Share Your Wipeout Story & Win An Xbox Kinect Wipeout Game!

This such make for some very interesting Stories! :)

stories alone are okay, right? not videos? Who won the Eric Church one by the way?

Jeanne,

I announced in the Monday edition of Today On Gather who the winners were of the Eric Church CDs.

ah ha...the way to get me to read it, I see! lol

I was in 5th grade in a Catholic school, so we had a uniform and had to wear dress shoes. We had tile floors. I was walking in the back of the class and someone had dropped one of those ballpoint pen inserts that looked like a straw with a spring on the end onto the floor and left it there. I didn't see it as I walked and stepped on it. I fell right on my behind, but first I went sideways and hit the side of my neck on the back of one of those wooden school chairs. I was ok, but every now and then I get a pinched nerve in my neck and I'm convinced it is from that!

I don't have xbox :(
Good luck to all

My wipeout story -
It was a beautiful day in Costa Rica and my hubby and I were 3 days into our 10 day honeymoon. High on marital bliss and love and the beauty of the country around us we were taking it all in! This day on our schedule was the much anticipated canopy tours over the rainforest..... I was sooo excited! It was rainy and hot and the instructors gave us a quick how-to on slowing down, stopping and going across the zip lines hundreds of feet into the air from tree to tree. All was going well - until I was headed across, gaining speed towards the next tree - and couldn't slow down or stop - Ahhh. That was a very scarey moment, I literally could not get myself to slow down on the zipline. The woman before me was standing right at the tree and I yelled to her to move and she moved out of the way somewhat as I slammed into the tree and her.
I am glad to report that I only had minor bruises on my leg and the other woman was fine.
But this was a scary moment of wipeout.....

while on vacation with my sister, my cousin and all of our children in fort lauderdale, we split the suite rooms to all the boys in mine and all of the girls in theirs (no hubbies, of course). On the way up to the room, we (the boys and I) decide to beat the girls/moms to our room. Jumping in a separate elevator, we bolt out of the elevator, run to our rooms and I trip and do a "yard sale" with all of my belongs and stuff in my pocketbook all along the hallway. The boys laughed so much and helped me to gather my things. I did end up with rug burns on my legs and arms and a bruised ego. No more boys hijinx for me.

One summer evening when I was in 5th grade, family and I decided to ride our bikes to get ice cream. One of the roads we turned on had just had a load of gravel put on it, and the gravel was not spread out very well. All of us had to swerve around patches of gravel, but I finally hit one and skidded. I tried to stop the skid, which probably made things worse. I ended up on the ground with the bike on top of me. Both legs and arms were all skinned up with little pieces of gravel stuck in them. I had to walk the bike the rest of the way to the ice cream store (closer than home), leaving a trail of blood behind me. We were a good 5 miles from home. The ice cream place was very nice about letting me clean up and get bandaged up. My father had to ride home, get the van, and come back for me and my bike.

The result: one flat tire, one bent rim, handle bars bent, 2 skinned elbows and arms, 2 skinned legs, 2 black eyes (yes, I ended up with raccoon eyes from this), and 2 little brothers that thought this was the funniest thing in the world.

sorry you got hurt.

One summer my sister and I went on vacation with a friend in Java, NY. I was floating in an inflatable boat while Katryn was swimming, pushing the boat along. I don't remember what made the boat flip, but I found myself in the water. And Katryn went under to grab me. We both came up and I sputtered, Why didn't you go after the boat? We had to go ashore and get in a row boat to rescue our inflatable boat.

I didn't understand my sister going after me instead of the boat. I was a capable swimmer after all. I still pick on her for caring more about my safety than retrieving the boat. ;)

2 or so years ago... I had my dog on a leash and he went after something.. well I decided I was going to run along with him.. figured out I can't run that fast and I went face first into a curb and broke my jaw :(

It was the summer I turned 9, believe, and I was finally learning to ride a bike. My sister had bought me the banana seat bike from a garage sale down the road, and I'd been practicing balancing on my lawn. Finally, my brother took me on the road. I finally seemed to be getting the hang of it, cruising along with great balance whe out of no where my own mailbox attacked me! Ok, I crashed-- hadn't quite figured out brakes yet. Huge cuts on my arms, legs, and necks but no stitches. Ended up somewhat better off than they mailbox-- at least it was ours.

Am I the only one who's had numerous times like this? The first was when I was 9 walking home from school with my brothers and sisters. I tripped on a footprint imbedded in the sidewalk and broke my 4 front teeth along with scraping my hands, knees, and face up so bad that I didn't want to go to school because I looked too ugly. I had to go anyway.

Another time hubby and I were meeting friends at a restaurant and I walked right into a glass window thinking it was the door. So embarrassing. Though I was ok except for a bruise on my forehead.

Recently I got my foot caught on a set of metal stairs and fell 3 steps down with my foot still caught in the step. Bruises galore, sprained ankle, it took a while before I could walk without hurting. I guess I'm just a klutz because things like this always happen to me. LOL

I was riding my bicycle when I was a pre-teen. I didn't stop in time for a hill (and didn't have enough speed to make the steep incline), started to go up... then, slid back down and landed on my elbow on a ragged strip of concrete. There was blood involved... and I still have a scar.

It wasn't one of my better planned moments...

I wiped out when I got the bright (drunken?) idea to hook two of my dogs to a wheelchair and go for a ride. What I hadn't planned on was the wheelchair dumping me out, wine and all.

I now wear a long scar down my right leg. But the dogs were okay!

LOL!

I use to take care of my sisters three kids while she worked the night shift waitressing. It was a galley kitchen and I would have the 3 kids sit at the nook and I generally stood while keeping an eye on them at dinner. This one night we were having supper and I set them all up and called them in. They were eating when I grabbed a plate and leaned against the refridgerator. Someone asked for more milk and I went to move away from the fridge and I had (of course in the seventies) bell bottom jeans on. I couldn't move because I was standing on my jeans and I had both hands on my dinner plate. When I went to change my position , mind you the 3 kids are staring at me, wondering what the heck was wrong, I slid right down the refridgerator door and landed on my butt with the dinner plate upright and my butt absolutely stinging. They laughed and I laughed and it has been fodder for the family ever since!
I believe my neighbors think I am crazy since on Friday evernings there is no one here and I laugh like a loon at the names they make up for these contestants. It tickles my funny bone! Love Wipeout!

never heard of it

Okay! I wiped out just last week on the basement steps. I'm still limping. I have one good arm and one good leg. Do I get extra points for being in pain right now? ;o)

sounds like a fun contest, but we dont have a kinect for our 360.

Tell us, when did you or someone you know wipe out? What happened? Was everyone okay?
While pregnant with my third child and sitting in the clinic for my first appointment with a new obstetrician. I noticed his diploma, which showed his full name. Suddenly, I remembered a tall, handsome, dark-haired boy with the same name who had been in my high school class . Could this be the same guy that I had a secret crush on, way back then? Upon seeing him, and realizing that soon he would be doing an internal examine I panicked; stood up attempted to walk through the door but I slipped in my nervousness and knocked both him & myself to the floor in front of all the other patients. When he picked me up off the floor was when he realized who I was and I was mortified to say the least; fortunately he realized the awkwardness of him becoming my Dr and thankfully he signed me up with his partner. I was never more embarrassed in my whole life.

My son was playing soccer after a particularly long stretch of rain. He was doing a great job. One of the balls went wide right, directly over a mud "puddle". Fearlessly and in the moment of the game, he went for the ball. He had to throw himself over to get it successfully. He did. He landed in the "puddle", face first. With the ball. He was covered in mud. That puddle was almost 3 inches deep. It covered him from head to toe, backwards and frontwards. He was okay and laughing about it. I was too until I realized that I had to take him home like that.

I remember going skating at my friends birthday party when we were in junior high. She fell and broke her tailbone and totally ruined her night :(

My Wipeout Story:
A couple mornings ago I woke up and was in a hurry, I was getting dress and like many mornings I grabbed my shirt and was putting it on as I went to go downstairs. About 2 stairs down I had my head inside my shirt so I couldn't see anything, and 1.5 arms through the arm holes, and I sneezed. It through me off balance and I proceeded to slide down the entire staircase on my heels with my arms up in the air and and a shirt over my head. I managed to stay upright all the way till the last stair and fell on my butt at the bottom.

lol

My wipeout moment was when I was in high school. We were at the Wildwood, NJ boardwalk and my cousin, who is slightly more daring than I am, convinced me to go on the log flume. It was high and I was not happy. When we boarded it, I had barely sat down when it took off quickly. It was then that I understood that there were no handles, and no safety belts! The inertia slammed me onto my back -- because there were also no seat backs -- and I hit the back of my head so hard I don't even remember the rest of the ride until we pulled into the stopping point. To this day I will NOT get on a log flume.

I decided to run across Market street in SF in the middle of a block, with on-coming traffic about a block away. I tripped on my pants (they were a bit too long) and fell head first onto the Muni tracks. All I could think about was "get up" "get up before you get smooshed." I was shaking, but got up, and got across the street--The next time, I crossed with the light at the cross walk!

My son was 8 years old, he was a little shy and quiet, which hid the fact that he has that big T personality. He and his brother were out back playing. His brother came running in yelling that Justin had fallen out of a tree. He had and was laying in the back yard with a broken wrist. A trip to the hospital and 6 weeks later he was good a new.

A few weeks after his cast was removed, he decided to try tree climbing again, but he didn't want to climb the tree in the back yard, after all he had fallen out of it and hit his arm on the table on his way down, that is what broke his wrist. So my darling little boy went down the street to a neighbor's tree. This one did not have a picnic table underneath it, he did neglect to pay attention to the picket fence directly under the tree.

You can see where this is going, he climbed the tree and once again fell. His brother again came running home screaming that "Justin fell out of the tree, and his guts are hanging out". Yes, he fell onto the fence and impaled himself. When his brother lifted him off the picket....well it was awful.

A trip to the hospital via Medic unit, 2 hours in surgery and 6 days in the hospital he was good as new, and his climbing days were over. Although, he did try to use this as blackmail to get his way for years to come, "if you don't let me go to the mall, I'll just go climb a tree."

I'm so accident prone I wiped out trying to climb into the pool this weekend. I scraped my knee and leg on the pool side, but its feeling alright today.

It took me a while to figure out what story I wanted to use and then it came to me LOL. My father had put in a new door for us on our trailer, me forgetting I had to step up went to run and tell my husband something one day before he left for work hit the new door jam, and down I went. I must have blacked out because the next thing I knew my husband was standing over top of me asking me if I was alright. He had been in the van and pulling out of the yard. Boy did that hurt. I totally wiped out. One minute I was standing and smiling the next I was on the floor looking up at my husband.

Pulled over to avoid head on, clipped POB, flipped over, was totalled and badly hurt.

Tell us, when did you or someone you know wipeout? What happened? Was everyone okay?

My Story--I was about 10 years old staying with my Aunt and Uncle and cousins in Michigan for a few weeks one summer. My Aunt and Uncle installed a 4 foot pool about 18ft across and we were required to put these chlorine tablets in it every day. One day, the sun had set and my cousin and I forgot. So we grabbed the tablets and ran out the screen door to the pool to drop these tablets in. Living out in the middle of farm country it was extremely dark.

My cousin screamed something as she ran out the sliding glass door ahead of me. I didn't hear her so I slammed the screen door shut and screamed, "What did you say?" as I followed her out back to the pool in the dark. Being quick I caught up to her in no time. She dropped her tablets in and I followed right behind her. She turned and ran for the house and there was NO WAY I was being left behind in the dark, so I nearly tripped on her heals as I followed her back inside.

Well--I'm not sure what the heck happened, but she ran right into the house alright!! I expected she would open the sliding screen door first. LMBO! NOPE!!--She ran through the door!! I was so close behind I fell on top of her--and we bent the frame of that sliding screen door.

My aunt stood there in amazement--speechless, while my cousin screams at me, "I told you NOT to Shut the screen door!!" Now, was a fine time to answer me, I thought.

Next thing I knew my cousin and my aunt were laughing hysterically--at it all! Two of us piled up inside the door--on top of the door---what a mess!! WIPE OUT!!

i had JUST got my brand new $1000 camera and i decided i was going to sneak around the house and get some pictures of my friends out on the porch. Well i neglected to think about the fact that there was ice all over being winter and all. and i fell. However during this fall all i could think about was "SAVE THE CAMERA!!!" which i did accomplish. In that process i forgot about the whole "catch yourself" thing and ended up breaking a rib in the process...but the camera was fine! lol

I had 2 wipe-outs when I was a kid, both happened when I was about 12 or 13. Both happened on my sting-ray bike.
The first one happened coming down the hill a half block from my house. This hill was one that would be blocked off during snow for kids to use as a sled run, so it had a good angle. I was coming down the hill to the intersection. The intersection had stop signs on both sides but not straight through where I was. Unfortunately someone was at one of the stop signs and didn't see any cars, so they went through. I was nearing the bottom of the hill and had to slide my bike to stop and avoid hitting them. I was wearing jeans and a shirt so only had a tear in the jeans and a few scrapes. No major harm done.
The second time was in front of our house. Each home had a driveway that crossed a sidewalk to enter the street. A group of us were racing our bikes, going from one sidewalk, across the street to the other side and back. We would use the entrances as the turns in the 'race track'. I wasn't doing too well, and I had tried to push my speed a bit when taking one turn, which was one that cut back to get to the other side. There was some loose stones and gravel there, and my bike again slid out from under me. This time I went down on the curb. Luckily all that I ended up with was a cracked tooth, and a few scrapes.
Those were the good ol' days.

I was a curise, I was about 30 years old and they were having this contest on who could stay on the log the longest that was put in the pool and you had to walk on it and balance, well all i can say i must have looked pretty cute on that log, because all i remember is one minute i am running in place and the next i hit the water...LOL, it was fun but i wiped out so fast. I felt like i could have been on the funnist video...

I was 16 and decided that I could ride a dirt bike, so off I went, no helmet, no one ever taught me, I just took off. I was riding around in a residential having a good old time. Well I guess I was gone too long and my friend came looking for me. She pulled up besides me in my car and scared me! I was startled not only to see a car next to me but my own car. I tried to pull the brake but instead I pulled the gas. I ran head first into a brick wall aka a brick fence, the bike fell on my leg. I pushed the bike off me, stood up and started laughing. All the sudden blood was poring from my face. I started to cry and my friend rushed me to the er, by the time we got there the blood had stopped but there was a 3 inch black and purple egg right smack in the middle of my forehead. It ended up being 2 black eyes and a wonderful story. No broking bones but a major headache and hilarious story.

The first time I went skiing there was a TINY slope that led to the bunny slope. There were two people coming up as I approached it. I decided I better wait for them, but went just a tad too far and couldn't stop. I somehow managed to maneuver around the first, but it put me on a collision course for the ski lift. I wiped out right before I hit the rope for the lift. That was the end of my skiing day.

Our son is very much like myself and his Dad. He wanted to go on our church ski trip. They assured us that they'd teach him on the bunny slope. We agreed, reluctantly. He was on that bunny slope for the entire weekend, until he found he couldn't stop and smashed into the ski lodge. A few bruises, but he was all right.
Not to be deterred, someone loaned him ice skates (he skates like me too), which he tried on the frozen pond they also had there. As I said, he skates like me, put the skates on - lace them up, then GO! Gravity takes over very quickly and he kept ending up on his butt, which got pretty sore and bruised. TWO WIPE-OUTS! Different things.
He spent the rest of the weekend, inside limping, trying not to sit down, playing pool. The church takes them every year, it's free and he never wanted to go again!

When your as klutzy as me...wipeout stories abound. A little while ago I went into my mudroom to get something and I didn't turn on the light.I knew exactly where said item was and didn't bother. A little light would've saved me on this one. I took one step in there and was lifted right up and flipped over. Yes I have a big black dog who is invisible in the dark and doesn't like being stepped on! I was sore for days.lol

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