Daily Laugh – Facial Axewound
Posted by Landozine - 13/04/10 at 11:04:11 pmI spent the majority of today in waiting rooms. First I spent a couple of very valuable hours in the morning/afternoon to go see a dental surgeon to work out the details of how we’re going to extract an impacted tooth, all the while thinking “fuck I hate waiting rooms, good thing I wont have to deal with this shit for a while…”
Oh how I was wrong. I went to CP around 6:00, and by 6:20 I was on the ground in a puddle of my own blood.
I got stuck in an X-up, of all tricks on the 6 foot quarter. And ended up scorpion grinding into the flat bottom. I’m not really sure how I developed the cut without getting any bruises or scrapes around it… luckily I was wearing my helmet. It took the majority of the impact.
But the real point here isn’t to wear your helmet. Its to not be such a pussy about putting injury pictures on the internet. After Not-so-metro I posted some pictures of a not to be named pro who’s friends sent some pretty nasty e-mails to me to take down the photos because they were of ‘poor taste’. Fair enough. To each their own. But to prove my own point, and
here is a picture of my face with a gaping axe wound in it that I got from doing a fucking x-up. Much more embarrassing than a photo of a dude on the ground with extra corners with no discernible face or even any blood for good measure.
We ride BMX. This shit happens, lets celebrate it.
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Also, thanks to Nick and Josh and everyone who offered me rides to the hospital. I made it there okay though… haha.
Comment by Landozine — April 13, 2010 #
One more reason to wear a helmet. And that is the exact reason why I stopped doing xups. Fuck that trick.
Be well John Spartan.
Comment by Rich Red — April 13, 2010 #
scary… that sucks, I wish you a speedy recovery
Comment by Tommy — April 14, 2010 #
Nice Chris. You should throw up my head/face injury photos for the next throwback thursday if you still have them. I’m not a pussy.
Comment by ChrisBryan — April 14, 2010 #
Ouch. The problem with photos/videos of injuries mainly lies with victim impact. If it’s a really serious injury, I don’t think I’d want to see it. It’s the ‘looky-loo’ phenomena. You don’t want somebody ‘enjoying’ your pain.
Also, if someone is truthfully uncomfortable with having pics of themselves busted up posted on the web, then I guess you have to respect their wishes.
That being said, I busted my leg once skateboarding – dislocated my ankle, compound fracture, bone stuck out, blood, yeah it was gross. My friends had the whole thing on video. I was begging my bro to bring me the tape while I was in the hospital so that I could watch it. But, my folks went and erased the tape because it really bothered them. I was pretty angry about that.
Personally, I wouldn’t have cared who saw it. But that was me. If Youtube existed back then (1987) that video would have been online. So it wouldn’t have bothered me to have my own video posted.
I think for myself, I don’t mind your photo of your axe wound, but I don’t think I’d want to watch a video of when it happened. But I wouldn’t care if others wanted to see it.
Get well. You can come ride my dirtbowl when it’s finished. Cheers.
Comment by slamigo — April 14, 2010 #
dirt bowl?!
Comment by Prashant — April 14, 2010 #
Please elaborate on this dirt bowl! Haha
Comment by Landozine — April 14, 2010 #
p.s. i fell in your pool of blood shortly after.
had to see ur ok.
Comment by joshb — April 14, 2010 #
glad**
Comment by joshb — April 14, 2010 #
get checked out Josh, you might have aids now
Comment by Prashant — April 14, 2010 #
hookers with snow pants!
Comment by Rich Red — April 14, 2010 #
If he DOESNT have aids i’d be surprised. Have you seen the squalor I live in?
Comment by Landozine — April 14, 2010 #
wouldn’t be the first time i got aids from cp
Comment by joshb — April 14, 2010 #
The dirt bowl is something that I’m diggin out behind my house. You can read about it and see some pics here:
http://whydoyourideakidsbike.blogspot.com/2010/04/crushed-skull-and-plenty-of-broken.html
It’s not done yet, but it will be finished soon. I think it’s really going to be fun. Like retardedly stoopid fun.
Comment by slamigo — April 14, 2010 #
You are a fucking hero for doing that by hand.
Comment by Trent Barker — April 15, 2010 #
Holy shit. i just read your blog about the dirt bowl and i must say that is REAL DAD material right there.
If you need help post up on capital and i’m sure you’ll get a couple responses of people looking to help you out.
Epic!
oh and chris your an dumbass. where was the ninja roll out of that one asshole?!
Comment by jorden — April 15, 2010 #
woah, that’s a pretty cool dirt setup.
Comment by Rich Red — April 15, 2010 #
I’m assuming that was you Slamigo that was in Joe Mamma’s yesterday evening buying bars, as I was sitting in a wicker chair and doing nothing
where in the city is this dirt bowl located?
Comment by Prashant — April 15, 2010 #
there’s a wicker chair in Joe Mamma’s?
Yup, the old dude in the suit buying bars was me.
Dirtbowl is progressing nicely btw…
http://whydoyourideakidsbike.blogspot.com/2010/04/dirt-bowl-is-steadily-taking-shape.html
Comment by slamigo — April 20, 2010 #