Just how badly can one injure oneself by falling while drunk?

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I ask this because my friend whom I walked safely home with, as far as my house (about 2 minutes from his house) arrived home last night covered in blood and with bruises all over his face, basically looking like a mess, and he can only conclude he fell as a result of being really drunk.

The same thing happened on Patricks Day about 3 or 4 years ago, there might be a thread about it, I forget. I left my friends house and the next thing I knew I was in his kitchen with all my friends helping me, and my face was mashed to pieces the next morning, plus I had blood all over me and scars etc.

The thing is, in both cases, some of the scars are in really odd places, like you'd think you'd never scrape your face unless you had lost use of your hands to break your fall, maybe a total blackout could do this?

Or is there a phantom thug living in our area?

The funniest part of the above story is that my friend came in drunk and when his dad asked what happened he apparently got really annoyed, so his dad assumed he was beaten up, and then today my Dad rang me : "LIAM TOLD ME WHAT HAPPENED OMG! DRUNKEN YOUTHS IN DEMENTED BOOZE WAR". I had just gotten up and was like "erm.......what???"

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

maybe it should be "whilst drunk"

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

I once broke my arm in three places when I fell off a table, and didn't notice until I woke up the next morning with a purple arm the size of Swansea.

And I went to uni with a girl who was so drunk she managed to black out an entire trip to hospital to get her hand stictched up.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

I believe that Chet Baker and Nico both died from injuries sustained while falling down in a state of drunkenness. He from a hotel window, she off a bicycle.

How's that?

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

the answer is: VERY BADLY. a friend actually died from a concussion unknowingly sustained while he was blacked out.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

jesus..that's awful. I don't really get that drunk anymore, but it is pretty freaky to think of being face down on the pavement totally unconscious.

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Nothing too bad, but 3 weeks of getting thorns out of my body after falling into rose bushes comes to mind.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Wow, my head doesn't let me get that drunk. There's some switch that sends me off to bed before I lose control of my faculties. I used to resent it but now I know it's a good thing.

― Rumpie (lil drummer girl parumpumpumpu), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:06 (twenty years ago)

it's a horrible story, and it definitely gave a lot of people i know (self included) pause. i used to do things like go up 5 steep flights to my apt in stiletto heels while completely paralytic (and often carrying a crate of records). how i escaped some kind of injury, i don't know.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

I often think sometimes we're probably way closer to some absolute awful disaster than we think, with stuff like this!

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

I fell on my arm recently and have a bruise the size of a cigarette packet going yellow. What REALLY gets me is that I seem to have hurt my ankle at the same time and have been limping since last week. Hope it's not serious. Actually this is just a cry for sympathy, my bloody friends seem to think that it's not that big a deal. Bastards.

Ronan, that's life.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Sorry meant it in a kind of pseudish deep manner. Not v clear I admit.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

No I got it it's ok!

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

my friend fell down some stairs

― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

I can't imagine being so drunk that you can't remember what caused your face to become bloody and bruised.

I think your friend has a problem with alcohol.

― Super Cub (Debito), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

Then sir, you were never young and reckless. I can imagine it withour difficulty. I myself have never reached such levels of drunkeness but that's because I get sleepy far too quickly on the demon drink!

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

stay away from rose bushes. is all i am saying.

― u saved me (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

I pitched off a third story windowledge once in the middle of a heavy jack-and-cokes-and-war-movies session at DLI. 11 inches to the left of where I landed was a tall spiny plant of some sort and about 13 inches to the right was a metal sprinkler head on a PVC pipe sticking over half a foot striaght up out of the ground. You could tell where I landed the next day by imagining my face where the huge spot of dried blood was. I broke my nose and scratched it a little bit.

Previous to my accident another airman had done something very similar and fractured both arms.

When asked by my NCOs about why my nose was extra lumpy and purple the next couple of days, I just told them I fell after drinking heavily and they just let it go.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)

Then sir, you were never young and reckless.

I've been young and reckless, but I can remember it.

― Super Cub (Debito), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Being drunk saved Robert Wyatt: he'd have been killed if he hadn't been so relaxed when he hit the ground.

Having said that, being drunk meant Robert Wyatt had a mighty fall and was paralysed from the waist down.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

I once jumped into my bed, totally misjudged the width of the bed and smashed my nose off the wall. It was bloody sore (in fact it was bloody AND sore). I fell down a flight of stairs coming back from my upstairs neighbours at New Year last year, but only broke my lovely new boots.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

jhon balance rip

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:38 (twenty years ago)

I once fell off of the top of one of the wrought iron fences surrounding one of New Orleans' famous and quaint cemeteries. Onto my face. I'm ok though I hurt for a while.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

"he can only conclude he fell "

This is quite telling.

― Aimless (Aimless), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

i once twisted my ankle while running drunk. i didn't think much of it. woke up the next day and took a flight to sc incredibly hungover, trying not to puke, thinking 'hmm my ankle's kinda sore.' when i got there, i pulled up my pant leg to find a huge lump the size of a baseball sticking out of my leg. the weird part is that it wasn't black and blue. it just looked like a tumor! and it took months to heal... i think i more frequently suffer from injuries to my ego after drinking, though.

― tres letraj (tehresa), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:53 (twenty years ago)

I did that exact same thing three months ago! Got hammed, rolled over my ankle, didn't notice for almost a day how massive a size it'd swelled up to and it still can get achy to this day!

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

once i was on mushroms and my roommate ron came home drunk, angry and bleeding from the head. he puked on the TV and passed out.

cocksucker.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

The TV seems like an odd choice to vomit on.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

I once vomited in the sink of a bloke I was trying to impress then poked the solid bits down the sink with his toothbrush. I think that injured my pride for about four years.

Yeah, pride. You can injure that quite badly when you're drunk, I find.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

not the brushing end of the toothbrush right?

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

one broken ankle, one broken arm, multiple stitches.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Yes, the brushing end. Surprisingly we stayed friends, unsurprisingly my cunning plan to seduce him didn't quite work.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:11 (twenty years ago)

I could imagine he would've had some pretty wretched breath for a while, so maybe it was for the best.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

No, it was me that was doing the puking. I'm one classy bird, I am.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:18 (twenty years ago)

If you suck at skateboarding, doing it drunk is probably not a good idea. I couldn't even put a shoe on for three days, the ligaments in my foot were so torn up, forget about putting any weight on it. Cheap-red-wine hangover in the ER = suck. But yeah, it could've been waaay worse. I've also been viciously attacked by subway turnstiles and small flights of stairs. And the evil of floors, walls, the way they move closer when you least expect it.

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:20 (twenty years ago)

We knew someone who was in the hospital for months in a coma after a nasty bar spill.

― Allyzay must fight Zolton herself. (allyzay), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

I knew a fellow who pissed on a friend's TV whilst drunk. Next morning, he was convinced that he'd relieved himself in the toilet like a respectable person.

― Super Cub (Debito), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 19:26 (twenty years ago)

Talk about a weird coincidence. I just found out a friend i was drinking with last night is in the hospital after blacking out at a friends place!

No, it was me that was doing the puking.
Yes, but that wasn't your toothbrush now was it.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Huh. I start throwing up LONG before I reach black-out stage. Or even falling-over stage, although depending on heel height that stage is variable. Have never done anything I couldn't account for if only because by the time I'm done throwing up not even the Boy of My Dreams and all the tea in China could keep me from going straight to my pillows & sweet, sweet slumber. It doesn't count as "passing out" when you pull the covers up to your chin and wish everyone a good night.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:11 (twenty years ago)

The first time I ever got drunk, I blacked out and woke up in the hospital the next morning with a bunch of minor scrapes and bruises on my face. Apparently I spent much of the night before smashing into walls and cursing my friends.

― 31g (31g), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

This is how bad.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Oh, whoops... kephm beat me to it.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:39 (twenty years ago)

let me ask my coworker, the alcoholic, whose come in today at noon with a smashed up face and 2 black eyes.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

whose? sorry. who has.

i hope you're all happy, i've graduated to the point where i feel compelled to correct my grammar.

― nein Socken (nein Socken), Wednesday, 14 December 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

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