@ETpro I missed grabbing them, but by the time I got to the joists, I caught one by the crook of the arm and spun around it, slowing my fall before landing on my back on the concrete slab. What height was left once you spun off the joist?
@talljasperman I fell of the school gym outside and landed on the cement standing.
You were up there for what? And no one noticed you were there?
@YARNLADY When I was about 8 I was climbing in a newly framed house and fell from above what would have been the ceiling into some pipes that was to become a bathroom.
How did your brother get you down off the pipes?
@Coloma I threw myself off.
Bad horse crash…dislocated my left shoulder, had to have a pin put in with a chunk of my collar bone as a hinge. Lol
I am not a horse person but I read in a horse training book that the safest place on a runaway horse is on its back if there is no danger of traffic. And if possible get the horse to keep running and direct him/her uphill to tire them out or turn them into tighter and tighter circles until they have to stop.
@Paradox25 I had a close call on top of a slanted roof with ice on top while trying to replace a faulty motor on a large fan for a water cooling unit. I fell on the ice and kept sliding towards the edge of the roof, stabbing my screwdriver into the ice likely saved my life.
Channeling your inner James Bond? :-)
@LuckyGuy I can still remember the smell. It was like nothing I have ever experienced in the real world.
Errrr….the smell of your spleen rupturing maybe? 8-o
@downtide Small fracture in my lowest sacral vertebra, the paralysis was due to bruising of the spinal cord, it wore off later the same day and I was able to walk.
Four words: “Dodge a bullet there!”