooops, sorry Wade.

In 5th grade I stabbed a bully in the back of the neck with a #2 pencil after he had pissed me off too much. After that, we were friendly. Good times, good times.



Oregon
Thursday 20th of November 2008 7:22 pm



I nailed on a step once.



Utah
Thursday 20th of November 2008 7:23 pm

Pilot

I stepped on a nail. I went and got a shot and I would dafinetly say by the next day, it was worse than the nail wound. I was wearing shoes that were only about 2 weeks old.. .that bugged me too.



Maine
Thursday 20th of November 2008 7:36 pm



When will the nail be up on ebay?



Utah
Thursday 20th of November 2008 9:25 pm



You should've left it in - iron is good for you.



Wisconsin
Thursday 20th of November 2008 10:16 pm

Kevin M.

When I was 10 I was walking through the local YMCA in sandals when someone opened a door in front of me. It slid right over my big toenail, and when it closed...off went the toenail. I'm much better now.



New Mexico
Thursday 20th of November 2008 10:24 pm



Pac Man!



Kentucky
Thursday 20th of November 2008 10:26 pm



Hi Rob, now you kinda know how it feels to be me. Love, Jesus that comment made me shoot pink lemonade out of my nose. that was painful.



Arizona
Thursday 20th of November 2008 11:05 pm



I fell backwards off a beanbag aged 10 and in reaching for the table behind me, landed my hand on a cactus instead. My dear father tried to vacuum out the spines.



Washington DC
Friday 21st of November 2008 3:32 am



The memory of gazing, mesermised, into a running car engine and wondering what would happen if I touched the interesting belt that was going round very fast has stayed with me very clearly since the age of 7. My mind goes blank after that. I'm told I lost a fingernail.



New York
Friday 21st of November 2008 3:36 am



Yeah, I stepped on a nail once... playing in a construction site. I saw a board with nails sticking up, so I turned it over and stomped on it to pound the nail into the ground. Surprise! There was ANOTHER nail in the other side. So the board was attached to my foot through my shoe... gushed all kinds of blood when I pulled it off. Ah the golden days of youth.



Michigan
Friday 21st of November 2008 8:35 am



I nailed a gal, and she didn't need a tetanus shot. She got one anyway. :(



North Carolina
Friday 21st of November 2008 9:34 am

crickonaut

i never stepped "on" a nail, but i did drag my ENTIRE NAKED FOOT across a carpet tack. i had 7-8 v-shaped rips along the bottom. *shudders*



Indiana
Friday 21st of November 2008 9:35 am



I once burned my tongue on some hot chocolate. It hurt a lot, but no nail was found either in the chocolate, my tongue, or my shoe.



Ohio
Friday 21st of November 2008 9:41 am

Jim

I've stepped on a nail enough times to have many "I stepped on a nail" stories, but once I stepped on a two-inch long shard of glass. It didn't come through the top of my foot, but did start swearing like a wounded pirate. Pulled it out, it made that scary movie-style glass-coming-out-of-skin noise.



Wisconsin
Friday 21st of November 2008 10:25 am

Kenny

I was searching for lost treasure in Florida one time, and a big ol' blue-coloured crab scared me. I jumped backwards and sliced the bottom of my foot open on an open clam shell. The gash was about 3 inches long. I never found the treasure and we had to move into a trailer park. I hate the Goonies.



Michigan
Friday 21st of November 2008 11:09 am



why does a box of 10 penny nails cost 2.40?



Connecticut
Friday 21st of November 2008 11:40 am



i was so drunk that I nailed myself.



Georgia
Friday 21st of November 2008 11:40 am



My dad once stepped on glass getting the newspaper



Rhode Island
Friday 21st of November 2008 2:36 pm



When I was a kid my next door neighbor (another kid) was playing with a board of wood that had a big nail sticking out of it. He accidentally stepped on it and the nail went through his boot into his foot. When he lifted his foot up, the board was firmly attached.



Maryland
Friday 21st of November 2008 2:43 pm



I stepped on a jack once, you know the toy, jacks with a bouncy ball. That sucked. The worst was though; I casually slipped on the gravel in the driveway, landed gracefully down on one knee, tore my pants about a tiny half an inch, but I had fileted my knee on the rocks and ended up having 60 stitches around my knee to sew the skin and muscle back on.



New Mexico
Friday 21st of November 2008 3:03 pm

80sKnight

Would have been funnier if you posted a pic of the face you made when you stepped on the nail, Rob. I didn't step on a nail, but I did plow my naked big toe into a thick wrought iron banister at full force. I do believe I crushed it. That was years ago, it's fine now.



Pennsylvania
Friday 21st of November 2008 4:49 pm

Your Canadian BFF

I stapled my thumbs together once when I was six. I don't know how that's possible, but even at six I was a genius in my own right. Thank goodness for your tetanus shot. I just got mine again this year. Going to go step on some nails now.



California
Sunday 23rd of November 2008 12:01 am



I got stabbed in the big toe with a toothpick when I was a kid. I didn't even feel it though and I just pulled it out. I was surprised to find my sock covered in blood when I got home from school later that day.



Utah
Sunday 23rd of November 2008 10:29 am



Good luck on your fast recovery! I stubbed my


I was tearing down the inside of an old restaurant, and stepped on a really long nail. I was lucky though -- it went right between my toes (my big toe and second toe), and I didn't get hurt (which was especially lucky, since the damn thing poked through the top of my shoe and up about an inch -- it was a LONG nail).



California
Monday 24th of November 2008 8:08 am



i shot my foot about 8 years ago with a .223 calibre carbine... i now have no middle toe on my right foot..... i was dumb and rested the barrel on my shoe when i was trying to pull out the collapsible stock... probally should have taken my hand off the trigger gaurd... word to the wise, don't rest the barrel on your shoe..



Georgia
Monday 24th of November 2008 11:20 am



I stepped on a clam farmer's pitchfork up in Cape Cod when I was much younger. I ended up with two sweet holes right in the bottom of my foot. And according to my uncle, the doctor, a quick dip in the seawater is all I needed to somewhat clean it out and sterilize it. I'm still alive, so I guess he was right.



Pennsylvania
Monday 24th of November 2008 1:18 pm

Oren

I stepped on a rusty nail sticking through a roofing tile when I was a kid. Also, at kiddy camp, I stepped on a shredded aluminum can and sliced my foot open. Blood was everywhere, and as a three year old, I was crying too hysterically to explain. Luckily, one of the other kids was there. "I think he stepped on a bee," she helpfully explained to the counselor.



Colorado
Monday 24th of November 2008 1:23 pm



I once got a HUGE splinter in my foot, from running and sliding down a hall with a hardwood floor in my socks. I pulled half of it out, but the other half was embedded deep in my foot, kind of parallel with it. It hurt like hell for days but I was too cheap and poor to go to a doctor. After about three days my body had had enough of it and squired out the puss-covered splinter.



Massachusetts
Monday 24th of November 2008 1:27 pm



It is Bush's fault you stepped on a nail.



Washington DC
Monday 24th of November 2008 1:40 pm



I didn't step on anything, but I had a crochet hook stab about a centimeter into the web between my fingers. Had to twist it until it came out the same way it went in. Almost had to cut it out.



Ohio
Monday 24th of November 2008 5:10 pm

fantim

At least you didnt step on a bee that felt like a nail. You need to add a state for Japan, as I dont live in America



Washington DC
Monday 24th of November 2008 7:40 pm

Katie

If you have a major trauma past the 5 year mark but within the 10 year mark where NO METAL is involved... they give you the tetanus shot again anyway... talk about heaping on the pain....



Arizona
Monday 24th of November 2008 9:43 pm



I got poked with a pencil right next to my eye in second grade and I still (at age 42) have a small graphite colored mark on that spot.



Kentucky
Tuesday 25th of November 2008 8:22 am

Waverly

I stepped on a nail once. It was a full-sized, rusty one out in the yard near where our pet dogs would uh, "do their business". I screamed bloody murder. I was probably 8 or 9. I think that was the last time I got a tetanus shot.



North Carolina
Tuesday 25th of November 2008 12:17 pm

splatman

I stepped on a rusty one in '87, at an empty lot my uncle bought shortly before. He built a house on said lot months later. In '94, he demoed said house and put in a 66' doublewide. During the demo, I salvaged some wood and stepped on non-rusty one. Just a few days ago, I was moving some 12'-long 2x6 borads, and a nail sticking str8 out the end on one poked the palm of my (continued)



Washington
Tuesday 25th of November 2008 7:01 pm

splatman

(continued from above) left hand. I was mad because of it. I put some 10% H2O2 on it, and it's healing just fine. No tetanus shots for me; my immune system kicks germ butt just fine, thank you very much. Word to the wise: Your immune system has the ability to kill any bug on its own. Don't let anyone lead you to think it can't. Think it can. Thought creates reality.



Washington
Tuesday 25th of November 2008 7:11 pm



Stepped on a nail while wearing flip flops as a kid. The nail was pointed up through a 2x4ish size piece of wood. It went all the way though my foot, and stuck out the top of my foot. The feeling of having to lift my foot off the nail/board will haunt me forever. I never told my parents, because I was afrain of getting in trouble for being on a construction site.



Maine
Tuesday 25th of November 2008 7:35 pm

Gman

About 7 years ago, I was cleaning out the shed in flip-flops and stepped on one of those heavy-duty garden rakes, putting about 1/2 inch in my heel. Hurt like hell.



Indiana
Wednesday 26th of November 2008 1:57 pm

Marty "Bullseye" Lane

A tiny finishing nail? An unlikely angle? Strange to say the least. Well, it wasn't standing on end.That would be an unusual balancing act. The explanation is far more simple.It was a poison dart shot from a blowgun.The convenience of you lying on the sidewalk on your back in broad daylight trying to get a glimpse of the orbiting tool bag made you all too vulnerable.



Virginia
Wednesday 26th of November 2008 5:32 pm

Marty "no antidote" Lane

By the way, I dont think a Bandaid is an appropriate antidote for poison darts.



Virginia
Wednesday 26th of November 2008 5:35 pm

Jen

Three summers ago, I tripped on my computer's power cord and somehow a knitting needle I'd left on the floor went right through my toe. It was pretty gruesome. They had to use the jaws of life to cut enough of it off to transport me to the hospital.



New York
Wednesday 26th of November 2008 8:57 pm

Footie McGee

Being a Pisces I always seem to step on things and hurt my foot, but the craziest thing to ever get stuck in my foot was a toothpick. It went in under my foot, and came out in between my toes. Couldn't get it out myself. Had to stumble into the doctors and have them rip it out.



New York
Wednesday 26th of November 2008 9:48 pm

niblet81

My brother pushed me onto boards when I was little and one went into my back, one into the back of my knee, and one into my heel. We like to joke that he crucified me. Good times being the little sister of two much older brothers; certainly teaches one to be resilient.



New York
Friday 28th of November 2008 5:05 pm

lianayada

In the 1989 earthquake in Santa Cruz CA, my lava lamp fell off my dresser in the UCSC dorm. I put the broken glass in a paper bag, but didn't throw it out right away. A couple days later I lost my balance and a big shard of glass went into my knee. Blood was pulsing out but I kept pressure on it until I got to the health center for stitches and a tetanus shot.



Oregon
Saturday 29th of November 2008 10:12 am



ONce, walking in a bad neighborhood, I stepped on something long, rusty and needle-like. After panicking for about five minutes, I pulled it out... Only a good ol' rusty wire! I went to the doctor for a tetanus shot, and nothing of value was lost. NO AIDS ridden heroin needle for me that day!!!



Washington DC
Sunday 30th of November 2008 9:03 am

Tony

I stepped on a sewing needle when I was a kid. It managed to poke directly into a small vein, and it turned out my brother had used the needle to pop a blister. I was in the hospital for a week with a swollen, diseased foot.



Oregon
Sunday 30th of November 2008 7:25 pm

Eric & Martin

In college my brother jumped off the couch and landed on some keys on the floor. The ignition key to the car was deeply in his bare heel. I tried to pull it out Rambo style but failed, heel skin is really strong. Had to borrow a car and some shots of Lidocaine later it was removed with brute force.



Arizona
Monday 01st of December 2008 11:58 am

footnotegirl

When I was in high school, I went sliding down a hallway in my socks. The floor was wood. I ended up with a splinter over four inches long along the sole of my foot. You could see the whole length of it through the couple of layers of skin it was under. The school nurse had to remove it with a pair of pliers. Very little blood though.



Minnesota
Wednesday 03rd of December 2008 3:16 am



Some years ago my friend had a pair of ninja boots (tabi boots.) He loved them. He was like "Ninja boots! The best boots ever!" One day he had them on when he stepped off a ladder and stepped on a nail in a board. I remember watching him pick his foot up and the board came along with it. After that he was like "Ninja boots! The best boots ever! Until they invented f------ nails."



Texas
Wednesday 03rd of December 2008 3:25 am

thewalrus

when i was 13 i fell off my bike and managed to imbed a nail up my knee. Once I realized what I'd done, I whimpered for my dad to wake up (he worked midnights) to come pull it out. He just yanked it out and told me to go watch tv inside until my mother came home to take me to get a tetanus shot. That is all.



Utah
Wednesday 03rd of December 2008 12:24 pm

thewalrus

in college i had an acquaintance who caught a giant catfish and took it home and put it in his bathtub. Apparently these things can live for days in a bathtub, and after a week long coke bender he decided to off the thing by stomping its head in. The catfish in a final act of resistance raised its spine which pierced the sole the stomper's boot, his foot and came out the top. continued



Utah
Wednesday 03rd of December 2008 12:28 pm

thewalrus

continued from above. while the catfish spine did not give the stomper tetanus, it did make him violently ill. just goes to show you that coke and catfishes are a bad combination.



Utah
Wednesday 03rd of December 2008 12:31 pm



Nails step on Chuck Norris.



Alabama
Wednesday 03rd of December 2008 1:29 pm



I had a large thorn go through one side of my foot and almost all the way out the other side. Still no idea how it happened, but I have a cool triangle shaped scar because of it.



North Carolina
Wednesday 03rd of December 2008 4:07 pm

procedure person

When I was 17 I had a habit of jumping from the top step to the landing and then to the floor. One time my key chain was on the landing and I got a key through my foot. OOOUUUCH!



Georgia
Friday 05th of December 2008 6:16 pm



About a year ago I stepped on nice framing nail. Unfortunately I was wearing sandals and didn't have a camera nearby. It went a good distance into the arch of my foot. Then about a month later I stepped on a piece broken glass I didn't see. Oddly enough I was wearing the same sandals..



Washington
Friday 05th of December 2008 9:33 pm



I stepped on a tangerine thorn when pruning the tree this past spring. (Yes cold-staters, our trees have 4-inch spiky thorns and fight back when you take their fruit.) It went through my shoe and into my foot about half an inch. Lots of blood and very tender for a week or two, but I lived to tell the tale!



Florida
Sunday 07th of December 2008 11:45 pm



It's a good thing your tetanus shot is up-to-date. Now you don't need to worry about Lockjaw the named alligator in the swamp of Oasis.



Georgia
Monday 08th of December 2008 5:53 pm

AATFC

I stepped on a toothpick A few years ago when I was 8. it was in there for 90 minutes,and it took 4 seconds to get out. 4/4/04 was a day I'll never forget because of that.



Nevada
Tuesday 09th of December 2008 5:09 pm

sister Sue

When I was about 12 my mom had a Christmas present 'bow maker' that was a cylinder that you load little plasitic arrow heads onto. I stepped onto that. So I had a little plastic arrrow head in my foot. My mom pulled it out. I couldn't even look. It hurt. I've also had two 1/2 inch long wooden splinters go under the same pinky nail. That poor pinky. No scars from any of that.



California
Wednesday 10th of December 2008 3:49 pm

Russ V

I want to know why the side garage door is missing the door knob. Oh and watch the foot. I've seen a nail push some of the shoe into a foot. And now the guy walks on a peg. Which is not as exciting as it sounds.



California
Saturday 13th of December 2008 6:51 pm



hey, I have an idea: I'll post a story and try to one-up yours. nevermind, that was a silly idea.



North Carolina
Monday 15th of December 2008 11:17 pm

Rob Einstein

About 20 years ago i was doing some painting on the roof of a Dairy Queen and stepped on a nail. Pulled out the nail, cleaned up my foot, no big deal. Next day the foot was a football. Got rushed to the emergency room. Spent 3 days in the hospital hooked up to IV's. FYI-Its not the nail that gets you, its the bacteria in your shoe.



Florida
Monday 22nd of December 2008 3:48 am

gbayemporium

There was a pro golfer named Buddy Allin who suffered from terrible heel problems. When they x-rayed his heel, they saw that there was a sewing needled embedded in it. He must have stepped on it as a child when his bones were softer, and it was there ever since. He had to live with it, as the only way to get it out would have been to shatter his heel.



Washington
Tuesday 23rd of December 2008 3:46 am



About 5 years ago, I stepped on the clip of a metal clothes-hanger. It went in, hit the bone, and gouged out a chunk of flesh. It bled PROFUSELY, but I'm terrified of stitches, so I used superglue instead of going to the ER. Burns like hell, but it works. I still have a scar on the bottom of my foot.



Massachusetts
Wednesday 24th of December 2008 6:02 am

AC

While at work as a bartender this summer, the mirror bar that hangs overhead (storage area) fell down on top of me, giving me softball sized bruises on all contact points, as well as driving 1970's mirrored, metallic trim through my wrist and finger. Tetanus shots are awesome!



Oklahoma
Saturday 27th of December 2008 4:32 pm



I fired a 16d nail into a board that had a knot. The nail hit the knot, the nail bent and went into my forearm that wasn't holding the nailgun. My arm flew away from the baord it was holding. I figured it went in about an inch deep. Not much blood, but I know pain.



Indiana
Saturday 27th of December 2008 8:16 pm



Me and a friend once made an arrow from bamboo cane with a nail on the end, fired from a catapult which would drive it pretty deep into a wooden fence panel. My friend managed to somehow fire it through the skin between his thumb and forefinger...took a good bit of pulling to get it out and hes still got the scar. No tetanus though... Good times!



Idaho
Tuesday 30th of December 2008 5:46 am



When I was young, I stepped on a thumb tack with bare feet, it was flat with my foot when I lifted it. I was just like "woh", it didn't really hurt but it sucked a little.



Florida
Tuesday 30th of December 2008 11:23 am

Dick

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California
Tuesday 30th of December 2008 1:20 pm

Mikey129

Years ago at a park I stepped on a bee barefoot.



Connecticut
Wednesday 31st of December 2008 10:33 pm

Sean

I did construction and I commonly stepped on nails. They never got through though.



Georgia
Thursday 01st of January 2009 1:13 pm



I want those shoes the other Georgia fellow is wearing!



Georgia
Wednesday 04th of February 2009 12:46 pm

Brandy

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Colorado
Friday 03rd of April 2009 9:53 pm



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Michigan
Friday 10th of April 2009 7:55 pm



I\'m a lifeguard, and yesterday at work, while walking around the guard room in my bare feet like i normally do, I stepped on a thumb tack. I lifted my foot up to see that the entire tack was stuck in my foot. The worst part was having to rip it out. It didn\'t bleed much, but now it hurts to walk around :(



West Virginia
Sunday 24th of May 2009 8:27 am



that is a really bad picture of wv btw



West Virginia
Sunday 24th of May 2009 8:28 am

Kendra

when i was 7 i was playing with a slinky on the stairs and someone had stacked some metal sheetrocking corners on them. i went up to place the slinky on the top step, but i caught my pinky toe on the sheetrocking corner. i almost lost it. then my sister\'s genious friend said let\'s put her in the bathtub and run the water... i thought i was bleeding to death for sure... then i fainted.



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