Freak Injuries
Anyway, they listed a number of other freak injuries over the years, and this was one of them: CHIC BRODIE: The Brentford goalkeeper's career came to an abrupt end in October 1970 when he collided with a sheepdog which had run onto the pitch. Brodie shattered his kneecap while the dog got the ball. ``The dog might have been a small one, but it just happened to be a solid one,'' he reflected. |
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| Ouch! LOL I hope the dog was ok! |
| Well any of us know what hard heads sheepies have should they ever collide with any of us. Owwwwww.
I'm going to add my own "freak accident" even at the cost of making myself look like a fool..but I still laugh about it years after it occurred. Once ironing at home. I lived in an apartment at that time and the storage closet was down a long hallway. I was returning the ironing board and the light was burnt out in the hallway. Very dark but I opened the storage closet and while replacing the ironing board I knocked a gold fish bowl off the top shelf. Looking upward the thing bonked me on the head and rendered me unconcious. Apon wakening..not sure how long I was out for..I staggered down the hallway...seeing double and triple. I had to feel the phone numbers to call for help. I then laid down on the couch looking ghastly with a big gash on top of my head. I still remember the paramedics and fireman trying desperately not to laugh when questioned about what hit me..and I was wailing.."a gold fish bowl...sniff...sob...." The emergency room doctor whom stitched me up said ..oh yeah we've had a lot of cases of people being attacked by mightly gold fish bowls this week..and then burst into laughter. Luckily I have a sense of humor! The story was repeated numerous times as I wore a big bandaid across my head and had two wonderful black eyes for a couple weeks. I didn't get any sympathy at all...instead everyone burst out laughing when they found out that I got bonked in the head with a gold fish bowl. I now claim ...yes truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. I've told my story so you may all laugh at my account and I can laugh at the story you posted regarding that guy getting whacked in the knee by a sheepie. 
Marianne and the boys |
| Could have been worse, could have been a smoovah!!!
Somebody needs to photoshop the gold fish bowl onto your head in the pic of you and Merlin! |
| As far as freak injuries go... Don't ever trip over your sheeper while holding an aluminum bowl of Microwaved popcorn. I don't think I ever tried to pick up popcorn so fast in my life...
Not only was it noisy when I practically learned how to fly across my mom's living room and dropped the bowl, but Chelsea jumped up and ran for it faster than Superman on his best day. It was a contest to see who was faster at grabbing the popcorn and cleaning it up. I was picking it up, while she (chelsea) tried to manually vacuum it off of the floor. Aside from nearly breaking my leg tripping over her, everyone was so hysterical over seeing me fall, they couldn't move to help me clean it up. 
Chelsea is perfectly fine....We all know she planned the whole thing!!! And they say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. My mother lets her watch too many animal planet shows! Michelina~ |
| Early december of last year, Arthur (fiance`) and I spent the WHOLLLLLEEE day shopping all over the place for x-mas gifts and dog toys for my clients. By the time we got home both of us were dog tired! Rather than waiting until the next morning to get the bags out of the truck, I wanted to take them inside. So....In I walk with two big boxes and I'm guessing about 5 shopping bags on my arms all the way up to the top of the stairs when I lost my footing and fell down the stairs.
I somehow managed to twist around and slide forward on my side and bum down the stairs. The gifts flew everywhere and I managed to get my left arm stuck in between two spindles on the stairs, and fractured it. No pun intended but it broke my fall. As much pain as I was in, I sat there shocked for a minute and wound up laughing because there were dog toys EVERYWHERE!!! There were tennis balls and plush toys all over the stairs and floor... Aside from not being able to paint for almost 2 months and being in loads of pain, I laughed outloud to some of my sheepie clients (friends)....It still cracks me up even now. I learned my lesson on being patient when it comes to wrapping gifts for the holidays...LOL Michelina~ |
| LOL... ouch, but funny.... |
| I too was a bit embarrassed to mention my incident of how Frank put me in the hospital this summer. I had an inflammation on my shin due to some varicose vein issues that I've had occassionally since I was a kid. I was outside goofing around with the dogs which involved a soccer ball. Frank ran full speed right into the sweet spot on my shin. The next day I couldn't even stand on my leg and my ankle swelled up so the doc sent me to get an ultrasound. Turns out that the trauma in my leg caused a blood clot to develop behind my knee which was on the fast track to my lungs. I had to go immediately to the ER and start treatment to get rid of the clot. I was only in the hospital overnight but then had to be on meds for a while until the clot was gone which thankfully only took about a month. The docs at the hospital were saying "maybe you should not play with your dog" - yeah right!! |
| I'm laughing so hard at the moment...sorry know it's at the expense of those who posted..but gosh sometimes we wonder if the Sheepies didn't choose us cause we're so goofy!
Maxx...You had me cracking up. You should really tell the room about the "smooovah" story. Marianne and the boys |
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